The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-04-13
REVIEW OF THE SOUTHERN REVO-
LUTI0NISTS.
The Northern Sympathizers and
the English Abettors.
From the New York Herald, April 3.

From the New York Herald, April 3
Gen. Butler, who was dressed in citi-
zen's clothes, and wore no emblem of
military rank, spoke as follows, in a rich,
deep, powerful tone Of voice:
Mr. MAYoR:-With the profoundest
gratitude for the very fatterin9 com
mendations of my administration in the
various trusts committed to me by the
Government which, in behalf of your
associates, you have been pleased to ten
der me, receive my most heartfelt
thanks. To the citizens of New York
here assembled, in kind appreciation of
a service supposed to be rendered to the
country, tender the deepest acknowl-
edgments. Applause. accept it all
not for myself, but for my comrades in
the Army of the Gulf Cheers l re-
ceive it as an earnest of your devotion
to the country which you love, and of
your loyalty to the constitution under
which you live and under which you
hope to die. Cheers. 1t may be well,
in order that the acts OF the Army of the
Gulf may be understood, that some slight
detail should be given Of the thesis on
which we administered our duty.
THEORY OF THE WAR.
The first question, then, to be. ascer-
tanned is, what is this contest in which
the country is engaged? That we are
in the midst of civil commotion all know.
But what is that commotion? Is it a
riot?-is it an insurrection ?-is it a re-
bellion?-or is it revolution7 And
what is a riot? A riot, if | understand
it, is simply an outburst of the passions
of men for the moment, breach of the
law, to be subdued by civil authority.
But, you say, why treat US to deini-
ton of riot on this occasion? and why,
of all things on earth, should you under
take to instruct a New York audience as
to what riot IS? Laughter and ap
plause To that answer: because the
administration of Mr. Buchanan, dealt
with the great change of affairs in the
country as if it were riot; because his
Government officers gave the opinion
that in Charleston it was riot; and as
there were no civil authorities to call out
the militia, Fort Sumter must be given
over to the rioters. That was the begin
ming of these troubles. Let us see how
they grew up | deal not with mere
causes, but with facts. Directly the
guns of the rebels were turned on Sum-
ter, and the various States of the South,
in convention assembled, inaugurated a
series of movements which took out of
the Union the divers States, and as each
was attempted to be taken out, riot
was not found in them; but they became
insurrectionary, and the Administration,
on the 9Th of april, 1861, as you viii
remember, dealt with them as an insur-
rection, and called out the militia of the
United States, for the purpose of suDdu-
ing insurrection. | was called at the
time into service to administer the laws.
| found a riot in Baltimore. There
they burned bridges, and had hardly aris-
en- to the dignity of an insurrection, be-
cause the State had not moved as an Or
ganized community. After men were
rioting in Baltimore. you will do me the
honor to remember that we offered and
determined to put down all kinds of in
surrection SO long as the State of Mary
land was and continued loyal to the Uni
ted States, and so long as no attempt
was made at.revolution, which l under
stand to be an infraction of the laws.
Transferred thence to a wider sphere
of action at Fortress Monroe, / found
that the State of Virginia had taken it.
self out of the Union, and was using ev-
cry endeavor to erect for itself sepa-
rate and distinct government, and, there
fore, deal. with that State as being in
rebellion, and on the ground that the
property of rebels, in every form, shape,
or nature, should be dealt with as rebel
Gous property. [ Applause. 1 have
been thus careful, sir, in stating the va