Southern patriot. (Houston, Chickasaw County, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1849-08-08

NC rely ca upons Is OF character
sufficient to stamp the guilty with
contempt and lasting shame. and
forbid his ever being noticed again
by any honorable gentleman or
lady.
The facts Of the above case are
substantially these: That the above
named Norvell was married about
eight months since 10 his spouse,
Miss. Elizabeth ]. Nesbit, after q
limited acquaintance, much against
the will Of many Of her relations ard
friends. Miss Nesbit brought into |
the new firm four negroes and some |
money; some five or six weeks since
was prosuated on her bed torisc no
more, and after friends and physicians
had exhausted their skill, and were
under the painful necessity Of pro-
Inouncing the solemn word-shc
mus die-this man Novel;, instead
Of pouring out his very souls sym
patty over his departing compan-
/ ion, and making her dying moments
as easy as possible in full view that
awful and solemn hour actually
quarclcd with and abused her land
during her sickness treated her with
violcnce,) and then set about to de-
wise ways and means TO run of the
negroes before her breath departed,
lest he might loose the property; to
accomplish which he left her and
returned with n force Of men and
weapons, and in her hearing made
an effort to force the negroes away
and actually cooked his doubio-bar-
rel gun to shoot Mrs. Snow, the
, mother of his wife, for interfering.
. He also used much vulgar and pro-
3 fame language, creating quite a row
S in the family circle, and showing
/. conclugivoly shat the property was
S the Idol Of his soul, thereby creating
b a fresh wounds in the bosom Of his
g diving wife, sufficient to destroy any
l. delicate young women. During al
h Of which time he stood alof from her
F. and when he could not procure th'
is negroes, he took his clothing and re
&c tired toroturn only when he wa
o advised Other death, which was Of
the second day thereafter. There
1t fore.
II 1st. Be il rcso7ccd, That in yiev
in of the above statement, we the Nom
- bers of this meeting feel ourselyc
+ bound to express our indignant feel
ing at such brutal and savage treat
w ment.
Of Cd. RcSOIUed, That in the abscnc
is. of any law, either criminal or civil
Nv known to us that will reach such
or case, we feel that It is a duty thl
.al we owe ourselves to show forth OF
on indignant feelings and suffer no sue
vo shameful conduct to slumbCr unuC
IN ticod in our midst.
of Sd RcSolrcd, Thatif the aboy
of statement be facts, which we av
on fully fear and believe TO be true, ii
,st vocabulary of words would IA
he in expressing our contempt for inca
le and pitiful "A wrotchin human shap
ny 4th. RcsaiUcd, That for the sal
ofpromoting ocialharmony and O
(. der in our community, that we s
forth in these resolutions cur disa
probation of his conduct and that
may serve as a warning to others
time to come.
Do Re Il fuyiherrosolred, That in ord
a1 that another innocent aud unsuspe,
n. ing and confding female be n
-. deceived by and give to him, Sc
3
Novels her hand in matrmony, ,
do hereby request every periodic
ov in the country to publish the abo
l;I preamble and resolutions
The above preamble and resoI
,o;r tons being adopted, the MEETING
~ iourned
Signed, A. G. PILLOW
'"N Cbiymg3