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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—the naval war. (search)
ulties it encountered in New Orleans increased from day to day. How could this population, radically hostile, have been prevented from forwarding encouragements of every kind to the Confederate armies, with valuable information regarding the military preparations which were carried on under its own eyes? The utmost vigilance was required, but violence was a useless weakness. The mayor was deposed; this was unavoidable. He was imprisoned, as well as one of the most prominent citizens, Mr. Pierre Soule. It is possible that, after having accepted the re-establishment of the Federal authority as a fact, these zealous servants of the Confederacy may have culpably played a double game; the laws of war authorized their banishment, but their imprisonment has never been justified. But Butler went still farther; he had the gloomy courage to erect for one particular occasion the political scaffold, that fatal aliment of civil discords. The death of Munford is the only stain on the brighte