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The Daily Dispatch: December 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Fredericksburg. (search)
ted in cold blood by hanging, after the occupation of the city of New Orleans by the forces under the command of Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, when said Mumford was an unresisting and non-combatant captive, and for no offence even alleged to have been cocapture of the said city: And whereas the silence of the Government of the United States, and its maturating of said Butler in high office under its authority, for many months after his commission of an act that can be viewed in no other light ties hereafter to be mentioned, afford evidence only too conclusive that the said Government sanctions the conduct of said Butler and is determined that he shall remain unpunished for his crimes: Now therefore, I, Jefferson Davis, President of thhereas the hostilities waged against this Confederacy by the forces of the United States, under the command of said Benjamin F. Butler, have borne no resemblance to such warfare as is alone permissible by the rules of international law or the usages