Early Governors' Papers

other compensation- Illegal & hearsay testimony of Walker was also admitted in the court below without being objected to by Counsil- which prevented the Supreme court from examaning its illegality- upon the whole your petitioners from what they have understood, believe that said Nelms is Victim about to be sacrificed to the rascality & villany of Walker, & that however much he may be to blame for the part he took in the transaction yet his offence is not one of so heinaus a nature as to Justify his death and your humble petitioners Will ever pray &c

R. W. Harriss H. C. Hubbard Onesenius Evans Absalom Harox Thomas Baker James H Fisher John S. Hubbard James Michie Esqr W. D Lester John Fowler W^m A. Dinquid J. M. C. Alexander J M Knox Ja^s Baird Stanhope Sharpe James H Eason L C Shanklin

Eli. A. Fisher William Moon Leander Scott W. W. Wade William George Elijah L. Evans William F. Basurel M. R. Cross Henry Cariss W. W. Talley Edmon Goodman William Ward Azleurn Beedles John Fisher Edward Moore Richard A Knox Ira Johnston O. C. Johnston