. There was a certain colored citizen who knew of
Bohn's secret relations to the movement which disgraced the city. This
man gave the information to the people of his race who were patronizing
Bohn, and entreated them not to support such an ingrate. When the
excitement was at its height, when Red Shirts and Rough Riders were
terrorizing the city, a band of poor whites, headed by George Bohn,
sought this colored man's residence, battered down the door, fired
several bullets into the bed where the man and his wife lay, the latter
in a precarious condition. The house was riddled with shots; they were
compelled to get out and leave their own home, to which they have not as
yet been permitted to return. Bohn, after the deed was done, sneaked
back to his home, and when the horrible crime was reported, tried to
prove an alibi. But George Bohn is the guilty man, and George Bohn shall
not escape! The hand of Justice shall point him out. His name shall go
down to posterity on the list of cowards who, on the 10th of November,
1898, brought into disrepute the fair name of one of the best little
cities on the American continent.

CHAPTER X.

Judas Iscariot.

When the Executive Committee, in response to Mr. Wingate's call, met in
his office the following evening, the Governor's letter was read to
them, and Molly Pierrepont's story repeated. Plans of action were mapped
out, but not without some bitter attacks upon the enemy. Mr. Wingate's
proposal to surrender for the sake of averting bloodshed, if possible,
however, prevailed. The bitter language and threats made by hotheads
would, if they reached the ears of whites, only add fuel to the fire
already burning; so the members were cautioned by the chairman to give
to the enemy no opportunity. But even among the twelve chosen of God
there was a traitor, and since that memorable time nearly every band of
brothers has had its Judas ready at any time of trouble to sacrifice
others to save himself, or betray them for reward. Was there a Judas on
the Republican Executive Committee of New Hanover county? Yes!

In the days of slavery there existed in the South a kind of Negro known
as the "Good Nigger" or "White folks Nigger," who was a stubborn
believer in his own inferiority and the righteousness of his
enslavement. He sneaked around, grinned his way into the confidence of
other slaves, then stole away and told their secrets. Were there any
plots being concocted to rise up and st