 | Jesse Ames Spencer - United States - 1866 - 620 pages
...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...treated, as a woman of the town plying her avocation." That is, every woman of the town, behaving as every such miserable being does, was liable, according... | |
 | United States. Army. Department of the Gulf (1862-1865). - New Orleans (La.) - 1862 - 754 pages
...themselves ladies) of Now Orlouus, in return for the most scrupulous non-inte.'iere.ice and courtesy on our part, it is ordered that hereafter when any female...the United States, she shall be regarded and held llalable to be treated as a woman of the town plying her avocai'on. BY COMM ixu of MAJOR GENERAL BUTLER... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1862 - 886 pages
...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...or show contempt for any officer or soldier of the Uuited States, she shall be regarded and held liable to be treated as a woman of the town plying her... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1862 - 848 pages
...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 increment, insult or show contempt for any officer or soldier of the United States, she shall bo regarded... | |
 | William Wyndham Malet - Southern States - 1863 - 354 pages
...woe worth the hireling knave Who meets him, man to man ! BUTLER'S PROCLAMATION. BY PAUL H. HAYNE. " It is ordered that, hereafter, when any female shall,...treated as a woman of the town plying her avocation." — Sutler's Order at New Orleans. Ay ! drop the treacherous mask ; throw hy The cloak, which veiled... | |
 | James Parton - African Americans - 1864 - 654 pages
...consider the real character of the event which called it forth. BUTLER'S PROCLAMATION. BY PAUL H. HATNE. "It is ordered that hereafter, when any female shall,...treated as a woman of the town plying her avocation" — Butlers Order at New Orleans.'1'' " AT ! drop the treacherous mask ! throw by The cloak which veiled... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...themselves ladies) of New Orleans, in return for the most scrupulous non-interference and courtesy on onr part, it is ordered that hereafter, when any female...she shall be regarded and held liable to be treated ns .1 woman of the town plying her avocation. '• By command of Maj.-Gen. BUTLER. " GEO! C. STRONG,... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 652 pages
...previous provocation, must not be employed. He thus came to issue the celebrated proclamation, ordering that " hereafter, when any female shall, by word,...treated as a woman of the town plying her avocation." The civilised world received this ebullition with astonishment and indignation, Lord Palmerston declaring,... | |
 | Henry Charles Fletcher - United States - 1865 - 470 pages
...when any female shall by mere gesture or movement insult or show contempt for any officers or soldiers of the United States, she shall be regarded and held liable to be treated as a woman about town plying her avocation. ' By command of Major-General BUTLER, ' GEORGE S. STRONG, AAG' What... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 804 pages
...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...of the town plying her avocation. " By command of Maj.-Gen. BUTLER. " GEO. 0. STRONG, AAG, Chief of Staff." This order was subjected<*to the worst possible... | |
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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... 
