Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-06-06
General Order from Gen. Butler-.He
Promises to Feed the Hungry.

General Order from Gem. Ratler--He
promises to Feed the Hungry.
General Orders, No. 25.l
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT. OF TUE GULF,
New ORLEANS, MAY 8, 1862.
The deplorable state of destitution
and hunger of the mechanics and work
ing classes in this city has been brought
to the knowledge Of the Commanding
General.
He has yiekled to- every suggestion
aade ty the city government, and or
dered every method of furnishing food
10 the people of New Orleans that that
government desired No relief by those
officials has yet been afforded. This
hunger does not pinch the wealthy and
influential, the leaders Of the rebellion,
who have gotten up this war, and are
now endeavoring to prosecute it, without
regard to the starving poor, the working
man, his wife aud child. Unmindful of
their suffering fellow. citizens at home,
they have caused or suffered provisions
to be carried out of the city for Confed-
crate service since the occupation by
the United States forces.
Lafayette Square, their home of affiu-
ence, was mads the depot of stores and
muuitious- Of war for the rebel armies
and not of provisions for their poor
neighbers. Striking hands With the
vile, the gambler, the idler and the
rufiaas they have destroyed the sugar
and cotton which might have been ex-
changed fer food for the industrious
and good, and regrated the price Of that
which is left, by discrediting the very
currency they had furnished, while
they had eloped with the specie; as we'll
as that stolen from the United States,
as the banks, the property of the- coed
people of View Orleans, thus leaving
them to ruin and starvation.
Fugitives from justice, many of them,
aud others, their associates, staying be-
cause too puerlle and insignificant to be
objects Of punishment by the clement
Government of the United States.
They have betrayed, their country.
Dhey have been, false to. every trust.
They have shown themselves incapa-
BILE of defending the State they have
seized upon, although they have forced
every poor mans child into their SER
vice as soldiers for that purpose, while
they made their sons and nephews Off
GERS.
They cannot pretsct those whom they
have ruined, but have left them to the
mercies and assassinations of chronic
mob.
They will not feed those whom they
are starving.
Mostly without property themselves,
they have plundered, stolen and de-
streyed the means of those who had
property, leaving children penniless and
old age hopeless.
Men of louisiana. Working men
Property Holders, Merchants and Citi
zens of the United States, of whatever
nation you may have had birth, how
long will you uphold these fragrant
wrongs, and by inaction suffer your
salEas, to- be made the serfs Of these lead.
ers!
The United States have sent land and
naval forces here to fight and subdue
rebellious armies in array against he1
authority. We fnd, substantially, only
fugitive masses, runaway property own.
ers, whisky drinking mob; and starry.
ing citizens with their wives and chill.
| dren. 1t is OUT duty to call back the
first, See the second, root out the third
feed and protect. the last.
| Ready only for what we had not pre-
pared ourselves, to feed the hungry and
relieve the distressed with provisions
But to the extent possible within: tbs
power of tide. Commanding General il
shall be done.
| He has captured quantity of beet
and sugar intended. foE the rebels in ,ta.e
field. A. thousand, barrels of. those
stores will be distributed among the de
serving poor Of this city, from whom
the rebels had plundered it, even al
though some of the food will go to sup.
ply the craving wants of the wives and
children of those now herding at "Camr
Moore and elsewh are, in arms against
the United States.
Captain John CLARK, acting chic.
eommissary of subsistence, will b.
charged with the execution, of. this or.
der, and will give public notice of the
place and manner of distribution, which
viii be arranged as far as possible 81
that the unworthy and disselute vii
not share it's benefits.
BY command of Major General But
| lem GEO. G. STRONG,
A. A. G., Chief of Staff.