The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-03-21
THE SWAMP ANGELS.
Graphic Picture of Henry Berry Low
cry, Outlaw Cbief-A Bloody Nine
Years Record.

Years Record.
From graphic description of Low
cry, the famous North Carolina out
law, and his desperate band, publish
ed in Mondays New York Herdld,
we make the following interesting
extracts:
TO THE SEAT OF WAR.
| left Washington City Thursday
night, and reported myself next day
at noon in the Office OF Governor
Walker, of Virginia. -,
The handsOmest man i'm the South
was seated at table, signing bills, in
the old Confederate Supreme Court
room. His beautiful, grayish-blaci
moustache, healthy gray hair, clear
skin, and smiling expression, every
inch lord lieutenant in the oldest
of our shires, grew soberer as he said I:
"Lowery? Why, captain Of the
Virginia militia applied to me yester-
day to obtain permission for himself
and forty men to hunt that fellow in
the swamps of North Carolina. Low
cry must be good deal of charac-
ter.n
AS looked over the files of the
Richmond newspapers, and their in
innate exchanges Of the tobacco, rice,
and tar region, | found the question
of the day to be-Lowery. He was
at once the Nat. Turner, the Osceola,
and the Rob Roy MacGregor of the
South. With mingled ardor and
anxiety, desire and trepidation, |
pushed on by the Weldon road to
Wilmington, the largest town of the
State, where Lowery had once been
confined in prison. There was there
but single question-Lowery. The
Wilmington papers called the Robe
son County people towards for not
cleaning them out. The Robson
County paper hurled back the in
situation, but hurled nothing else at
Lowery. The State Government got
its share of the blame, and the State
Acknowledgement replied in Il card
that the militia and volunteers had
mo pluck on the occasion when he
had tried them. Five men has mas
tered Commonwealth.
The newspapers were, however,
making political capital out of the
Iowery gang, instead of calling upon
an honorable and united State senti-
ment to suppress the scandal. The
Democratic papers cried, BLACK hu-
KluxW and the Republican papers
retorted by asking where was the
valor of the white Ku-kluX, who
could ilog thousand peaceful men,
but dare not meet five outlaws in
arms.
1.-The Democrats" said one Robe
! son county man, in my room, "as
soon as they upset the Republicans
i'm Robson County, started in to an
nihilate Scuilietown and its vote by
terror. They have been beaten in it.
That chap Lowery has made them &
laughing stock. He ought to bt
Q killed, but they skulk out OF his
reach"
CRIME WITHOUT A COMPASS.
Mayor Martin, of Wilmington
President of the Rutherford Railway
which passes through Scuilletowl
and the land Of the outlaws, relates
an incident, pitiiul at least to North
, ern 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 main victories were gain
ed over mulatto women, the soldlery
driving the husbands forth to insult
and debauch their wives-said that
Henry Berry Lowery, when asked to
Withdraw from the State, replied:
"Robeson County is the only land
know. | can hardly read, and dc
not know where to go if | leave these
woods and swamps, where | was
raised. If | can get safe conduct and
pardon | will go anywhere. L Will
ioin the United States Army and
hgh. the Indians. But these people
Will not leave me alive, and | do not
) mean to enter any Jail again. | will
never give up my gun again"
, MayOr Murtaln's solution OF the
| difficulty is for the United States to
t declare martial law over the whole
: Congressional District in which
Robeson County stands, and make Il
systematic search with regular troops
for these outlaws. He says that
when they first took their excursions
they were comparatively sober, but
of late have taken to drinking, and
I, about four weeks ago they all, except
their leader, got drunk at Ed. Smiths
, store. Mess Neck, and lay there all
night. "Whisky," said Mayor Mar
} tin, "will reduce them i'll time; but
, they are very careful whose liquor
they drink in these days. Henry
Berry Lowery left his flask hanging
on fence few weeks ago, and when
he returned to get it he made every
body at the station drink with him.
r TO LUMBERToN.
7 Early in the morning, Monday,
: February 26, | took the train to Lun-
berton, and from the forward car to
=, the tail the freight was Lowery. In
, the secOnd-class carriage, escorted by
two sherifls, Mcmillan and Brown,
of Robson County, was Pop Oxedine
the previous said to be his literal
name--br0lher of Henderson OXedine,
! the only one of the outlaws who was
ever brought to trial and hanged. He
was chained to regular army sol
dier, who had recently murdered Il
| negro at Scuilietown, and he was a
r remarkable looking mulatto, with
1 yellowish olive skin, good features,
and handsome, appealing, unrella-
: BILE, uninterpretable pair of black
i eyes. SO good looking mulattG
y man, with such complexion, l had
not seen. Like the rest, he had the
Tuscarora Indian blood in him, with
S the duplicity of the mixed races
d where the white blood predominates,
RI He was ironed fast to the seat, and
k looked at me with look inquisitive
e pitiful, evasive. and ingenuousiy by
e turns. i'll should describe the maj
=, by the words nearest my idea should
2, call him negro-Indian gypsy.
it The passengers We're apprehensiv'
and inquisitive together, wanting t
know about Lowery and dreadlng t'
taul