Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly: A Story of the Wilmington Massacre.Thorne, Jack
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Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly: A Story of the Wilmington Massacre.
Thorne, Jack
African Americans -- North Carolina -- Wilmington -- Fiction; Wilmington (N.C.) -- History -- Fiction
"Gentlemen," says he, "it is needless for me to ask you to night whether
or not you believe that the Anglo-Saxon race was ordained by God to rule
the world. It is needless for me to say that the Anglo-Saxon proposes to
carry out God's decree to the letter. (Applause). When God made man, he
placed him over every other living creature to rule and govern, and that
man was a white man. (Applause). When God said to man 'Have dominion
over the beasts of the field,' He meant to include inferior races. These
inferior races are to be kept in subjection by their superiors, and
wherever and whenever they assume to dominate their superiors we are
justified by our Creator in using every means available to put them
down. The white people of North Carolina, the curled darlings of God's
favor have by their long suffering gotten into such a state of
subjection that it is time to act. (Applause). Wherever the Saxon has
planted his foot, he has been a civilizer. He came to America, drove out
the savage and made it the greatest nation on the face of the earth,
(applause) and he has the right to govern it in its entirety from the
humblest official to the executive head of the nation, (prolonged
applause). We have for years been dominated by semi-civilized
barbarians, flattered into the belief that they are as good as white
people by unprincipalled Yankee carpet-baggers who have profited by
their ignorance. Emboldened by the leniency of their superiors, Negroes
have become unbearable. The government is corrupt, and so bold has the
Negro become that the virtue of our women has been assailed by that
black rascal, the editor of _The Record_--(cries of Kill him! Burn the
scoundrel!) The snake is not to be scorched this time: we are going to
make a clean sweep, and permanently restore white man's government. Our
friends in other sections of the State, and even in adjoining States are
in sympathy with us, and are willing to come in and help us," etc.
But why weary the reader with the Colonel's firey harangue? Although
there is no foundation for such incendiary language the reader will soon
see just how much misery it wrought upon a defenseless people. Fanned
into fury by the rehearsing of imaginary wrongs by gifted tongues, the
mob when once started astonished its leaders, who quailed and looked
aghast at the hellish work they had inaugurated.
CHAPTER IV.
Mrs. Amanda Pervis.
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