Butts County GaArchives News.....Negro Complaints July 30, 1896
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Jackson Argus – Week Of July 30, 1896 July 30, 1896
We have hard several complaints recently in regard to the great crowd of Negroes
who gather at Indian Spring on Sunday afternoons.   They flock there as regular
as the day’s come and there is a perfect mass of Egyptian darkness hoving around
the spring on Sunday afternoons.   It is impossible for ladies without escorts
to get near the spring.    This very fact has kept a good many people away from
the place.   It’s a free thing and we don’t know just how it can be remedied.
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There are more trifling young Negroes around Jackson than any lace we know of. 
 Some of them are known never to hit a lick of work.   Something should be done
with them.  Our understanding of vagrancy is that when a person has no visible
means of supporting himself and constantly idles around town to the annoyance of
the public that person is guilty of vagrancy.   If that is the perfect
construction of the term then there are some several Negro vagrants around Jackson.




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