| Show I 1 EDITOR MANLEYS MANLEY predicament the action of the white mob in la wilmington WU N C was reprehensible i and the resolutions demanding the resignation ot of the mayor mayor of the city and tile the chief of pol police ice together with the virtual eon confiscation fisca of the property of the wit in ington record and the exile of its itis editor outrageous for our part pan we would not leave the man or men who would extend such an invitation to us in this sity would find that repeating rifles can be purchased by bv colored as welt well as white and that the old english declaration that every maua mans home n is hiss his castle holds hold good in in our case the record for weeks has had I 1 no editorial matter and this has been taken as an evidence of cowardice when we buy presses and pay for them we will make our lied bed in our office and dig a trench in the cellar where our body may rest after we have been murde murdered red by bv the lawless elements who escape the affect of our repeating nafle colored men must defend their homes hem kill a few of their murderers and then send up a prayer to god just before they leave for the unknown count country rv lawless mobs must face bullets ano and editorial catiz citizens ns of color anat have their guns loaded and their passports to heaven signed before the ithe attack is is made upon their journalistic possessions colored men when the state and national governments do not pro hect us we must defend ourselves and not be afraid of the shotgun the gibbet and the stake in in so sc doing white men will then respect you von and your race mee glorified lynch law must go planet |
