Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1867-12-07
A LErTER FROM TEXAS.

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relative in Texas He requests us to suppress
| names mentioned Id II, as well as the name of
ths place from whence it came, disqualification
81 some Of the facts stated should involve the
Writer and his family ii serious troubles at
the hands of the military despot who presides
over that section We venture to say that, for
downright, wanton, fendish Barbarity, not
even the tales told in adicai organs Of the
.atrocities of the Andersonville prison PEN
nor the actual diabolical sayagery of the In
dams Of the Plains, offer parallel to the tor
ture inflicted upon an innocent Texan by the
U. S. military officer spoken Of in the, letter.
| And when readers reflect that that kind of
fiendish torture is not only permitted, but APP
proved and encouraged in his understrappers
lby Gen. Grant. fair idea of the absolute
lheartlessness and brutishnessi of the man can
be formed The letter says:aad slat's af
r. off to have negroes in Office is what the
Northern Radicals want, reckon Texas will
lgratify them. There are about 1900 white
! Ioval I,eaguers and Sc, 900 negro voters in the
State, and the DISTINGUISHED 10000 rebels are
not In The fight. The negroes IN some places
say they are the strongest and they mean to
vote themselves the best pickings among the
lOtfices. This don't suit the Yankees who have
come here to fill all the paying places, but they
started the niggers in the suffrage business
land now the nigs are using it against them. ]
tcan't see as they ought to complain. These
Yankees have been telling the negroes that no
rebels should hold Office or have q vote, and
only the loyal men have a right to vote and sit
in Office Well, the negroes say they do the
most of the voting, and, as they are all loyal,
the best Offices must come to them.
81 am afraid that -- viii be a lasting
cripple. The best doctors cannot determine
about his case, and all have failed to provide a
remedy. He met his terrible hurt in this way:
A strange negro came into the neighborhood
and wanted --------- to provide for him, which
he did not feel able to do. 1t appears that on
account of some ins0lence the negro gave to
couple of Northern whites that same afternoon,
they beat him that night, and left next day.
lat any rate they could not be found next morn
/ ing The negro went to Lieut.. ------ who is
in command of the military post here, and
| told him that - 49, was the man that hkat
him. Without further ado, he sent squ;!6 St
soldiers to ------ Is house, and they took him
to the post There he was given no chances 20
defend himself, to prove himself clear of the
lnegrO,s charge, as he could: haye done by some
lOf the best men in 49,, for he was there at
the time the negro got beaten. Lieut.. . - -
| had him partly stripped, hand-cufed his hands
behind him, aud then strung him up, by cords
EarOllfld his thumbs, to galleWs frame, SO that
his toes could just touch the ground, but give
him no. support. They commenced on him at
about IL O'Clock in the morning, and hung him
up that way, for from a half to three-quarters
of an hour at a time, until Z o'clock that even
T4of inf
every time they hoisted him, and Lieut.. -
made his men throw buckets of water on him.
Twice this didn't seem to affect him, and they
lowered him, and had to rub him to bring him
to. His muscles and sinews were tore and
awfully strained, in his arms and back, and In
fact nearly all over his body and his veins and
blOOd-yessels were bursted in many places
| It was done near three months ago, and he has
not been able to move his arms or walk about
since. We have sent off and had the most
celebrated doctors in the country to tend to
him, but they all appear think that he can
| never get over it. as
ID after this punishment he had to be taken
to stand trial before the same Lieutenant,
| and come out clear, for the traders who saw
HhIm that evening in ----, and the Yankee
Government Collector, who went home with
| him late that night, proved him to be innocent
miles away at the time the negro was at
tackled. lia 4slfft go -.
7 1--WE complained to the higher military off.
| GERS at --, and - wrote to General
e. about theeonduct of Lieut. 49, = -; but
they all say they can do nothing at present
thought, when they are SO quick to punish any
4 of our white people by their military courts,
they could easily call an officer who did wrong
before court-Tnartial, but suppose us rebs.
have lost all such things as human rights, and
the military put over us have no human fee1-
Eings. Our day may come vet We have our
land left to us, but that is about all. We work
shard and live poor but we live in trust that
something near old times will come to the
4 Lone Star State again. ~
Let readers reflect, as they read the above,
that the Radical plan of /" Reconstruction OF
the South embraces. such demoniacal treat
merlt of the resident whites at the. hands of
the military, and that from such barbarity and
injustice there is no present appeal The Rad
ical Congress and Gen. Grant approve the
outrages perpetrated. .,eF -.
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