Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . n, and gave itas his opinion, that the Indians whose camp he had discovered, wereabout making an attack upon the Susquehanna settlement. Thegeneral was of the same opinion, and was much affected by theinformation ; for he had just made a requisition upon the countryfor men, and had been expecting them on every day. He nowfeared that the Indians would either draw them into an ambuscadeand cut them off, or fall upon their families, ren
Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . n, and gave itas his opinion, that the Indians whose camp he had discovered, wereabout making an attack upon the Susquehanna settlement. Thegeneral was of the same opinion, and was much affected by theinformation ; for he had just made a requisition upon the countryfor men, and had been expecting them on every day. He nowfeared that the Indians would either draw them into an ambuscadeand cut them off, or fall upon their families, rendered defenceless bytheir absence. MAJOK STOUT, THE REGULATOR. As late as the year 1852, there lived in the state of Kentucky aman who presented in his traits of character the most marked con-trast ever, perhaps, exhibited in one individual. A murdererby his own confession—a brute in all his instincts, he entertainedthe most bitter and malignant spirit of revenge against every one MAJOR STOUT, THE REGULATOR. 309 who did him an injury, however trivial, which invariably resulted inthe sudden and violent death of the offending individual. His ^, address was. THE REGULATOR AND THE MONEY LENDER. ened upon him ; and although there were many who were ready toswear that he was the murderer, yet no legal proof could be obtainedsufficient to base an indictment upon, and he died in his bed, at theage of eighty-two. Notwithstanding his murderous proclivities, hewas an exemplary man in his family, and had a great regard for the, gentler sex, whose champion he was on all occasions, constitutinghimself a Kegulator of all wrongs inflicted upon them. Thefollowing instance of his decision in equity is characteristic. There lived in the neighborhood the widow of a man with whomhe had a slight acquaintance, and who had left to his family a tractof three hundred acres of land, and a few negroes. There was aslight mortgage of two or three hundred dollars on the property,however, which, in time, be
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