The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-11-29

cd by muIlato named y l.. Manl.y
! / he Record had large circulation
among the negroJ : throughout the State.
/ Maulry had some time before election
| Published an atrGcpu> article dcfaming
! white women. Il Slander sufficiently vile
| to impcl Pennsylvania Dutchman to
| take MP his butcher knife and 90 on the
| Warpath. Proposals were made TO lynch
Manley when the article appeared, but
| cooler heads persuaded the hot young
| hloodS to wait The older men had
| planned to combine revolution with
! profit
! Y aen the revolutionary government
! took charge. Editor Mlnley was expelled
| from the city. and committee of repre-
| sentative negroes was given twenty-four
| hours to remove therefrom the ''Record'
| printing plant. This the negroes agreed
IN writing 70 do. 1T the same time re-
| probatin= Manlcy and utterly dsclaim-
my any responsibility for the scurrilous
article
| But their answer to the Citizens Com
| nlittee was unaccountably dclayed-it is
| said through the intentional neglect Of
q negro lawyer. At any rate. it was not
| Received within the time limit
| specified. and the following morning the
Record press was demolished and the
| buudin" burned
| The negroes took the alarm. ana indiS-
| crImlnate street fighting followed Nine
negroes were killed during the day. and
many whites and negroes We're wounded
Business houses closed their doors. and
all classes proceeded to arm. \ bad
nl"%cr. running amuck. shot a white
man named Mayo. and was then given
the privilege Of running the gantltt for
his life up Il broad street. where the
nd &c Il Il ;nl,
impossible to walk. He was riddled by
pint Of bullets. like a pigeon thrown
from = plunge trap.
number Of white men were fred 1T
from negro dance-halI. known rs tho
'Manhattan. frfnUentod hy had charoc-
ters. They returned the fire killed one
negro. arrested 4 number OF others, and
wrecked the place. TIE negro that wa>
Killed received fifteen or twenty bullets
While scramhln@ over i fence As ono
Of the shooting party said to me:
When we tu'nd him Owe Niero MIC II
had 4 look Of surprise on his couut'nance
] ashore yo."
lhis house was pittcd with shot holes
and planks in the fence were literally 81,
IL half by II caliEar bullets
The Kingston Naval Reserves and the
military companies were ordered out
command the negro quarters of the
city, and the troops. rifle and revolver in
hand, patrolled the streets From adia-
cent towns bands of armed men arrived
Five companies Of militia rhemen nava
reserves and infantry were impressed for
police duty, and the flame Of intnrnecin.
STRIFE quieted down as suddenly as it had
fared up. White men carried revoIyer~
III their hands and negroes carried their
hats in their hands. African cringeG
to Caucasian.
The feeling against Governor Russell is
very bitter. The negroes arc dubbed gen
orally "Russcll's sayages. from ter.a
currently reported to have been applied
to them by the Governor himself. who i
is said, uses them for political purposes
while personally despising them as q
race
IN North Carolina the negro has equal
educational advantages with the white
man. The nccrO schools duplicate those
OF the whites. and the same is true CT
the State institutions-thc Agricultural
and mechanical colleges But the negroes
are notoriously improvidcnt. ana pay less
than five per cent Of the taxes of the
State.
Some thousand public offices are held
:
tratcs and constablcs have ben elected
III Eastern counties. Negroes have been
appointed on school committees and vest
ed with full authority to visit and over
see the public schools Of the whites This
in face OF the feeling voiced by very
small schoolboy, who had been question
ing me with the unabaShed franlness of
Southern youth. ana who remarked to 4
companion III Il tone of great aStOnSh-
mcnt:
Hi Clayt'n, Yerc's a gomman say
they's been gemmen como we're a thousan'
miles jeS' cause we alls killed few ID
niGgahs..'
Wilmington went temporarily dry" as
soon as the revolutionary government
took office. but not obnoXiously
conferred with an official on ,hc matter
of medicine for a cold.
Why Bud said he. sympathetically,
Bless 20 haht. yo' slorey shall have it.
\ eetle liquor? Yes--of co'se,'
\ tail naval reserve. recklessly flourish
ing 4 shining revolver, met me on the
street
4 friend o mine has some right goon
cawn whskey. an We're goin' to make
him Il co'chus call. he announced with
a broad smile. And. to punctuate the
joke he tapped me on the shoulder with
the muzzle of the murcdous- looking. self
cooking pistol.
Colonel Naddell. the present Mayor Of
Wilmington. is mild-mannercd gentle
man. who looks fifty years of age and
confesses to siXty-tly3 lie IS extremely
conservatives and is the very last man
one would expect To And mixed UP III
bloody revolution.
IN the very improbable event Of inter
ference OH the part of the Federal GOV
ernment. or an attempt to uhSeat the
present revolutionary municipal author-
ties. the struggle will be long and bitter.
II would be well for the Federal govern
ment to pick its Way carefully 70 avoid
intensifying sectional feeling.
Months ago. said Colonel Waddell,
Il told friend OF mine-a Northern
banker-that this thing must surely come
to pass The Almighty never intended
that white men should he governed by
the blacks, and we white men here il