Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1868-11-13
From Parton's Seen. Butler in New Or
leans"
The Kind of Man that Could Once
be Elected Judge IN New Orleans.

A young woman sought an interview
with Mrs. Butler, to whom many wo-
men came at that time to relate their
wrongs.
So many women, indeed, resorted to
her for that purpose, that it was found
necessary finally, to close that door to
the commanding Generals attention.
The young woman who came to her on
this occasion was a perfect blonde, her
hair of a light shade Of brown, her eyes
a "clear honest gray" her complexion
remarkably pure and delicate, her bear
ing modest and refined, her language
that of an educated woman. 1t has Of
ten been remarked that the women of
the South who have been made the
victims of a masters brutal lust escape
moral contamination. Their souls re-
main pure
This woman so fair to see so engag-
ing in her demeanor, SO refined in her
address, was slave, the slave of Judge
Cocks. She told her incredible story
incredible until superabundant testi-
nony compelled the most increduIous
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 Broadway
When she was fifteen years Of age her
father came to New York, took her
from the school to his hotel and COM
PEELED her to live with him as his mis-
tress. She became the mother of a
child of whom her master was father
and grandfather.
"I am now twenty-one,'' said she,
sand am the mother of a boy five
years old who is my farther's SON."
Cocks took her home with him to
New Orleans, where he continued to
live with her for awhile; then ordered
her to mary favorite protege. She.re-
fused. He had her horseWhipped in
the streets, and continued q system of
systematic torture until she consented.
When she had been ma rrIed for some
time the protege(a man so nearly white
that he was employed as chief clerk
in wholesale house, discovered the
shameless cheat that had been put up
on him and abandoned his wife, when
the master again took her TO his inces-
tuous bed, and gave her deed of man
omission, which he afterwards took
from her and destroyed.
"And now" she added, che has gone
off and left me and my children without
any means of support"
Mrs. Butler amazed and cOnfOunded
at this tale of horror, procured her an
interview with the General, to whom
the story was repeated. He listened
kindly to her but told her frankly that
b. could not believe her story.
is TOO much," SAID ne TO DeIleVe
on the testimony of one witness. Does
any one else know of these things?"
EYES," she repied, "every one in
New Orleans knows about them"
81 will have the case investigated, -
said the General, "cOme to me again in
three days"
G eneral ShepIey undertook the COM
mission. He found the woman's story
as true as it was notorious. The facts
were completely substauEiated Geuer-
al Butler gave her her freedom and
assigned her an allowance from her
fathers estate; and some time after
Captain Puffer, during his short time
of power as provost marshal, gave her
one of the best of her fathers houses to
live in, by letting appointments in which
she added to her income.
1t is now more than year since the
outlines of this story were first publish
ed to the world, but no attempt has
been made from any quarter to contro-
vert any part of it.