Butter's order.
It will be a matter of curiosity to see the comments of the European journals upon the unparalleled order of Gen. Butter subjecting the women of New Orleans to insults and outrage by the soldiery under his command. Who are the individuals whom the ladies of New Orleans are required to respect? One-third at least are foreigners, a large portion of whom cannot speak the language of this country.--The larger part are mere common laborers.--Then they are the invaders of the country, and come to the Crescent City with hands red with the blood of the fathers, brothers, husbands, and lovers of the very women whom. Butler commands them to respect. It such beings were under any circumstances entitled to the respect or kind feeling of those ladies, how is it possible that, coming in this shape, they could expect or demand it? The order will shock every person of the least refinement or decency. If it does not bring down upon the head of its author the most condign punishment, he will certainly fail to get his deserts in this world. But he has done us a service by the open avowal of a brutality which many of the military representatives of the Northern Government have connived at, and which is in keeping with the vast system of rapine and outrage organized for the destruction of the South.
