The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-04-07


Recently the telegraph carried to the
remotsst parts of the country, the report
of shocking outrage committed ~ one
of the nltion's pets in Prince George
county, Maryland, under the very
shadow of the Capitol. 1t had an inter
est for the public beyond the narrow con-
fines of the neighborhood where it &C.
Cured. because it referred to a crime
which is the outgrowth of the gospel OF
uncurbed license that has been taught in
ell the States where slavery recently ex-
isted, by the adventurous and unscrupu-
lous demagogues who have profted by
pandering to the lowest passions OF the
negro race. The details of the crime
and its terrible ending in the hanging of
the perpetrator are minutely related in
the Washington Chronicle, loyal Radi-
cal organ, which editorially says "that
immediate death by torture would not
have been too severe for such deed. "
The facts of the case are thus given:
About FIVE years ago, Mr.. Edgar A.
| Nelson, young man of respectable pa
rentage, left his native place in Madison
county, New York, with his wife, and
purchased tract of land containing
about one hundred acres, known as the
| Motley Hall estate, located about nine
miles from this city, on the Good Hope
Hill road, near a village known as Oxen
Hill. On
Monday morning last he left on one of
his usual trips to market, leaving his
wife and child, an infant seventeen
months old, in the care of a colored man
in his employ, named John Henry Scott.
The negro worked on the farm during
the day, and Mt night came to the house,
as was his custom, and after supper the
tco spent several hours an conversation.
Nrs. Nelson a,Uaiting the Grriuat Of her
husband, whom she expected would re-
turn from market After sitting up un-
| til near midnight she, with her infant,
retired, and told the colored man, aoho
slept IN another portion of the house, to do
the same, saying that probably Mr. Nelson
a0oattd not return till morning.
After this socialising process we may
leave to inference what followed-and
will close with the following paragraph
in which John Henry Scott and a pro-
cession of masked men figured as the
chief actors in the performance:
X x X K y X x j:
He was then mounted on a horse, and
marched to a hollow about two hundred
yards distant from the house where the
offense was committed. There the pro-
cession halted, and rope was placed
about the culprit's neck, and the other
end having been tied to a fork of a
black walnut tree, the animal was driven
from under him, and his body was left
swinging in the air. a thug, few con-
vulsive movements of the body, and all
was over.
Now, whether John Henry was a
scapegoat who vicariously suffered for a
deed for which he was only in part re-
sponsble and which was the natural con-
sequence of the social equality doctrines
that were practised in that household, we
will not undertake to decide. What we
wish to call attention to, is the fact that
it all happened within sight of the ma
TONS capitol-that truly loyal subject
was the victim-thatno troops were called
out to suppress the rebellion pro-
CARNATIONS issued-no prosecutions insti-
tuted-in word, that the universal YER
dict of the vicinage, including the Ad-
ministration organs, is, served him
right"