The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-11-13
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some with looks of defiance on thelr
faces. "Gizzard" u. French, carpet
bagger, was the first one chosen. Right
nimbly did he hObble out when the Visit
ing committee told him the object OF
their call. Trial Justice Bunting was
snatched from his negro wife, Policeman
Gilbert from his comfortable home ana
Charles McAllister from his friends.
Chief of Police Notions wife and five
children could not save him. The mis-
deeds of these men had become noto-
rious and their sight unbearable.
The jails opened and released half II
dozen negro prisoners-leaders ana ncl-
ters of riot. all of thenf-on condition
that they would leave the State; negro
BARRIERS and lawyers were advised to
take trip for their health.
All these people were followed to the
station by great crowds of people. Sol
diers marched on either side to prevent
violence. As they passed along there
arose from the sidewalks IN angry MUIR
muir, far-heard like the ocean tide; but
there was no violence offered by the
eddying currents of On-lokers, rolling
hither and thither una rmed but not voice
less.
Now they have reached the station
with Gizzard French. For moment
the crowd is suddenly struck silent. Not
Il man stirred. Then like Il trumpet Il
voice piped out. "Hang him." 1t was
like a live fire-brand Pandemonium
broke loose. A roar of approval
went up from the crowd. The soldiers.
borne down by the human pillows press
ing upon them, found themselves unable
to longer protect their prisoner. Some
one threw Il rope over his head and but
for the timely interference Of several
influential citizens Gizzard French would
now be a corpse
And after it all one feels like ara
phrasing Carlyle, when writing Of
France:
Ye have reused her, then We Radicals
nd Negrophilists; Wilmington is reused.
Long have We been tOrturing this poor
city. shaking over her your ferulas of
taunt and threat and insult it is long
that We have pricked and fillipped and
affrighted her, there as she sat helpless in
the dead cerements of negro rule-ne-
groes and carpet-baggers gathering in on
her from all sections. with their conspi-
races and plottings, their invadngs and
truculent bullyings and 10, now We have
pricked her to the quick. and she is I'D
and her blood is up. The dead cerements
are rent into cobwebs, and she fronts you
i'll that terrible strength of Nature,
which no man has measured. which goes
down to Madness and Tophet: See now
how We will deal with her.
Men will bear much, but mind that
We goad them not too far. For nature
green as she looks, rests everywhere on
dread foundations, were we further
down.
Here is the cause of all the blooshed
i'll Wilmington 1t is an editorial pub
lished over Il month ago in the Daily
Record, negro paper edited by Alex
Manly, Il colored man:
1--WE suggest that the whites guard
their women more closely. thus Civ
ing no opportunity for the human
liend, be he white or black You
leave your goods out of doors, and
then complain because they are
taken away.
Poor white men are careless i'll
the matter of protecting their wo-
men, especially on farms. They are
careless of their conduct towards
them, and our experience among the
poor white people in the country
bldl luC NOuit1 VI llldI
race are not any more particular in
the matter of clandestine meetings
with colored men than are the white
men with colored women. Meetings
of this kind go ON for some time,
until the woman's infatuation or the
mans boldness brings attention to
them, and the man is lynched.
Every negro lynched is called
big, burly, black brute when in
fact many of those who have thus
been dealt with had white men for
their fathers and were not only not
black and burly, but were sufficient
ly attractive for white girls of cul
ture and refinement to fall in love
with them, as is well known to all. :"
Six dead and three mortally wounded
have paid for this editorial. The base
Islander against the white women of
North Carolina has been wiped out in
blood. The office in which the libel was
written stands charred ruin; the press
upon which it was printed is wrecked
and broken, and the man who penned the
lying words is an 0lTtcast upon the face
of the earth, fleeing from that fate which