Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-10-21
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feeling which endangered the public peace
al day Sunday. From the great mass Of
testimony gathered by the most industrious
work of the JOURNAL reporters, and
from the personal investigation of the
editor who went to the scene
while the riot was still in progress
and remained until the last group of
excited men had been dispersed, we have
not shadow of doubt that the immediate
origin of the trouble was an assault made
on the Democratic procession by one or
more negroes near the National Hail at
Ninth and Walnut streets. This first
assault does not appear TO have pre-
eeeded from the Hail. OF from the group
of negroes standing Immediately in front
OF IL, but from one or more negroes
in OF near al alley or gate. way at the
south end OF the hall. From that point
all accounts, nearly, agree that stone or
brick was thrown into the procession, and
even those witnesses who declare the
origin of the row to have been different
from this, do not effectively contradict
this statement; for. the story that
mounted marshal of the procession sud
denly called a halt, and that the line
which, was moving along, and more than
half past the place, stopped on a sudden
impulse and began an attack without
cause will not be accepted by any sane
man. This may have been the first thing
such witnesses saw, but it is not reasona-
BILE to suppose that this sudden stoppsge
had not itself a cause Just such as an
abundance of witnesses assign for it.
From this time on the affair was simply
a riot in which blind fury was the motive
power on both sides. The negroes seem
to have been far better prepared than the
whites, as is shown not only by the greater
number of casualties among the latter,
but by the remarkable fact that while
the paraders were merely armed with
pistols the negroes used guns loaded
10Th blckshOt. No one near the riot
could by any possibility mistake
the bang OF the shot guns or muskets for
the sharp crack of the revolvers. This
feature of the affair is made plain even by
the Morning Meas, which editoriallS
attempts to sustain the theory which its
own local columns contradict, that the
riot was begun by mounted police
officer, who was nearly two squares
beyond the hall with the chief marshal of
the procession when the attention OF the
two was attracted by the firing The
NetcS after describing the firing of the
first shot says
The disorder that followed was deafening
The sharp, successive crack Of the revOlyrrs,
with the heavier rounds of shotguns and
rifles, mingled with the cries of excited men,
and the streams of the fleeing women and
children. The street was cleared Of specta-
tors in almost an instant. The whole line OF
parade was broken and the men We're running
in all directions, while many fled from the
vicinity A large number returned and Joined
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