The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-10-30
OCTOBER 80, 1879 ]
miscellaneous.
Not as bad as it had been Painted,
hut bad Enough-The Herald Ac-
count Partially Confirmed
Miscegenation Probably at
the Bottom of the Row.

The Augusta Chronicle and Constitution
,Est of Yesterday says:
For two weeks past wild rumors have
been bruited abroad of a reign Of lawless-
moss in Baldwin county, and terrible ia les
Of blood and arson have been told around.
Accounts were various and conflicting, YER
sious necessarily exaggerated, and we were
unwilling to deepen the dye of shadOwy
publications by giving too much prominence
- these rumors until substantiated by facts
~ dissipated by denial. From the best
o~,,tboritv we nave received statements of
the trouble, and though many rumors of the
recent outrages seem to have been colored,
the truth reveals a wretched state Of affairs.
On the border between Hancock and Bald
win counties, it seems, and extending sew
oral miles into each, a system of terrorism
anpears to have been inaugurated. Several
citizens have had to fly for their lives from
tbi. region, and residents of the %neighbor-
hood have given deplorable accounts of the
condition of things.
inhabitants are in many places terrorized
,brouoh fear of violence to growing crops,
f.m;Ges or persons. aud it has been exceed
;nolv difficult to receive Information from
the unfortunate and besieged region. Only
few weeks since the gang burned the GIN
bouse cotton house and fodder stacks Of
DR. Penn Robson, of Baldwin, with the
nnrpose of drawing him out of his house to
oct q chance to shoot him. Since then they
have burned the tannery and barns OF MIR.
Luke Robinson, of Baldwin, and have
seriously whipped a colored woman and her
daughter over in Hancock county. A col
orsd man who reported them to the Bald
win authorities was waylaid on the high
road and riddled with bullets. A gentle
man from this section tells US that parties
beset by this band cannot be induced to re-
turn to their homes unless a sufficient force
is furnished to afford protection. 1t seems
agreed by all who claim to know anything
of the origin of the trouble, that 1t origi-
mated by an attempt of certain citizens to
break up the improper conduct OF a few
parties in the county. Several negroes and
some few women were caught and a severe
castigation administered, and others were
sought after with the intention Of applying
the rawhide. The best citizens upheld the
regulators so far, but others reported them
to the Baldwin grand jury and the ven
geance of the gang was visited upon the
informers.
The gang are represented as secure in
their places along the swamps of the
Oconee and the Ogechee, bidding defiance
to sheriffs and constables.
A dispatch from Sparta yesterday after
noon says THAT the matter has been fully
and f~earlessly investigated by our grand
jury, and proper steps have been taken to
vindicate the law. The people of Hancock
are determined to protect white and black
from outrage, and our able and fearless
judge, E. H. Pottle, is determined to as
ssrt the majesty of the law throughout his
circuit. Rest assured the people of Han
cock are fully aroused in the cause of law
and right. To go into further particulars
might defeat the end which every good
citizen wishes to see attained. There are |
not more than a dozen men in the band,
and the trouble is personal, not political"