Mr. Bouligny

The New York Herald’s New Orleans correspondent says of Mr. Bouligny, the patriotic member of Congress from New Orleans, who refused to leave his seat when his State seceded; and actually sat the session out:

I learn from a reliable source that during this war he has been attacked on the streets seven or eight times; and he is crippled from the numerous wounds he has received in these encounters.  When the pressure brought against him was too great to be resisted he took the oath of allegiance to the bogus Confederacy, but without disguising his contempt for it.  He told his prosecutors that he would take forty oaths if they insisted on it, but intimated very plainly that he hadn’t the least respect for an oath that he was forced to take.  He has been very badly treated; his wife was taken from him and sent to Norfolk, though she is now in Washington city, and he has been debarred from all correspondence with her for many months.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 31, 1862, p. 2