The Labor enquirer., 1883-08-11

had been taken out of the men, thought
that there was no way to reach them,
and they concluded to infict the mighty
chastisement of their i'll manners on the
soldiers of the government. Women, as
soldiers came along, would throw aside
their cloaks to display rebel badges. Sc
cession colors were worn in bonnets.
When Union officer entered street
car the women would 60 out of it, or if
one went to church these Christian
ladies would all leave the pews. The
female school teachers 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
officers passing peacefully along the
streets, and Butler then issued his cele-
brated order No. %, saying: AS the
officers and soldiers of the United States
have been subject to repeated insults
from the women calling themselves
ladies of New Orleans in return for the
most scrupulous non-interference 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 regard
ed and held liable to be treated as a
woman of the town plying her avo-
cation"
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 ?"
eyes. He wrote to the mayor: I shall
not abate a single word of that order.
1t was well considered. 1t will protect
the true and modest woman from all
possible insult. The others will take
care of themselves
what did Butler say when he left
New Orleans?
He issued public address, saying:
I am not conscious of single personal
animosity. I found you captured, but
not surrendered, conquered but not Or
derly, relieved from the presence Of an
army but incapable of taking care of
yourselves The enemies of my country
unrepentant and implacable, l have
treated with merited severity. | hold
that rebellion is treason, and that treason
persisted in merits death. might have
regaled you with the anlmosities of Brit
ish civilization. You might have been
smoked to death in caverns like the
covenanters, or roasted like the inhabi-
tants of Algiers during the French cam
paign. Your wives and daughters might
have been given over to the ravisher, as
were the unfortunate danes Of Spain in
the Peninsular war, or you might have
been scalped and tomahawked as were
our mothers at Wyoming by the savage
allies of Great Britain. Your sons might
have been blown from the mouths of
cannons like the Sepoys at Delhi. This
rebellion was war of aristOorats against
the middling men, Of the rich against
the poor, of the landowner against the
laborer l shall now leave you with the
proud consciousness that I carry with
me the blessings 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 anything for New Or
leans?"
Eyes, he actuully fought off the yell
low fever. He stopped the fierce chas-
tisements of colored people by the
whites, kept off 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 between you
and the government, and that is slavery.
The institution cursed of God, which has
taken it's last refuge here, in his proyi
dence will be rooted out as the tares
from the wheat, although the wheat be
torn up by it, In short General Buffers
address to the New Orleans people he
can safely 60 into a presidential cam
paign with"
Kearney.-This rascal and his CO.
4l,os H.