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There's no greater regulator than death, it controls time while time maintains its personification. A truly chilling, yet poetic verse that happens to be a favorite song of my own. The song's about time and its relation to death.
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During the early 1760s, the population of the British colonies of North Carolina and South Carolina grew rapidly as colonists from eastern cities migrated to the western frontier in hopes of finding new opportunities. Originally composed mainly of farmers in an agricultural economy, the influx of merchants and lawyers from the eastern colonies disr...
Strongest in Orange, Anson, and Granville counties, the Regulators began by petitioning the provincial legislature to recall and replace its British-appointed court and government officials with local residents. When this failed, the Regulators publicly pledged to pay only legally levied taxes and to respect only the will of the majority. Now growi...
Outraged by events in Hillsborough, Governor Tryon, with the approval of the colonial Assembly, personally led his well-armed and trained militia from the provincial capital of New Bern to the western backcountry intent on permanently ending the Regulator Movement. Camped along Alamance Creek west of Hillsborough on the morning of May 16, 1771, the...
The extent to which the Regulator Movement and the War of the Regulation served as catalysts to the American Revolution remains an issue of debate. Some historians argue that the Regulator Movement foretold the coming independence movement’s resistance to British authority and unfair taxation in the Revolution. Several former Regulators were known ...
Bassett, John Spencer (1895). "The Regulators of North Carolina (1765-1771).” Documenting the American South, https://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/bassett95/bassett95.html.“The Nutbush Address (1765).” North Carolina History Project, https://northcarolinahistory.org/encyclopedia/the-nutbush-address-1765/.Klein, Rachel N. “Ordering the Backcountry: The South Carolina Regulation.” The William and Mary Quarterly, 1981, doi:10.2307/1918909, https://www.jstor.org/stable/1918909?seq=1.Engstrom, Mary Claire. “Fanning, Edmund.” Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, 1986, https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/fanning-edmund.The word Regulator had first been used in England in 1655 to refer to someone who was appointed to address abuses of power. Herman Husband, one of the Regulator leaders, said that the Regulators sought “to be Governed by Law, and not by the Will of officers.” The Regulators were not formed to oppose the colonial government.