The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-11-13
WHAT OTHERS SAY.
THE WILMINGTON TROUBLE.

i HE w O.N N.Y.
The Baltimore Sun is one of the most
conservative papers in America. Its
given here because it shows knowledge
of the conditions that prevail and puts
the people of that city in the proper light
in the eyes of the world. The Suns
leading editorial yesterday was as fol-
lows:
Every good citizen must most heartily
ueplore the existence of the conditions
which have led to the outbreak of vlo-
lence at Wilmington, \. c., but 1t is
impossible for any sef-respecting white
man, who understands those conditions,
to condemn the course which the white
people of that city have found them
selves compelled to adopt. For the last
two years they have been subjected to
the domination of a combination of ne
groes and low whites without intelligence
or principle, and while the victims OF
misgovernment and legal and admins
trative wrong, have been forced also TO
| drink the bitter cup of constant humlla-
ton and continual personal indignities.
The malice of the freedmen, who has
not yet learned what it means to be
a freeman. has delighted in expressing
| the barbaric sense of triumph in insults,
prosecutions and aggressions sufficient to
| infiame the minds of the most peaceful
and conciliator of men. All this the
white people of Wilmington have borne
with extraordinary patience and self
| control, and they might have continued
| to endure it but for the fact that the
| negroes. or one of their avowed represen-
| tatives, installing this patience for timid-
| ity, dared to make a m0nstrouS attack
upon the character of Southern white
| women. 1t was this and the increasing
| offensive conduct of the negroes toward
| the white women Of Wilmington and 9th
| er negro-ridden sections of the State
| that fired the North Carolina heart and
| brought to a white heat the determine
| ton to throw off a political regime that
| was as foul and unclean as it was in
| competent and corrupt.
/ This they did on Tuesday at the polls
and the Liberty Bell never knew an oc
casion on which it could have been rung
with greater propriety or justice. But
they recognized the fact that their tasl
would be incomplete as long as the
newspaper and the negro editor who ha(
so viely slaadered Southern white wo
men should remain in Wilmington tC
| continue the abomnibe work of setting
| the black race against the white an(
| catering to the lowest passions of al
| ignorant and irresponsible population
| They ordered this negro editor to leave
the town., and yesterday they showed
| him and others like him that they mean
business.
at is easy in the frozen latitude o
saints abide and nobody ever does any
thing wrong to criticise tn
people of Wilmington and de
nounce them as lawbreaker
and criminals. But the verdict of his
tory will not agree with such an est
mate any more than it would place il
that category the good citizens of Cali
fornia, who in the early days of tina
State found it was necessary to appea
to the higher law of self-preservation
If those concerned in yesterdays affai
ut Wilmington are iaw-breakers, thes
, law breakers include almost the who'll
population Of that city, Republicans a
well as Democrats, even ministers of tn
gospel, it is reported. standing on guard
rifle in hand to aid in protecting their fel
low citizens from anticipated negro ut
. tack
, yellow journalism has been response
Bile for many evils in other sections o.
/ the country and is vigorously denounce,
by all decent people, but the black journ
alism which has been illustrated in Wi