Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-01-28

at the time of its occupation by the Unit
ed States forces leaving her in state of
destitution She wanted to live in one of
her fathers houses, but her story was
not credible, and he determined to inves-
tigate it To his surpaise, it was found
to be we'll known, and testimony of its
truth was 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 his aids brought
before him 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 the woman
a deed Of emancipation. Applause |
These were the kind of charges which had
been brought against him. Cheers, and
cries Of Good r Yes, no right-minded
man could be sent to New Orleans with
out returning an unconditional anti slav-
erv man. even though the roofs of the
houses were not taken off and the full ex-
tent Of the corruption exposed. All the
lower class of people of New Orleans
were loyal. during the first fourteen
davs after the Union force entered the
city fourteen thousand took the oath of
allegiance and when he went on board
the steamer, on his return to the North,
at least one thousand laboring men came
down upon the levee, and uttered no
words except those of good will to him as
the representative of the Government.
General Butler continued by saying
that the war could only be successfully
prosecuted by the destruction of slavery,
which was made the corner stone of the
Confederacy.
One of the greatest arguments which
he could find against Slavery was the de-
moralizing influences it exerted over the
lower white classes who were brought
into secession by the hundred because
they ignorantly supposed that great wrong
was to be done them by the Lincoln Gov
ernment as they termed it, if the North
succeeded Therefore, if you meet an old
bunker democrat, and send him for sixty
days to New Orleans, and he comes back
{. bunker still, he is merely incorrigible.
Laughter.
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 eighty
seven thousand slaves. These comprise
all the negroes held IN the Lafourche dis
trict who have been emancipated already
for some time under the law which frees
Slaves taken in rebeilious territory by
our armies Others of these negroes had
been freed by the proclamation OF Sep
tember, which declared all slaves to be
free whose owners should be III arms on
the lst of January The slaves OF French
men were free because the Code Civile
expressly ohibits a Frenchman holding
slaves, and, by the 7th and Sth Victoria,
every Englishman holding slaves submit
ted himself to penalty of $500 for each.
Now, take the negroes Of secessionists,
Frcnchmen and Englishmen, out of the
$1,000. and tne number is reduced to an
infinitessima! portion of these expected.
This fact had come to his knowledge from
having required every inhabitant of the
city to register his nationality. After all
the names had been fairly registered, he
explained these laws to the English and
French Consuls, and had thus replied to
demands which had been made by English
and French residents of Louisiana upon
the Government for slaves alleged to have
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