Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1855-04-13
THE MASSACHUSETTS, KNOw-NoTHING OUT
RAGE

THE MASSACHUSETTS, KNOw-NoTHING OUT.
RAGE.
The Boston Advertiser, whose account Of the re-
cent brutality of the Legislative Committee we
published, anticipates the action Of the Committee
appointed to investigate the facts by substantiatng
its former charges, and lorfes by still further de-
tails its damuing testimony against these outlaws to
decency, and dsgraces TO the name of men. Here
is the account:
This much with regard to the truth of the state
ments which we have already made; but as we in
tima,ed on Tuesday, there is new feature in the
scene which we omitted to describe, and to which
we now ask the readers attention.
In a small chamber in the house one of the
boarders, young lady whose parents we believe
reside in the island of Cuba but who is herself an
American by birth speaking English perfectly, lay
in her bed i'll During the day the sister superior
had been applying leeches to this sufferer aud the
disapreeabo operation scarcely concluded
when omuibuses drove up and The numerous party
aIighted Tue advent Of this masculine band caused
GREAT terror in the school ROOM the children literal
iy screamed with fright. The supetior's first care
was to pacify them and calm their fears; and next
recollectiur what effect the noise aud the unex-
pected arrival must have upon her young patient
up stairs, the superior proceeded to her chamber,
andbid her not be frightened; warned her that she
might be disturbed aud advised her TO appear to be
asleep.
On receiving the party in the parlor below the
sister superior informed them that one Of her pu
pills was i'll, lying abed in her chamber, and re-
quested them to make as little noise as possible ia
approaching that part of the house We need not
tell our readers how gentlemen OF ordinary refine
ment and dignity would have behaved in such
case. our business is to tell what these visitors did
On reaching the chamber where the girl lay, the
superior stated the fact Did the gentlemen"
shrink back? No, they pressed forward. One, it
is believed, actually entered the room; and, at all
events several approached within twelve inches OF
the bedstead The chamber IS scarcely larger than
a closet the bedstead is a small iron structure, and
is placed close to the door-so that the uquisors,
without actually crossing the threshold, conld carry
their presence into its privacy. What were the |
feelings of that weak and suffering girl, these
rude men hung over her. we shall not attempt to
describe. They were not content with the view
OBTAINED by the ordinary door. She saw two mems
heads peernS into the room by another door,
which was open, at the foot of the bed To obtain
this view, these two gentlemen must have leaned
over another bed, which stands across the omen
doorway in an adjoining room We trust their
curiosity was gratlhed.
There is no doubt whatever of the facts ahor.
this matter We heard them first, Indirectly fron'
one of the supernumerary visitors. We have snca
made inquiry and we have unquestonable and al |
rect evidence Further than this, we have seen
the young lady herself girl of twelve or thirteen
years Of age She has now happily recovered her
health aud her spirits, and we have heard from
her own lips the simple story OF her trial Nobody
could look in the frank open face of that young
girl timid and blushipg, but with entire self
possession she answered the questions put to her,
and doubt one word of the story-and he must
be possessed Of an efrJntery Of which we trust the
nquisitors have the monopoly in Massachusetts,.
lot to burn with indignation to think that such
hings not only told but have actually hap
,ened. For ourselves, we confess that we were
lslf sbsshed OF the task we had uudertaken--n-
Iadu,a jubeye TeRoudrs dolorenl-when we found
ourselves only hearing the brief tale Of what those
len did. !