Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1898-08-25
HERE'S RUSSELLISM,
Results of Giving Negro POliti
clans Military Commissions.
ACCOUNT OF LAWLEsSNESS
Outrageous Conduct on the Part of Negr.
Troops at Fort Macon-White Men
Must Defend Their Homes.
Morehead City Pilot.

Morehead City Pilot.
The negro soldiers at Fort Ma
con camp within the past week
have given unmistakable evidence
of disposition to involve the
white people of this city in riot,
and but for the calm discretion of
the civil authorities of this COM
munity their insolence and dlsoro
derly conduct would have precipi-
tated conflict on more than one
occasion. They have been allow
ed all the privileges of civilians
to roam at large all over this city
in squads of five to twenty, .unac-
companied by any commissioned
officer, to drink liquor, quarrel
and fight among themselves and
with others; to remain away from
the camp over nights reveling in
places Of disrepute outside of the
city limits; to travel back and
forth on railroad trains. Indeed
they don't seem to have been un-
der any military discipline during
the past two weeks. They have
been allowed to 60 where they
pleased and to do as they might
please, while the colonel in
command, James H. Young, was
off in Raleigh and elsewhere att
tending political meetings.
The people of this town have
forborne to make any complaint OF
the conduct of the soldiers, and
have suffered some indignities at
their hands, and even in the inter-
est of peace, the civil authorities
have allowed to pass apparently
unnoticed conduct for which citi-
zen of the community would have
been arrested and punished, For
bearance, however, ceased to be a
virtue to restrain the civil author
tiles on Saturday last, when one
Green Carter, of Company A. +,
came into town full of blockade
corn liquor and attempted tc
"paint the town red." He was
promptly arrested and carried to
''the lookup" and imprisoned,
Soon thereafter another big blue
coated burly member of the same
company concluded to "clean out
the town. He was seized by 6
policeman, but being a much
stronger man physically, succeed
ed in wrestling himself away from
thy young officer and made his es.
cape to the Fort. During the ex.
citement down town, some person
went to the guard house, knocked
off the door and lock and liberated
Carter and he escaped to the
| Fort.
Upon being informed Of
the escape of the prison
er, Mayor Wallace sent the city
marshal and a deputation of two
or three assistants across the soun6
to the camp and requested Col
Young to surrender the soldier
into their hands for trial. Thil
request was complied with an6
Green Carter was brought bacl
and tried. He was convicted ans
sentenced to pay a fine of $40 o.
go to Jail for so days.
During the interview Charlie:
Shepherd, of Morehead, accused
of assisting the other soldier
| (who bore the name of Abernethy
to escape, was arrested and tried
He was also convicted and sen
fenced to pay a fine of 800 or e,
to Jail for 80 days. Not being abI
to pay the fine, the marshal wa
instructed to take Green over t,
jail, and on the way to stop a
the camp and give the officials a
the camp the option of -payin.
his fine for him. On the arriva
of the party at the camp, the,
were surrounded by several hun
tdred negroes. aud it was eviden
that they intended to rescue thei
negro conrade and mob the off
GERS. The latter, therefore, OF
the advice of Col. Young-wh
said he would have them ade
lquately punished-turned tn