The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1862-07-23
Another speech ~ Mr. Traih.
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GENERAL BUrLEr's PROCLAMATION.
A love of fault-finding is no proof o
wisdom. Your criticisms on Gen. Butler $
proclamation are as Just as your pretended
love for America is honest. Critics, says
Wycherly, are like thieves who condemn
ed to execution, choose the business oil
exccuticners rather than be hung. Your
distortion of the New Orleans proclamation
is worthy of the people that were abolition.
lists when they thought, by preaching that
doctrine, they could break up our Repub,
lic-and proslavery advocates when they
believed that we should preserve the I'm
ion. The proclamation you have dishon
estly translated. Do you mean to say that
you believed that General Butler issued the
order for immoral purposes
Do you really understand its wording to
signify that unbridled license v as given to
the federal army? The very idea is con-
trary to rrc instruct, Of our nature, irrs,rss-
ing to the American people, and outragins
the senses of our race. You give tn order
tunatcly worded, but the spirit of the order
was proper one. Ladies hold the remedy.
Let them remain in doors; let them behave
like women, not like human tiereSses. The
terrible slaughter Of onr soldiers will some
day lay heavily upon their consciences.
W omen who go out Of their way to insult
federal officers who have treated them with
every courtesy, by pouring hot water out
OF their windows when they pass, or
throwing v;tiro! in their faces on the pave
ment, or so far unsesiNg themselves as to
strike an officer, ought not to object, when
martial law is ordered, to procamations
that enforce civility where rudeness was so
marked
The municipal law permits no disorder
IN the streets Women breaking it are
sent to the calabcose. That is the terrible
order, nothing more-nothinS less-that
arouses England and provokes this debate
Lord pal!ierston takes advantage of it to
have another fling at the Americans, and
Gregory and Walsh are mad with delight
Lord Carnarvon also brings out Earl Rus
sell, and all the newspapers clap their
hands in joy-and you, gentlemen, echo
the Sentiment Of the land DO you remem-
Der picture in the illustrated News dur
ing the Sepoy revolution? l do-and
three features were prominent-cannon-
English officers, and Sepoy messengers
bearing flag of truce. The picture has
another side-the officers consult-the Sc
pcys are bound on the muzzle of the guns
and, with their tag Of truce tied around,
they were blown towards the camp from
whence they came.
Did Mr.. Seward get up in his place in
the Senate chamber, and protest against it
in the name Of humanity? the atrocities
OF your soldiers in India were only ctuall.
ed in their brutality by Nena Sahib him
SELF When q British officer enters Sepoy
village and gives the order to his regiment
to raviSh the Ssp"y women, ard then level
the houses to the earth, humanity shudders
for civilization. Compared with such fiends,
General Butler is 4 scholar, gentleman
and 4 christiali. llow forget:ul of the
rights Of civilization, for our statesmen to
remain silent without recording their in
dignation at such brutal acts England
must feel proud of those christian officers,
and no wonder she is indignant at Butler.
Have you forgotten the seige of Lime
rick? Is it true that Englishmen rayished
the women before butchering the garrison
and burning the town? DO you remember
the coldblooded slaughter of the McDon-
aids of Glencoe under the same dynasty !?
Verify, what man was Lord Byron:-
You are the best OF cut-throats DO not start
The phrase in Shakspeares, and not misapped ;
Wars bran-spatterng -windpipe Sitting art
Unless her cause by right be sanctihed.
If you have acted once generous part.
The world, not the worlds masters, will decide
And shall be delighted to learn who,
Save and have Oaiuo6 at
Davoust In IIambhrg-tl!not in Lisbon
-Malakoff in the Algerian caves-were
guilty of acts--and Wellington and Saint
Sebastian-worthy of Russia in Poland or
Haynau in Austria. Buffers offense is
words s-England's etfense was acts Was
Buffers motive good or bad? 1t is the
motive, not the act, that blackens the
crime. England is not the land to give
America examples as to the treatment Of
women. America is country where its
youth are taught not to insult an old man
or old women, and woman can go thro'
the entire country without being insultcd
America is the land where education and
religion gives tone to tie l!orals of our
people. How careful England is to find
fault with our federal army.
Have you seen any questions on the
parliamentary paper asking if the reports
are true regarding atrocities Of the confed-
crate army? Has the federal power no
friend at court to ask those questions of
Lord Palmerston Is it true that savages,
led on by confederates, scalped our wound
ed soldiers at Pea Ridge? Is it true that
Governor Sprague found some of his aids,
who were killed at Bull Run, buried with
their faces downward? Is it true tina: fed
eral wounded on the ground at the battle
Of Winchester, were bayoneted by confcd.
crate soldiers? Is it true that the ladies
of certain town in Virginia invited one
hundred federals to their houses to tea, and
their brothers, who were in ambush, rush
cd out and put them all to death,
Surely America ought to have one friend
bold enough in parliament, when Gregory
and the premier are hurting their invec-
tives against America, to inquire If it is true
that the skull Of federal officer is a bon
bon for rebel lady that Madame Beau
regard, who was treated with so much po'
liteness by Gen. Butler, wears cameo cut
from the bone of federal colonel tina
rebel ladies wear rings and brooches made
out of skulls Of our brave officers that
the proper thing for gentlemen at Rich
mond is to have spittoon made out of
human head! In conclusion, let me ask if
England controls Americas ACTION? If
England pays our federal officers? If Eng
land must first be consulted before We de.
clare martial law? was not aware that
Abraham Lincoln was elected President of
the powerful American Republic by the
bankrupt monarchies Of Europe. [Checrs
and applause.
A HUMOROUS PRIEST, humorous
and eccentric preachers, Father Andre
holds distinguished rank. Preaching in a
which had recently been struck
bv lightning, Father Andre expatiated up
on the goodness Of God, who took, as he