The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-10-08

| their bearing. Young male negroes tah'
Il pride in jostling white ladies' on tue
| streets, forcing them to step from liie
| sidewalks, using vulgar and infamous
| language in public places, and showing
their equality" in any offensive way
| thatsmay occur to them. The females
| OF course, follow the lead of the males,
! NO white man worthy of the name nee'
| be told that such state of AFFAIRS Is
n constant irritation to the whites anu
! that sooner or later the limit or thelr
| patience must be reached. That TINS
| statement of the case is true and IS not
| over-drawn every white citizen OF the
negroized towns and every man who has
| had occasion to spend 24 hours in them
will testify, as do these
INCIDENTS OF NEGRO RULE.
In Wilmington Mrs. Baffler caught a
! negro burglar in her house and turned
him over to the chief of police. The po-
liceman on his own authority turned the
negro loose on $3.50 bond and he has
not been heard of since Two men
fought on the streets in the presence of a
policeman who did not even appear as
witness against them. A white farmer
his wife and little girl walked along the
street with three young negro hoodlums
at their heels, crying: Give my love TO
little Sisse little Bette" etc. The
negro policeman paid no attention to IT.
Two young white ladies were out shop
ping and three young buck negroes lined
up across the street, telling them to walk
around if they wished to pass. Three
negro girls blocked the sidewalk to keep
whites from passing, one OF them say
ing to the others: Don't give them
white folks any road. OATS what pa
says do" A negro boy about 10 years
old met the two little girls of Mr.. j.
X. Rhodes ON the street as they were
carrying their fathers breakfast to him
and when they attempted to pass slapped
them numerically. Five young negroes
met white lady teacher on her way
home from Sunday school and as she
turned out to avoid them, one deliberately
ran against her, knocking her down;
little further on they met her class of chill
dren and ran through the crowd, knock
ing them down right and left and even
trampling on them until a white man
ran out of the church to their rescue.
4 few days ago in the same city mob
of negro toughs attempted to bulldOze
the registrars into registering negro who
had been declared a lunatic by a jury,
and foully abused the man who read the
law showing that lunatics cannot vote.
A BAPTIST minister who was present was
followed by one of the negroes, who
threatened to slap the jaws of white
men" A negro policeman on the street
car drew his pistol on the conductor be-
cause he was requested to snow his pass
or pay his fare. A negro woman on the
cars roundly rebuked a white gentleman
and lady for not getting on rapidly
enough to please her. Burglaries in the
city are of nightly occurrence, but the
criminals are never brought to justice
aud the citizens have been compelled to
organize their own protection.
THE VICIOUS ARE UPHELD.
The negro editor of the Daily Record
published Il vile SANDER upon the wives
and daughters of every white farmer in
the State, charging that they were care
less in their bearing toward negroes and
often guilty of Eaisons with them. 1t
was to be expected that the better ele-
ment Of the negro race would condemn
and rebuke the SANDER. Here Is the res
olution adopted by the colored ministers
union Of Wilmington:
''Resolved, That the Ministerial Union
is in hearty sympathy with the efforts
Of The Daily Record in defending the
rights of the race. and that each minis
ter inform his congregation Of the present
situation, and endeavor to sustain the
paper by swelling its subscription list,
and by urging prompt payment"
Not content with that the district CON
ference sent the following communica-
ton to Manly:
.'To the Wilmington Daily Record:
"We, the members Of the Wilmington
District Conference and Sunday school
convention. in session at Lake Wacca-
nav, n. c.. after seeing the bold, yet
manly stand that you have taken for
our people. yes, our race, especially our
ladies. assure you that you have our APP
proval and endorsement and pledge our
selves to ever stand by YOU to the haz-
arding of our lives. We think you
grand man, we think your paper is the
paper that every negro should support
as long as she stands forth in the pro-
lection of the ladies of our race. May
You know that we, sir, have espoused
your cause and we purpose to man
10 SHH lIdl SUu anu gOul HtlItI Siittil hdfC
orr support Mr.. Editor. continue your
well begun work i'll the defence of our
race. yes, the fair ones OF, our race, and
this conference pledges to support you
and your paper.
REV. u. Il. MITCHELL, z. e.
"E. S. SIMMONS"
This leaves no doubt as to the attitude
not only of the ignorant and uneducated,
but of those Of the race who can not
plead either excuse for their infamy.
When an unfounded rumor started that
the office of Manly would be attacked
the negroes turned out en- masse to de-
fend it. Referring to the presence OF
the mob around the office the Whining
ton Star says;
'The police on that beat were power
less to scatter the crowds, and Chief
of Police Melton swore in two extra POI
lice and called in the officers from sew
eral adjacent beats for the purpose of
persuading the negroes to dispense"
Wilmington has not been the sole sur
fercr from ne@ro rule. Other places
have suffered just i'll proportion as the
negro has been placed in office. In New
bern crime has been rampant One