"Vigilantes have gotten a bad reputation in the last few decades and are constantly slurred with comparison to Democrat lynch mobs. Truth is, they were, in large part, just men doing good in a lawless land."
My father told me a story about my grandfather being involved with a vigilante group in Nashville, Tn. in the early 1900's. Seems there was a man in the neighborhood who used to beat his wife black and blue whenever he got drunk. My grandfather and some of the other men got together one night, put hoods on and went to the guys house. They drug him out into the front yard and whipped him till he couldn't stand, then told him if he ever beat his wife again they'd hang him. Dad said he reformed after that and even started going to church.
I'd call your grandfather and his friends real men and heroes!!!
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Did these guys belong to some organization? How did they happen to have hoods lying around the house?
I can believe that, but not endorse it (too much). What Vigilantes did on the frontier was nothing less than stand between people and chaos and the predation of ruthless criminal gangs. No law - no protection from crimeslime. Good men banded together and did what needed to be done.
My grandmother, who died last year at age 99, told me similiar stories of 1920's Louisiana.
Men who wouldn't work and support their families faced certain retribution from the community.
As there were no federal or state aid for indigents the neighbors knew who didn't have food and why.
Did the KKK come up in this story? <(•¿•)>