The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1863-01-15
q era. asUtser's FarevTcia Address
---Gen. Han2s 0l rae sVnr.


FAREWELL ADDRESS OF GEN. BUTLER.
Gen. Butler, just before bis departure, is
sued the following eloaueat address to the
people # New Orleans:
CITIZENS OF NEw OsLEASs:--It may not
he inappropriate as it is not inopportnne in
occasion, that there should be addressed t.,
you few words at parting, by one whose
name is to be hereafter indissolubly connect
ed with your city.
shall speak in no bitterness. because
am not conscious of a single personal ami
mostly. Commanding the army Of the Gulf
found you capturel but no. surrendsred
conquered, but not orderly; relieved from
tho presence of an army, but not capable Of
taking care Of yourselves. | restored order,
punished crime, opened commerce. brought
provisions to your starving people, reformed
-Four currency and gave you quiet protec-
iion. such as you had not enjoyed for many
years.
While doing this my soldiers were sub
jec.ed to obloquy, rcproach AMI insult
And now speaking to You, who know the
truth, here declare that whoever has quiet
ly remained about his business. affording
neither aid nor comfort to the enemies of the
United States. has never been interfered with
by the soldiers of the United States.
The men who had assumed to govern you
and to defend your city IN arms having fed,
some of your women fouted at the presence
of those who came to protect them. By a
simple order (No. 2S) called upon every
soldier of this army to treat the women Of
New Orleans as gentlemen should deal with
the sax, with such effect as now call upon
the just minded ladies Of New Orleans to
say whether thsy have eyes enjoyed so COM
plets protection and calm quiet for them
selves and their families as since the advent
Of the United States troops.
The enemies Of my country, unrepentant
and inplacable, have treated with merited
severity. hold that rebellion is treason,
. and that treason persisted in is death, and
5any punishment, short Of that due traitor
gives 80 much clear gain to him from the
clelnency Of the government. Upon this
thesis have administered the authority OF
the United States, because Of which / am
not unconscious Of complaint. do not feel
that have erred in too much harshness, for
that ha, shness has ever been exhibited to
l:,i..~ -. ac. and
loyal friends To be sure, might have re-
called you with the amenities Of British civ
iiization, and yet been within the supposed
rules OF civilized warfare. You might have
been smoked to death in cayerns, as were
the Coyenanters Of Scotland by the COM
rnand of General Of the royal house o
England: or roasted like the inh ,btants OF
Alsiers during the French campaign; your
wives and daughters might have been given
oyer to the ravisher, as were the unfortunate
danes Of Spain in the Peninsula war; o.
you might have been scalped and tomahawk
ed as our mothers were at Wyo ming by
savage allies Of Great Britain in our OWL
ysyolution; yaur property could have beer
turned over to indiscriminate "loot," like
the palaces of the Emperor of China; works
OF art which adorned your buildings nigh
have been sent away like the paintings o
the Vatican; your sons might haye beer
blown from the mouths Of cannon, like thu
= Sepoys Of Delhi !; and yetall this would have
abssn within the rules Of civilized warfare Al
practicsd by the most polished and the NOS
hypoOriticsl Nati9as Of Europe. For sucl
acts the reeerd. g. re doinys Of some o