The evening times., 1898-11-05
PREPARING FOR TROUBLE
Race War Assumes Dangerous
Proportions.
FIREARMS ARE SENT FOR
BeIIiEerent Resolutions Adopted by
Newbern, N. C.-The Colored Vot-
ers Are Confident of Victory at
the Polls.

Hewbern, n. c., Nov. 5.-The people of
Craven County, in the heart of the black
belt, packed the large courthouse to the
doors. and resolved that they would now
and for all time put down negro rule
H. c. Whitehurst. a leading business
man, worked the audience up TO excite
ment when he talked of risking lives
and property to restore white rule.
Are we cowards?" he asked. Does
not the blood of our fathers. who fought
to free North Carolina from British
tyranny flow in our veins? Have we no
leaders? Our people only need the word
and they viii free themselves from Afri-
can slavery. Our white men will prove
that they are AngIo-Saxons. 1t will re-
quire daring. energy and a renewal of
courage; but it must be done. We can
not let twenty white men in Newbern
continue to hold us in bondage to ne
groes. Without these white negroes we
would not have this mass of ignorance
ruling our city and county"
James A. Bryan candidate for the
senate. said he favored peace, but white
rule was preferable to peace. He wanted
the whites 10 determine to rule until the
last one had been placed twenty feet
underground
IF bloodshed shall come" said Mr..
Bryan, don't vent all your spleen on the
negro, for the few degraded whites like
Marion Butler and Cyrus Thomson are
more TO blame. We shall rule, let the
cost be what it may. We have got TO
win. More depends upon the result than
you think"
And Mr. Bryan said ne mad reports
from many counties, that the whites
would carry the black belt and win in the
State by 30. 600 ma jority
Other speeches along the same line
were made, and the committee on resolu-
lions made report ''pledging the white
men OF Newbern. in view of the existence
OF the disgraceful and humiiating con-
diuons under which we have been forced
10 live during the past two years. and
The prospect Of the continuance OF these
evils TO an aggravated degree to stand
together and light for white supremacy
1T is the duty" says the resolution.
'of every white male and female TO do
everything to achieve an honorable de-
hverance from negro domination, ruin
and disgrace"
The resolutions say that ''henceforth
all whites who ally themselves with the
as traitors TO their race, and enemies,
and that they are not TO be associated
with. and We warn them to cease from
further efforts TO humiliate the whites
ere the day OF forbearance shall pass
when an outraged people shall realize
that such people are beasts Of prey to be
driven away"
Finally the resolutions pledge the
whites to employ white labor wherever
IL can be had. The report was accepted
amid ringing cheers
Plans We're set on foot to redeem New
bern and Craven County which have
loco negro majority. from the rule OF the
blacks at whatever price the victory may
cost.
There are eighty-siX negro officers in
Craven The feeling between the races is
very strained, but only tonight had the
whites decided TO carry the election at
any cost The blacks We're and now are
confident Of victory.
During the few days that remain for
work the fight here will be hotter than
anywhere in North Carolina
The people of Newbern last night tele-
graphed TO Richmond for large ship
men of firearms.
Dancy, the coIored collector Of the port
OF Wilmington spoke in the open air
here Thursday night TO a large crowd Of
negroes The mayor, who was elected by
the aldermen appointed by Gov. Russell,
used the city wagons 10 convey chairs TO
the scene. Dancy was at the Rochester
meeting where intermarriage of the races
was advocated, and in his paper, pub
lshed in Wilmington, told negroes that
they were entitled TO marry white wo
men, If the women were good enough.
On a principal street yesterday the
daughter OF a prominent merchant was
pulled from her bicycle by a colored wo-
man, who told her she would teach her
something.
1t is difficult to identify the negroes
who commit these acts, as they are pro-
tected by the members of their race, and
they thus escape punishment.
A mob of negroes at Nanceville. a VIII
lage 20 miles north Of here, attempted to
burn the home OF w. r. Smith an cleo
ton registrar. Mr. Smith had refused TO
allow negro boys under legal age to regis
ter, and this incensed some of the pOlit-
ical leaders of the county to the point of
applying the torch.
Eight persons were sleeping in the house
when at midnight the fire was started.
The smoke awoke the inmates all of
whom had narrow escapes, Smiths wife
and daughter being overcome by the
smoke. They would have been burned to
death but for the alarm and the speedy
arrival of a number of white neighbors
who eXtinguished the flames.
The negroes, who numbered dozen or
more, it is alleged, escaped, but the mat
ter viii be investigated if the Democrats
succeed in capturing the county offices at
the election Tuesday. AS IL is now. negro
criminals are seldom arrested and never
tncarcerated.