It is estimated by a writer in the New Orleans Crescent (June, 1863), that at least twenty-five hundred persons had been hung in Texas during the preceding two years for fidelity to the Union.
The San Antonio (Texas) Herald, a Rebel sheet of November 13th, 1862, taunted the Unionists with the havoc that had been made among them! It says: “They (Union men) are known and will be remembered. Their numbers were small at first, and they are becoming every day less. In the mountains near Fort Clark and along the Rio Grande their bones are bleaching in the sun, and in the counties of Wire and Denton their bodies are suspended by scores from black-jacks.”
Such are the shameless butchers and hangmen that Slavery spawns!
[35]. “Marriage,” says a Catholic Bishop of a Southern State, quoted in the Cincinnati Catholic Telegraph, “is scarcely known amongst them (the slaves); the masters attach no importance to it. In some States those who teach them (the slaves) to read are punished with death.”
[36]. Our experience in South Carolina and Louisiana proves that there would be no danger, but, on the contrary, great good in instant emancipation.
[37]. The writer has fully tested it in repeated instances; and there are probably several hundred thousand persons at this moment in the United States, to whom the same species of test is a certainty, not merely a belief.
[38]. The parallel facts are too numerous and notorious to need specification.
[39]. Captain Andre Cailloux, a negro, was a well-educated and accomplished gentleman. He belonged to the First Louisiana regiment, and perished nobly at Port Hudson, May 17, 1863, leading on his men in the thickest of the fight. His body was recovered the latter part of July, and interred with great ceremony at New Orleans.
[40]. The actual definition given by E. A., one of the Rev. Chauncy Hare Townshend’s mesmerized subjects.
[41]. Mr. Davis’s father was a “cavalier.” He dealt in horses.