Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1862-07-02
The Infamous Butler.

The brutal proclamation Of Butler the command
ing General of Lincoln's army at New Orleans, in
regard to the ladies of that City, is exciting as was
reasonable to expect, the condemnation of the civil
lied world
Canada and European papers denounce it in terms
as strong as those used by the Southern press In
the British House of Lords on the 18th of june,
Earl Carnarvon condemned it in severe terms, as
without precedent in the annals of war. Earl Rus
sell Said the government believed it to be authentic
and he hoped the Uincoln) government would for
its own sake dlsavow it-that the usages of war
should not be aggravated by proclainatons Of this
character. Sir j. Walsh, in the House of Com
mons, denounced it repugnant to the feelings Of
the nineteeth century.
Lord Palmerston thought that no man could
read the proclamation without feelings of the deep
est indignation. Cheers. 1t soas a proclamation
to achch he did not scrupie to attach the epithet Of
infamous [Cheers An Englishman must blush
to think such an act had been committed by man
belonging to the Anglo Saxon race. If it had
sprung from some barbarous people not within the
pale of civilization, one might have regretted it, but
would not have been surprised. But that such an
order should have been issued by sodier-by
man who had raised himself to the rank of Gen
eral-was subject not less OF astonishment tnan OF
pain He could not bring himself to believe that
the government of the United States would not, as
soon as they had notice of the ORDER have stamped
1t with their censure and condemnation
More than month has elapsed since the issue Of
this proclamation, and yet there is evidence that
Lincoln has disavowed it.
CRAzy.-A friend has called our attention to a
communication in the State Journal, which pur
ports to be from Shelby in which the writer, speak
ing of the Standard, says:
/ "Why does not Gov Clark stop this miserable
sheet at once? or why does not President Davis
send file of men to Raleigh and take him and try
him as tory?'
The only fault which these crazy and malignant
people find with us is that We an outspoken
conservative, and were once Union man, though
we are now as much opposed to the Union, and as
true to the South as any one. The only reply we
have for those who threaten to arrest us is, come on
This isl still land of free thought and free speech
We are Just as independent as the Constitution of
the Confederate States, and as determined on doing
our duty, as zoe understand it, as old Stonewall
himself Come on, ye malignants, we will give you
lively time. But mark, ye vipers when ye i'm
peach our loyalty, and hiss out the charge that we
are not true to the South, ye engaged in work
which even the devil himsefwill not thank yoY for,
for his cause is injured when his subjects lie unrea
sonably Moderate lies, ye vipers, and an abun'
dance of them, is what your master wants. Let this
crazy correspondent of the State Journal read this
and then 60 and hang himself He vii! thus, most
probably, save the officer of the law from future
trouble and let those who published the crazy
falsehood, knowing 1t to be so, Ego and do like
WISE" .'.-