The Shasta courier., 1864-07-09
SIiscegenation.

The following appears in Parton's Life Of
Gen. Butler, and refers to an incident in
New Orleans:
General Butler. in pursuance of his sys-
tenn of redressing the wrongs of UIion men,
seized the large estates of one Judge Cocks.
and held them for the future liquidation of
Major Anderson's claim. Cocks justly think
ing that New Orleans, under the rule of Gen.
Butlar, was no fit place for him to reside in,
vanished soon after into the congenial shades
OF Secessia
few days after his departure. young
sToman sought an interview with Mrs. But
Ter, to whom many women came at that time
to relate their wrongs. So many women, in
deed, resoried to her for that purpose that
at length 1t was found necessary to close
that door to the commanding generals at
tentlen. The y ung woman who came to her
on this occasion was perfect blonde, her hair
of a llght shade OF brown, her ewes clear,
honest gray her complexion remarkably
pure and delicate, her bearing modest and
refined, her language that of an educated
woman. 1t has been often remarked that
the women of the South, who have been made
the victims of a masters brutal lust, escape
moral contamination. Their souls remain
chaste. This woman, so fair to look npon
so engaging in her demeanQr, 50 refined in
her address, was slave, the slave of Judge
Cocks. She told her Incredible storv--in-
credible until super abundant testimony COM
PEELED the most incredulous to believe.
She said that Judge Cocks was her father
as well as her master. At an early age she
had been sent to school at New York, the
school of the Mechanics Institute in Broad
way. When she was fifteen years of age, her
father came to New York, took her from
school to his hotel, and compelled her to live
with him as his mistress She became the
mother of child, of whom her master was
father and grandfather.
am now twenty one,' said she, and
am the mother Of a boy five years old, who
is my fathers SON.
Cocks took her home with him to New Or
lean where he continued to live with her
awhile; then ordered her to marry a favorite
protege. She refused. He had her horse
whipped in the streets, and continued a svs-
tematic torture until she consented. When
she bad been married for some time, the pro-
tege Ia man so nearly white that he was en-
ployed as chief clerk in a Wholesale house.
discovered the shameless cheat that had been
put upon him and abandoned his wife, Then
the monster again took her TO his incestu-
Gus bed, and gave her deed of manumis-
sion. which lie afterwards took from her and
destroyed.
And now she added, be has gone off,
and left me and my children without any
means of support.
Mrs. Batter, amazed and confounded at
this tale of horror, procured her an interview
with the General, to whom the story was re-
peated. He spoke lindly to her, but told her
frankly that .e could not believe her story.
is too much ss.id be, to believe on the
testimony Of one witness. Does any one else
know of these things:i
Yes she replied, every body in New Or
leans knows tbeu'
will have the case Investigated, said the
General. Come again in thres DAYS
General Shipiey undertook the investiga
ton. He found that the womans story was
as true as i was notorious The facts were
completely snbstantiated. General Butler
give her her freedom. and assigned her an
allowance from her father's estate; and some
time after, Captain Puler, during his short
tenure of power as deputy provost martial,
gave her one of the best Of her fathers houses
to live in, by letting apartments in which
she added to her income.