Eighteen citizens in Shelby and San Augustine counties seek protection from "Armed bands of self styled Regulators [who,] assuming and arrogating to themselves the right and power to distribute Justice to whom it belongs, have assembled now in daily action, governed and influenced by the worst feelings of mans nature, loosing sight of all that is humane and Just, pursuing their victims to the Grave proscribing others--laying the finest farms in the country waste driving from their houses and useful pursuits honest Citizens spreading terror abroad in the land and sapping the foundation of all thats peaceful and social." In the related document, N. B. Garner states that a band of thirteen "ruffians" carried off his slaves after he made "a frank and independent expression of my opinion against the principle of Regulating."
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Repository: Texas State Library-Archives Division, Austin, Texas
