The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-03-21

her fault, and they 1lcaAt thakeit sa
You people won't ldtl he W6fk e 70 IgeSt
ny. living, and have s. got, b. b take i
frora You; but, God knows, she'd like
to see me make my own bread! o.You
go to Lumberton and tell the sheriff
and County COMMISSIONERS that II
| they don't let her out of that, j6il,i I'll
retaliate on the white, Woiden, of
Burnt Swamp T Township. Some. 81
them shall como to the swamp with
me it ahe is kept in the JAIL because
they can't get me-" ~ ot'. laro1t:l
Lowrey then named point on the
road where he would meet. MacNair,
and he met himI instead three miles
nearer Lumbcrton. The feeling. Of
terror in the Cbunty may be etunder-
stood when, 1ithout more delay,
Rhody LowrcyIwas set free. ! ie''nl.
While in thd region several per-
sons urged meIto 60 odt and talk 20
Lowrey. Sheriff Macmillan and Mr.;
Brown, the, jso1-in-law Of the muir
dered Sheriff King strange as it may
appear for County officers, and /
mention it to bhow the superstition
inspired by this brigand- offered,toi
obtain IN interview for me with the
whole gang, by sending ont some
member of the Lowrey family to no
gotiate with them Ny faith was was,
not equal to theirs, and I; declined
."Do you suppose that fellow would
give me q talk?"IoI said to Calvin,
Black, merchant Of Shoe aHeeLo moot
Eyes, if he could be made to Under
stand that your 'inteAtionsi .wefo
pacific; the 1&rga rcwarrd nov now ont ffpr ff{'
him amounting, for himself and party,
to $4,000, taken dead ton ralivei,
makes him npprehensive ofassassina-.
tion.l But ifGe were to promise not
to injure you, you coqld" 60 any where
to SEQ him With perfect impunityY:"
This was general testimony. .''-ont.
Rev. Mr.. MacDiermid, editor of
the Ho6eso9fan, the County organ.
who does his duty by uhirtimidated
dcnunciation of this outlaw, said;
"Henry Berry Iowrey has sent me
word that'I had better be cautious
howl write about him, but believe
that could go and see him to-day,
for he appreciates his. consequence in
the role he has assumed" Inoticed;
however, that nobody did go to see
him, a nd followed that high and
general example.
Since Jefferson Davis flight and
the reward put upon his head, there
has been no Anerican-probably
none, previously in all the history Of
the country for 4fences ut common
law has bee en dignifcd with the
amount Of money offered for Lowrey's
overtaking. If it should appear in
thd North that this sketch is too
stIong, I point to this reward, and to
THE fact that this outlaw has already
made personal and bloody campaign
against society longer than the whole I
Revolutionary war. Osceola, or Pow
ell, (who was an Immediate mixture of
Indian and negio blood, and who
thought over large region gave out
after much shorter space of resist
ance
Two things are to be chronicled in
this mans favor, and make them on
the universal testimony Of everybody
in this region. BE has never COM
mitted arsen or rape, or offered in
suits to females While entering
private houses nearly every day, his
worst net is to drive the family into
some one apartment and bar them
there, while the house is coony and
leisurely ransacAed. A few weeks
ago an aged lady, Mrs. MacNeill, and
her daughter, weie shot with duck
shot by somebody taking the name
of Lowrey's band, doubtless the party
accused; but the wounding of the
women was not fo,esecn by tho bri-
gands, and they fred at old MacNeill.
whose family of sons and sons-in-law
had become particularly offensive to
them. MacNeill sold me the circum-
stances as follow: He had been re-
pcatedly robbed, his son-in-law, Tay-
lor, killed his sons ordered to leave
the country, and now, almost entirely
alone, he was compelled to do good
deal OF his own watching and to wait