Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-01-08
RUTLAND HERALD.
ru1RsDAY. JANUARY Is, 1863.
Con au,Ier at View york.

dsv, on his way home to Loweli, anu was
waited on in the evening by a ooiiiiiii''eo y
tho, Chamber Of Commerce, who, through their
chairman, presented him letter rendering
hin, ,nblic djpner, congratulating him on
the manner in which he had performed the du-
ia very difficult situation, and compile
roenting him on the success which had attend
I'd his management of affairs in New Orleans.
Wsmake.a few extracts from his reply to the
dsnutation, showing some of the beauties Of
the peculiar institution" as viewed by a
"hunker democrat.
He said with reference to the slavery ques-
ton, his views had undergone radical change
during his residence at New Orleans, and
while entertaining no prejudlces against his OLD
political associates, who found fault with MIN
on that score, he would only say to them, that
if thew had, gone there with the same sentl-
rnents that he felt, they would have come away
with the same sentiments that he felt. (Laugh-
ter,) He thought he might say that the prin
Cipal members of his staff, and the prominen
officers of his regiments, without any exception
went out to New Orleans bunker democrats of
the hunkerest sort, for it was but natural that
he should draw around him those whose views
were similar TO his own, and every individual
Of the number had come to precisely the same
belief on the question of slavery as he had put
forth.in his farewell address to the people OF
New Orleans. This chang came about from
seeing what all of them saw, day by day. In
this war the entire property OF the South was
against us, because almost the entire property
of the South was bound up in that institution.
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 rebellion was against the humble and
poorer classes, and there We're in the South
large numbers of secret societies dealing in ca
ballstic signs, organized for the purpose per-
petuating the power of the rich over the poor.
1t was feared that these common people would
come into power, and that three or four hun
bred thousand men could not hold out against
eight millions.
He related an instance Of the shocking de-
moralization of society at New Orleans. There
came into his office woman q years of age,
perfectly white, who asked him in proper Ian
guarge if he would put her in one of her faith
er's houses. Her history was this: Her faith
er had educated her in the city of New York
until she was between Il and IL Years of age,
tells. where he kept her as his mistress. Not
relshing 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 a slave. She afterward re-
sumed the unnatural connection going to Gin
cinnati, but was brought back by her husband
or father with a child belonging to somebody.
Her father fled from the city at the time of its
occupation by the United States forces, leav-
ing her in state of restitution. She wanted
to live in one of her fathers houses but her
story was not credible, and he determined to
investigate it. To his surprise, il was found
to be we'll known, and testimony Of its truth
obtained from a, B and C.. without difficulty.
Notwithstanding this fact, widely known as it
was, this man Could be elected in Louisiana, in
the city OF New Orleans, Judge of one of the
courts.
On one occasion one of his aids brought be-
lore MN Young woman, almost white, who
had heen bru:ually whipped and turned out of
the house OF her father. For this outrage the
man had been made to pay fine of $1,000
ana give the woman deed of emancipation
(Appaase.) These We're the kind of charges
which had been brought o=anot his, CCboe-g,
and cries Of "GoodP ply Yes, no right-minded
man could be sent to New Orleans without re-
mruing an unconditional anti-slavery man,
even though tho roofs of the houses were not
taken of and the full extent Of the corruption
exposed.
All the lower classes of the people of New
Orleans were loyal. During the first fourteen
days after the Union forces entered the city,
fourteen thousand took the oath of allegiance ,
and when he went on hoard the steamer on his
return to the north, at least one thousand labor
ing men came down upon the levee, and utter
ed no words except those of good will to him
as the representative Of the Cove nment.
Gen Butler continued by saving that the
war co Id only be successfully prosecuted by
the destruction of slavery, which was made
the corner stone Of the Confederacy. This was
the second time in the history of the worla
that rebellion of property holders against the
lower classes and against the Government was
ever carried on. The Hungarian rebellion
was one Of tina kind, and that failed, as must
every rebellion Of men OF property against
Government.an against the rights of the ma
ny.
Gen. Butler then adverted to the fight at
Vicksburg, and explained how utterly impos-
sib!e it was for Banks and Farragut to pass
the strongly-fort6ed rebel position three hun
dred miles below, at Port Hudson, in time, at
the present low stage of water in the Mis-
sissippi River, to cooperate with Gen. Sher-
man.