Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1872-03-28
THE SWAMP ANGELS.
The Outlaws Of NertEl Carolina
Graphic Picture Of Henry Bier
ry LoWery, the Outlaw Cbscf-A
Bloody NIiac Years Record.


From graphic description of Lowery
the famous North Carolina outlaw, anc
his desperate band, published in Monday
/ New York Herald we make the following
interesting extracts:
Il left Washington City Thursday night
and reported myself next day at noon il
the ofise of Governor Walker, of Vir.
ginia.
The handsomest man in the South was
seated at table, signing bills in the old
Confederate Supreme Court room. His
beautiful, grayish-black moustache,
healthy gray hair, clear skin, and smiling
expression, every inch a lord lieutenant
in the oldest of our shires, grew sobcrer
as he said:
''Lowery? Why. captain of the Vir-
ginia militia applied to me yesterday to
obtain permission for himself and forty
men to hunt that fellow in the swamps of
North Carolina Lowcry must be good
deal of character
As | looked over the files of the Rich
mond newspapers, and their intimate ex-
changes of the tobacco, rice and tar re-
gion, l found the question of the day to
be-Lowery. He was at once the Nat.
Turner, the Osceola, and the Rob Roy
MacGreg of the South. With mingled
ardor and anxiety, desire and trepidation,
[ pushed on by the Weldon road to Will
mingttn, the largest town of the State,
where Lowery had once been confined in
prison. There was but q single question
-Lowery. The Wilmington papers call
ed the Robson county people towards
for not cleaning him out. The Robson
county paper hurled back the insinuation,
but hurled nothing else at Lowery. The
State Government got its share cf the
blame, and the State Adjutant-General
replied that the militia and volunteers
had no pluck on the occasion when he had
tried them. Five men had mastered a
Commonwealth.
The newspapers were, however, making
political capital out of the Lowery gang,
instead of calling upon an honorable and
united State sentiment to suppress the
scandal. The Democratic papers cried,
..Black Ku- Klux l'' and the Republican
papers retorted by asking where was the
valor of the white Ku Klux, who could
fog thousand peaceful men, but dare
not meet FIVE outlaws in arms.
The Democrats" said one Robson
county man. in my room, ''as soon as they
upset the Republicans, in Robson coun-
ty, started in to annihilate Scuffietown and
its vote by terror They had been beaten
in it. That chap Lowery had made them
laughing stock. He ought to be killed
but they skulk out of his reach
Mayor Martin, of Wilmington, Presi
| dent of the Rutherford Railway, which
passes through Scuff1etown and the land o
outlaws, relates an incident, pitiful al
least to Northern ears, Of the Ignorance
of these robbers, and the hopeless fight
they are making within the limits of all
that is available to them. AdJutant
General Gorham, who directed the late
ignominious campaign against the Lowery
band-where, by current reports, the man
victories were gained over mulatto wo
men, the soldiery driving the husbands
forth to insult and debauch their wives
said that Henry Berry Lowery, when ask
ed to withdraw from the State replied
"Robeson County is the only land
know. l can hardly read, and do no
know where to 60 if L leave these wood
and swamps, where l was raised. If
can get safe conduct and pardon l will g
anywhere. l will join the Unitod State
Army and fight the Indians. But thes'
people will not leave me alive, and l d.
not intend to enter any jail again. vii
never give up my gun again:
May or Martins solution of the ditiicui
ty is for the United States to declare mar
| tial law over the whole Congressional DIS
| trict in which Robeson county stands, ant
make systematic search with regu,la
troops for these outlaws. He says tha
when they first took to their excursion
they were comparatively sober, but Of lat