The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-11-13
NEGROES WHO FLED TO THE
WOODS THURSDAY RE-
TURNING.
ONE HUNDRED POLICE TO BE ELECTED
Military Patrol to be Dispensed With Monday :
Authorities Stamp out Crusade Against
Negro Leaders. Business Assuming
Norm.I Conditions Mayor
Wright Leaves

cial. 1.-THE new city government mas
thoroughly established law and order.
Under Mayor Waddell's direction order
has been brought out of chaos, and the
military patrol is to be dispensed with
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
were 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 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 leay-
ing of their own accord Ex-Mayor
Wright left the city to-day. He bought
Il 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, +. p. Bailey. j.
Il. Huggins. w. NJ. Cumming, Elijah
LANE and J. 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 ex-
Congressman Waddell. The hoard of
aldermen is composed of the most promi-
nent and wealthiest men in the city
bankers, merchants. manufacturers,
lawyers and railroad men-ten i'll num-
Der.
Thursday, Friday and to-day they
were often in council, passing DEGREES
issuing proclamations and keeping a
close watch ON every phase of the revo-
luton sweeping over the city. They
have gone along, nothing doubling. moth,
ing fearing, keeping 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
1t is Of the best. 1t has the implements
and has the hands Its rule will be a
righteous one.
This month Of November. 1S9S which
has been one of the memorable months
in North Cardinals history presents it
self so far as the city of Wilmington
is concerned under two most diverse IS.
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
pete purification 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 hideousness, streaked with rays
as of heaven on one side, girt ON the
other as with hell-fire.
A remarkable people they are who. in
such stirring, whirling times, can go 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
vortices 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 a
great mass-meeting of white citizens on
Wednesday; "a demand that negro paper
be suppressed and the editor banished.
This infuriated the negroes, more espe-
cialiy as the demand was accompanied
by another demand that the city officials.
chosen by the negroes, az once resign.
The two could but go together.
1t was a momentous day in winning
toms history. And as night settled down
there was execration OH the part of the
negroes, indignation OH the part of the
whites and determination among all.
Just such feeling, methinks, as must
have broOded over Paris the night be-
fore the French Revolution broke in its
fury.
In this Wilmington upheaval, just as
in Paris. there was a frantic crowdmg
toward town-halIs. dethroning Of those
who nlisrule a banshInent of those who
are obnoxious and n destruction of
places hated for their association. But
unlike the French Revolution everything
was done in Wilmington in due form and
strictly in accordance with law. All
those concerned in ii were lovers OF
order and justice.
Note in the very wording Of the reso