The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-11

badges. Secession cOlorS were worn In Don
nets. When a Union officer entered a street.
car the women would get out of it, or if one
went to a church these Christian ladies would
all leave the pews. The female school-teach-
ers kept their pupils singing rebel songs.
About one tune was the only one discoursed,
and that was The Bonnie Blue Flag Finally
a woman spat directly into the face OF two Of
ficers who were walking peacefully along the
streets, and Butler then issued his celebrated
order No. IS, saying: AS the officers and
soldiers of the United States nave been sub
ject to repeated insults from the women call
ing themselves ladies of New Orleans in re-
turn for the most s%crupulous non-interfer-
ence and courtesy on our part, it is ordered
that hereafter when any female SHALL, by
word, gesture or movement, insult or show
contempt of any officer or soldier of the
United States, she shall be regarded and held
liable to be treated as a woman of the town
plying her VOCATION"
what was the effect of that order?"
Its effect was immediate. The woman
nuisance in the grosser forms ceased to be-"
Did Butler qualify his order at all?'
Yes. He wrote to the mayor: 4 shall not
abate a single WORD of that order; 1t was
well considered. 1t will protect the true
and modest women from all possible insult,
The Others will take care of themselves
Did Butler do anything else in New Or
~leans9"
YES. He suppressed the mayor of the
town, and sent him to Fort Pickens, and his
wife went with him. He sent Soule to Fort
Warren. Butler not only got bushels of
anonymous letters, but they wrote poems
about him. Paul Hayne wrote:
Eyes, but there Is one who shall not die
In battle harness;
One for whom turks in the darkness slle ntly
Another and a sterner doom.
A warriors end should crown the brave,
For him swift court and felon grave
Butler also combed down the foreign con-
suls in New Orleans"
"When was he recalled?"
"About November, 1862, after he had been
six months in that city. Banks replaced
In fact the government at Washing
ton showed the white feather in view of the
attacks made on General Butler for mis-
woman order and for his general interference
policy"
What did Butler say when he left New
Orleans?''
He issued q public address, saying: I am
not conscious of a single personal luminosity.
| found you captured but not surrendered,
conquered but not orderly, relieved from the
presence of an army but incapable of taking
care of yourselves.-the enemies of my
country unrepentant and implacable. I have
treated you with merited severity. 1 mold
that rebellion is treason, and that treason
persisted in is death. | might have RECALLED
you with the animosities of British ~civiliza-
ton. You might have been smoked to
death in caverns like the Covenanters, or
roasted like the inhabitants of Algiers dur
ing the French campaign. Your wives
and daughters might have been
gwen over to the ravisher as were
the unfortunate danes of Spain in the PENN
sular war, or you might nave been scalped
and t~omahawked as were our mothers at Wy
oming by the savage allies of Great Britain.
Your sons might have been blown from the
mouths of cannon like the sepoys at Delhi.
This rebellion was a war of aristocrats
against the middling men, of the rich against
the poor, of the landowner against the la
borer. shall now leave you with the proud
consciousness that | carry with me the bless
ings of the humble and loyal under the
roof of the cottage and in the cabin of the
slave, and so am quite content to incur the
sneers of the salon or the curses of the rich. "
Did he do any thing for New Orleans?'
Eyes, he actually fought off the yellow
fever. He stopped the fierce chastisements
of the colored people by the whites, kept of
instructions, redeemed a great amount of
land from the river, kept the streets and
canals clean, had fair elections, and said
about slavery in his final message; There
is but one thing at this hour that stands be-
tween you and the government, and that is
slavery. The institution cursed of God,
which has taken its last refuge here, in His
providence will be rooted out as the tares
from the wheat, although the wheat be torn
up with it, In short, General Buffers ad-
dress to the New Orleans people he can safely
go into a presidential campaign with"
What has become of the man who hanged
Mumford?'
Jonas H. French? Why, he is one OF
Buffers leading men, a Democrat, and has
been with Butler in a good many business
transactions"