The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-06-05
Lynch Law.

1t is with modification, shame, and regret that
record the occurrence narrated in the following ex
tract from the Liberty (Mssouri) Times, of the tn
May. The man McChntock spoken of we take TO
be white man. II is TO be noted, in the first place,
that the offence could not by of Justice be
punished with death secondly, that the man could
not be convicted before court upon the oath of a
slave; and thirdly, that the woman's testimony, if
relied upon, would have entitled her TO mercy. So
that, not only law violated by an unauthorized
mob, but every dictate ofjustice and mercy set
at defiance, and the most fendish cruelty permitted
to reign supreme.
Our grief and our surprise for this event have
also additional motive in the fact that at Liberty
Missouri, and in its vicinity, many menof high
intelligence, honorable principles, and humane feel
ings, of whom we have ever felt assured that they
would rise above every unworthy impulse, no mat
ter what necessity they might imagine to exist for
the establishment of security and peace.
frontier life has its hardships and privations;
but surely it offer recompense for the neces-
sity of such scenes that described, For the
fame of our country, and in the of all that is
just, we trust we may not again be called upon to
record 80 vile, so wicked and SO insane an act on
the part of any community in our land. But here
is the account:
"To prevent, as far as possible, exaggerated ac-
counts of the execution of Anice, the negro woman
belonging to Col Allen and Mr.. McCGntock, by
the citizens Of this county, on Thursday, 9Th, we
present plain statement of the whole matter 1t
will be rccollected that about six weeks ago Mrs.
Aliens room was entered in the night and an at
tempt was made to kill her by striking her across
the face with an In few days thereafter the
suspicion became very general that the act was
committed by Anice, her own servant woman; but
it was not doubted that she led into it by the
influence OF other person persons. Anicc, how
ever, continued to deny any participation in or
knowledge of the act, for some weeks; but circum-
stances TRANSFERRED which induced the family (sons)
of Mrs Allen to place her in Jail. About week
ago Anice confessed that she committed the act and
made statement in reference to it in about the
following words, -Four days before the commission
OF the act, McClintock told me that there was
a good deal of money in the house of my mistress
and that ought to kill her-that he would assist
me-that we would get the money and with that we
would go to California, and that would be his wife
and be free On Sunday night (the night of the
commission OF the crime) he came to the kitchen
where was sleeping, walked me up, and we pro-
ceeded to the house; McClntock hoisted the win
dow and got in the house, and pulled me in through
the window after him; he approached the bed, found
my mistress asleep, and said to me, she lays right
took the axe-which belonged to McClntock-
(McChntock had hold Of the handle) and made the
HEX; my mistress made noise and we both ran out
of the house, he went to his own house. "a few hun
bred yards off, and went to the kitchen and laid
down on the bed %