rs taught in the same schools. Preachers, lawyers and physicians
were cordial in their greetings one toward the other, and general
good-feeling prevailed. Negroes worked, saved, bought lands and built
houses. Old wooden meeting houses were torn down, and handsome brick
churches went up in their places. Let the prejudiced scoffer say what he
will, the Negro has done his full share in making the now illfated city
blossom as the rose. We who have for so many years made our abode
elsewhere, have made our boast in Wilmington as being ahead of all other
Southern cities in the recognition of the citizenship of all of her
inhabitants; unstained by such acts of violence that had disgraced other
communities. To be laid to rest 'neath North Carolina pines has been the
wish of nearly every pilgrim who has left that dear old home. All this
is changed now; That old city is no longer dear. The spoiler is among
the works of God. Since the massacre on the 10th of November, 1898, over
one thousand of Wilmington's most respected taxpaying citizens have sold
and given away their belongings, and like Lot fleeing from Sodom, have
hastened away. The lawyer left his client, the physician his patients,
the carpenter his work-bench, the shoemaker his tools--all have fled,
fled for their lives; fled to escape murder and pillage, intimidation
and insult at hands of a bloodthirsty mob of ignorant descendants of
England's indentured slaves, fanned into frenzy by their more
intelligent leaders whose murderous schemes to obtain office worked
charmingly. Legally elected officers have been driven from the city
which is now ruled by a banditti whose safety in office is now
threatened by the disappointed poor whites whose aid was secured in
driving out wealthy Negroes on the promise that the Negroes' property
should be turned over to them.

What has wrought all this havoc in the city once so peaceful? Rev. A. J.
McKelway of Charlotte, Editor of the _North Carolina Presbyterian_, in
an article published in the _New York Independent_ of November, 1898,
explains as follows:--"In 1897 was passed at Governor Russell's wish and
over the protest of the Western Republicans, a bill to amend the charter
of the city. If there had been any condition of bad or inefficient
government, there might have been some excuse for this action; but the
city was admirably governed by those who were most interested in her
growth and welfare. Here is the law that is responsible for