Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1862-05-27
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HgADQ'Ra DEpARTMEET OF ritz GULF,
New ORLEANS, May 9. 1862.

GENERAL ORDERS, No 25:
Tho deplorable state of restitution aud hun.
gor CT the mechanics and working classes in
this city has been brought to tho knowledge
of the Commanding General.
h has yielded to every suggestion made by
tho City Government, and ordered every me
thod CT furnishing food to the people OF Nav
Orleans that that government desired No RS.
lief by those officials has yet been att'rded.-
This hunger does not pinch tho wealthy and
influential, the leaders of the rebellion, who
have gotten up this war, snd are now endea7-
oring 70 prosecute it, without regard to the
starving Door, the working nan. has wife and
child. Uamindful Of their suffering feilow-
csiznns at hom,, they have caused CT 6Utsred
provisions to be carried out Of the ci.y Tor
Confederate service since tho occupat;onby
the United States forces.
lafayette Square, their houe OF a11lencs,
was MADE the depot OF stores and munitions
OF war for the rebel armies, and not OF provi>
sions for Lhor poor neishbors- Striking hands
with the Tilc, the gambler, the idlcr, and the
ruttln, they have destroyed the sugar and
cotton which might have been exchanged fcr
food for the industrious and good, and regulated
the prico OF that which is left, by discred!ti1g
toe very currency they had furnished while
thoy eloped with Tho specie; as vol that
stolen from the United States as the Banks,
tie property of the good people Of New Or
leans, thus leaving them 10 ruin ard s!aTra-
s!u:t.
Fngitiv,s frog, justice, many Of them, and
Others, their associates, staying because 100
pusrilo and insgn!6 :ant to be objects of pun.
lshEent BIZ III, clement Gj7a-Gmcnt Of the
United States
They have betrayed iheir country.
r.ey have hcen false to every trust,
Thuy have shown themselves ines pablo oil
defending The Stats that they had saized upon;
although !hoy nave forced every poor mans
child into their service as soldiers for ;:iat
purpose while they made tbar SONS aud
neptews Ulcers.
: They cannot protect those whuI trey marc
ruined, but have left Them 10 the marc:es and
aSsass as:ions OF chronic Iaoh.
Thoy will not frah ti,,sc saoh ,iIsy alc
starving.
Mostly without property theiiouiss:, they
haze plundrrrt, stooG und destroyed the
uIsans Of those who had property, leaving
children pennIess and old age HOPELESS.
MEN or LOUISIANA, WORElNGMEE.
PRO HOLDSRt, MERCHANTS AID
OIriZENS OE TIE UNITED STATES. OF
whatever nation YOU may have had birth,
how long vii you uphold these h,grant
WRONGS and BY inaction suU.r yourselves 10
DC Inada too serfs vi those leaders,
The Uulea States have sent land ana n.T al
forces here to Gsht and suoLte rsosliioGs ar
mics in array against her authority. "e find,
substantially, only fugitive MASSES, run away
nronerty ovnrrs q whIsksy drinking m III and
starving citizens, WIKI their wives and cl:l
dren. 1t is our duly 10 osll back ths ir;i. To
punish the second, root out ti!. tnird, i%ui ':-.d
protect the last.
Ready only for war, We Il 20 not prepared
ourselves TO feed the hunyry aud rclIc7e the
d,stre. 5cd with provisions. GL: to the cxteat.
possible with" tbs power o! tho Uomn .nding
General, it shall DO do"e-
| lie has captured quantity oi beef and sill
gar intended for the rebels in the Held. \
thousand blrrcs CT those stores will BIZ dis
trlbuted among the deserving, ;:o3r OF this city
from whom the rebels had pundered it; v7en
although some OF tho food will 20 70 supply
thu craving wants OF the wi9eJ AMI cIllltcn
ri those now hcrti!s q! "Calnp Moore, ped
a.srS hclc N arms against toe Unlted States
Captain :. ia Clirk, A;iiHg Chief Enrnu.i,.
7arJ -: SUB .l,ilencc, wIl, b. Charged HillI tne
ex. culion If ih!s order, and GIL give public
notice Of lh3 plaza and uI"iiGri If diSiri5u-
tlou, itch w.i! be afr.1ssi, as III Al; foseioic,
50 That inc unworthy AID GisSolu;e Is ]! 70.
| shara its benefits.
By cGrrn:ard o! Major General RULER.
George q. SLToEg, !. 4 G Cniaf Of Statf.