Late member of Congress from Texas. In his speech in New York (1862) he said: “I know that the loyalists of Texas have died deaths not heard of since the dark ages until now; not only hunted and shot, murdered upon their own thresholds, but tied up and scalded to death with boiling water; torn asunder by wild horses fastened to their feet; whole neighborhoods of men exterminated, and their wives and children driven away.” 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! Footnote 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_.” Footnote 36: Our experience in South Carolina and Louisiana proves that there would be no danger, but, on the contrary, great good in instant emancipation. Footnote 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_. Footnote 38: The parallel facts are too numerous and notorious to need specification. Footnote 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. CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE LAWYER AND THE LADY. “The Devil is an ass.”—_Old Proverb._