Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1880-10-19
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reward iOf tne brkont huA evAVAosAvA
Of the persons who commenced the dis
graceful riot on Saturday night. Let
the guilty offender DO brought to JUS
tioe and let the severest penalty Of the
law be inflicted apon him whether he
be VIII ite or black. But We want 70
tell Mayor Almond something before
arrests are commenced.
We want to say thu: tho arrest Of
one or two solsred men charged with
the commencement Of the riot will not
appease the outraged laws.
We suspect that with the usual agility
Of his policemen in arresting oolored
men that there will be no trouble per-
haps, especially as reward is offered,
in fastening the crime upon some COL
orsd men. This may all be done, but
sven this will not satisfy the public 30
long as the white rioters who turned
Wilmington almost into hell on Sat.
uraay night are allowed 70 escape.
The conviction Of one man, be he white
or black, for commencing the riot will
appsass offended justice while the In.
n It furiated demons who chased helpless
women and children through the streets
with cries of kill the id black BIS
are allowed to es ape arrest.
The oonVic ion Of q ringlsader will be
no Punishment t, the men who at.
tackled Methodist church and battered
in the windows. This would b. NO
punishment 10 the rascals who not
only demolished the windows and
doors Of Hoods barber shop but stole
some forty or fifty dellars worth Of
cigars, and shaving implements.
This would DO no punishment for
the men who murderously attacked
an inofeHsive colored man who was
making purchase in Mrs. Sedgwick's
trimming store. The men who made
this murderous attack upon this man
Temple with clubs torches and swords
and spattered the walls and counter
with his blood are not myths. They
were white men we'll known and can
be easily got hold Of II Mayor ALMOND
wants them. The men who mobbsd |
the Rsion n. Z. church and mobbsd |
aud robbed Hoods shop; who wanted
to kill helpless women and children;
who wanted 10 burn the National Hall,
who wanted 10 clear the "niggers"
out 90 that they could not vote in
are we'll known by . mum.
Der Of persons.
We tell Mayor Allmend plainly that
he arrest Of one or two charged with
being the instigstors Of the riot will
wall nothing in the peace and good
rider Of the city so long ss no effort is
made to arrest some OF the men WL0
broke in churches, robbed barber shops,
md made themselves murderous in
pirit by the attack on Temple in the
store. That Temple who I
lad nothing to do with the riot is
live, is not to the credit Of those who
stacked him and left him in the yard
II Mrs. ssdgwick's store thinking him
lead.
Why does not Mayor Almond offer
eward for tho arrest and conviction Of =.
hese men who glutted themselves with
iotous excuses! Every one Of them +
guilty Of o crime no matter what the .
revocation msy have been. The fact 4.
hat few oolored men who had often
cen the outraged victims Of the malice >
nd spite of these very pMaders, fired !,
pom them when firing became indis. \
10 no excuse for the other :,
rimes committed away from the scene :,
I the riot. "
We say again that Mayor Almond
id right 80 far as he went in Offering
award for the instigator Of the riot, a
at he has stopped too short and did "
OF commence soon enough. When tc
le Republicans were fred upon with OF
urderous intent as they were going &c q
ockland few evenings ago, Mayor W
llmOnd should then have offered a Il
ward, :and later when the Republican n
trade wac fred on at Fourth and Mad Of
on streets, and several colored men n,
ere shot, the Mayor should then have n,
Fered a.rewsrd. 1t is late now to OF
'mmencs 1t. All this disturbance q,
'uld have been prevented had vigor- al
ls measures been adopted and arsward
Tered when the first attack was made.
nose attacks we're on Repu blicsns. ~
sst Saturday nights attack is prssun. IN
to have been on the Democrats. nj
Let justice be done though the ~
eavens fall"
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