day,
still the main thoroughfares of that city were choked with armed men.
They destroyed personal property, they burned houses, they wantonly took
more than a dozen lives, they drove thousands to the woods where nearly
a dozen infants were born and died in many instances, with their mothers
the victims of exposure as the result of the cruelty of people who call
themselves democrats and patriots. Weyler in his maddest moments was
hardly more barbarous."

In the city of Wilmington, where so much innocent blood had been spilled
and so many valuable lives had been taken by that furious mob, see what
are the facts:

There were ten members of the Board of Aldermen, seven of these white
and three colored; there were twenty-six policemen, sixteen white and
ten colored, the chief being white and a native of the State, city
Attorney a white Republican, city clerk and treasurer, white, with
colored clerk. Turnkeys and janitors white Republicans with colored
assistants, Superintendent of Streets a white man, Superintendent of
garbage carts a white man, Clerk of Front Street Market, a white man,
Clerk of Fourth Street Market, a white man, Superintendent of Health, a
white Democrat, two lot inspectors, colored men, Chief of Fire
Department and Assistant chief, both white Democrats. There are three
white fire companies and two colored. Superintendent of City Hospital is
a white Democrat with white nurses for white wards, and colored nurses
for colored wards. The school committees have always had two white
members and one colored. Superintendent of Public Schools is a white
Democrat.

Now, will somebody point out where that awful thing that is iterated and
reiterated so much, to wit, NEGRO DOMINATION existed under this showing
in the communicipality of Wilmington.

The men who were driven from the city by the mob, with but few
exceptions, had no political following, nor political aspirations.

It has always been the rule with mobs to villify their victims, assail
their characters in the most shameful manner in justification of their
murder. But an attack upon the character and integrity of the Negroes of
Wilmington, in order to justify the massacre of Nov. 10th, shall not go
unchallenged. If what I write should raise a howl of protest and call
another ex-Governor Northern to Boston to brand it as a lie, it is
nevertheless a truthful statement of the causes that led up to the
doings of the 10th of November, and although I shall f