Southern Broad-Axe [West Point, MS], January 4, 1860
We have been requested by a large number of our citizens to state that a Public Meeting will be held in this place on Saturday next, the 7th, for the purpose of appointing a vigilance committee to look after vagrants, suspicious itinerants, &c., who seem to infest our place in greater numbers than we have ever before known. The whole surrounding country are invited to be present and co-operate in its proceedings.