The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1863-01-03

leaders or its representatives. For what they
say or do the party is in no sense responsible.
Let the people steadfastly bold to the golden
mesn," misunderstanding equally the radical
destructiyes of the abolition party and these
radical revolutionists who falsely call them
selves conservatives.
Arrival or General Butler nom New
Orleans.
Among the many officers in the service of the
United States government but few have more
efficiently filed the requirements Of their position
than General Butler, who so recently returned
from New Orleans We are not inclined to find
such indiscriminate fault with the Generals
actions during his government Of that city Is
are the copperheads Of the North, or the bitter
enemies Of the Union abroad.
General Butler, when he assumed the govern
ment of New Orleans, found it a pandemonium.
The citizens were bowed under the yoke Of Q
gang Of miscreants. who, in the name of the
Southern Confederacy, robbed and murdered at
will The audacity of these rufians had reached
such an extent, that the citizens were forced to
call to their protection foreign legion while,
10 add to the horrors Of their unfortunate
position they were in dread of q servile insur-
rection. The poorer classes were starving
General Butler put an immediate end to the
misdeeds of the robbers and murderers. He re-
established law and order. He caused the poor
to be fed, and taxed the wealthy rebels in
classes, judging wisely that It was proper he
should aid the latter at the expense Of the for
mer. He kept the city clean and healthy, and
thus avoided the horrors of the epidemic--yel
low fever. He added to New Orleans vast
possessions in the shape of new land from
the batture of the Mississippi river. He opened
roads to unoccupied lands and improved the
streets and squares in the city. He repressed
the insolence of the disaffected with great firm
ness and success, If not with smooth, oily polite
ness, and suppressed oil attempts at servile
insurrection. In fact, he proved himself equal
to the demands of his post, and therein he is
entitled to consideration, SO few in the service
of our government having done the same. The
secession journals in the South and in Europe
have We'd with each other in heaping abuse
upon General Butler. His firm and consistent
policy they have constantly misrepresented and
reviled. They styled the Generals govern
ment as despotic to a degree, and made him out
. very ogre, ready to devour the wives and
children of the rebels. In fact, upon him they
centered all their lies and scandal. The pre-
sent condition OF the city of New Orleans il
General Buffers best answer to the abuse
which has been hoaped upon him at home and
abroad.
We do not claim for General Butler all the
suavity and polite manner of those French
officers who smoked the poor Bedouins to
death in their mountain caves, nor yet the ease
lish officers who seized upon the Scpoy bearers
of flag Of truce and blew them from the
mouths of huge cannons. These deeds were
performed in gentlsmanly manner There
was observable upon those occasions none OF
that brusqxerie which the French and English
journals find 80 abhorrent in Butler.
He did not, it is true, save in one instance
take life. But, then, the prominent rebels whom
he seized and sent to prison with chains upon
their limbs were not treated in deferential
manner. The whole Of these proceedings were,
according to the European press, rude, impolits
and highly reprshensible. Had General
Butler have taken these persons with all due
observance of the polite requirements Of So
ciety, and with the proper expressions Of con-
dolence strangled them in some out Of the way
corner, or drowned them in the Mississippi, not
forgetting the while to be suaye and dccorous
all might have been we'll, and Europe content:
but, then, to take gsntlemanly or ladylike rebels
and shut them up in q prison, and all in
coarse and unfeeling manner, was too much
for the tender suceptibilities of the press Of
London and Paris. They were shocked, were
grieved, bethought them of Nero and Caigula,
wrote articles condemning in fiery terms all
tyrants, and ending with lamentations over the
fate Of New Orleans. General Buffers name
became with them synonymous with all that is
hateful aud annoying; and day after day, and
month after month, they poured out their alb
surd and hypocritical abuse upon him.
The General has been recalled by the adj
ministration, no doubt for the purpose Of
making good use elsewhere of his undoubtod
abilities, and because (thanks to his sxertions)
New Orleans has attained . degree of order
and prosperity which will allow Of a milder
rule than Buffers for the future We COM
mend to the attention OF our readers the pro-
clamation he issued to the citizens Of New
Orleans upon his departure from that city. The
document-to be found in another columns
an able review Of the Generals government Of
New Orleans, and is fairly borne cut by facts
Whatever may be said against General Buffers
administration, none can doubt that be has
made great and wholesome changes In the city,
and that when he took possession oil was
anarchy and confusion. New Orleans is now
one Of the best regulated cities In the United
States. To General Butler the credit Is un-
doubtsdly due.
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