The age-herald., 1899-08-27
DELACEL SURRENDERS ID MILITIA
 AND QUIET IS NOW IN SIGHT
Negro Murderer Saw That IL Was Useless to Bid Further De-
 fance, and He Gave in Gracefully

wisdom and discretion suggested Messages from Darien, Brunswick, Savannah and many other places came rapidly into the executive office and some of them brought alarming reports.
 "The situation in Mcintosh county is ex- tremely critical and grave" said Governor Candler. "The entire First regiment, com posed of seven companies, is on the scene, and have ordered companies I and F, of the Fourth regiment to report to their arm ories and hold themselves In readiness for a call from Colonel Lawton."
 "The law does not provide that militia can make arrests" continued the govern or, "but the troops will back up the sheriff. who is surrounded by a large posse, and will see that he has all the assistance that is needed.'
 The governor received a message from Colonel Lawton asking that tents be shipped the soldiers, who are now in the western part of Mcintosh county.
 ''It Is expensive to make the shipment by express" said the governor, but the occasion demands all possible haste, and we are doing everything in our power to get the arms, ammunition and tents and equipments on the scene as quickly as possible"
 From Savannah the tents will be sent, and the soldiers will be made as comfort able as possible. This is the first time that it has been necessary for the soldiers to go into the country to quell rioting, as the crimes which they have been asked to prevent in the past have been in towns where there were accommodations.
 One report was received during the day that not less than one thousand negroes were under arms in the swamp, and that they were in a position to sustain them selves for some time.
 Another that several dred citizens, acting upon their own re- sponsibility, left Brunswick this morning and were en route to the scene of the crime.
 That section of Georgia comprising Me- Intosh and Liberty counties, where the outbreak has occurred, is the "black belt" of the state The negroes there number five to one for every white inhabitant Liberty Is the only county having negro repre- sentatves in the Georgia legislature, there being two of them. It is recognized as one of the most thickly negro inhabited sec dons in the south, and there are many towns and villages composed solely of ne- gro families, in which no white family lives.
 The land which is owned largely by white people is tenanted by negroes. Some of the best farms are owned by negroes themselves. It is known among the ne- groes that should a prolonged difficulty with the whites occur the black men would have sufficient food to sustain them, sup plies from the farms either by owners or tenants who would appropriate the land lords crop without compunction. Fhe Okeefeenokee swamp in a portion of which the negroes are hid, is probably the largest in the United States, being in many parts absolutely impenetrable and unexplored. It Is a low marshy land, fed by the sea water and covered with heavy growth of vines tough grasses and other semi-tropical plants.
 Colonel A. R. Lawton who Is in control of the militia, commanded the First Geor- gia regiment, United States Volunteers, during the Spanish-American war. He has the full confidence of the executive depart ment and the authority given him in the present trouble attests to this effect.