Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1863-01-30

Southern life, but he had seen with hi
own eyes and heard with his own ear
many things which go beyond her bool
as much as her book does beyond an or
binary school girls novel. He related Al
instance of the shocking decentralization
of society in New Orleans. There came
into his office a woman twenty-sever
years of age, perfectly white, who asked
him in proper language if he would pu
her into one of her fathers houses. Hei
history was this j: Her father had educa
ted her in the city of New York unit
she was between IL and Is years o.
age and taken her to one of the metro
politan hotels, where he kept her as bis
mistress. Not relisbing the connec-
ton, and desiring to get away from him.
she went to New Orleans--he followed
her, but she refused to live with him, AT
which he whipped her in the public
streets and made her marry slave. She
afterwards resumed the unnatural rela-
ton, going TO Cincinnati, but was brought
back by her husband or father with n
child belonging to somebody. Her ia
ther fed from the city at the time Of its
occupation by the United States forces,
leaving her in state of destitution. She
wanted TO live in one of her fathers
houses, but her story was not creditable,
and be determined to investigate it. To
his surprise il was found to be well 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, a
judge of one of the courts.
On one occasion one of his aids bro't
before him young woman almost white,
who was brutalIy whipped and turned
out of the house of her father. For this
outrage the man had to pay afne of one
thousand dollars and give the woman
deed OF emancipation. applause. -.
These were the kinds Of charges which
had been brought against him. Cheers
and cries of 'Goodl) Yes, no right
minded man could be sent TO N. o. with
out returning an unconditional anti-slq-
very man, even though the roofs of the
houses were Ia ken off and the full ex-
tent Of the corruption exposed.
All the lower classes Of the people Of
New Orleans were loyal During the
first fourteen days after the Union forces
entered the city, $4,000 took the oath of
allegiance, and when be went on board
the steamer on his return to the North,
~ ACdpt lONO iubollIR men CdihS uoNH !
upon the levee, and uttered no words ex-
cept those of good will to him as the re-
preventative of the government,
Gen. Butler continued by saying that
the war could only be successfully pros
ecuted 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 influence it exerted upon the
lower white classes, who were brought
into secession by the hundreds because
they had ignorantly supposed that great
wrong was to be done them by the Lin
coin government, as they termed 1t, 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)