Now you remember there are hundreds of thou
sands of Georgians backing Watson, sons of toil
who know they have a champion in him and
whom they know will not betray the trust and
honor imposed upon him, and if you don’t want to
raise H in Georgia, you and your Slaton
crowd had better keep quiet, for there is no limit
fixed to which the sons of Georgia will not go to
protect her fair women and Watson.”
Because these citizens of old Columbia,
W native county, wrote this, they were
threatened by John Grant's hired man; and
he menaced them with the following statute
which Georgia . enacted when the John
Brown abolitionists were scattering incendi
ary literature over the South, inciting the
negroes to rise against the whites:
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Section 58. Penal Code 1910—Circulating In
surrectionary Papers. If any person shall bring,
introduce, print, or circulate, or cause to be intro
duced, circulated or printed, or aid or assist, or
be in any manner, instrumental in bringing, in
troducing, circulating, or printing within the state
any paper, pamphlet, circular or any writing, for
the purpose of inciting insurrection, riot, conspir
acy, or resistance against the lawful authority of
the state, or against the lives of the inhabitants
thereof, or any part of them, he shall be punished
by confinement in the penitentiary for not less
than five years nor longer than twenty years.
Those men of old Columbia had written
that "IF YOU don't want to raise h-ll in
Georgia, you and your Slaton crowd had bet
ter be quiet.”
If YOU don’t want the h-11. don't raise it;
that was the plain English of the menace.
Conditional! Leaving it to the other side
to start the row.
