Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1861-03-07
Indian 0utrages in Texas.


The Galveston Nous publishes the following
A THRILLING NARRArIvE-The story Of the
horrible treatment inflicted last month in Par
er county by a band Of savage on the person
of the i'll fated Mrs. Sherman, has already been
told but the following narrative of her suffer-
ing, from the pen of her sister, Mrs. S. z. Mar
tin is absolutely narrowing. 1t was written to
the brother OIL both sisters, who resides in Fay
ettevlle, Fayeto county The letter is dated
Parker county Dec l7lh, 1860
My DEAR Brother The Indians have
again core down upon US, numbering our dear
sister Martha A. Sherman. Her fate and suf-
lerings are too horrid to relate--a thought of
the affair sinks my soul into despair and you
see that these lines are nearly obiteraled by
tears. To scken and die by the ordinary cir
cumstances Of Providence, is but moderate suf-
ferng-but to suffer the thousand deaths of
dying one at the hands Of the ptiesS savage,
melts tho heart to contemplate.
The Indians went to jlr Shermans house,
shook hands with all, and asked for something
to eat. It was dinner time and they gave the
Indians the table. They ate, and then ordered
Mr. 5. to leave the house. He did so, taking
with him his wife and three children They
had got off some five or six hundred yards,
when the Indians overlook them sister was
carried back to the house by them alone, leay-
ing Mr.. 5. and the children. The hearte,s
wrctches here began their brutal outrage, whip
ping her all the way to the house, over the face
and head with their whips. After reaching the
house, they took from it every article of value,
even to the dcothing then took poor sister
by the hair Of The head, one of the brutos on
either side Of her, dragging her along, still
whipping and beating her. They even stuck
pins in her flesh, and torturing her in every
possible manner, finally took off her clothing
continuing to whip her till, nature exhausted,
she sunk under the burden Of relentless cruelty.
They then scaiped her, taking off every strand
Of her dear hair, leaving nothing bnt the scull
o"Ho Oalc' anu thclli W VdP VIC CilthhA, wy
shot her through the shoulder leaving her, as
they thought to die struggling in her own lles
blood Here she was found by her husband,
trying to drag her almost li!elsss body to a
mud-bole Of water near by. In this mangled
state sho lived four days, suffering more than
language can describe.
On plying Heaven grant that it may new
er be my lot again to weep over such another
scene.-Alother and brother were with her IN
her dying moments. Notwithstanding the sew
Gritty of her treatment, she was sensible of
every '"i"s $1,000 pa ". s-e.b~- oou
you stand this and not resent the wrongs per-
petrated uTon our own sister Can you see
those three little children, and not pursue their
mothers murderers Can you see her seal p in
the hands Of those savage hrutes, and not res
cue it, though it cost you your life Can you
ever sleep, while remembering her cries with
upii(ted hands, invoking the Father OF Mer-
eies to spare her life as she was struck down by
the club of the black hearted wolves No
never never
The brother to whom this -ttcr was written
is now, we understand on the frontier, deler
mined to avenge his unfortunate sisters wrong
and death.