St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1863-01-15
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Citisens OF New Orleans.

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It may not be appropriate; q ~ it is,aot
'mportune in occasion, that there should
he addressed TO JON : fay words At part.
ing, BY one vhose name i to be hereafter
indissolubly connected with your city / =,
I:shall speak IN no bitterness, because
tl am not conscious Of . single personal an
imosity. Commanding the Army Of the
Gulf;"l found you captured, but not sur.
rendered; conquered, butorderly; reliev.
ed from the presence Of an army, but in-
capable Of taking cars,of yourselves. So
far from it, you have called upon for
eign legion 70 protect you from yourselves.
1 restored order, pua,shed crime. opened
commerce, brought p,rovisioss 70 your.
starving people, reformed yoar currency,
and gave you quiet protection such a.
yoa had not enjoyed for many years. ;ou j
While doing this my soldiers were sub
ject to obloqnY, teeproa,eh and insult. ll II2a
And now, speaking to you, xho know
the truth, here declare that whoever has
Quietly remained about his business, af.
fotdlnR neither aid nor comfort to'the enc.
mi1 Of the United States, has never been
interfered with by the soldisra of the
United States. q zf".''I III :':n'Eb - =:
III The men who had assumed to govern
YOU and to defend your city'in al airruia MS have
fed ;some Of your women fouted at the
presence iof those who came t. protect;
them. By ! simple order (No.'28,J l
called upon every soldier Of this army to
treat the women of New Orleans as gen.
tlemeen !! e. it should; with such effect now.
es apHa - 9es:1@ese '@a'Ss e&en.sn. 3 sss1
joyed so complete protection and calm
quiet for themselves, and their families as
since the advent OF the United States
troops.
The enemies Of my country, ,unrepent.
ant and implacable, have treated with
merited severity. 1 hold that rebellion is
treason, and that treason persisted inis
death, and any punishment short. Of that
due traitor gives 50 much clear gain to
him from the clemency Of the government:
Upon this thesis administered the au-
thority Of the United States, because Of
which l am not unconscious Of complaint:
1 do not feel that I have erred into too much
harshness, for that hqrshness has ever
been exhibited to disloyal enemies Of my
country and not to'loyai friends. To be
sure I might nave regaled yeu with the
amneties of British civilization and yet
within supposed rules Of civilized warfare.
You might have been. smoked to
death in, caverns, as were the Covenanters
ofScotland by the command ofa general
of the Royal House Of England :; or roasted
like the Inhabitants of .Algiers during the
French campaign ;your wives and daugh:
ters might have been given over to the
ravisher as were the unfortunate danes
Of Spain in the Peninsular war or you
might have been scalped and tomahawked
as our mothers were at Wyoming by the
savages allies of Great Britain in our. own
revolution ). your property could have
been turned over to indiscriminant 'loot'
like the palace Of the Emperor Of China
works of art which adorned your build.
ings might have been sent away like. the
paintings Of the Vatican your sons might
have been blown from the mouths of can
non like the sepoys. Of Delhi, and yet all
this would have been within the rules Of
civilized warfare as practiced BY the: most
polished and the most hypocritical nations
of Europe. For such acts the records o.
the doings Of some Of tho Inhabitants o.
your city toward the friends Of the Union
before my coming, were sufficient provo
cative and Justification o. .:,.. -.
But l have not SO. conducted. On tn
contrary the worat punishment T. inflicted
except for criminal al, acts punishable b!
every law, has been banishment with Ia l..
bor, to, barren island, where I encampet
my own soldiers before marching here.
It's true I have levied upon the wealth,
rebels and paid out nearly half a millio'
Of dollars to feed 10000 of the starvin.
poor of all nations assembled here, made 8
BY this war. =. II. e.. -. IT,.
l saw tha: this rebellion was war Q
the aristocrats against the middling men
Of the .ich against the poor; war Of til