In my Georgia History class I was assigned an article on the Georgia land lottery and Indian Removal. During the land lottery, it mentions members of a "Pony Club" were omitted from entering the raffle. The only comment on them in the article was a citation to the Cherokee Phoenix newspaper saying the following:
>The "Pony Club" was a loosely organized band of white intruders who, like the
later Ku Klux Klan, rode by night through the countryside visiting death and destruction on their victims - in this case, Cherokee households. Cherokee Phoenix, February
11, 25, May 27, 1829.
Google search results yielded me little information about this mysterious "Pony Club."
Below are the highlights of what I could find. However, the original description interests me much more.
>Pony Club: a club or set of individuals who deal with horses, but it doesn’t mean today what it did in 1827. Like the Murrel Gang, the Pony Club had members in various parts of Georgia who would facilitate the movement of “hot property”, mostly stolen horses, from county to county and state to state.
>They operated exclusively in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and to some extent South Carolina, from about 1814 until the 1840s and were found mainly in the frontier areas from Hall to Muscogee County, Georgia, but also mentioned in Jackson and Bibb Counties as well as along the old Federal Road to New Orleans.
>During its first few years Carroll County was truly frontier territory. A band of horse thieves called the Pony Club for a time dominated local affairs through both fear and control of local government.
Sounds like it fits mlpol quite well. Freeing ponies from savage Indians since 1814.
>>169060We should revive the pony club
>>169060Holy shit. No way. You be sayin' we wuz poni klansmen, before the klan, and before the internet??
>>169060Thanks for your research, it's really something awesome to know.
>>169060>>169079Very good. Lolbertarians blown the fuck out.
>>169132>implying that's relevant>implying vicious and powerful gangs don't exist in modern control-freak cities>implying that we aren't ruled over by a far more pervasive (((gang))) that can't be dealt with by a mere posseI tried to look up the Pony Club but all I got was a boring equestrian association that stole their brand.
>>169060Well shit. Guess it was prophetic that the day our boards were merged was 14. Gotta keep that tradition alive :^)
>>169205Wait, what if we start this, but have it all about MLP as a front? Think about it, they'll never expect the club of fat autists to be behind all the lynchings
>>169270That is not a bad idea. Lets just not leave plushes behind as callingcards.
>>169279Do you know how much a quality plushie costs? Nobody would leave any behind.
>>169279Please do, I'll uh, just go back and make sure we uh, sweep our footprints, yeah
>>169270If we wanna do this we need to be more discreet. Methods and platforms of discussion especially. No C-ville social media advertising, you hear?
>>169205I just googled Pony club Georgia 1800s. Couldn't find anything on Jstore so two articles on google were all I got. I also left out the last part from the brief mention of them on the Carrol County site. I don't think this has much to do with libertarians, but the part here should be to their liking.
>Honest citizens, known locally as "Slicks," were finally able to band together and drive the Pony Club out of Carrol County. >tfw not sober enough to make any sense of this but sounds awesome nonetheless