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JULY 1862 DOUGLASS MONTHLY. 683 have thought proper to make in regard to the action of my officers toward the Consul of the Netherlands, which action I approve and sustain. I am grieved that without investigation of the facts, you, Messrs., should have thought it your duty to take action in the matter. The fact will appear to be, and easily to be demonstrated at the proper time, that the flag of the Netherlands was made to cover and conceal property of an incorporated company in Louisiana, secreted under it from the laws of the United States. That the supposed fact that the Consul had under the flag only the property of Hope & Co., citizens of the Netherlands, is untrue. He had other property which couldn't by law be his property or the property of Hope & Co.; of this I have abundant proof in my own hands. No person can exceed me in the respect I shall pay to the flags of all nations, and to the consulate authority, even while I do not recognize many claims made under them; but I wish it most distinctly understood that, in order to be respected, the Consul, his office, and the use of his flag must each and all be respected by himself. Your obedient servant, BENJ. F. BUTLER, Major General Commanding. Owing to Gen Butler's having been informed that a large amount of specie belonging to the Confederate Government was secreted at the offices of the French and Spanish consuls, a guard was placed over those offices the same day of the seizure at the Consulate of the Netherlands; but on the positive assurances of the representatives of the above government that the information was entirely incorrect, the guard was withdrawn. In regard to the seizure of property at the banking houses of Sam'l Smith & Co., the facts are as follows:– Gen. Butler was informed that fifty thousand dollars in specie had been removed from the mint to the above house, and being satisfied that the money must be either the property of the United States government or the confederacy, he took possession of the bank, and arrested the members of the firm. The specie could not be found, and the bankers affirmed positively that they had only fourteen thousand dollars in specie in the bank, and that was of the character of private deposits. The general gave Messrs. Smith & Co. their choice between producing the specie and going to Fort Jackson, and the next morning the bankers showed the place where the money was hidden. It was concealed in the air chamber, between the vault and the brick wall. Fifty-four thousand dollars were stowed away there very nicely; but it all had to come out and go to the Custom House, with the other property. NEW ORLEANS. From the New Orleans Delta. The Delta has at the head of its editorial columns the following significant motto: The Federal Union – It must and shall be preserved.– Andrew Jackson. THIRTY ONE DAYS IN NEW-ORLEANS. On the 1st day of May the troops of the United States marched into this city, and took up quarters in the Custom House. They passed through streets deserted, the shops and places of business closed, the few persons seen scowling hate at the procession, not a cheer for the return of he old flag, not a welcome, not a smile to evidence joy at the relief from anarchy and despotism. A stranger might have supposed that a happy and free people were about to succumb to the brute force of a barbarous and uncivilized race. So might the citizens of Rom have met the entrance of the Huns into the then mistress of the world. No man could have dreamed that order and security were marching in to dethrone confusion and danger, to trample out thuggery in high places, and in low places, to walk by the citizen by day and by night to secure the life and limb which had been constantly imperiled before, to guard property, at the mercy of the mob up to that time–and yet this was the case confessedly. One short month has elapsed. The streets are filled with smiling faces, business attracts with open doors, Thugs have left for summer watering-places, property is secure, and Abraham Lincoln, by the grace of God, and the electoral vote of the people, President of the United States, of America, might walk unarmed and unaccompanied at any time through these streets, in full security, and to the joy and delight of numbers who have heretofore been accustomed to link his name with curses and execrations. Slowly and gradually, at first, this change appeared, the terror of a twelvemonth was not to be cast off in a day, but, as one by one, the citizens gathered courage to come forward and speak out the sentiments which had been crushed down but not eradicated, the stream gathered strength and fullness, till within the past week the wish to bring themselves within the egis of the flag has been quite equal to the power of the authorities to receive their declarations of allegiance. The teachings of a lifetime, the protection of a lifetime, the pride and glory of a lifetime, of under and in the Union, had not been effaced by a brief course of rebellion, and many who really believed that they had succeeded in bringing themselves to hate, found themselves mistaken at last. It was a brother's hate, fierce and bitter, the fiercest and bitterest, but the recollection of the mother, the father, the family, brings back, at last, the reconciliation, and the knowledge that during the whole period of estrangement the heart had been true to its duties. The opportunity for this change has been given to this people by the judicious course adopted by the Major General commanding. It would have been easy, nothing easier, to have adopted a course, just but harsh, righteous but strict, which would have added fuel to the flame already burning only too furiously. But by a calm and quiet course, waiting to learn before acting, and then acting justly, and in such manner as to elicit the praise of all, as he relieved the fears of all, he has convinced the people that the Government is to-day, as of old, protective and kindly, and has drawn out the old memories to do their perfect work. All honor to him for this course; and in this course he has found no difficulty in leading his assistances, who believing in him, and acting from no ulterior purpose beyond the restoration of those magnificent monuments of human wisdom and human compromise, the Constitution and the Union, have leaped to anticipate his commands. Citizens of New-Orleans, you have had one month of order, peace and security. The cause is patent. Will any of you seek to return to your condition in the months preceding, or will you grasp at and cling to that power which has snatched you from the burning? You must have it, whether you will or not. Is it not better to take it readily, cheerfully, and heartily, than to stand sullenly waiting for what will never come? Choose ye. FOR BOSTON. The ship James Hovey, with sugar sufficient to ballast, is under sailing orders for Boston, and will probably be towed down the river this morning. We wish her a speedy and pleasant voyage. There are ten thousand persons in this city–certainly an immense crowd–who believe that Com. Farragut is not in prison in the jail at Jackson. They also believe that Mr. Soule is held as a hostage for the safety of the naval hero. What do you think of these beliefs, gentle reader? Is it any use to tell these foolish people that Commodore Farragut is now on board his noble flag-ship in this harbor, that we saw him yesterday, talked with him, and felicitated him upon the glory of his achievements in the Mississippi River! We advise our neighbors on the other side of Canal street to read The Delta and case following the false lights which have guided them upon the rocks, from which Gen. Butler is endeavoring to rescue them. As men sow, they must reap. If the authori'les sow thistles, there is no use in looking for figs. And so the Hight and Mighty States, which were to be a light to all nations and a perfect glory under heaven, are to be settled as the phrase is between quarrelling tribes in India, by the rump of the Holy Alliance, which some thought defunet but like the fould fiend in romance was ready to start up on the smallest, provocation. There is to be a Treaty of somewhere,-perhaps Vera Cruz-it would be an economy, the holy allies having already a detachment there. And so the United States are to be. Mexico'd ! The great dogvane of the English press, which to the best of its ability takes up the breeze that blows, points unmistakeably in that direction. Of course the weakest party is expected to join. And all this because the civil government cried Halt in a charge. It would not be yet too late, to blow all this at the moon. Englishmen are comforted under the assurance charitably heaped upon them that they are much worse off than their relatives on the other side of the Atlantic. The test of all cookery is in the eating; and the English think they are quite as well with their chief of the state setting through responsible ministers who may be changed to morrow if parliament so wills, as they would be if their chief was chosen with trust in his personal gifts for acting four years afterwards under circumstances which never came within the Imagination of the electors. The English think they have the better rig for a squall. They think too, that it is quite as agreable to hear the final assent given through an officer of the House is odd costume, by utterance of the unpretending words La Reine le veuld as it would be that the opportunity should be taken for a descant on the joys and sorrows, the difficulties and compensation, which agitated the mind of the supreme head of the government. There will always be differences: and what can be better, than that every man should think his own the best? A new science is dawning on the world, under the formidable title of ethnology. By many it is applied to prove that the man with the longest nose, ought to enslave the others if he can. As the Frenchman wrote, 'Their noses are so short, it is impossible to pity them.' As a new science, it is of course not always applied with consistency. Everybody knows that in the great cities of the Southern States, and it may be in the little ones too, what in Europe, are talked of under the title of 'social evils' but by their multituide might be taken for social comforts, are mainly composed of different shades of color. Not a word of ethnology here. The most sensitive of all evidences is given, that is this respect at least, God has made of one blood all nations of men It is nowhere forbidden out of evil to bring forth good; so let no hypocrite pretend to turn his nose upo at the argument. Not a man of them is stopped by ethnology, when the snares of Satan are in the wind. It is when proposal is mad to prohibit the sale of the octoroon and her issue, that they straightway become ethnological. Forth steps the spruce philosopher, and discovers that such bar hath nature's Master put between the creatures of his ordinance, that if one race walked erect, the other must quit the country to avoid the intolerable companionship. The North is not without its share in keeping up the convicted lie. There will be no end till men find out, how snobbish (as is the England University term, from snobile no doubt, for disnobile. Italian) all this is.– How it sinks them in the world's estimation, and damns them with the character of dunces who having been unfortunate enough to be born in the family of an executioner or equally odoriferous practitioner which was no fault of theirs, cannot help letting it out by going into fits at the idea of contact with a rope – The well-born feel no such fears. Surely people might do without thus parading their cart blood.– Bradford Advertiser, 17 May.
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