HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT
OF THE GULF,
New Orleans, May 14,
1862.
The CONSUL OF THE NETHERLANDS:
SIR: Your communication of the 10th instant is received. The
nature of the property found concealed beneath your consular flag, the specie,
dies, and plates of the Citizens' Bank of New Orleans, under a claim that it
was your private property, which claim is now admitted to be groundless, shows
you have merited, so far as I can judge, the treatment you have received, even
if a little rough. Having prostituted your flag to a base purpose, you could
not hope to have it respected, so debased.
I am, officially,
your obedient servant,
BENJ. F. BUTLER,
Major-general,
Commanding.
SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of
the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series III, Volume
2 (Serial No. 123), p. 124
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