Maysville weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1864-1866, 1864-06-30
An English Paper on General Butler
THE HAYNAU OF AMERICA.
[From the London Morning Herald.l

headquarters, which we publish ed yesterd ay
is only one, though perhaps the most re.
m arkable, among long series of acts of tn
same chsracter;oNe instrument among m am
of a persecution the most cruel, vexatiou
and inquisitorial that ever was inflicted oil
conquered provinces and captured Cities
The proceedings Of the German invaders il
Schleswig and Jutland, their outrages on tht
homes of the dead, their expulsion of D anist
loyalists which they have countenanced arG
permitted, have brought down upon them
the condemnation and contempt of Europe
| But the Prussians are not to be compared
with the Yankees. They appear, by con-
trsst, as most merciful, civilized and we'll
| behaved conquerors. The armies of the
North have spread ravage and desolation
wherever they have passed. They have
driven the population from their homes they
have laid waste farms and plantations, the
have burned down houses over;the heads OF
their OWNERS, they have carried off all the
/ means of subsistence and destroyed all that
they could not carry off, and have driven
old and sick men, women and children into
the woods, to die of cold and hunger, ifthey
fail to escape within the Confederate lines.
The inhabitants of those towns which
have fallen under their moro permane Mt
command have suffered not less cruelty
The miSeries, protracted and continually
enhanced by every species of torment and
humiliation which ingenious malignity
could devise, that have been endured by
the wretched people of Norfulk and the sur
rounding district would have rend them
the bitter enemies of the Union if they had
been disposed at first to welcome the in
vaders as heartily as Holstein welcomed the
German army of occupation. General But
L L Il !
less women. He las seized the most re-
spected citizens of the place-meu mostly
advanced in years, the youth of n Norfolk be-
ing in the Southern army-and has forced
them to labor as convicts, with chain and
ball attached to their limbs, in the public
streets, for the crime of disliking the Federal
Government or expressing their profound
adherence of his own character. Others he
has hanged, and has compelled their friends
to assist in building their scafFolds.
The treatment endured by the women is
exactly what might have been expected
under the rule of the wretch whose New
Orleans proclaim alton has excited the indig-
nation and execration of the civilized world.
n % lady is entitled to any protection from
the violence of Federal troops unless she
will take the oath of allegiance to a Gov
ernment which her family and country have
epudioted-against which her husband,
brothers and sons are in arms. If she will
not stoop to this degrad alton, the associates
OF General Butler, the scum of New York
and Boston,by whom his troops are differed
the brutal ard licentious mercenaries whom
these command, the miserable negroes who
form a considerable part of his garrison, al lay
do with her what they will. You do not
ack knowledge our 6overnn ent-apply to
your own for protection" is the answer of
the wretch by whose orders these atrocities
are perpetrated, TO complaints of the foulest
outtagesj the most brutal violence. With
out taking this oath no one can perform the
ordinary offices of social life; no one can
buy or sell, no shopkeeper can supply his
custom ers, no lawyer can draw a conveyance,
no physician attend the sick.
And to complete his work. and surpass all
precedents set by former tyrants, Gen. But
Ter has taken charge even of the religious
observances of his subjects. As clergyman
will not preach his faith, nor gregatIous
pray for the perpetuation of his rule, he has
placed the churches under martial law
The clergy are driven from their pulpits;
military officials to select their successors.
Federal officers and negro soldiers are TO
have fre9 access to every part OF every
chapel, to force th ems elves into every pew,
and seat themselves beside the won en-
whom it has been their delight to outrage
and terrify, and the children whom they
have made faith herless; and it is part of the |
duty of the Provost NJ arshals to punish all |
who shall offer to thess intruders any affrort,
'by look, word or gesture''-every gentle !
ian who may interpose to shield a widow
ed woman from the approach of her hus- |
bands murderers, every lady who may pre- |
fer to leave her seat rather than endure the |
proximity of uniformed negroes and epau- I
letted bar keepers. Never before, we should |
think, did any man, pretending to the Dame
Of soldier, conceive an order so redolent of
small spite and petty malice, so miserably |
mean and so lawlcssly despotic.
But it would not be Just to lay the blame
of such acts as this exclusively or especially I
on Gen. Butler. Infamous as that mans
name has become, and justly become. he is |
but the representative of the people from |
whom he sprung and the Government
which he serves. His worst and vilest
his disgraceful proclamation
have been received with enthusiastic ap-
Dause by the people of Massachusetts,
Without having won, or even fought bat
lie; having signalized himself only by mur-
erirg defenseless men; having achieved no
riumphs save over women and children
ne is the most popular nan in New Eng
and. So also. having reLdered no service
put that of expressing with especial and in
genious cruelty the people of New Orleans
and Norfolk, he is the faVorite of the FEEDER
ii Government, which has approved every
lct of his administration, and which, to
mark its entire Endorsement of his proceed |
ngs, has named him, alter his out!aNry by |
he COnfederata Govarnmant Commission !
sr OF Exchanges. His acts are in complete |
accord with the spirit of the Administration |
which refused to try the assassin M'Neil by |
court martial, which reinstated Turchin
when dismissed by a court mortal, and
which has declared medicines contraband |
IF war.
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