The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1879-09-19
tFfom ths 3. +. Examiner.l
/ CASE oF UNPAm ALLELED RnEsDHs1INEss

GANE Oh UNEAM AMhHAEW HAGHBABdANhsHH
A most revolving case Of fiendisll
iaYagory Is reported as having occurred
short time ago in Portsmouth, Ohio.
4 Mrs. Graham had in her service an
orphan girl, sixteen years of age, whom
she had takon ostenaibly toadopt For
tho fault Of dog in the house the poor
girl was stripped and logged on her
naked body with a whip, by her cruel
mistress, with such violence that she
vas cut and tom by tho lash from heels
10 neck, and the blood flowed in streams
from the lacerated flesh. The monster
then put red pepper IN the wounds, and,
her diabolical lust Of cruelty not sa-
tiated, she added to this internal tor.
turc by washing the raw and bleeding
body Of her helpless victim with salt
and water. After this she endeavored
70 force down the throat Of the girl the
excrement Of the dog which had occa.
stoned her savage wrath. Tho she
devil was brought before the Common
Pleas Court, and, for all this atrocioua
barbarity, was merely held to answer in
tho sum Of $500 II was ascertained
from the girl that she had been fre.
quontly subjected to frightful whip.
pings on the naked body that some.
times boys were called in to inllict the
whipping; and that she had often been
compelled TO eat bed-buga, which Mrs
Graham caught for tho purpose. 1t Il
further reported that two other young
girls formerly in the service Of the mon
ster had mysterioualy disappeared, and
the suspicion is they were tortured Il
death. Yet, in the face Of all thess
enormities, esquire" Gibson let the
savage monster Off with bonds Of $500
Why, at that cheap rate the ogress car
afford TO indulge her fendish propen
sity on every girl inveigled to her den
Should tho girl in this case die possibly
esquire" Gibson might rnisc tho bondi
to one thousand dollars ! II is safe T.
venture that MrM. Graham was among
tho women-shriekera against the ''hor
rors Of slavery" and the ''slays driver
whip" and is an ardent admircT Of th'
Uncle Toms Cabin kind Of literature
and doubtless Squire" Gibson is Of th,
same class.
The shocking punishment inilicte'
upon the wretched girl reveals mon
strOsity of torture unparalleled, and ye
not a word of the affair has appeare,
among the dispatches sent to this Coas
by the Radical manipnlators Of til
Associated Press. Nothing 80 horribl
ever occurred in the South-nor elst
where, 30 far as known; but had any
thing at all approximating to the IN,
age deed been committed in that sc.
tion Of the Union, by any white pcrsoE
upon d negro or negress, the wire
would have flashed the report Of
= throughout tho land, with all the detail
elaborated and colored to the utmos
! "a fs6ra Tia Narthern hearts In COR
patison 70 this Ohio diaboIisn the CHI
holm tragedy in Mississippi appears .
a mild case Of blood atonement. Y,
every day now there comes long di
patch concerning that affair, dressed II
in manner calculated TO arouse IL
passions Of the people against the pa
ties accused Of the homicide, and
impress upon the popular mind the b
lief that the people Of the South n
barbarians and slayers, among whol
l. the life Of n negro OF "loyal" whiI
man is never safe or held sacred. I'll
manipulators Of the dispatches whIc
80 Sensationally detail the testimony
the prosecution in the Chisholm cai
! must certainly have had a method
. their selections and omissions of new
items Of startling and most outrageol
character when they culled the case
{ Mrs. Graham's sayagery in order
0 suppress it from the wires. But IL
Ohio newspapers have, nevertheless
$ published the particulars of the fen
ishness of that tigress in human for
to the world, as well as esquire" Gil
sons extraordinary action in the cas-