Regulators

A detailed Summary of Regulators

Many different people with many different sides have told about the regulator movement. In each of these documents they have a valid point of view. This has made understanding the regulator movement very difficult. After viewing a couple of different points of view I hope to interpret what each one was stating. Through this interpretation I will hopefully have a better understanding of what people were then thinking and what happened.

This first point of view sides with the British. It shows some of the cruel and violent things that the regulators did to government officials of Britain. The first part of the document is a messenger telling of the violent rebellion that had broke out in Orange County. The cause of this rebellion was a set of men who called themselves regulators. The regulators, as a whole, did have respect for the government and law officials, but they did not believe in paying unfair taxes. They used violence only as a last resort. On one such incident, Judge Henderson was returning from Salisbury and on his way to Hillsborough when the regulators had planned to intercept them. Judge Henderson was able to avoid the regulators by going another route. However this did not sto

Butler and Watson. The North Carolina Experience. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill: 1984.

Powell, Huhta, Farnham. The Regulators in North Carolina, A Documentary History, 1759-1776. State department of Archives and History, Raleigh, 1971.

p the threat of the regulators from coming to Hillsborough. On the following Monday a large group of the regulators were on their way to Hillsborough. They were armed with clubs, whips and rifles. Once they go!

t into town they first attacked John Williams, a law officer, while he was on his way into the courthouse. They beat him badly but he was able to escape the beating by running into a store. The regulators made it into the courtroom where they found Colonel Fanning. He quickly went to the judge's seat, as far away as he could get from the regulators. No matter how much he fought he was still quickly beaten down. They dragged him down the steps and as they passed each step his head bashed against each one. They continue to drag him outside over rocks and as they drug him they beat him with the clubs and whip. He was barely able to escape to the local church with his life, but it was believed that one of his eyes got damaged. The regulators then went back into the courthouse and beat down the deputy clerk of the Crown. They took control over the courtroom and would allow no lawyers to enter and told the judge to continue as they told him to. The following day they had r!

Document 5.3 is letting people know where the regulators stand and what they want to happen. It is saying that even though we may have withstood the Lords in Parliament we still have to make sure that the officials under them do

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