The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1850-08-29
Written for the National Era.
REDWOOD, THE REGULATOR.
BY c. H. WILEY, ESQ or NORTH CAROLINA,
AUTHOR OF "ALAMANcEp
CHAPTER VI.

The Wizard of the Pilot was as good as his
word he fulfilled his last appointment at the
Haw Fields, and preached to an audience whose
premature excitement il was now his object to
allay.
His friend Carey he found in q most unhappy
frame of mind and in vain did he labor to en-
list this ingenious young man in the cause Of his
country
The object of the youths affections had re-
turned to the country; but she daily grew colder
and colder towards her lover, though her manners
became meeker, and her conduct more consider
ately kind 1t was plain, to all but her lover,
that she had lost all interest in him. and thus was
she able to be more self-possessed and more re-
spectful After while her spirits began to
droop; with the tender blossoms of spring she
faded in midsummer; and before the trees had
cast their foliage, Mary White, now pale, indeed,
as a lily was laid in her last resting place in the
graveyard at the Haw Fields Church. Her old
guardian survived her but little while; and
when people spoke sadly of the cause of their
deaths, and said hard things of Tanning, and Of
White, they pitied aud they praised the Inflated
Mary Carey, nearly wild, spoke of her as a
saint and a martyr; and her grave was weekly
strewn with flowers, by virtuous and innocent
maidens
The wild appeals of Ambrose Carey and 9TH
ers now worked the people into frenzy; tu-
multuous meetings were held, and ill-advised
measures adopted The efforts, the appeals the
- IN In. nd With
sad forebodings he witnessed the short-sghted
proceedings of his compatriots
In fact, the Regulation was a popular move
ment it was born in the hearts of the people,
and its proceedings, therefore, not characterized
by that foresight and policy which mark those
revolutionary movements conducted by politi-
clans Outbreaks were common; and what
they did at Orange may be guessed from the fol-
lowing copy Of the record Of the Court held in
Hillsborough, September 22d, 1870;
Several persons, styling themselves Regula-
tors, assembled together in the court yard,
under the conduct # Herman Husband, James
Hunter, Rednap Howell, William Butler, Samuel
Dwinny, and many others, insulted some Of the
gentlemen Of the bar, and in riotous manner
went into the courthouse and forcibly carried
out some of the attorneys, aud in a cruel manner
beat them. = Therefore, the Judge, fl nd
ing it impossible to proceed with honor to him
self and justice to his country, adjourned the
Court till tomorrow at ten o'clock, and took ad.
vantage of the night and made his escape, and
the Court adjourned to meet in course"
The author, in his time, has seen several per-
sons who recollected the proceedings of those
times, and from their testimony he is warranted
in saying that the summary justice then inflicted
by the Regulators met with vast favor among the
people. Tanning was dragged out of the court
house by the heels, amid the gbes and jeers of an
immense multitude; was severely whipped in
presence Of the crowd, kept in close confinement
during the remainder Of the day, and then con-
temptuously turned into the streets, with many
curses on his head.