Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-06-05
Outrage in Mississippi.

A YEAR ago this month of May, Mr.. w.
r. Ould, disabled Confederate soldier, in
search of an honest livelihood, undertook,
after securing permission of the neighbor-
ing people, to teach colored school near
Canton Hill, De Soto county, Mississippi.
Mr.. Ould was raised in Richmond, Va,
but happening in New Orleans at the
breaking out of the war, volunteered in
Company G, 9th Rebel Louisiana. When
Stonewal jackson was placed in command
of division, this regiment was assigned
to his division Mr.. Ould shared with his
regiment the dangers of the battles of
Coal Harbor, Cedar Mountain, Port Re-
public, Winchester, and the second Ma
nassas At the last named battle he re-
ceived four wounds, and was disabled by
wound above the ankle, the scar OF which
he showed to us. Much of the latter part
of the war he was compelled to spend in
the hospitals, recovering from his wounds.
During the siege of Richmond, how
ever, he was able to do duty again in the
trenches, and was paroled there at the time
of Lees surrender. At MIR. Guilds sugges-
ton, and inspired by that earnest desire
for the education of their children which
latter built a house for place of worship
u
agingly. Beside weekday school he in
structed the children in the Bible on Sab
bath morning. He found very soon that
his humane enterprise was creating deal
of talk about the neighborhood. 44 ~
1t was new thing, base and criminal
for white Southern rebel to be teachinga
"nigger school," The presumption that
"nigger children could learn anything
was absurd and preposterous. Why, If
the ringers" could read, they would do
better than the mass of white loafers about
the corner grocery could do. A "nigger
school, soon came to stink so in the
nostrils of the high toned people of Center
Hill, that it could no longer be endured.
They denounced the. teacher as blue
bellied Yankee. Some Of the chivalry
called, armed cap-a-pie, to take his life, but
faltered in their villainous undertaking.
On the night of the 18th of June follow
ing the commencement of his school, some
of the rebels, not able to bear the pest of
a colored school longer, chopped and
pulled down the house Who did this
noble deed no one knew. Mr.. Ould quiet
ly went to work, and, with the assistance
of the colored people, had the house re-
built. Many threats were made against
him, which were answered by the assur-
ance that he should stay there as long as
he could get a spot of ground to teach
upon. On the night of August 16, 1867,
the house was burnt to the ground as
secretly as it was destroyed before. This
time he reported the offense to the Bureau,
but they could not reach the perpetrators.
The owner of the land on which the
school-house had been standing refused to
allow him to rebuild it, and, thinking. he
would not encounter such bitter prejudices
at Olive Branch, small village a few
miles distant he went there and opened
another school, but he found that he had
only dumped out of the fryingpan into
the fire" The heightened Christians of
Olive Branch in few weeks burned down
his house. He reported again to the
Bureau officer at fernando. He was told
to return, and assured that the place
would be garrisoned with troops unless
the people of the village would meet and
pledge their protection for the future. Inc
citizens met and made this pledge. and he
rebuilt his school house. There was much
loud talk and many threats, but he was
not molested until week ago wednesday
night, when his school-house was again
set on fire. & 3INf H4'.7 I.5f'a
Owing to fall of rain, only one end OF
it was destroyed, and in what was left,
after reporting the incendiary attempt to
the Bureau, he resumed his school, and
taught till last Saturday. On Sunday the
whole neighborhood seemed to unite in
threats against him if he remained any
longer, and, deeming himself in mo-
mentary danger Of assassination if he
went on with his school, he gaveit up and
came to this city. liis baa /.
This villainous treatment of one OF
Stonewall Jackson's soldiers and a relative
of Commissioner Ould, may seem incredi-
BILE. His story to us was very clear and
straightforward, without contradictions,
and substantiated by the testimony of a
colored man now living in the city, who
sent children to him.-Menph5s Post, May
18Th