Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-11-14

| Prom the Noble Advertiser ard Regis.ar1
| Colonel z. Phillips and family arrived in fbfs
city yesterday from New Orleans The ,rbaia
country has been made aware Of the crueI sBf-
feTings which Mrs Phillips bas endured at he
hands Of that man Butler, who respects reither
sex nor condition in the exercise Of his brutal
power. The state Of things became intolera5le.
and for the second time during the war Colonel
| Phillips IS a refugee with bis family from his
place Of residence and business He Is o7i-kss
/ way to Georgia, in search Of another spot where
| be will be free from the Constitutional Union
dominion Of Lincoln and bis instruments Of
\ tyranny. There is no stronger marx Of the m
principied infamy Of the Lincoln dynasty lhan
its liberation Of the rufisn rule Of this Buter
over Hnarmsd men snd helpless women snd
| children. The deeds Of both master and man
| viii be recorded on one Of the bizcksss pages Of
/ history. There is reason % hope that the same
page viii instruct postsrity that Just reckoning
sno 1etTbuiion overlook both Of them in their
| day and generation. Lincoln has yet to mect-
the msledictlons Of bis own people and State.
ruined by bis administration, and the restoration
OF peace will put Batter on an equality Of Justice
and vengeance with many a man who has been
Outraged IN his person and family iu the days Of
bis dssPOtic power.
Mrs Philips was kept for three months IN
close confinement at Ship island Her d0mics-
was contracted hut which every rain flooded
with WateT-he- food one soldiers ration Of ths
msanest kind But for the supplies her friends
were able occasionally to send her from the city,
she would have starved. She was condemned
to that imprisonment for an offense Of which shs
Wes innocent, which she never admitted and
which Butler took for granted snd falsely insert
ed IN his order Of his sentence. When the f1-
neral coTtege Of Lieutenant Deksy wss pass
ing her residence On ST. Charles street. her fam
ny were IN the upper PIAZZA Of her house, talk
ing with ihslr neighboT, lady who was enter
tanning party Of children. A few days after
Mrs. Philips was summoned 20 appear before
Butler, and went accompanied by her husband
Neither had the remotest idea Of his cause Of the
summons. Butler, working himself up into a
passion, charged her with laughing and scofing
at the Funeral Of the Federal ofiesr Surprised
and indignant Al being questioned for such a
cause, she exclaimed, d" SiT1 Her anger i'm
medistely changing into contempt, she added,
q" was in good spirits on that day. Without
further inquiry to the cause OF her good spirits
be assumed that the case was made ont, snd
proceeded At once to write the sentence that tore
her ron home saniShing her t0 solitary con
hnement, and mas written him down the great
est brute u st America has ever turned up into
4 responsible official position. Colonel Phillips
protested against the decision, and insisted that
an inquiry should be made as 70 the real causa
Of her good spirits" He was udely ordered
to hold his tongue, and upon insisting on JUS
tee to his wife, wLs told by Bulsr that II he
again opened his mouth he would order In 3 fla
of soldiers and have him ssgged.
Il is due to Mrs. Phillips to state that she suF-
feTsd for an Cff5nss OF which she was inuOcent7
for though ardently devoted to tie cause Of tia
South, the death Of her bttsres- f,,s would never
excite mirth or lsuubtsr