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Louis Napoleon (search for this): chapter 14
then it was immediately to be sent to Texas and be delivered to the Confederate quartermaster. I reported all this to my government, and they demanded the exequatur of Mejan, and he was recalled by his government. I learned afterwards that Napoleon required that I be recalled from New Orleans. It was done. Under the cowardly and unjust administration of the State Department, the officer ordered to catch the thief, and who did catch him and convict him, was punished to a very much greatersed those qualities in the highest degree. Before Senator Wilson's answer came, I had received word from Washington, through a source which was always reliable, that General Banks had been sent down specially to relieve me, upon the demand of Napoleon, because I was not friendly to France. Although it could not be carried out until sometime in December, yet, the order of my recall was dated quite contemporaneously with the one relieving George B. McClellan from command, to wit: a day after t
MacCORMICKORMICKormickormick (search for this): chapter 14
of the rich. I have found you trembling at the terrors of servile insurrection. All danger of this I have prevented by so treating the slave that he had no cause to rebel. I found the dungeon, the chain, and the lash your only means of enforcing obedience in your servants. I leave them peaceful, laborious, controlled by the laws of kindness and justice. I have demonstrated that the pestilence can be kept from your borders. I have added a million of dollars Medical-director MacCORMICKORMICKormickormick. to your wealth in the form of new land from the batture of the Mississippi. I have cleansed and improved your streets, canals, and public squares, and opened new avenues to unoccupied land. I have given you freedom of elections greater than you have ever enjoyed before. I have caused justice to be administered so impartially that your own advocates have unanimously complimented the judges of my appointment. Upon the retirement of Major Bell from the bench of
Charles A. Peabody (search for this): chapter 14
Secretary found half his time engrossed with these questions. He determined that it would be wise to establish some tribunal at New Orleans to examine and decide upon them. . . . It had become necessary to constitute a Provisional Court. Charles A. Peabody of New York was appointed the Provisional Judge, and vested with full jurisdiction, his judgment to be final and conclusive. . . . While General Butler was the military commander, he had enforced order, maintained quiet, and adopted praisreme Court, and were all sustained, as we have seen, not because the court could not adjudicate differently, but because they decided that I had judged rightly. The order for Peabody's Court did not come down to New Orleans until Banks came. Peabody was neither a military nor a civil officer known to the Constitutional Laws of the United States. He was a New York pet of Seward, but I must do him the justice to say from what I saw of him, he was an enormous improvement upon Reverdy Johnson,
George B. McClellan (search for this): chapter 14
ng that summer, save that the continual bad news from the army of McClellan on the peninsula made them afraid that the Union control of New O Richmond giving the most glorious accounts of the destruction of McClellan's army. The rebels had telegraphic communication from Richmond t via grapevine, which was believed by all the secessionists, that McClellan with forty thousand men had been captured and carried into Richmotative experiments were made on me. When the report came that McClellan had been captured, I happened to be at Baton Rouge. Upon its recuantity of handbills containing the particulars of the capture of McClellan. She was followed by a small crowd. A police officer attempted all was dated quite contemporaneously with the one relieving George B. McClellan from command, to wit: a day after the November election, so on. Besides, Mr. President, there is another thing. You removed McClellan, a Democratic general, and sent him away in disgrace on the 5th o
Reverdy Johnson (search for this): chapter 14
nited States, was given up by Mr. Seward on complaint of the foreign ministers, and was duly returned upon orders through the adjudications of a commissioner, Reverdy Johnson, the Baltimore secessionist who interfered in behalf of Ross Winans. He was appointed by Mr. Seward and instructed to decide, as he did in every case, in faved in the State Department,--that General Butler can be very polite when he chooses. Thus matters remained until Seward sent that secession spy and agent, Reverdy Johnson, to New Orleans; and then the French consul asked for a pass to go to Washington and came back with an order on me to release him from his promises. Of cours Laws of the United States. He was a New York pet of Seward, but I must do him the justice to say from what I saw of him, he was an enormous improvement upon Reverdy Johnson, because he was a loyal, honest man. Seward's appointment of Banks to supersede me was announced as soon as the November elections were over. The results
Joseph Bell (search for this): chapter 14
rts of questions, civil and criminal. As of course I could not have time to do that without assistance, I appointed Maj. Joseph Bell, of Massachusetts, A. D. C., a son-in-law and partner. of the Hon. Rufus Choate, of Boston, to be my provost judge s place, from whose decisions no appeals were taken. There was an appeal to me in case anybody was dissatisfied with Major Bell's decisions, and we decided cases of very large amounts and of every possible description in judicial administration. e Court of the United States, and argued with great earnestness and learning. In every case save one they were decided as Bell or my elf had decided them. That case was an appeal to the general; and his decision was sustained. This applies to evert. Davis. Col. Shoffer. Col. French. Capt. Haggerty. Lieut. Chark. Lieut.-Col. Kinsman. Major strong. General Butler. Major Bell. Gen. Benj. F. Butler and staff. Engraved from photograph in possession of Gen. Butler. To this letter I received
R. S. Davis (search for this): chapter 14
express company called on an Army self-supported Banks' subsequent troubles General Butler didn't give reasons for his orders the confiscation acts enforced among the planters congressional election Count Mejan, the French consul Major Bell administers justice Intimations of recall Napoleon's demand and Seward's compliance General Banks arrives Butler in Washington, seeking reasons interviews with Lincoln, Stanton and Seward double-dealing of the latter shown farewell address Davis proclaims Butler a felon and an outlaw ,000 reward Lincoln desires Butler's services return to Lowell One of the most important matters which pressed upon me immediately after my occupation of the city was the condition of the currency. It was absolutely necessary for the successful administration of my department in New Orleans that I should at once make an imperium in imperio, in which somebody must assume the role of secretary of the treasury. Who should it be but the general comm
Robert Ould (search for this): chapter 14
chief of the armies of the United States, alleging sufficient cause for failure to make early reply to said letter of the 6th of July, asserting that no authentic information had been received in relation to the execution of Mumford; but measures will be immediately taken to ascertain the facts of the alleged execution, and promising that General Lee should be duly informed thereof; And whereas, on the 26th of November last, 1862, another letter was addressed, under my instructions, by Robert Ould, Confederate agent for the exchange of prisoners, under the cartel between the two governments, to Lieut.-Col. W. H. Ludlow, agent of the United States under said cartel, informing him that the explanation promised in the said letter of General Halleck, of 7th of August last, had not yet been received, and that if no answer was sent to the government within fifteen days from the delivery of this last communication, it would be considered that an answer is declined; And whereas, by a le
Jefferson Davis (search for this): chapter 14
d for these crimes: Now, therefore, I, Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of Af just retribution; Now, therefore, I, Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of Aone thousand eight hundred and sixty-two. Jefferson Davis. By the President: J. P. Benjamin, Secret ten thousand dollars reward!--$10,000--President Davis having proclaimed Benjamin F. Butler, of d to execute the order of our noble president, Davis, when old Butler is caught, and my daughter asas not published until after the date on which Davis knew I was to leave New Orleans. If it had be which might have astonished both Benjamin and Davis. Being outlawed, I should have given their rebel prisoners as commissioner of exchange, and Davis and his government had to deal with me and me roes were treated as prisoners of war. Jefferson Davis did not believe one word of the proclamate Government, Vol. II., p. 607. How so, Mr. Davis? Had you given any proof other than a recit[2 more...]
Judah P. Benjamin (search for this): chapter 14
d not be paid out for any property, or pass from hand to hand as currency, yet they might be traded in by curbstone brokers. These were principally Jews, and as Benjamin, the Confederate Secretary of State, was a Jew, and his brother-in-law was a broker, I supposed there were some of the Jew brokers who would get true intelligencertain the reports were not true, because my curbstone cash barometer said so. In the face of this report, that the Rebellion had conquered, I found the tribe of Benjamin, the Jewish Secretary of State, were all selling, and not buying, Confederate notes. I ordered weekly reports of the condition of the banks, and I was so certto, at the city of Richmond, on the 23d day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two. Jefferson Davis. By the President: J. P. Benjamin, Secretary of State. That I was to be recalled was known to Jefferson Davis before it was to me, and the date of my recall, the 9th of November, was forty
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