Weekly Trinity journal., 1864-07-02
Miscegenation.

The following appears in Parton's Life of Gen.
Butler, and refers to an incident in New Orleans
g General Butler, in pursuance of his system
of redressing the wrongs of Union men, seized
the large estates of one Judge Cocks and held
them for the future liquidation of Major Ander-
sons claim Cocks justly thinking that New
Orleans, under the rule of Gen. Butler, was no
fit place for him to reside in vanished soon after
into the congenial shades of Secessa
A few days after his departure, young woman
sought interview with Mrs. Butler, to whom
many women came at that time to relate their
wrongs So many women, indeed, resorted to
her for that purpose, that at length it was found
necessary to close that door to the commanding
Generals attention. The young woman who
came to her this occasion was a perfect
blonde, her hair of light shade Of brown, her
eyes a clear, honest gray, her complexion re-
markably 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 upon, engaging in her
demeanor, refined in her address, was a slave,
the slave of Judge Cocks. She told her incredi-
BILE story-incredible until superintendent testi-
mony compelled the most incredulous to believe.
She said that Judge Cocks was her father as
well as her master. At early age she had
been sent to school at New York, the school of
the Mechanics Institute, in Broadway. 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 mis-
tress She became the mother of child, of
whom her master was father and grandfather.
l am now twenty-one, said she, and am
the mother of boy five years old, who is my
fathers SON.
Cocks took her home with him to New Orleans,
where he continued to live with her awhile +; then
ordered her to marry favorite protege. She
refused. He had her horse whipped in the
streets, and continued systematic torture until
she consented. When she had been married for
some time, the protege "a man so nearly white
that he employed chief clerk in whole
sale house, discovered the shameless cheat that
had been put upon him, and abandoned his wife.
Then the master again took her to his incestuous
bed, and gave her deed of manumission, which
he afterwards took from her and destroyed
And now, she added, he has gone off, and
left me and my children. without any means Of
support
Mrs. Butler amazed and COMPOUNDED at this tale
of horror, procured her an interview with the
General, to whom the story repeated. He
spoke kindly to her. but told her frankly that he
could not believe her story.
: 1t is too much, said he, to believe on the
testimony of one witness. Does any one else
know of these thngs?'
Yes, she replied, Everybody in New Orleans
knows them
l will have the case investigated, said the
General Come again in three days
General Shipley undertook the investigation.
He found that the woman's story as true as
it was notorious. The facts were completely
substantiated Gen. Butler gave her her free
dom, and assigned her an allowance from her
fathers estate and some time after, Captain
Puffer, during his short tenure of power as
deputy provost-marshal, gave her one of the best
of her fathers houses to live in, by letting apart
ments in which she added to her income