scrowling

Thus we see the State striving to save herself by means which do not and cannot save; "using her resources to maintain a scrowling avenger at the end of the wrong path, instead of rearing up a smiling guide at the beginning of the" right path. "

Afro-American Encyclopaedia; or, The Thoughts, Doings, and Sayings of the Race, Embracing Addresses, Lectures, Biographical Sketches, Sermons, Poems, Names of Universities, Colleges, Seminaries, Newspapers, Books, and a History of the Denominations, Giving the Numerical Strength of Each. In Fact, It Teaches Every Subject of Interest to the Colored People, as Discussed by More than One Hundred of Their Wisest and Best Men and Women. James T. Haley 1895