Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-05-13
81 2lFrom the Handsboro (Mss9 Demccrat.l
ANOTHER Outrage BY A
NEGRO.

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oa We are reliably informed that most
horrible affair transpired on Ship Island
:, in the, early part Of this month. 1t ap-
pears, 50 far as we can learn, that
young negro soldier gained access to the
sleeping apartment of Gen. Mowers
daughter, beautiful and accomplished
girl about sixteen years of age. What
was accomplished we know not, and can
only surmise from the subsequent results
1t appears that a younger child called
her father, and he and the officer of the
dayjwho, upon arriving at the spot, found
the negro in, possession of the guard,
which was stationed in the vicinity of
the Generals quarters. 1t appears
that q court martial was at once
organized and the negro soldier
sentenced to be executed by hanging
But the General interfered and the SEN
tence was suspended, but it is currently
reported that the negro was killed inside
in the fort, put into sack and thrown
into the Gulf. While bloody knives
and other weapons, bearing the signs of
being used, were seen on the Island, and
the under officers spoke freely of his dis
patch7 and his well-deserved death, yet
athe negro soldiers ON the Island were
still led to believe that the dead negro
was sent to Mobile on vessel leaving
about that time for Mobile.
brs While we look with horror upon trans
actions Of this kind, and believe that the
brute who would attempt the chastity of
4 a white lady could not be visited with
too severe a punishment, or one that
could be considered cruel, under any cir
fcumstances : yet we might be excused
for thus thinking, for we have always
deemed the negro as property, as our
fathers did before us, and we fought to
the bestof our poor ability to keep them
as property-the place that God and
nature designed them to keep-but Gem
eral Mower ct idonne gems sought their
freedom, and, by might of numbers, sue
7cceeaed, and taught Sahbothat he was as
good as anybody, and a little better; he
made councifmen. policemen, and other
civil officers of them, and thereby incul-
Gated the idea that the negro, was, so
cially.- the equal Of the white man, And
now, Generai mower, aIter DONG more
than perhaps any other officer of his class
TO instiH this idea into the negro's head,
has, with a vengeance, felt the applica-
) tion OF. his doctrine. His lovely daugh-
ter, just blooming into womanhood, clad
in the white, loose, tasty habiliments of
night, with her hair loosed to the winds
of the Gulf, reclines upon the couch,
and there, in that position, is desecrated
as to her person, by the embrace. claw
ing and feeling of disgusting negro
No. wonder he complains. No wonder
the negro is missing. But had it been
some Southern born lady, who had lost
a princely fortune by the craft, legisla-
ton and social teaching Of General
Mower and his followers, it would all
have been well, and had the negro been
troubled, as in this instance, the party
or parties, even suspected of breaking
the law, would be held to strict account,
and 80 we wish to hold General Mower.
r. We again ask, where is the negro that
committed this outrage upon the daugh-
ter of General Mower .aU.ls -ei