Regulators.
1824. We hate what are called vigilant men; they are a set of suspicious, mean spirited mortals, that dislike fun.—Missouri Intelligencer, Feb. 12: from the National Intelligencer.
1862. See Appendix XIV.
1865. The power [in Montana] has vested in the ‘Vigilantes,’ a secret tribunal of citizens, organized before civil laws were framed, when robberies and cold-blooded murders were of daily occurrence.—A. D. Richardson, ‘Beyond the Mississippi,’ p. 487 (Hartford, 1867).
