St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1863-01-29

"a SuV OVOs&cs H,El {t,.E sFx
( ,Op. one occasion one Of his aids brought
before him a young woman: almost white,
who had been brutally whipped and turn
ed out of the house'of her father For
this outrage the man had BEEN made to
pay: fine Of 81 900 and give tho woman
= deed Of emancipation, TApplausc T.
These were the kind of, charges which
had been brought against him. 1Cheers,
and cries. of 'God!"] Yes; no right
minded man could be sent tt,New Orleans
without returning an :unconditi0nal r anti
slavery; man. even though the roofs Of the
houses were not taken off and the extent
Of, the corruption exposed. '' 80
! All the lower class Of the people Of New
Orleans were loyal During the first four:
teen da, after the Union forces entered
the city, fourteen thousand took the oath
Of. allegiance and when he went on board
the steamer on bis return to the North, at
least one, Thousand laboring men came
down upon the leyee, and uttered no word
except those Of good will. to him. as, the
representative Of the Government, j.,
l.. Gen. Butler contided by saying that the
war could only be besuccessfully prosecuted
by the destruction. ofslavery, which was
made the corner stone of the Confederacy
This was the second time in the history of
the world that rebellion Of property
holders against the Government was ever
carried on. The Hungarian rebellion
was one ofthat kind, and that failed, as
must every rebellion Of men of property
against the rights Of the many: One Of
the greatest arguments which he could
find against Slavery was the demoralizing
influences it exertcd upon the lower white
classes, who were. brought into secession
by the hundreds because, they ignorantly
supposed that great wrong was to be done
tn. m by Lincoln Government, as they
termed it if the North succeeded: There
fore, if you meet an old Hunker Demo.
crat, and send him for sixty days to New
Orleans, and he comes back 9 Hunkex
There was one thing about the Presi-
dents edict of emancipation to which he
would call attention. In Louisiana he had
excepted from freedom about 81 900 slaves.
These comprise all the negroes held in the
Lafourche District who have becn'' eman-
cipated already for so;he time, under the
law which free slaves taken in. ,rebellious
territory by our armies Others Of these
negroes had been freed by the prociama.
ton of September, which declared alt
slaves to be free whose masters should be
in arms on the 1st day Of January: The
slaves ofthe Frenchmen were free because
the code ciuH expressly prohibits French:
man holding slaves, and by the 7th and
9th Victoria, every .Eng)isbman holding
slaves submitted himself to a penalty of
$500 for each =: Now take the. negroes Of
Secessionists; Frenchmen and Enslishmen
out Of the 81 900 and :the number is re-
dueed to; an. ip6ultessimal portion of those
excepted. This tact had come to his
knowledge from having required every
Einhabitaht iulthe city to register his nation
ulity. After all the names had been fairly
! registered,. he exploited these laws to. the
English and French Consuls, and had thus
4 replied. to deman ndswhich had been made
by English and French re e,idents Of Louis
iania upon the Government for slaves
alleged to have been seized. Zap