The national Republican., 1862-05-31
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II seems, notwithstanding the doubts Of some
Of our over.shrewd contemporaries, that Gen.
Butler hes actually issusd On order, that wo-
men insulting our oficep or soldiers, shall
receive the same punishment % "womeu Of the
town, plying their vocation" Considering that
this punishment b nothing more t.rribls than
confinement In the "calsboose," II need not ex
cite any special wonder or indignation
II 10 confirmed that the specie Of the banks
was removed out Of the city, prior to its evsc-
uAtion and, u is said, to some interior place 10
Mississippi. II was q large sum, averaging
fifteen millions, prior 70 the outbreak Of thu
war, and II the published returns were reliable
had not diminished since. Gen. Butler hss
guaranteed bis protection, II the bank oficers
would bring II back into their vaults To this
they have replied, and with probable truth,
that Il was out Of their power 10 do 90. 1t may
be assumed that II was carried away, without
any assent on their part which was not coerced
by the military power. Az we have observed
many times, II was not to be expected that the
rebel leaders would permit 50 rich . prize o
the specie In the New Orleans bsnks to escspe
their clutches. II 10 fund which, applied 10
the general purposes Of the rebellion, may en-.
able them to protract It, or which, applied 10
the individual uses Of the chiefs, may soothe
them In that foreign exile which Is the predee
tined fate Of such a. are fortunate enough 10
escape the bullet and the halter. To whichever
of these uses applied, II Is, at all events, ire
trievably lost TO the New Orleans banks, and
those Institutions have now left, 10 redeem
their own obligations, only the notes Of bank
rupt merchants and planters, Confederate scrip,
and certificates Of advances for the rebellion TO
the State Of Louisiana and the city Of New
Orleans In other words, they are clean gut
ted, empty egg shells, or rather, worse than
empty, because stuffed with rottenness. And
this is the end Of the "money power" Of the
only commercial emporium Of the South.
We have now the text of Gen. Buffers proc
lamation Of Nay 0, which rebel kilograms have
described a. demagogue appeal to the poor.'
It's demagoguing consists In It's statement Of
certain disagreesble facts. General Butler says
that it is the wealthy and influential who have
gotten up this war; that they have L" made their
sons and nephews officers" while they have
" forced every poor mans child into their ser
vice as soldiers" and that Lafayette Square,
their home Of afluence, was made the depot Of
stores and munitions Of war for the rebel armies
and not Of provisions for their poor neighbour y
This description Of New Orleans will answer
for the whole South. Everybody Is for U.S."
said North Carolina general, few days ago
|" but the rough scuffs." We can tell without
mistake, who are hearty rebels and who are
coerced rebels, by the description Of the numer
our deserters TO the national side. without
exception, they are the poor and the non
slsveholding.
In this proclamation, Gen. Butler announces
the intended distribution Of one thousand bar
rels Of beef and sugar, captured from the enc
my's public stores, among the poor families Of
the city, then on the imminent brink Of starva-
ton. Undoubtedly, humanity calls for such
acts in favor Of non-eombatants, thrown into
extraordinary necessity by the emergencies Of
war. What howl, however, there would be
If these sufferers, relieved ct the cost of the
nation, bad been blacks, and therefore wholly
innocent Of having caused their own distress,
instead Of being white, and therefore in many
instances likely to have had some degree Of
guilty participation in the cause Of their dis
tres. With what rhetoric would the men in
Congress, who have counted the cost Of Q few
pitiful rstions, served out to colored refugees
at Fortress Monroe aud Port Royal, have dis.
played the extravagant outlay Of thousand
barrels of beef and sugar, If they had
of hungry whites, at New Orleans
As it is, It will not be complained Of, any
more than the contributions raised ct the
North lor the white fishermen and wreckers Of
Hatteras. Certain persons cannot see that ne
groes can possibly need charity, unless they are
"lazy" and worthless" while they can read,
lily understand, in respect to whites, that the
events Of war may 50 break up the ordinary
avocasions and resources Of life, as to compel
the most meritorious to ask for temporary pub
tic assistance.
Gen. Buffers proclamation gives the follow
ing graphic description Of the condition In
which be found New Orleans:
ave find, substantially, only fugitive masses,
runaway property owners, whisky drinking
mob, and starving citizens with their wives
and children. 1t Is our duty 10 call back the
first, to punish the second, root out the third,
feed and protect the last"
1t is only the runaway property owners, y
flying from the consequences Of a civil war Of
their own especial getting up, whom General
Butler proposes to punish" Let us hope
that be will be assisted to do so, by the prompt
passage by Congress Of an efficient measure oi
confscation.
Rev. CHARLES SPEAR and Lady, Of Boston,
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