The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1863-08-28
WHOLE NUMBER, 3O72
VOL. 7, NO 4.

SoHieDOuy else. Ostpt. fuCIleIiTJ tHcn toii Sof
poral Palmer to fog him. Iput the handouts
on Hagen by McHenry's orders and bought a
cow-hide with which to fog him. Hagen was
then taken up stairs. There was pillar near
ly in the centre of tue room, and he was placed
standing with his arms around it. The hand
cuffs had by this time been taken off He was
stripped of all but his pants and shirt. A sol
dier named Alfred Fogle was ordered by Nc
Henry to hold his hands around the post while
Palmer fogged him. Fogle seized his hands as
desired, but after the first welt, Hagen broke
loose, and then McHenry seized him and held
him till it was all over. The mar cried out
while he was being lashed, and made good
deal Of noise. Before he was fogged, he beg
ged that he might be shot rather than whipped.
did not count the lashes, but should say be
received between forty and fifty. Near the close
he sunk down by the post, but he was not un-
conscious. Palmer did the fogging-
CORPORAL PALMEE's STATEMENT.
Captain McfIenry ordered me to give Hagen
twenty-five lashes. got cow-hide from Ser
geant Morrison, and Hagen was taken up stairs,
and his handouts removed He was then put
standing with his arms around post. and a
soldier held his hands, but after receiving a
stroke or two he broke loose, and Captain Nc
Henry held him. / do not know how many
lashes gave him, as | was too excited to count
them, but one of the men who counted them
says gave him thirty-seven, L think must
have given him between thirty and forty. |
fogged him under orders.
The above is the testimony of the very men,
who above all Others know most about the af-
fair, and upon it we are content to rest the truth
of our report. If Capt. Foster wants further
evidence in the matter, we can supply him with
it. We need not, of course, repeat what we
said yesterday of the tyranny and cruelty which
characterizes the entire proceedings. The pub
lie understands this fully, and it needs no de-
nunciation of ours to add to the adherence of
the deed. But the end is not yet. He is con-
fined at the Girard House, where those who
want to see the effect of Capt Fosters disci-
pline may have their curiosity gratifed.
From the Chronicle of August7.
Some half dozen years ago we had occasion
to publish the case of man charged with hav-
ing swinded widow woman out of $40, in
one of the upper wards. Soon after the item
appeared the accused called upon us, and, boil
ing over with passion, declared that we had
slandered him, and that if we did not make full
retractibn he would prosecute us for libel. We
asked him to point out wherein we had erred in
our statement, but bursting with rage he refus-
ed to go into any explanation, declaring the
whole thing libel, and threatening us with the
direst consequences If We did not make an inn
mediate correction. We again requested him
4qt what he found fault twith. and press
ing him closely IN the matteR, he blurted- /
"It is id lie that swindled the woman out
of $40. only swindled her out of $5!"
Capt. Fosters complaint of our report in re-
lation to the barbarous treatment of the man
Hagen is on par with that of the swindler al
luded to above. "Your reports" he says, 'sis
false and malicious l didn't order the man
fifty lashes; only ordered him twenty-five !"
and this is in substance, his objection to our
statement and defence of crime SO unmanly
now to think of it. rst
For the last fifteen years this man, who, as
editor of the Dispatch, has been bowling over
the wrongs of the colored race, and those who
have watched his somewhat tortuous course
will no doubt remember the horror and ndig-
nation with which he affected to regard the use
of the lash in the South yet, when he gets a
little brief authority in his owa hands he be-
comes the ffogger of tohite men, and when tax
ed with the odious and barbarous crime, his
only defence is: 81 didn't give him fifty on
ly gave him twenty-five !"
We could have been content to have let this
case rest where our article of Wednesday left
it, but, not whit abashed by the intense and
general Indignation which his conduct has a.
reused, Captain Foster seems to take pride
in keeping it before the public, as he had be-
fore taken pride in telling the matter abroad,
and yesterday morning published aifdavits pur-
porting to discredit the statements in Wednes-
days Chronicle, but in reality corroborating
all the more important facts therein set forth.
=
We have neither exaggerated nor sought to
exaggerate the statements made to us, nor did
they need to be exaggerated to establish the ex-
ercise of an amount of tyranny and brutality,
or Legree. A crime more wanton and ty-
ranicai has never been perpetrated in commu-
nifty Of freemen, and we are not at all surpris-
cd at the outburst Of honest indignation which
it has provoked. 1t is disgrace to our civil
zation, and the man who ordered it should not
be allowed to hold office twenty hours.
y
The more Captain Foster attempts to defend
himself, the worse he makes his case, and we
would now advise him to at once acknowledge |
lis error, and to bear himself so clear in
lis office that no injustice may hereafter be Civ
IN to individual or oficnse to the public. Nu-
nerous complaints have been reported to us, |
md information offered us about peculiar oc-
,urrenees at the Provost Marshals office, but
We hope to have no further occasion to allude
o them.-
~ Look not mournful into the past-t
annot return wisely improve the present--it
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