ictitiously name
some of the star actors in this tragedy and the shifters of the scenes,
I can call them all by their names and point them out. It will be proven
that the massacre of Nov. 10th, 1898, had been carefully planned by the
leading wealthy citizens of Wilmington, and that over thirty thousand
dollars was subscribed to buy arms and ammunition to equip every man and
boy of the white race, rich and poor; that secret dispatches were sent
to sympathizers in adjoining States and communities to come in and
assist in making the 10th of November, 1898, a second Bartholemew's eve
in the history of the world, by the wholesale killing of black citizens
after every means of defense had been cut off; that black men and women
for banishment and slaughter had been carefully listed; that clubs and
clans of assassins had been organized and drilled in signals and
tactics; that the aid of the State militia and the Naval Reserves had
been solicited to enter Wilmington on the 10th of November to assist in
disarming every Negro, and aiding in his slaughter and banishment. That
the intervention of Providence in the earnest and persistent entreaties
of white citizens who were too nobly bred to stoop so low, and the
strategy and cunning of the Negro himself, frustrated the carrying out
to its fullest intent, one of the most infamous and cowardly deeds ever
planned.

CHAPTER I.

The Editor.

"I will not retract! No! Not a single sentence! I have told the truth.
This woman not satisfied with the South's bloody record since the war,
is clamoring and whining like a she wolf for more human sacrifices, and
an increased flow of human blood. She is unmercifully pounding a
helpless and defenseless people. The article was issued in defense of
the defenseless. It is right against wrong; truth against error, and it
must stand even if the one who uttered it is annihilated; it must
stand!"

"But you must remember my dear man, that the South is no place to speak
plainly upon race matters. You have written the truth, but its a truth
that the white people of the South cannot and will not stand. Now the
leading whites are much incensed over this article of yours which they
interpret as an intent to slander white women, and I am sent to say to
you that they demand that you retract or leave the city."

"I will do neither! The truth has been said, a slanderer rebuked. God
help me, I will not go back on that truth."

"Well, I leave you; I've