The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-01-17

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injuring him but the cause Of the cos.....,-
with feierence % the Slavery question, bic views
had undergone radical change during his resi-.
dence in New Orleans, and while entertaining no
prejudice against bic old political associates,
only say to them that il he had gone there With
the same sentiments that he felt, they would
| have come away with the same sentiments that
he felt. TLaughter.] He thought be might saw
that the principal members Of bis stat. and the
prominest officers of bic regiments, without auy
Exception, went out to New Orleans bunker
Democrats 0: the bunkerest sort, for il Was but
| natural that he should draw around him those
whose views we're similar to bis own, and every
individual Of the number had come precisely to
the same belief on the question of Slavery a
ne nad pIt forth in hs farewell address to the
people of New Orleans The change came about
from seeing what all of them saw, day by day.
In this war the entire property Of the South
was az iinst US, because almost the entire prop
erty of the South WAS bound up in that inetitu-
ton. This was well known fact, probably.
but he did not become fully aware Of it until he
had spent some time in New Orleans. The South
had $l63, 900 900 Of taxable property in slaves.
and $leS, 100000 In all other kinds Of proper
~. And this was the cause Why the merchants
of New Orleans had not remained loyal They
found themselves ruined-all their property be-
ing loaned upon planters notes and mortgages
upon plantations and slaves, all Of which prop
erty is now reasonably worthless Again, he
had learned what he did not know before, that
this was not rebellion against u.s. but simply q
rebellion to perpetuste power in the hands Of .
few shareholders. At first be had not believed
that Slavery was the cause of the Rebellion, but
attributed it to Davis, Slidell and others, who
had brought it about to make political triumphs
oy which to regain their former ascendency-
The rebellion was against the humble and poor
er classes and there we're in the South large
numbers OF secret societies, dealing in cabelisiic
Signs. organized for the purpose of perpetuating
the power OF the rich over the poor. It was
feared that these common people would come
into power, and that three or four hundred
| thousand men could not hold against eight nil
lions The first movement of these men was TO
make land the basis Of political power and
that Was not enough, for land could not be own
ed BY many persons Then they annexed land
to slaves and divided the property into moysa-
BILE and immoveable. 80
He was not generally accused Of being hu-
manitarian-at least no. by his Southern friends.
lLaughter.] When be saw the utter democrats
cation of the people, resulting from Slavery, il
struck him that it was an institution which should
be thrust out of the Union. He bad on reading
Mrs. Stoves book-"Uncle Toms Cabin"-be-
lieved it to be an overdrawp, highly. wrought
picture OF Southern life; but he had seen with
his own eyes, and beard with his own ears, many
things which so beyond her book as much as her
book does beyond ordinary school girls novel.
He related an instance OF the shocking demorali.
zation of society at New, Orleans There came
into his Office woman, ~ years Of age, perfect
~ white, who asked him in proper language il
he would put her in one of her fathers houses.
Her history was this: Her father had educated
her in the city of New York, until she was be-
tween II and 10 years Of age, and taken her TO
one o. the metropolitan hotels, where he kept
her az bis mistress. Notrelishing the connection,
and desiring to get away from him, she went to
New Orleans-he followed her, but she refused
to live With him, at which he whipped her in the
public street, and made her marry slave. She
afterward resumed the unnatural relation, going
to Cincinnati, but was bought back by her hus-
band, or father, with child, belonging to some.
body. Her father fed from the city at the time
| of It's, occupation by the United States leaving
her in a state of destiution. She wanted to
live in one Of her fathers houses but her story
was not credible, and he determined to inves-
| tigate it. To his surprise, it was found to be
| well known, and testimony of its truth was OBJ
tanned from A. B and c, without diffculty-
Notwithstanding this fact, widely known IS it
was, this man could be elected in Louisiana, in
| tbs city of New Orleans, a Judge of one Of the
Courts. On one occasion ore of the aids brought
before him young woman almost white, who
had been brutality whipped and turned out Of the
| house OF her father. For this outrage the man
had been made to pay a fine Of 81 900 and give
the woman deed of emancipation. IApplauSe.
These were the kind Of charges which had been
| brought against him. Cheers, and cries of
| Good Yes, no right minded man could be
sent to New Orleans without Ietnrning anluncon.
ditional Antl>Slavery man, even though the
| roofs of the houses were not taken CT and the
full extent of the corruption exposed. Ali the
lower class Of the people Of New Orleans were
loyal During the FIRST fourteen days after the
oath Of allegiance; and, shen be went on board
the steamer, on his return to the North, at least
one thousand labOriDg men came down upon the
levee, and uttered no words except those of good
will to him as the representative Of the Govern.
ment tasEI lA ara
Gen. Butler continued by saying that the war
could only be successfully prosecuted by the des.
truction Of Slavery, which was made the corner
stone of the Confederacy. This was the second
| time in the history of the world that rebel.
lion Of property-h against the lower classes
duo o8alEst sue oOVerhHlcOL was ever carried
on. The Hungarian rebellion was one Of that
kind, and that failed, as must every rebellion of
| men of property, against the government, and
against the rights of the many. One OF the
greatest arguments against slavery was the de-
moralizing influence it exerted on the lower
white classes, who were brought into secession
| by the hundreds, because they innocently suppos-
ed that great wrong was to be done them BY
the Lincoln Government as they termed it, If
the North succeeded Therefore, if you meet
an old Hupker Democrat, and send him to New
Orleans for sixty days, and he comes back Q
Aunker still, he 10 merely incorrigible. Laugh.
ter There vas ore thing about the Presidents
edict OF emancipation to which he would call a.
tention. In Louisiana be had excepted from
freedom about $1,000 slaves These comprioe
Oil the negroes held in Lafourobe district, who
have been emancpsted already for come time,
under the law which frees slaves taken in rebel