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Title: Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly
A Story of the Wilmington Massacre.

Author: David Bryant Fulton

Release Date: February 24, 2009 [eBook #28180]

Language: English

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HANOVER; OR THE PERSECUTION OF THE LOWLY.

A Story of the Wilmington Massacre

by

JACK THORNE

Published by M. C. L. Hill.

Respectfully dedicated to
the eminent heroine
IDA B. WELLS BARNETT

NEGROES FLEEING FROM WILMINGTON.

DRIVEN OUT BY ORGANIZED BANDS OF "RED SHIRTS." OBNOXIOUS WHITE MEN ALSO
ORDERED TO GET OUT OF TOWN. NO LYNCHING ALLOWED. MAYOR WADDELL AND HIS
POLICE PREVENT FURTHER KILLING. RULE OF WHITES NOW PREVAIL. THREE
HUNDRED POLICEMEN SWORN IN TO PRESERVE ORDER--NO COLLISION BETWEEN THE
RACES EXPECTED. NO TRADE AT WILMINGTON.

* * * * *

[Associated Press Market Report]

WILMINGTON, N. C., NOV. 11.--Spirits turpentine--Nothing doing.

Rosin--Nothing doing.

Crude turpentine--Nothing doing.

WILMINGTON, NOV. 11.--With the killing of the Negroes yesterday the
backbone of the trouble seems to have been broken. The authors of the
tragedy have gone to their homes and the mob has disbanded as if in
contempt of the gangs of Negroes who still hang about in the black
quarters growling and threatening the whites.

Law and order are gradually being restored; and those among the Negroes
who feel resentment against the whites are afraid to show their true
colors.

Early this morning 300 resolute white men gathered at the Mayor's office
and were sworn i