The Newtown bee., 1893-02-24

fiscated. A few days later he seized a large quantity of arms and ammunition which the city authorities had stored in warehouse, and transported it to Fort McHenery. By such prompt and efficient measures Baltimore speedily became a quiet and peaceful city, and so remained, although later it was found necessary to arrest Chief of Police Kane and imprison him in Fort McHenry.
 Gen Butler was appointed major general of volunteers May 16I and ordered to Fortress Monroe in command of the department of eastern Virginia. He arrived there on the 23d, and few days later some slaves that had come within his lines were de- manded by their masters, but he refused to deliver them on the ground that they were held as property and must be re- garded as
 ssCONTRABAND OF WAR;"
 The phrase became one of the popular sayings of the time, and the escaped slave went by the name of the "contra- band" thereafter. The disastrous eXpe- dition of Big Bethel, where the brilliant Theodore Winthrop lost his life, was the military operation Gen Butler ordered, although he did not take part in it. He was active commander of the military force at the capture of Forts Hatteras and Clark in Hatteras inlet, August 20, and the success of this first joint naval and military expedition caused the gov ernment to apppint Gen Butler to organ iZe an expedition to take Ship Island in the mouth of the Mississippi. It was while raising troops in Massachusetts that he came into collision with Gov An drew, who refused to commission the of ffcers appointed by Butler, and the diff culty, which was due to the error of the war department, aggravated by Buffers arrogance, and his grossly unfit selection of men, caused considera ble delay. THE TROOPS WERE LANDED
 on the island in December, 1861, and Jan uary, 1862, under command of Gen John Phelps. Gen Butler himself did not ar rive until nearly the end of March, and ! on May l, several days after Farragut and Porter had received the surrender of the city, Butler, as commander of the de- partment of the Gulf, took formal pos session of New Orleans.
 His course as the master of that ram- | pant rebel city has been most bitterly criticised, but in great part it may be ! satisfactorily defended. His rule was ! rigorous but not relentless he fed the l starving people from rebel stores; he ! cleaned and quarantined the city and freed it from yellow fever for the first time for many year. But, when the l women of New Orleans so far forgot 1 themselves as to insult the soldiers in the ! most vulgar fashion on the streets, Ger Butler stopped this by his general order, | No. declaring that "when any female l shall by gesture or movement insult oI show contempt for any officers and sol ! diers of the United States, she shall be l regarded and held liable to be treated as a woman of the town, plying her avoca- l tion. For this
 ! HE WAS sAYAGELY DENOUNCED, 1 not only in the city and throughout the 1 Confectionery, but all over the North and
 in Europe as we'll, and the epithet 'Beast ] Butler'' superseded his title. But as he l pointed out in answer to Mayor Monroe's l complaint, the order was we'll considered eff obeyed, it will protect the true ano
 modest women from all possible insnlt The others will take care of themselves 1 It was rude and even brutal way o1 | teaching decent manners, but it had it! 1 effect. The hanging of Mumford fol l hauling down the stars and stripes iron
 the United States mint and tearing tn, flag into shreds, with insulting talk il
 the presence of riotous crowd of citi
 zens, caused Jeffersan Davis to proclaim
 him an outlaw, and Confederate paperi
 to publish offers of
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 pie and satisfying. 'It was not," ht
 said, ssthe fault of Mumford that New
 Orleans was not laid in ashes, and tn
 women and children crushed beneath th
 shells of the Federal feet" The exam
 pie was necessary, and this, too, pro
 ynn
 Mumford. In his seizure of coin unde
 the protection of foreign consulates ant ) other acts of similar nature, Gen Butle , made serious and embarrassing mistakes The grave imputations upon his persona honesty still remain undispelled, if un proved, but to blame him because h l made the path of rebellion hard and tool every adnantage that the war poWe , gave to him to weaken the Confederac.
 in one of it's strongholds of supply,
 most undeserved.
 HE RESIGNED HIS COMMAND to Gen N. P. Banks in December
 1862, issuing an address to the citizens c New Orleans, which was as remarkabl a piece of rhetoric as one often finds, an ; closed with an appeal to them to retur to their allegiance to the United State . and do away with slavery. He had es tablished considerable body of negr soldiery during his command in New Or !, leans.
 On his return to the North Gen Butle was everywhere received with great hor ronnroee Yrasentad him one of th