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agents in the commission of these crimes, and no instance is known of the refusal of any one of them to participate in the outrages above narrated; And whereas, the President of the United States has, by public and official declarations, signified not only his approval of the effort to excite servile war within the Confederacy, but his intention to give aid and encouragement thereto, if these independent States shall continue to refuse submission to a foreign power after the 1st day of. January next, and has thus made known that all appeal to the law of nations, the dictates of reason, and the instincts of humanity would be addressed in vain to our enemies, and that they can be deterred from the commission of these crimes only by the terrors of just retribution; Now, therefore, I, Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America, and acting by their authority, appealing to the Divine Judge in attestation that their conduct is not guided by the passion of revenge,
December 14th (search for this): chapter 14
ge was in readiness to take him to my house to be entertained. Here he served the following order upon me:-- War Department, Adjutant-General's office, Washington, Nov. 9, 1862. General Order No. 184. By direction of the President of the United States, Major-General Banks is assigned to the command of the Department of the Gulf, including the State of Texas. By order of the Secretary of War: H. W. Halleck, General-in-Chief. E. D. Townsend, Assistant Adjutant-General. On December 14 and 15, I was engaged in finishing up the accumulated business of my command. On Tuesday, the 16th, General Banks was presented by me to the officers and soldiers of his new command. I commended him to their kindest regard, stating our friendship for many years. On the 16th, he took formal command of the army by an order published that day. I then commenced turning over to him and his officers all the public property in the possession of myself and officers, taking care to take dupl
to the service, I was put in charge of all the rebel prisoners as commissioner of exchange, and Davis and his government had to deal with me and me only; and he did so for months, and none of the outlawing of negro soldiers was attempted to be carried into effect. The proclamation also threatened that no officer would be paroled until I was punished by hanging. Yet the parole went on in all the armies precisely as though the proclamation had never been published. And when in Virginia, in 1864, a portion of my colored troops raised in Virginia were captured and put by Lee into the trenches to work on the rebel fortifications, I wrote him a note stating that if they were not immediately taken out and treated as prisoners of war, I would put in Dutch Gap to work, under the fire of the rebels, the Virginia reserves whom I had captured, who were highly respectable gentlemen of Richmond, over sixty years of age. It is needless to say that afterwards the negroes were treated as prisoners
. Well, said I, you have told me what I was not recalled for. I now ask you to tell me what I was recalled for. You and I, replied Stanton, laughing, are both lawyers, and it is of no use your filing a bill of discovery upon me, for I sha'n't tell you. I knew the cause perfectly well, all the same. I then went to see Mr. Seward. He received me politely,very, and invited me to dine with him that evening, which invitation I accepted. I then said: Mr. Secretary, when I left here last February, nothing of consequence was being done without your being consulted and having knowledge of it. I have asked the President why I was relieved from command and he declines giving me the reasons, and I have come to you, believing that you can give them if you will. General, said he, things have changed somewhat since you went away. We were then somewhat new in administration, and we interfered sometimes with each other's departments; but now we confine ourselves more closely to our own busi
December 12th (search for this): chapter 14
order of my recall was dated quite contemporaneously with the one relieving George B. McClellan from command, to wit: a day after the November election, so that it might appear as if the Republican administration had determined to put out of command all generals who had heretofore been Democrats, and to supply true Republican generals in their places. Ah! Seward, that trick was too thin. It did not work, as we shall see. I immediately made preparations to set my house in order. On December 12, I had such complete knowledge of Banks' movements that I telegraphed to Forts Jackson and St. Philip to salute Major-General Banks on his steamer with the number of guns appropriate to the commander of the department. When his steamer came to the wharf at the city, I had a battery of artillery to fire a proper salute, and my carriage was in readiness to take him to my house to be entertained. Here he served the following order upon me:-- War Department, Adjutant-General's office,
January 1st (search for this): chapter 14
urned out on the quay and gave me many cheers. My voyage was without incident except some quite rough weather off Hatteras. I reached the Narrows on the 1st day of January, on my way to Lowell. My vessel was met by a revenue cutter, the commander of which brought to me a letter from President Lincoln, asking me to call on himrs ($10,000) for the capture and delivery of the said Benjamin F. Butler, dead or alive, to any proper Confederate authority. Richard Yeadon. Charleston, S. C., January 1. He did not get my head, but I did afterwards send for him, but got only his door-plate, the man himself having run away. The she publication was from thegard to the proclamation he would have cut off his right hand before he would have allowed anybody to take your place,--that his fixed purpose was that on the 1st of January a general should be in command at New Orleans to whom the proclamation would be a living letter; and that in this respect it was natural, after the recent ele
ts of the destruction of McClellan's army. The rebels had telegraphic communication from Richmond to a point within forty miles of the city on the opposite side of Lake Pontchartrain, and thence by the use of fishing-boats, spies, and secret communications, generally known as the grapevine telegraph, the news came to the rebels. To me, no authentic information came from Washington or the North under fifteen days, and newspapers were eight and ten days old when I received them. On the 25th of June a despatch came from Richmond via grapevine, which was believed by all the secessionists, that McClellan with forty thousand men had been captured and carried into Richmond. Shortly afterwards another despatch came, reporting that Washington had been taken and that an officer of the New Orleans Washington Artillery had raised the Confederate flag on the Capitol. These sensational despatches were hardly worse than some which were authentic, as far as I could understand the campaign on
December 15th (search for this): chapter 14
the Secretary of War: H. W. Halleck, General-in-Chief. E. D. Townsend, Assistant Adjutant-General. On December 14 and 15, I was engaged in finishing up the accumulated business of my command. On Tuesday, the 16th, General Banks was presented bruled with a firm hand, and in return encountered a storm of vituperation. Seward's circular to Foreign Ministers, December 15 (pp. 149, 150), says:-- General Banks sailed from New York fifteen days ago, with reinforcements for New Orleans, adefeated. . . . Among the causes of the revulsion was opposition to the government's anti-slavery policy. On the 15th of December he issued his circular to foreign ministers, stating Banks would be in command at New Orleans, and would take measureavor made to force him out of the Cabinet. I will tell his own story of how he succeeded in holding his place:-- (December 15.) The Republican senators had just been holding a caucus. All were not present, but those who were, acting under the
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