The Semi-weekly Shreveport news. [volume] (Shreveport [La.]) 1862-1864, 1862-09-30
The Situation Of New Orleans.

per, articles from the Planters Ban
ner, to the exclusion of other matter.
1t is heart rending to read the differ
ent accounts of tho manner in which
the people of that city are treated.
No history is published wherein can
be found such proceedings, by any
nation protesting to be civilized.
Would to God that we could relieve
them, and prove that if they have
been unfortunate, We are still their
friends, and willing to assist them.
No one can read the following, with
out feelings most bitter towards the
Rulers of that fallen city:
We have recently visited the city !
of New Orleans tasted the bitterness
of Lincoln tyranny, and for ourselves
witnessed W hat heretofore We deem
ed exaggerations of reality, IT not
fabrication. We have seen the con-
dition to which the brave and gener-
Gus people of that city have been re-
duced bv their trusting confidence
in incompetent leaders. The city is
filed with detectives. Butler boasts
of FIVE hundred white ones, and be-
sides counts on every negro servant
in the city.
But little conversation on the street
escapes the ears of the secret. unknown
sp;es, and men eye each other with
paintul distrust as they stand or walk
along the once active and busting
} avenues of trade. Watchmen listen
at windows and doors, and servants
repeat conversations heard in the
privacy of the family. Men are ar
rested without knowing their offence
and withou: trial or sentence con-
7 fined in the parish prison or the forts.
J The most trivial offence suflices for
infection of the severest punishment,
and the expression of sentiment III
5 the least adverse to the Lincoln gov
D eminent, is, if reported, punished by
= Imprisonment and fines: and negro
3 evidence in all cases is good and val
id testimony. The ladies of New
Orleans are specially the object OF
Beast Buffers hatred, One recently
appaarcd before him with some ur-
2 gent request, which he spurned with
4 oaths and contumely unfit for rei.etl'
Is ton. Deeply incensed. the lad,
- said. General. this may last for {
o. time, but day of reckoning viii
surely come" Yes. Madam, d.
T. YOU, the day of reckoning has come
r and I intend to make you d
It seccsh wenches feel it and amid th'
n oatks and obscene language. such a
!, this brute only can use, she tied ter
i. rifed from his presence. Few ladie
venture near him. He says the re
ii bel army owes half its numbers t
n the accused women Of the South.
The Delta in recent editoria
said, speaking of the women OF tn
. South, they have fine flashing blacl
ewes {some of them) but they all de
NJ rive them from some negro ancestr
more or less remote" Perhaps tn
editors recent associations gave ris
to this belief. The Delta boldly Ell
dorses Gen. Phelps, and may /
lit ranked as one Of the most ultra I
RS. abolition sheets. We conversed wit
r. two or three Yankee officers of int
ligence. We asked if they reall
DC entertained any hope of conquerir
in the South. They each replied Ell
,se phatically in the negative. but wi
ed. equal promptitude said they coul
NV by their superior numbers, make
" desert, and they acoald. They ST
no man of intelligence at the Nor
81. now expects or hopes for reco
struction of the Union, but the al
.ch is at the destruction of the "peculi
it'll institution" and all else which m
INT brighten our future.
Of The citizens of New Orleans q
ess in a state of feverish excitement,
as daily anticipation of an attack
nc .l>> o;tx, ,pd INV circumstances