The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1863-12-24

A ssTIigh.Toned" Southerner and his Slave
Daughter.
The following snecdotc from Mr.. Par
tons book on Gen. Buffers government
in New Orleans has painful interest
as a recent aud authentic record by eye.
witnesses of the shamcs which kind
God is wipiug away from our nation:
On Sunday morning, while Gen. But.
ler was seated at the breakfast table, Ma.
jor Strong, gentleman who was not
given to undue emotion, rushed into the
room, pale with rage and horror.
General" he exclaimed, "there is
the most rascally thing out here"'
The General followed him to the Office.
There he found the staff assembled,
standing around woman, gazing upon
her with flashing eyes, their countenau-
ces betraying mingled pity and fury
The servants Of the house were crowded
about the doors of the room. The wo-
man who was the object of SO much at
tention was nearly white, aged about
twenty.seven. Her face showed at the
first glance that she was one of those
unfortunate creatures whom some savages
regard with a kind of religious awe, and
whom civilized beings are accustomed to
consider peculiarly entitled to tenderness
and forbearance. She was simple mind
ed. Not absolutely an idiot, but imbecile,
vacant, half-silly.
"Look here, General" said Major
Strong, as he opened the dress of this
poor creature.
Her back was cut to pieces with the
cowhide. 1t was all black and red-red
where the instrument of torture had bro
ken the skin, black where it had not
To convey an idea of its appearance, Ma.
jor Strong used to say that it resembled
a very rare becfstesk, with the black
marks OF the gridiron across it.
M one over saw Gen. Butler SO pro-
foundly moved as he was while gazing on
this pitable object
"Who did this?" he asked the girl.
"Mas.er," she replied.
"Who is your master?"
"Mr Landry"
Landry was respectable merchant
living near headquarters, not unknown
to the members of the staff
"What did he do it for?" asked the
General.
81 went out after the clothes from the
wash,' said she, "and l stayed out late.
When | came home, master kicked me
and said he would teach me to run
away"
"Orderly, 60 to Mr.. Landry's house
and bring him before me-"
In few minutes Landry entered the
ofice-a spare, tall, gcntlcmanlikc per.
son of fifty five.
"Mr. Landry" said the General, "this
is Infamous The girl is evidently sim
pie. 1t is the awfulest spectacle ever
beheld in my life"
At this moment Major Strong whls-
pered in the Generals ear a piece of in
formation which caused him to compare
the faces of the master and the slave
The resemblance between them was stri.
king.
us this woman your daughtery" asked
the General
"There arc reports to that effect" said
Landry.
The insolent nonchalance of the man,
as he replied to the last question so in
famed the rage of all who witnessed it
that it needed but wink from the Gen
eral to have set a dozen infuriated men at
his throat. General merely said:
81 am answered, sir"
The General for once seemed deprived
of his power to judge with promptncss.
"He remained for some time" said an
eyewitness, apparently lost in abstrac.
tion l shall never forget the singular
expression on his face"
| had been accustomed to see him in a
storm of passion at any instance of op.
preston or flagrant injustice; but on this
occasion he was too deeply affected to OBJ.
tain relief in the usual way.
ellis whole air was one of detection,
almost listlessness; his indignation too
intense, and his anger too stern, to find
expression even in his countenance.
"Never have l seen that peculiar look
but on three or four occasions similar to
the one | am narrating, when l knew he
was pondering upon the baneful curse
that had cast its withering blight upon
all around, until the manhood and hu-
manity were crushed out of the people,
and outrages such as the above were
looked upon with complacency, aud the
perpetrators treated as respected and
worthy citizens; and that he was realiz-
ing the great truth that, however men
might cndeavor to guide this war to the
advantages OF a favorite idea or sagacious
policy, the Almighty was directing it
surely and steadily for the publication of
our country from the greatest of national
sins.
"After sitting in the mood which l
have described, the General again turned
to his prisoner, and said in quiet, cub
dued tone Of voice:
NSMr Ian6pv T doro mt truef nvself