The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-11-15
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Wilmington, y. c., Nov. 12.-1Spe
cial.)-The new city government has
thoroughly established law and order
Under Mayor Waddell's direction order
has been brought out Of chaos. and tn,
military patrol is to be dispensed viii
Monday. Some of the MaXton troops
left this afternoon, no further trouble
being feared. One hundred new police
men are to be elected at once. Fifty
We're chosen by the board Of aldermen
this morning. Mr.. Robert Green was
selected as captain of police. The entire
| force will be elected and ready for ser
vice by Monday evening.
Negroes who fled to the woods in
droves Thursday, and have since been
in hiding. are coming back to town,
many of them in a famished condition.
The authorities have put an end to
the expulsion of citizens who have been
| prominent in negro leadership.
Many of them. however. are still leav-
ing of their own accord. EN-Mayor
Wright left the city to-day. He bought
4 ticket to New York city. and it is not
believe that he will ever return. 9th
| ers will follow.
The coroner's inquest was held over
the dead negroes this morning at 10
o'clock. The jury was composed of Col.
John Wilder Atkinson. T.. 7. Bailey. ].
b. Higgins. w. VI. Cumming, Elijah
Lam and ]. w. Marlborough.
They found in their verdict that the de
ceased came to their death by gun-shot
wounds at the hands of unknown parties.
The new city government could not
be a better one. 1t is headed by cx-
Congressman Waddell. The board of
aldermen is composed Of the most promi-
nent and wealthiest men in the city
bankers, merchants. manufacturers
lawyers and railroad men-ten in mum
Der.
Thursday. Friday and to-day they
were often in council. passing DEGREES.
issuing proclamations and keeping a
close watch Oh every phase of the revo-
luton sweeping over the city. They
have gone along. nothing doubling. moth
ing fearing. keeping Il firm hand on the
pulse Of the city always and promptly
making front, without fear or furry. to
the wants of each hour.
Let the people Of Wilmington be con
tent with this improvised government.
It is of the best. 1t has the implements
and has the hands. Its rule will be Il
righteous one.
This month Of November. 1898. which
has been one of the memorable months
in North Cardinals history. presents IL
self, 50 far as the city of Wilmington
is concerned. under two most diverse -
poets: all Of black on the one side all of
brightness on the other. Whatsoever is
awful to contemplate in the panic-frenzy
Of white men who have stood all they
could bear, Whatsoever is great in com
plete publication of the city socially and
politically. stand here in abrupt contrast.
near by one another.
In Wilmington. for two days. panic
frenzy has reigned in all its grandeur and
all Its hldeousness. streaked with rays
as OF heaven on one side, girt on the
other as with hell-fire.
y remarkable people they arc who in
such stirring, whirling times, can 90 Just
so far and no farther-can correct the
evil and stop there: who. urged on by a
half-frantic populace. can keep them
selves from being caught in the terrible
worthless and not create more wrecks than
they cure.
Conceive, if You can. in some faint de-
gree, the tumult that has reigned there
since election day. 1t began with \
great masS-meeting Of white citizens on
" ednesday: 4 demand that Il negro paDar
he suppressed and the editor banishnd
Inns Infatuated the negroes. more esne-
claIly as the demand was accomDanied
by another demand that the city officials.
CHOSEN by the negroes. az once resign
Inc two could but go together.
1t was q nlomentouS day in Wilmino-
tons history. And as night settled d.
there was eXecratiOn on the part of tho
negroes. Indignation on the barr If tho
whites and determination amono oil
Just such a feeling. methinks. ~ m,s+
nave brooded over Paris the night he
fore the French Revolution hroEa -
fury. III .
In this Wilmington upbeaval ins+ 49,
III Paris, there was a frantic ron
toward town-halls. dethroning If rboao
"ho inlsruie. a Punishment of those who
are obnoxious and a Destruction of
places mated for their association PM
unlike the French Revolution eyervtb;na
vas zone IN Wilmington in due form, ana
S'IlcuE III accordance with law An
'hose concerned in it We're lovers ~
order and justice.
-Ho'e III the very wording Of tha raco-
Wins passed at the mass maetino
'tuhesday, a tendency to improvisp tho
.oNllnlitee appointed into an organiza-
,.n lor the proper government Of the
90. It was TO have and delegate an
,norlty when the old order was evn,oded
49, III the spirit-stirring speeches
n - at the meeting there was ALWAYS
10 prophetlc sense looking toward tho
eonns new government. They know,