Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-11-11
BLOODSHED IN NORTH CARO-.
TINA

w AAAsH5sSoi AZ Sss oAohO III AuiJ JO5-
terday. White men asserted their su-
premacy firmly. The city rang with
rifle shots, but last night all was quiet.
The work seems to be done. At least
eight negroes were killed and scores of
them were wounded. No white man
was killed, but three were wounded.
At night the city was in the hands of q
new municipal government and law
and order are being established. The
republican board of aldermen resigned
one by one in the afternoon. As each
aldermen vacated, the remaining men,
bers of the board elected a successor,
named by the citizens committee of
twenty-five, until the entire board was
changed legally. The republican mem
bers resigned in response to public
sentiment. The new board is COM
posed of conservative democrats. The
republican mayor, DR.. s. P. Wright.
and his chief of police, J. R. Milton,
then resigned, and the new board Of
aldermen elected their successors, &C.
cording to law. Ex.Congressman A.
M. Waddell, chairman of the citizens
committee of twenty-five, was cleo ed
mayor, aud E. G. Parmelee, chief of
police The first act of the new gov
eminent wss to swear in $50 special
policemen, chosen from the ranks OF
reputable white men. They are vested
with all the authority of the law, and
TOOK charge of the city. The citizens
will remain on guard, however,
to prevent possible attempts at incen-
dierism. The new government will
devote its attention to preventing
recklessness among the whites as well
as keeping down lawlessness among
the negroes. Further trouble of gene
raj or serious nature is not expected.
The beginning of the rioting. the de-
struction of the Record Office and the
flight of Manley, the negro editor, was
described in the Gazette's Geographic
columns yesterday. Many colored peo-
pie subsequently assured the whites
that they were in no wise responsible
for Manley's acts and pretended to re
pudiate the utterauces of his paper.
The scenes attending the proceedings
yesterday were thrilling, and the de-
termination of the whites to assert their
supremacy had a sslutary effect, the
/ larger number of negroes becoming
psnic-stricken and most of them making
themselves scarce. Martial law was
declared and Lieut.-Col. Walker Tay-
lor, commanding the State military,
, took charge of the city. The Colt
rapid-ire gun which had been bought
by white citizens for use in an emer-
gency was mounted on a wagon and,
with q mounted escort, moved to Diff
ferent parts of the city. White men
guarded every block and corner, held
up every negro on the streets and
searched him for arms. AS night fell
the city was completely patrolled and
guarded. Few negroes were on the
streets and they were not allowed to
congregate. Quiet prevailed. Citizens
and soldiers were patrolling every block
as precaution against negro incendia-
rlsm. Many of the ringleaders among
the negroes are under arrest and in jail
Mutterings of lynching were heard, but
Mayor Waddell says he will protect
every prisoner with every soldier al
his command. He himself headed q
guard armed with rifles which is guard
ing the prisoners.
The firing on the negroes and the
bloodshed which followed are scenes
never to be forgotten by those who wit
| messed the conflict. In one instance q
negro fred at white man and ran.
He was pursued, captured and complet-
" riddled with bullets. Later four
riotous blacks were captured. Upon
reaching the lookup one OF the prison
ers broke and ran. He was pursued q
short distance when he was shot dead
At night no negroes would be seen
upon the streets. Armed men were at
every corner, with instructions to arrest
any one who fired a gun. a negro was
challenged by guard late at night, but
he refused to halt, and was shot as he
advanced. Leading negroes are now
in Jail. One boosted that he would
wash his hands in white mems blood
before daybreak. He came near being
killed instantly.
The conditions are still strained.
Some say the show of force alone pre-
vents al uprising among the negroes
1t is known that the negroes are well
armed, and they have boosted that they
would have satisfaction out of the
whites. Negro women have been heard
to say that they would use the torch
and poison. The negro men have been
drilling nightly, and arms were found
in the Office of the Record when it was
demolished.
The following is the most obnoxious
extract from E1iLor A l.. Manly's edi
torial in the Daily R cord, the colored
newspaper of Wilmington, which was
in large part the CAUSE Of scenes en-
acted there yesterday
"We suggest that the whites
guard their women more closely,
thus giving no opportunity for the
human Gend, be he white or
black. You leave your goods out OF
doors and then complain because they
are taken away. Poor white men are
careless in the matter of protecting
their women, especially on farms They
are careless of their conduct toward
them, and our experience among poor
white people in the country teaches us
that the women of that race are not
any more particular in the matter of
clsndestine meetings with colored men
than the white men are with colored
women. Meetings of this kind 60 on
for some time until the woman's in
fatuation or the mans boldness bring
attention TO them and the man is
lynched for rape. Every negro lynch.
ed is called a big, burly black brute,