Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-01-01
JEFF. Davis Charges Against
Cen. ButlCr


Gen. Butter.
New YORK, Dec. 27.-Tbe following
are Davis allegations against General
Butler.
Peaceful and aged citizens, unressting
captives and on combatants, have been
confined at hard labor with chains attach
ed to their limbs, and are still so held in
dungeons and fortresses. Others have
been submitted to like degrading pun
shment for selling medicine to sick SOL
diers of the Coniederacy, and soldiers Of
the United States have been invited and
encouraged in general orders to insult and
outrage the wives, mothers and sisters of
our citizens. Helpless women have been
torn from their homes and subjected to
solitary confncment-some in fortresses
and prisons, and one especially on an is.
land of barren sand, under a tropical sun /;
have been fed with loathsome rotlons that
had been condemned as unfit for soldiers.
and have been exposed to the viest in.
suits. Prisoners of war who surrendered
to the naval force of the United States,
on agreement that they should be released
on parole have been seized and kept in
close confinement. Repeated prctcxts
have been sought or invented for plumber.
ing the inhabitants Of the captured city
by fines levied and collected under threat
of imprisoning recusants at hard labor
with ball AMI chain. The entire popula-
ton Of New Orleans have been forced to
elect between starvation by confscation
OF all their property AMI taking an oath
against their conscience, to bear ale
glance to the invaders Of their county
Egrcss from the city has been refused to
those whose fortittsle withstool the test, ,
even to lone and aged women, and to help.
less children, aud after being elected
from their homes and robbed of their
property, they have been loft to starve in
the streets or subsist on charity. Slaves
have been driven from plantations in the
ncighborhood Of New Ooleaus, until their
owners would consent to share their crops
with the commanding general. his broth
cr Andrew j. Butler, and other officers;
and when such consent had been extorted,
the slaves have been restored to their
plantations, and there compelled to work
under the Gayonets of guard Of United
States soldiers. Where that partnership
was refused armed expeditions have been
sent to the plantations to rob them Of cv.
erything that was susceptible of removal
and even slaves too aged or intirm foi
work have, in spite of their entrcaties
been forced from homes provided by thci
owners and driven to wander helpless OF
tho highway.
By a recent order, No. 81, the entir,
property in thrt part of Louisiana ives
: of the Mississippi river has been seq est
cred for conhScation, aud officers have
assigned to duty with orders to gather ~
and collect together personal property
and turn over to the proper officers upor
/ their receipts, such of said property n,
may be required for the use Of the Unite
States army, to collect together all per.
sona property, and bring the same lc
New Orleans and cause it to be sold at
public auction to the highest bdder--an
order which. if executed, condemns tc
, punish by starvation at least quarter o
u million Of all ages, sexes, and condi
tions, and Of which the execution, al.
though forbidden to military officers b,
the orders of President Lincoln is in az
cordance with the confiscation law Of on
enemies, which he has enforced through
the agency Of cruel officials. And final
ly, the African slaves have not only beer
melted to insurrcction by the encmy's Ii
cense an encouragement, but numbers o
them have actually been armed for Il
scrvile war--a war in its nature far OK
ceeding the horrors AMI most mclciless
atrocities Of sovagcs; and whereas the of
iicers under command of said Butler have
been in many instances active and zeal
ous agents in the commission of thcs,
} crimes.