The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1898-12-02
SLY DAYS AHEAD OFALL OTHERS

The Bel Air Times certainly publish
ahead of not only any other newspaper
in the county, but we think the United
States, with the exception of the Will
mington, North Carolina, Record, IL
negro paper, the negro editor of which
was driven out of the State for his vile
attacks on the white women of the
South.
The clipping we republish in full, so
that it may have the wide publicity it
deserves. 1t undoubtedly is shocking
to the community to know that such a
sentiment exists in a civilized com
munity as Hartford county. Remem-
Der, it was the irresponsible white
leaders of the old North State which
stirred the negroes to assume the pre-
sumptous position they have lately
occupied.
Our attention was called to this
article by one of the best citizens of
Bel Air, with the request that we re-
publish it, SO that with wide publicity
the people of Hartford county could
realize that the efforts to stir up the
negroes in the South are not confined
to negro editors III North Carolina.
The article is as follows
The recent shooting down of a
number of white and black Republi
cans in North and South Carolina, the
~ 81 4 4 .
the terror-stricken blacks, and the
seizure of the city government of Will
mington by armed Democrats, are all
familiar to readers of the daily papers
The outbreak has been commended by
sympathizing Democratic journals as
a triumph of law aud order. 1t was
a triumph of lawlessness, because the
laws were forcibly sec aside and
trampled under foot.
1T is equally misleading to speak of
the outbreak as race war 1t was
not a race war because white men as
well as black ones were hunted and
shot down. The Mayor Of Will
mington and the Chief of Police, who
We're compelled to flee for their lives,
are both white men OF good character
The same is true of the Toiberts il
South Carolina, one of whom was a
candidate for Congress; and others of
whom were trusted and faithful Fed
eral officials.
But although the agitation leading
up to this outbreak was planned to
affect the Congressional elections, and
did affect them, the President has
wisely decided that the situation is not
one which calls for federal interven
ton.
The news dispatches of the Asso-
ciated Press, controlled and colored by
the Bourbons, have teemed with &C
counts of the violence and bloodsheG
at Wilmington. In every instance the
armed BouTbons were the aggressOrs
In no instance was Democrat killed
or even shot at; in no instance was a
negro found with arms in his hands
Ia every instance, the blacks, unarm-
ed and terrorized, ran for their lives.
Take for example the report of the
burning of the newspaper plant of a
negro publisher
The men formed in line, four
abreast, and started on the march to
the Record office, in a thickiy popula
ted negro settlement. AS the long
column of armed men approached the
neighborhood a throng of negroes,
men, women and children, began to
fl &c in frenzy. Very soon scarcely one
was in sight any where.'
Where did the hunted wretches 90
The same dispatches tells US :
"A thousand of the fugitives who
left Wilmington last week are still in
the swamps and woods. Some of the
unfortunate women refugees are about
to become mothers, and their distress
is reported as pitiful in the extreme,
as they lay in the cold and wet, ex-
posed to the fury of the elements
This, it should be remembere is
the end of the Nineteenth Century OF.
the Christian era.
For what crime were these wretch
ed people thus outlawed and hunted?
They we're not to blame for the color
of their skin. They were not to blame
for the generations of human slavery
which kept them in ignorance and in
degradation. They were not to blame
for having been coddled by politicians
of all parties. Perhaps they were not
blamable for voting with those whom
they believed to be their best friends
They were not to blame for putting
: me of their race into Office, for if the
BourbOns had not misused their power
when in office the whites, who are
largely in the majority, would have
stood together and kept the negroes
out.
Negro office holding is dist asteful
of course to the white people of the
South it is distasteful to white people