The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-09-15
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soss.ftondtsh Outrage uP0n
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Young Lady.
LAwRkScK, X. +. Aug. 27.-lt 10 my duty
to record one Of tho most hsllish outrage,
which ever dsgraced any age or country ;
which. alas is not IN isolsted one IN our
beautiful Territory. Let this case be hand
cd down as an evidence Of the demoralixing
effects upon humanity Of that cursed institu-
ton which our rulers are trying to force up
on US.
A Mr.. Henry Hyatt, with his wife and
family, moved from Milton, Wayne County,
Ind, TO Kansas, and settled on claim on
Washington Creek, about seven miles south
from this city. !.
Accompanying his wife was . young Wild.
ow lady, friend Of the family, who desired
to emigrate to Kansas. Mr.. Hyatt com
menced building mill on his claim last
spring, aud, as extra b ,nds were needed, q
Pro- slavery man was employed who boarded
at his house.
1t was soon noticed that when any news Of
the movements Of the Free State or Pro
slavery parties reached Hyatt's, that this
man after supper time, would 60 on to the
rendezvous above known as Fort Sanders,
which has since been broken up, and there
stay till quite late in the night, and that on
Sabbath evening he spent all his time either
there or mt the house Of Pro slavery neigh
Dor close by. At last Mr.. uyatt's family,
whose feelings are with the cause OF Free
dom here, charged him with being spy, and
the young lady cited instances OF his visits
to Pro-slavery places after the receipt OF
news by them, with an earnestness very dis
tastefulto the Ruthan. The result was that
he left Mr.. Hyatt's employment.
On the night Of Wednesday, Aug. 20,
when all the family had gone to rest, the
young lady left her room and went to enc
Of the out buildings in the rear Of the house.
On her return she was seized by four masked
ruihans, and so overcome was she by terror
that before she could scream her tongue was
choked out of her mouth and tied with .
string behind her head and around her neck.
She was then told that il she made the least
noise she would Immediately be shot; and a
revolver was held to her head while they
tied her hands behind her back. They car
ried her few hundred yards from the house
into patch Of long prairie grass, and COM
menced their helish dceds-three standing
guard while they each in turn violated her
person.
She had swooned from fear, and had not
returned to a state of entire consciousness
when this inhuman assault was made upon
her person. After completing their infamy,
they kicked her in the side and abdomen, and
left her it is supposed, to die. How long
she remained in state Of inscnsibility she
docs not know, but che was enabled to stag
ger in the direction OF the house. On reach
ing il, she was unable to open the door, b u
hands being tied behind Der back, and she
was also unable to speak, her tongue being
tied with a string, and was now swelled to an
alarming size. She was too weak to shout,
and in the effort tainted. In falling, over.
turned an empty churn which stood near the
door. and the noise made by the chnrn against
the siding Of the house awoke Mr.. Hyatt and
his family, who found her in the condition
described.
On Sunday last, the 23d, she took ut the
request OF DIR. Avery, some nonrishing food;
but her ease is considered nearly hopeless.
She has had several fits Of commissions, and
though her friends believed last night that
she would die before morning, she still lives.
1t is supposed the pro slavery hired man and
three Of his associates were the perpetrators
of this villainy.
The facts Of the above case were given me
by DIR. Avery, who attended the lady profess
sionally, and who accompanied the Richmond
company into this territory. On this state
ment have the most implicit reliance. lie
is spoken of by the Buffalo Convention Com
mittee in their report as "a wise and accom-
pl'shea physician and as he made pro-
fessional visit to the lady, he knows all about
the case. And yet, with all these most inhu.
man outrages before their eyes, there are
class of men, even in the North, who profess
to believe that negro slavery eleyates the
character of the whites.
us needless to say that these villains are
at large, aud, like the marderers of Hoyt and
others, always will be, the bogus laws having
been made for the punishment of the free
State men only.