Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1863-02-05

at least one thousand laborng men came down
upon the eEee, and uttered no words except
those Of good will to bin as the representative
Of the Government. General Butler c0ntinu.
ed by saying that the war could only be sue
cesStully prosecuted by the destruction of Sla.
very, which was made the corner stone of the
COnfederacy. This was the second tine in the
history of the world that rebellion of proper
ty holders against the lower classes and against
the Government was ever carried on. The
Hungarian rebellion was one Of that kind, and
that failed, as must every rebellion Of men of
property against Government, and against the
rights of the many. Oue Of the greatest ar
gumentS which he could find against Slavery
was the demoralzing influence it eXerted up.
on the lower white classes, who were brought
into secession by the hundred because they ig-
norantly supposed that great wrong was to be
done them by the Lincoln Government, as they
termed it, if the North succeeded. Therefore,
if YOU meet au old uuuker Dem 0erat, and
send him for sixty days to New Orleans, and
he comes back uunker STILL be is merely in.
corrigibe. Laughter
There was one thing about the Presidents
edict Of emancipation to which he would call
o t.ntion In Louisiana be had excepted FROM
freedom about $1,000. These comprise all
the negroes held in the Lafougche District
who have been emaIcipated already for some
time, under the law which frees slaves taken
in rebellious territory by our armies. Others
OF these negroes had been freed by the prOcla-
nation Of September, which declared all slaves
free whose owners shall be in arms on the lst
of January The slaves of Freuchmen were
fee because the code cirU expressly prohibits
FrencEman holding slaves, and by the 7th
and Sth Victoria every Engshman holding
slaves submitted himself to penalty Of $500
for each Now, take the negroes of Seces-
sionistS, Frenchmen, and EngliShmen out of
the $1,000 and the number is reduced to al
nfuitesjmal portion of those excepted. This
fact had come TO bis knowledge from having
required every uhabtant in the city to regis
ter 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 Eugiioh and French residents Of Louisiana
upon the Government for slaves alleged to
have been seized. [Applause The General
then adVerted to the fight at Vicksburg, ex-
planning how utterly impossible it was for
Banks and Farragut to pass the strongly for
t,li@d Rebel position, three hundred miles be-
low, at Port Hudson, in time, at the present
low stage Of water in the river, to cooperate
with Gen. Sherman. In the course of the
the General alluded to other
matters Of public interest After the depar-
ture of the Committee the General received
many of the guests Of the hotel, continuing
his levee until near 10 o'clock.
When our readers remember that General
Butler before the breaking out of this Rebel
lion was an intense pro slavery Democrat, and
that he supported Breckinridge for the Presi-
dency they cannot doubt the truth Of his
statement.