Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-01-12
VOL. XVII. State Library
CenernI RutIer,s Address.

tailed, and we therefore give it in full be-
low:
a Citizens of Nev Orleans 1t may not
be inappropriate, as it is not inOpportune
in occasion, that there should be addressed
TO you few words at parting, by one
whose name is to be hereafter indissolubly
connected with your city.
al shall speak in no bitterness, because
[ am not conscious Of a single personal
animosity. Commanding the Army Of the
Gulf found you captured but not sur
rendered conquered, but not orderly; re
lieved from the presence Of an army, but
incapable of taking care of yourselves
So far from it, you had called upon a for
eign legion TO protect you from yourselves.
I restored order, punished crimes, opened
commerce, brought provisions to your
starving people, reformed your currency,
and gave you quiet protection, such as you
had not enjoyed for many years.
: ~ rhife doing this my soldiers we're
subjected to obioquy, reprOach and insult.
And now, speaking to you, who know
me UruEll, I mere uecIare CnAG whoever mas
Quietly remained about his business, af-
fording neither aid nor comfort to the en-
emies Of the United States, has never been
interfered with by the soldiers of the
United States.
4 HThe men who had assumed to govern
you and to defend your city in arms, hay-
I ing fed, some Of your women fouted at the
presence of those who came to protect them.
By a simple order No. 28) called upon
every soldier of this army to treat the
women ofNew Orleans as gentlemen should
deal with the sex, with such effect that
now call upOu the jdst-minded ladies of
New Orleans to say whether they have eT-
er enjoyed SO complete protection and calm
quiet for themselves and their families,
as since the advent Of the United States
troops.
q The enemies Of my country, unrepent-
ant and implaesble, have treated with
merited severity. hold that rebellion is
treason, and that treason persisted in is
death, and any punishment short Of that
due a traitor, gives so much clear gain TO
him from the clemency of the Government
Upon this thesis have 1 administered the
authority of the United States, because Of
! which l am not unconscious Of complaint.
[ do not feel that have erred in too
much harshness, for that hardness has
| ever been exhibited to disloyal enc
mics Of my country, and not 20 loyal
friends. To be sure l might have RECALLED
4 YOU with the amenities of British civiliza-
ton, and yet been within the supposed
rules of civilized warfare. You might
have BEEN smoked to death in caverns, as
we're the Covenanters Of Scotland by the
command Of General Of the Royal House
Of England or roasted like the inhaoi-
tants Of Algiers during the French cam
paign your wives and daughters might
have been given over to the ravisher as
were the unfortunate danes Of Spain in
the Peninsula war; or you might have
been scalped and tomahaWked as your
mothers were at Wyoming by savage al
lies of Great Britain in our own revolu-
tion your property could have been turn
ed over to indiscriminate "loot like the
palace of the Emperor of China; works Of
arts which adorned your buildings might
have been sent away like the paintings Of
I rtv y rrUiuu11s, yttr ruEIs IrIi igiIs ha-O been
blown from the mouths Of cannon like the
Sepoys at Delhi; and yet all this would
have been within the rules Of civilized
warfare as practiced by the most polished
and the most hypocritical nations Of Eu
rope. For such acts the records Of the do
ings Of some Of the inhabitants Of your
city toward the friends of the Union, be
fore my coming, were different provo
cative and justification.
But have not so conducted. On th'
contrary, the worst punishment inflicted
except for criminal acts punishable BY
every law, has been bsnishment with Ia
Dor to q barren island, where l encampeC
. my own soldiers before marching here.
at is true 1 have levied upon th'
wealthy rebel and paid out nearly half |
million of dollars to feed forty thousand o
the starving poor of slI nations assembled
here, made so by this war.
al saw that this rebellion was war 0
the aristocrats against the middling men
Of the rich against the poor; war OF tn
: landowner against the laborer; that it wa
] a struggle for the retention Of power II
the bands of the few against the many
and found no conclusion TO it save in tn
subiugstion Of the few and the disenthran
ment Of the many. I therefore felt no hes
itation in taking the substance of th
, wealthy, who had caused the war, to fee
the innocent poor who had suffered by tn
s war. And l shall now leave you with th
| proud consciousness that l carry with m
the blessings of the humble and loyal IN
der the roof Of the cottage and in the cabi
s of the slave, and SO am quite content
t incur the sneers of the salon or the ours
r Of the rich.
a. found you trembling at the terror
Of servileinsurreotiOn. All danger Of thi
have prevented BY so treating the slRy
T that he had no cause TO rebel
4 HI found the dungeon, the chain, an
the lash your only means Of enforcin
obedience in your servants. leave thel
: peaceful laborious, controlled by the Law
: Of kindness and justice.
T al have demonstrated that the pest
n Ienoe can DO lEOPt from your borders.
e HI have added 4 million of dollars
d your wealth in the form Of new land froi
r the batture of the Mississippi.
i al have cleansed and improved you
I streets, canals and public squares, an
i opened new avenues to unoccupied lan'
! al have given you freedom Of election
E greater than you have ever enjoyed b'
i fore.
! al have caused justice to be administer
; ed so impartially, that your own adv
r Gates have unanimously eomplimented II
q judges Of my appointment.
F" You have seen, therefore, the benefit
II the laws and justice of the GoVernmeI
G against which you have rebelled.
e "Why, then, viii you not return to yor
Il allegiance to that GOvernment-nOt wit
IS lip service, but with the heart?
! 81 cOnjure you, if you desire ever
4 see renewed prosperity, giving business
: your streets and wharves-if you hope
see your city become again the mart Of Il
Western world, fed by its rivers for mol
! than three thousand miles, draining Il
= commerce Of a country greater than Il
I mind of man hath ever conceived-retuT
= to your allegiance.
! "If you desire to leave to your childre
: : the inheritance you received Of your fat