The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-01-07
IMPORTANT FROM NEW ORLEANS,


The transport steamer S. r. SuauIding
arrived at New York from Nam n-lvvr1s5
on tho 15tsI, bringing news from that citV
to tai 16r ~ tGeneraI Butler and staff, with
number of officers recently attached to
his command returned by this steamer.
FAREWELL ADDRESS OF GEN. BUTLER
Gen. Butler, Just before his departure,
issued the following eloquent address to
the people of New Orleans:
"Citizens of New Orleans: 1t may
not be inappropriate, as it is not mop
perfume in occasion, shat there should
be addressed to you few words at part
ing, by one whose name is to be hereaf-
ter indissolLbly connected with your city
81 shall speak in no bitterness, because
/ am not conscious Of single personal
animosity. Commanding the Army of
the Gulf, found you captured, but not
surrendered; conquered, but not orderly;
relieved from the presence of an army,
but incapable oftaking care ofyourselves
So far from it, you had called upon a
foreign legion to protect you from your
selves / restored order, punished
crimes, opened commerce, brought pro-
visions to your starving people, reformed
your currency, and gave you quiet pro-
lection, such as you had not enjoyed for
many years.
while doing this, my soldiers were
subjected to obloquy, reproach and in
suit
"And now, speaking to you, who know
the truth, here declare that whoever
has quietly remained about his business,
affording neither aid nor comfort to the
enemies of the United States has never
been interferred with by the soldiers of
the United States.
"The men who had assumed to govern
you and to defend your city in arms nav
ing fled, some ofyour women fouted at the
presence of those who came to protect
them By simple order (No. 2S)
called upon every soldier of this army to
treat the women of New Orleans as gen.
tlemen should deal with the sex, with
such effect that now call upon the Just
minded ladies of New Orleans to say
whether they have ever enjoyed so com
plete protection and calm quiet for them
selves and their families as since the ad-
vent of the United States troops.
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ant and implacable, 1 have treated with
merited severity l hold that rebellion
is treason, and that treason persisted in
is death, and any punishment short Of
that due traitor gives SO much clear
gain to him from the clemency of the
Government, Upon this thesis have
administered the authority of the United
States, because of which | am not un
conscious of complaint | do not fee
that | have erred in too much harshness
for that harshness has ever been exhibi
ted to disloyal enemies of my country
and not to loyal friends.
To be sure | might have regaled you
with the amenities of British civil
zation, and yet been within the supposed
rules of civilized warfare. You might
have been smoked to death in caverns
as were the Covenanters of Scotland by
the command of General of the roya
house of England; or roasted like the
inhabitants of Algiers during the Frencl
campaign; your wives and daughter.
might have been given over to the raw
ishers as were the unfortunate DANES O
! Spain in the Peninsula war; or yoI
might have been scalped and tomahawk
ed as our mothers were at Wyoming b.
savage allies of Great Britain in our owl
revolution; your property could hav,
been turned over to indlscriminate loot
like the palace of the Emperor of China
works of art which adorned your build
ings might have been sent away like tn,
paintings of the Vatican; your SON
might have been blown from the mouths
of cannon like the Sepoys at Delhi; ant
| yet all this would have been within th,
rules of civilized warfare as practiced b,
| the most polished and the most hypo
critical nations of Europe For sucl
acts the records of the doings of some o
the inhabitants of your city toward tn,
friends of the Union, before my coming
were different provocative and justifi
cation.
..But [ have not 60 con si,,o.el a., e.,
contrary, the worst punishment 1ntfIcted
except for criminal acts punishable b,
every law, has been banishment with Ia
| Dor to a barren island, where | encampet
my own soldiers before marching here
at is true l have levied upon tn
wealthy rebel and paid out nearly half ;
million of dollars to feed forty THOUSAND
of the starving poor of all nations assem-
bled here, made so by this war.
II saw that this rebellion was wa
of the aristocrats against the middlin
men; of the rich against the poor; wa
of the land owner against the laborer
that it was a struggle for the retentio
of power in the hands of the few againS
the many; and l found no conclusion
it save in the subjugation of the few an
the disenthrallment of the many.
therefore felt no hesitation in taking tn
substance of the wealthy, who had eau
ed the war, to feed the innocent poo
who had suffered by the war. And sha
now leave you with the proud consciou
ness that l carry with me the blessing
Of the humble and loyal under the ro'
; of the cottage and in the cabin of tt
slave, and so am quite content to inct
the sneerS of the salon or the curse
the rich.
81 found you trembling at the terro
. of servile insurrection All danger
this have prevented by treating Il
slave so that he had no cause to rebel.
81 found the dungeon, the chain al
the lash your only means of entorcil