The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-14

simply the indignation of the white
people towards a negro who would so
UNANIMOUSLY defame white women
en-. When asked IL he did not know,
las a fact and as a politician" that
The Record article was priced and used
as a strong democratic card, Mr.. Bel
iamy answered.: 81 will answer Dy
stating that / am not a politician, as
your question would seem TO indicate.
I am a lawyer and a business and
happened TO simply be the candidate
Of the democratic party for ngr In
the last election" He said The Record
article was used to show what came
to pass in North Carolina when the ne
gro is virtually in control of the gov
eminent.
Asked If he were at the opera house
on the occasion that Colonel Alfred N.
Waddell, the late and present mayor
of the city of Wilmington, delivered
what is known as his famous speech
regarding the filling Of Cape Fear
river with carcassses and bodies OF
dead negroes" Mr.. Beliamy said: Il
saw and read Colonel Waddelps speech
the next day after it was delivered.
He did not use the language which
you say that he used, and he has been
~misquoted. l was not present when
he delivered the speech, but / am as
sured that he used no such language
as by inference that your questions
asked certain witnesses in a former
examination would indicate that the
democrats Intended to carry the cleo
ton if it was necessary to fill up cape
Fear river with the carcassses of mead
negroes. What was said in his speech
vas hat the whites would no longer
submit to the intollerable condition OF
affairs, referring 10 the ~indignities and
insults to white women, the perpreta-
ton CT uncomfortable crimes and other
4 f1ra s-+ 40 I o1-1s-s@~- @r-aa IL
were necessary to fill up the river with
dead carcasses, but it a no reference
to carrying the election, and l think
; Colonel Waddell, who is one of our
most prominent citizens in the state, Is
done a. great injustice by such an insin-
uation."
! Assistant District Attorney Spears
asked: rs not Colonel Waddell pos
sibly and probably the most represen-
of Wilmington and of the county Of
New Hanover"
Mr.. Bellamy replied: He is the cit
izen having the greatest reputation as
an orator, as a rhetOrician, as a gentle
/ man of culture and refinement that We
have, but 1 cannot say that he is the
| most representative democrat. Col
onel Waddell has a national reputation
very justly deserved as an orator and
writer. 1 can say further that I think
he is a very good lawyer"
/ To a question as to whether Colonel
| Waddell was not chairman of the COM
, mittee of twenty-five which destroyed
the Manly printing office and press a
day or two after the election, Mr.. Bel
| lamy said he was informed that Col
! onel Waddell was chairman of the
committee Of twenty-five who were ap-
[ pointed by the citizens mass meeting
I after the election to see that Manly
T! the negro editor, should no longer re-
| main in the city. They were, as l am
| informed" said Mr.. Bellamy, Ito go to
| him and inform him that he must get
| out of town, as the white people who
| owned SO 2-3 per of the property
| and constituted about one-half Of the
| white population ofthe city of Whining
f. ton of about %, 600 inhabitants, would
not submit to the residence within the
borders longer of such a vile SANDER.
er. However, that committee, as ]
learn, were not the ones hat destroyed
Manly's printing house; that it was
done, so 1 am informed, by a large
f. congregation of we'll disciplined citi-
zens composed of white people, con-
tanning among them former republi-
cans, populists and democrats who
went to his printing office to tell him
| tig there they found that Manly had
been out of the city for three weeks OF
a month, although they did not know
| that at the time" He said he also
learned that the burning of The Record
office was not the work of the citizens
who went there, but some hot-headec
man who set fire to it after they got
there.
MI. Bellamy gave other testimony
covering forty-five age Of type-Writ,
ten sheets, but it is impossible to print
it all, hence we give only enough of i
to show the tenor of the examination.