Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1898-11-19
THE MURDERS AT WILMINGTON.


mington, N. c., almost surpssses com
prehension. Never in the history of this
country have we seen or heard OF any.
thing like it before.
A mob takes possession of the city
and without due cause murders TWEEN
ty. five inoffensive and unarmed col.
ored people, drives hundreds to the
woods to starve and die, forces the city
officials to leave the city and then du.
Iy install themselves in their places
without the shadow OF an excuse OF
the sanction of Law.
To-day, they hold possession of the
government OF that municipality The
Governor of the state, d. L. RUSSELL
is cowed and the President OF the Un-
tied States is silent.
This is the logical result of compro.
missing with wrong. 1t is an object les
son to the thoughtful. a warning to
the government st Washington. II
these reasonable revolutionists can
without legal or military question take
foreible possession of the reins of the
city government, why cannot body
OF equally lawless men take forcible
possession of the reins of state gov
eminent, and finally of the national
government?
1--WE are building worse than we
know" We ara permitting the seeds
of anarchy to take root We are en-
couraging the rule OF the mob instead
of the supremacy OF law and order and
it will yet cost us much blood and
treasure. In no country in Europe,
not excepting the so-called barbarous
Turkey could such condition of az
fairs obtain.
practices declared himself Mayor OF
Whining ton and this too in the face of
the laws of the state of North Carolina.
Who made him Mayor7 From whom
did he secure his authority7 Was it
from the red-handed murderers, who
fiend-like butchered helpless. inno-
cence. left families bereaved aud
mourning. while the hapless prayers
of the widows and orphans were as
cending to DANIEL's Con?
Was it from she hands of the white
lawyers. the doctors, the merchants
and preachers, who while melting the
mobs to deeds of murderous violence,
under our laws became particep crimi-
themselves?
II so, show the world your commits
sion. Point out the letters, trace each
one in blood and let the people of this
nation read the characters stamped
across its face. Let them ponder over
the fact that the authority given is trea-
son in the eyes of ths law of the land
and the possessor Of it called trait
or by all the law books beginning with
BLACKSTONE and ending with the latest
compilations of those of this country.
A. NJ. WADDELL, leader of the mob
at Wilmington, you have a blood
stained title.
Tell not the colored people of your
tain order. The declaration came too
late. Walk few steps into the resi-
Dental neIghborhood where rests the
bodies of your victims. Their blood is
crying from the ground for vengeance,
not in this world, sir, but in the one to
come.
Go to the hospital, in the suburbs of
Wilmington and see the suffering you
have caused there. Hear the mo1rns
of the sufferers and the prayers to the
widows Con. Think you that you will
escape punishment. Retribution will
surely follow, and the punishment will
come to you.
1t was 9 sad day for Wilmington
when these murderers killed it's citi-
zens. It will be ssdder times when
the punishment OF Him, who never
sleeps follows.
We are having q hard time of it. and
our oppressors are glosting over our
misery, but we are not without hope.
All of the good white people in the
South are not dead, but in the neigh
borhood of Wilmington, they are pain.
fully silent.
It was murder and treason in North
Carolina. The law is specifis in both
cases. But, who, there cares for the
law7 Who has thought of the sworn
obligations which would have made
such an outrage impossible? Or the
cut threats and murderers--nOt one