Weekly Trinity journal., 1864-05-28
THr MASSACHUSETTS WosRss At Poar ROYAL

TIE MASSACHUSETTS WoMES At PoRr ROYAL
Some months ago the Manchester IN. H. Un;on,
and Concord IN. H. Patriot gave publicity to a
vile Islander on Massachusetts, women who went
down to teach the blacks at Port ROYAL The
Boston Courier, another malicious Copperhead
medium, published the story with an approving
editorial introduction, and in due time the Ma
rysville Express, Grass Valley National and Ama-
dor Dispatch, anxious to aid in circulating the Sc
cesh lie followed suit. The story, in brief, was
as follows:
SIxTY-FoUR MIsCEGENAToRs.-The Rev. Liber-
ty Billings, of New Hampshire, gives an account
of some doings at Port Royal. He is Lieuten-
ant Colonel of regiment of South Carolina ne
gro troops. He says that sixty-four of the phi
lanthropic damsels who went to Port ROYAL to
enlighten little niggers, have increased the pop
ulation of that place by sixty-four mulattoes.
Of course the intimation is a most maliciously
false and wicked one, yet one well worthy of be-
ing originated by the abandoned liars who have
espoused the cause of traitors, and of being cir
culated by towards and lick-spittles who desire
no greater glory than that to be gained by wag
ing war upon defenseless women. The report
finally reached the ears of Mr.. Billings, who i'm
mediately forwarded the following note to the
editor of the New York Tribune:
SIR The atrocious calumny upon the lady
teachers at Port Royal originated with the Man
chester IN. H. Union, a sheet too mendacious
and vulgar to merit even contempt The asser-
ton of the New Hampshire Patriot that q con-
frmed y the lie, is maliciously false as not
word or hint to that effect ever escaped my lips.
Nothing but the foulest political venom could
have induced such libel upon noble class of
women, engaged in noble work. 1t is humili-
ating to feel obliged to deny the gross and dis
gushing falsehoods of an INSCRIPTIONS press
The mulattoes of the South, it is we'll known,
are compelled to acknowledge paternity with the
q chivalry their misfortune more than their
fault. L. BILLINGS.
Notwithstanding this denial has been before
the public for nearly two months not one of the
Copperhead sheets in this State have had the
manliness or decency to correct the foul charge
against the women whom they haye so wantonly
sandered.
We have been much gratifed in perusing a
letter relative to the SANDER, written by SOL
dier of the New York 10th Legion-a body of
men who went to the war from Orange and Sui
Ivan counties-which lately appeared in the
Middletown IN. ~ Wing Press, from which we
make the following extract
Now all these person (which were formerly
chattels) came into being some time before these
abolition ladies went there, or before aboli-
zionist of either tolerated down there,
by the chivary. The fathers and brothers of
these various colored persons (who are not now
chattels, thanks 70 the Emancipation Proclama-
ton, are to-day in the rebel army, fighting to
DESTROY orr Government and buld IN on its
ruins slave aristocracy whose cornerstone shall
be slavery--and in which these fathers and
brothers aforesaid shall have the unrestricted
privilege of dealing in flesh and blood-or buy-
ing and selling their own offspring
And yet we have never yet heard one of these
Copperheads say one word against this wholesale
!" Miscegenation, which they well know has
been going on there to unlimited extent but
on the contrary they are doing all in their power
to perpetuate this very state of things-doing
all they dare to aid the drivers in their
tempts to build up Slave-breeding Confederacy..