The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1863-01-22
GEN. Buffers Fare well Address to the
People Of New Orleans.

People Of New OTleaMss
"Citizens of New Orleans: 1t may not
be inappropriate, as it is not inopportune
in occasion, that there should be address.
ed to you few words at parting, by on :
whose name is to be hereafter iudissolu.
bly, connected with your city.
II shall speak in no bitterness, be-
caupe l am not conscious Of single per-
sontl animosity Commanding the Army
Of the Gulf l found you captured, but not
surrendered; conquered, but not order
~; relieved from the presence Of an army,
but incapable of taking care Of your.
selves, restored order, punished crime,
opened commerce, brought provisions to
your starving people, reformed your cur.
rency, and gave you quiet protection,
such = you had not enjoyed for many
yssrs.
tVhils doing this my soldiers were
Seted 70 obloquy, reproach and in
= nov, spsaking to you, who know
4 he1e declare that whoever
Dm1 - about his business,
10 DOT comfort to the
Dssses, has never
y the soldiers Of
~ esslmed to govern
W city in arms hav.
y0ar women houted at
X4A0aA ~ mn N, - rr,k,oS
r ! simple order (No. 2s)
every soldier of this army tc
: ! 1omen of New Orleans as gen
Ssh ShoSId deal with the sex, with
E1eA eject that / now call upon the jus,
minded ladies Of New Orleans to say
whether $hey have ever enjoyed SO com.
= ete protec,, ion and calm quiet for them.
selves and their families as since the ad
rent o, the United States troops.
<.The en- elries of NV country, unre
peutant and implacable, : have treate'
with merited sew verify. no." that re
bkNion is treason, and that treaso" per
sisted in is death, and any punishL' zen
short Of that due traitor gives so muc.
clear gain to him from the c,emency o.
the government. Upon this thesis have
l administered the authority of the Uni
ted States, because of which l am moi
unconscious of complaint. do not fee
that have erred in too much harshness
for that harshness has ever been exhib
tied to disloyal enemies of my countr,
and not to loyal friends. To be sure
might have RECALLED you with the ameni-
tics Of British civilization, and yet beef
within the supposed rules of civilized
warfare. You might have been smoket
to death in caverns, as were the Cove
nanters of Scotland by the command of
general of the royal house Of England
or roasted like the inhabitants of Algier
during the French campaign; your wives
and daughters might have been giver
over to the ravisher a. were the unfortu
nate danes of Spain in the Peninsul,
war; or you might have been scalped anc
tomahawked as our mothers were at Wy
oming by savage allies of Great Britain
in our own revolution; your property
COuI0 udSS pCCu kuluCO OSGl W luulSCTIu
mate loot like the palace of the Empe
ror Of China; works Of art which adorned
your buildings might have been sent
away like the paintings Of the Vatican
your sons might have been blown from
the mouths of cannon like the Sepcys at
Delhi; and yet all this would have been
within the rules Of civilized warfare as
practised by the most polished and most
AInocritical nations of Europe. For such
: he records Of the doings Of some Of
labitants Of your city towards the
u Of the Union. before my coming
we're a sufficient provocative and justi6
cation.
"But l have not so conducted. On
the contrary, the worst punishment in
ficted, except for criminal acts punisha-
BILE by every law, has been banishmen,
with labor to barren island, where
enoamped my own soldiers before march
~ sore.
, 10 true l have levied upon tn.
>bo el and paid out nearly half
liars to feed forty thousant