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Vol X. No. 58.
THE WILMINGTON BIOT
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Resulted In the Death of Ten Negroes
and Wounding Three Whites-
Wilmington, N. C.» Not. 11 —-Since
the remarkable and sudden evolution
in the city administration, from a
Republican mayor, board of aldermen,
chief of police and other officers, to a
complete Democratic administration,
with the Hon. A. M. Waddell as mayor,
caused by the resignation of the Re
publicans, complete order has been
restored in the city.
Yesterday was a day of horrors and
last night one of wild alarm. The new
administration swore in 400 special
policemen, composed of Wilmington’s
best citisens, and they, with the regu
lar police force, assisted by over 300
military, preserved order in the city.
The citizens turned out with arms and
stood guard on their blocks. Hot a
city negro was to be seen on the streets.
Hundreds of nogroes, moo. women
and children, fled to the woods, and at
least 500 of them spent the night on
the roadside two miles from the city,
beyond Smith's Creek bridge.
Ample protection, however, was giv
en to all colored people who were
peaceable and law abiding. All who
behaved themselves were escorted to
and from their work by armed white
meh.
Business has been resumed, and it
is believed the trouble is at an end.
The riot resulted in the death of ten
negroes, and the wounding of three
whites.
Boys’ Heads, North and South.
“I don’t know whether it is com
plimentary or otherwise, but I do
know that it is a fact that the head of
the average Washington boy is larger
than that of the average boy of many
other cities,” remarked a traveling
salesman for a large hat and cap man
ufacturing firm to a Star reporter.
“All men engaged in the hat and cap
business know it, and have learned it
by their business experience. The
beads of the boys in Baltimore average
three or four sizes smaller than those
of Washington, and it is known to the
cap trade that they can always get
rid of any extra large sizes of boys’
caps by sending them to Washington. '
I have had a recent experience in '
selling a boys’ cap. In Baltimore the
sizes desired by the dealers ran all the 1
way from 6to 6f, leaving me with a '
large lot of the larger sizes to dispose
of. I found no difficulty in doing so,
for no dealer here wants anything
smaller than 6f, and wanted them all
the way up to 7 and 7|. The heads of
the boys in Richmond are about the
same as regards size as those in Balti
more, and they compare with the
beads of the boys in Atlantk, Charles
ton, Savannah and New Orleans. In j
none of these cities could the larger
sizes ordered in this city be Isold, ex- !
eept in small quanities The Chicago
boy has a head as large as the
Washington boy, and so does the New ‘
York boy, but the Boston or Pbila- ’
delpbia boy has not. The Washing*
ton boy has the largest bead of any
South or Southwestern oily, and is J
pnly equaled in New York and Chi- .
cago. It is for others to say what all
this means I can only state the fact
that Is developed in the hat and cap .
trade. —Washington Star.
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THE MORMONS-
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Thus died Jo Smith, in many n«
' garde a remarkable man. Uneducated,
orddulous,unscrupulous, fanatical, it is
bard to discover just where the line
' lay that separated bis dishonesty from
his credulity, his rascality from bis re
ligion, his delusions from bis deceit.
Hie ability in organizing, his persist
ency in propagating bis peculiar view,,
bis endurance even unto blood, stand
ing as be did for a religion that was a
hodge-podge of truth and error, that
was originated in a most palpable
fraud, but that under bis master hand
led to such marvelous results, most,
while evoking condemnation, com*
mand respect.
Mohammed, who was far greater
than he, wrote a book, the Quran, that
like the Book of Mormon, was based
on the Bible, bad revelations, was at
once a devotee and a villain. If suc
cess be the criterion of righteousness,
then twelve centuries of success prove
Mohammed to be what be Claimed to
be, the true prophet of Allah ; and 60
years of success prove Jo Smith to be
the inspired Saint that be and his fol
lowers claim that be was, Bless God,
the eternal years are His The concep
tion of a religion rises no higher than
its heaven; that of the Christian is ho
liness, of the Mohammedan and the
Mormon, an ulherealized sensuality.
Thus then the first President of the
Mormon community was its first mar
tyr—his blood became the seed of the
church—and be, whose life bad not
been all that a Saint’s should be, was
now transfigured, a halo of glory bung
about his memory, and a touch of pa
thos tended to make bis name sub
lime ; the evil that he did was buried
with his bones, and only the good, if
there was good, remained.
Smith was killed in 1844 His tak
ing off for a short while agitated the
church. Sidney Rigdon, who was with
Smith, a collaborator with him in
making the Book, and others, aspired
to be his successor, but the “council of
the 12 apostles” elected one of their
own number, Brigham Young, who
at once assumed the duties and re
sponsibilities of the sacred office.
Somehow Mormonism, apparently so
harmonious within itself, provokes all
others with whom it is brought into
contact to bitter antagonism. This
had resulted in the death of “the
prophetand it became evident that
the Mormons must go—must leave
their beautiful city, their marble tem
ple ; for in deference to popularbutcry,
the Legislature of Illinois repealed the
charter of their city; war between the
“Gentiles” and the “Saints” was prac
tically on, and so in 1845, being driven
from their homes, they took up their
march, under leadership of the new
prophet, revelator, president, Brigham
Young, across the plains to Utah,
whither advance explorers bad been
sent; they arrived at their destination
in July, 1847. The following year the
“New Jerusalem,” Salt Lake City, was
founded. Again “the wilderness began
to blossom as the rose.” As by magic,
the country was transformed. No pre
judice should force us to close our eyes
to the facts in this case. Perhaps no
body of colonists ever effected so much
in so short a time, under such trying
circumstances, as was affected by these
“Saints” under the leadership of
Young. An immigration fund was
established, and despite the remoteness
of the region, immigrants began to
pour in from all parts of Europe, and
from every state in the American Un
ion. Peace, plenty, prosperity prevail
ed —and Salt Lake City became a very
Mecca, a sort of half way heaven—-
there were sure betokenments of the
millennial dawn—the holy Jo was in
deed a propbet. In 1850 the Territory
of Utah was admitted to the Union,
A Narrow Eaoaps.
Thankful words written by Mrs. Ada
E. Hart, of Groton, S. D. “Was taken
with a bad cold which settled on my
lungs ;cough set in and finally termi
nated in Consumption. Four doctors
gave me up saying I conld live but a
abort time. 1 gave myself up to my
Savior, determined if I could not stay
with my friends on Mrth, I would
meet my absent ones above- My hus
band was advised to get Dr King’s
New Discovery for Consumption,
Coughs and Colds. I gave it a trial,
took in all eight bottles. It has eared
me, and thank God I am saved and
now a well and healthy woman.” Tria!
bottles free at J. N. Harris <fc Son’s or
Carlisle A Ward’s drug store. Regular
size 50c and SIOO. Guaranteed or
price refunded.
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9ROTIN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER IS. 18#8.
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and Brigham Yquog was rriadk its first
governor—ibe Mormons full
swing.
There is «H> evidence that Jo Smith
ever belief cd in or praettped polyga
my. In the beginning it was paoMbi
ted. But somehow most of the troub
les that arose, after their leaving Objp,
between the “asitrts” and the **<•»-
tiles,” was related to marriage. XMN.
were apspiciaua which were augmsxrif*.
ed by the mysterious doctrines jrf
“sealing wives” which it was claimed
had reference to spiritual marriage
alone. These suspicion's indicate dial
there were grounds for them, although
Jo Smith had never, so far as the evi
dence goes ever practiced or upheld
polygamy,
Shortly after his death however,l
Brigham Young claimed that Smith]
bad declared to him that he (Smith)]
bad received a revelation while at]
Nauvoo, “commanding him to take as I
many wives as God should give him.”]
This was kept a secret however, untffj
in August 1852, this, doctrine was|
proclaimed as a “revelation,” and then
it became a doctrine of the church*
To show his fidelity to ibis doctrine,
Brigham bad at Lis death in 1877;
seventeen wives and fifty six children.
Brigham Young was appointed first
governor of-Utab by President Till
man. Then began the antagonism
between the Mormon hierarchy and
the U. 8. government. There wore ao
“gentiles" worth speaking of for Mor
mons to nettle and disturb, and to be
persecuted by, in Utah; but such is its
perniciousness that it must nettle,
mutt antagonize, must excite to deeds
all with whom it comes io contact.
The persecuted became the persecu
tors. The United States district
judges were driven out. Young was
suspended, and Col. Steptoe, U. 8. A.,
was appointed bis successor, (1854),
“be found it prudent to withdraw.”
Meanwhile collisions were continually
occuriog between the officials ol the
government and the “saints.” In 1856
“all the United Stales officials were
forced to leave.” A new governor was
appointed, and a force of 2,500 troops
sent to sustain him, but the supply
trains were harrassed, and the troops
compelled to winter at some distance
from Salt Lake City. In 1857 an ar
rangement was made whereby “troops
were allowed to encamp” about 40
miles from the city, and the "saints”
submitted tj the government. Let
me say in passing that Dr. A. Con in
Doyle in bis novel, “A Study in Scar
let,” has depicted most graphically
the fearful condition of affaire, the
cruel espionage, the relentless “blood
vengence,” the unspeakable tyranny
over women that was characteristic of
Brigham Young’s administration of
affairs during these times.
The massacre at Mountain Meadow
occurred in 1857, when a company of
Indians arid Mormons, under the
leadership of John D. Lee, a bishop of
tbe church, attacked and massacred
indiscriminately 150 men, women and
children, who formed a train of gentile
emigrants. Tbe loyal “saint” Lee was
hung by the U. 8. government, 20
years afterwards for bis part in this
monumental tragedy, thia epitome of
the spirit of Mormonism in tbe days
when they-bad their own sweet way.
Space prevents an extended survey of
tbe events that mark tbe decline and
fall of polygamy in Utah, if indeed it
has fallen. Law after law was paseed
by congress, pressing harder and
harder upon this their legalized .relic
of barbarism—a plurality of wives
which was justified from tbe Bible.
Tbe snake is scotched Mormons
must be subject to tbe laws of the
country—history just here is part of
the history of the government in its
efforts to bring into perfect subjection
to law these people who are restrained
from (be practice of an article of religs
ion, “a divine revelaliobs,” a crime
against God and women, only by tbe
strong arm of tbe law—if indeed they
be restrained. Those who were brought
before the U. 8. courts on tbe charge
of polygamy, “perjured themselves in
99'per cext of-tbe eases ” -Whether
polygamy is still practiced by tbe
Mormons is like tbe question whether
liquor is sold in Griffin—NO!
The late President, Wiiford Wood
ruff, has said that bis “promise to re
frain from plural marriages has been
faithfully kept.” But all marriages
are performed in the temples into
which no Gentiles may enter; all cer
emonies are secret and oathbound; all
records are secret; perjury, perjury,
everywhere. (Tbe records of the casee
before V. 8 courts prove this). In 1886
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a paper war presented to President
Cleveland by tbe Hon. John I. Caine,
(representative io Congress from Utah,
[which was a “Declaration of Griev
lances and protest” against the prose
taution of polygamists, in which it was
set forth: “That plural marriage Is a
Vital part of-our religion." The Utah
Commission to the Secretary of the In
terior io 1884, declare that: “This ar
ticle of their faith is as much an es
sential part ol their creed as their
belief in baptism, or repentance.” Can
it be possible that in these few. years
|K|b a change has come over tbe spir
it of the dreams of many still living,
as that what was vital to religion then
has, under compulsion, ceased to be
vital T
.Mormonism is what it claims to
have become, altogether, and only be
cause it was forced into it. Can con
science be forced by human authority
into submission to tbe decrees of court!
Tbeconscience of Wilfod Woodruff was
of more pliable stuff than was that of
bis predecessor who never budged an
inch, from bis so called convictions on
religious matters. Jo Smith was not
all that he should have been, but no
court could have made him recant.
TKf spirit of heroism forbids recants- ,
tion. Recantation under compulsion
is tbe output of a craven heart. The '
testimony of gentiles is that polygamy
ieWFon tbe “blind tiger” principle I
evep yet among tbe Mormons.
[To be Continued.]
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