Enraged at this miscarriage of justice, the Regulators began a system of terrorization by taking possession of the court, presided over by Richard Henderson.

The judge himself was obliged to slip out by a back way to avoid personal injury.

The Regulators burned his house and stable.

They meted out mob treatment likewise to William Hooper, later one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
Two elements, with antithetical aims, had been at work in the Regulation; and the unfortunate failure of justice in the case of Fanning had given the corrupt element its opportunity to seize control.
In the petitions addressed to Governor Tryon by the leaders of the movement in its earlier stages the aims of liberty-loving thinkers are traceable.

It is worthy of note that they included in their demands articles which are now constitutional.