The daily gazette., 1880-10-21
For the easet,A. .NyYkuU0A

The Preachers -nnri-tk1H-Rtuf.-
and + ssssissi Z EsSs tasEss
tbs. .preachsrs meefing of The NJ. E.
Church az fheiF usual meeting on
Monday mpfninG lask. Lhave no par
hcular obi Sctions to their generai ex-
pressiop, yet tliey are void Of the
trath, and 4 presume The preachers
were -misled by the excited Feelings of
rhe pastor Of ,Ezioh, church, DR.. But
ler, eoloreds which church was in the
vicinity Of the riot ON Saturday night.
This riot was brought about BY some
wicked negroes In or near the Higgins
Club room, who, when the Demo-
cratic procession was passing, COM
meneed- TO throw bricks and fire is
tolls and guns on the different clubs as
they passed by. l agree that there
was no cause for an attack upon that
church or any, other one,xs ,,.s,r
But We doh't believe IL took much VIC
lence or even much Of an assault 10 break
about ninp pxnes Of giass, for that was
ab0utAli thai was broken iu said Church
And again, there is no evidence hat any
OF the Democrats assaulted the Church,
though 50, eof them were Sun atting from
tho wounds received from the balls and
bnckshot that were fired VI them by the
negroes. Democrats hev or N bbed ChuI-
ches that beiobged 20 the Know Not.-
tugs by stoniug or surning them. The
preachers say IL came TO their knowledg-;
hey hAd just heard Il by the excited pas
| tor Of said Church, who made taming
| speech before them and got them ,xcited
| to ferveut heat. It would have bee II b l.
ter for the Reverend gentlemen 10 have
waited q little while aud seen. wheihei
rhere had been such violent attack on
Old Zion Church as was represented TO
them. Whils We do resp pect The ministers
| Of the Gospel. and we could MT we'll get
along without them y ct III they would lei
| politics alone and Ihe civil-po wsrs, ana
/ attend to their own work. they would do
4 more good and our community would be
| made better, and have Iendebcy 10
prev ent such nobs ~ ,saz got w by those
nrgroes, whe have been misied by tn II
white Republican leaders. The negrUts
are as 4 general thisg, quiet aud peace
able, ana am csTtslu they have bse enied
On By bad white men who have aroused
their baser feelings 10 ~ards the Demo
crals, aud .hat was the cause OF tn. attack
ON the procession. When / trst heard
uf the breaking OF the windows of tihs
colored chnrch; lsupposed th al be whole
side nextt0, NIuth street was broken Ia
and probably The front too and VIII,
visited IL. was agi e.ably suIprised to
see so few glass that were broken.
The pastor of :he chur 3h ought 70 have
been glad 10 his heart and thanked God,
that It was no worse and exhorted his
brethren to have repaired the damage
which would not have amounted 10
more than $50. This wonld have beet
better than making that eloquent speech
| al the pruachers IN m5eunR that drew
forth so much applause when he declar-
I'd that the negroes kept the police a.
bay with their pIssols some two or three
different tunes l wish TO say TO those
members at :he preachers meetings
and especially 10 those who have onl,
been here about six mouths, that the
citizens Of Wilmington who are proper.
ty holders and living here Tor many
years. and expect TO iive on here, that
there ~ not pno OF them who ought TO
| no called citizen but what frowns OF
his whole thing as uDjustlhabIe from
the beginning, aud the n-sroes, who, II
appears, began the rot, and those who
Aspt II going, whether white or black,
shonlI be punished by the civic powers.
and todo this the Mayor and his police
,hould be sustained and pot kept At ba,
by a mob Of negroes who, had beef
taught by base and wicked white me,
that The Mayor aud police sho1ld not be
obeyed. 1 heard very sensi be preach
or say sometime ago that % nisters made
very Dad Legislators, and I think bad
civil rulers too. Aud by the way, thes,
cletinl gentIemen said notmng about
the damage doue ~ the4haA Aud the
Higgins headquarters, and cigar and
barber shop There was ten times a.
much damage done there as WAS done to
the church. IL Sesms to me that il
lhess ministers Of the gospel would hun
Jut and visit some OF these wounded
oues they would be filling their mission
bsster than leading off.in tloe pre-
anbles andC resoiulipus Whlra the,
thought so necessary To be passed b,
lthem. don't think they are any aheal
Of the respectable part Of the cummuni
ty In coadsmning the whole riot on Sat
urday night. REAL EsTATK.
MAY your troubles only be little ones
nd may you always have Dr. Bullis Ba uS
s. rup handy" said an Old bachelor 10
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