UPSON COUNTY, GA - Newspapers  Mrs. Southern - murder conviction

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1878- The Upson Enterprise
Saved From The Hangman 

A feeling of relief will come over our readers in
learning that Gov. Colquitt has commuted the sentence of
Mrs. SOUTHERN to ten years in the penitentiary. But he
has not done enough yet, and will not have done his full
duty until he has pardoned her.

It will be remembered that Mrs. Southern was sentenced to
be hung in Pickens, Co. for killing one Narcissa Cowart,
which we think was perfectly justifiable. Had a man
killed another man under the same provocation, there is
not a jury in the State that would have decided that the
provocation was sufficient to justify the killing.

Narcissa Cowart was a depraved creature, separated by her
fault from her husband and the outcast of the
neighborhood in which she lived.-

Was known for her bad character, violent temper and
slanderous tongue. She had tried to prevent Mr. and Mrs.
Southerner's marriage by a vile scandal against the young
lady, she swore if she did marry that she would not let
them have any satisfaction and peace.

They married. Then she used every womanly art to entice
Southern from his wife and had several times succeeded.

Mrs. Southern knew all the while of Narcissa's hideous
purpose and wicked endeavors to forever destroy her
domestic peace and happiness.---The testimony to these
facts is overwhelming. The evidence is that Narcissa was
a very depraved woman and that Mrs. Southern was a strict
member of the Church, and a very truthful, kind-hearted
Christian lady. Her Character was without a blemish.