MORE NEGRO SCOUNDRELISM

Black Beasts Attempt to Outrage the Young Daughter of a Respectable Farmer.

HER FATHER SWEARS TO IT

Attacked on the Public Highway in Brunswick County While Returning From Sunday School – Her Screams Saved Her From a Fate Worse Than Death.

(Wilmington Star.)

JOSEPH GORE IS AN HONEST AND RESPECTABLE FARMER OF THE COUNTY OF BRUNSWICK – POOR IN THIS WORLD’S GOODS, BUT ESTEEMED BY HIS NEIGHBORS. HE HAS A WIFE AND CHILDREN, AND THERE IS A CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL NEAR HIS HOME WHICH ARE ATTENDED BY HIS FAMILY. BUT HE LIVES IN A TOWNSHIP WHERE THE NEGROES OUTNUMBER THE WHITES MORE THAN THREE TO ONE. THIS, COUPLED WITH THE FACT, NO DOUBT, THAT BRUNSWICK COUNTY IS UNDER REPUBLICAN-FUSION RULE. EMBOLDENED TWO BEASTLY NEGROES TO MAKE AT AN ATTEMPT TO OUTRAGE A YOUNG GIRL ON THE PUBLIC ROAD, AS NARRATED IN THE FOLLOWING AFFIDAVIT:

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA,

COUNTY OF BRUNSWICK

PERSONALLY APPEARED BEFORE ME, GEO. H, BELLAMY, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE FOR TOWN CREEK BRUNSWICK COUNTY. JOSEPH GORE, WHO BEING DULY SWORN, STATES: “SOME DAYS AGO MY DAUGHTER, AGED 15 YEARS, WAS RETURNING FROM SUNDAY SCHOOL, ACCOMPANIED BY HER LITTLE BROTHER, AGED 12 YEARS, ABOUT 3 O’CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON, WHEN ABOUT A QUARTER OF A MILE FROM HOME, TWO NEGRO BOYS, AGED ABOUT 16 TO 18 YEARS, RAN AFTER MY DAUGHTER, WITH THEIR COATS TURNED OVER THEIR HEADS TO CONCEAL THEIR IDENTITY, AND ATTEMPTED TO TAKE HOLD OF HER, AND DOUBTLESS WOULD HAVI PLACED THEIR UNHOLY HANDS ON HER PERSON; AND HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR HER SCREAMS, WOULD HAVE DOUBTLESS ACCOMPLISHED THEIR PURPOSE. THIS WAS DONE IN TOWN CREEK TOWNSHIP, IN BROAD DAYLIGHT. THE VILLAINS HAVE NOT YET BEEN DETECTED.

(SIGNED.).      “JOSEPH GORE.”

SIGNED AND SWORN TO BEFORE ME, THIS 19TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, A. D., 1898.    GEO, H. BELLAMY, J. P.

WHITE MEN OF BRUNSWICK COUNTY, CAN YOU STAND THAT? IS THERE ONE LEFT IN THE BORDERS OF YOUR COUNTY WHO WILL NOT NOW VOTE AGAINST EVERY CANDIDATE WHO CONSORTS WITH NEGROES, AND WHO IS DEPENDENT ON THEM FOR ELECTION? HAS IT COME TO THIS, THAT YOUR DAUGHTERS CANNOT ATTEND CHURCH OR SUNDAY SCHOOL WITHOUT HAVING A BODY-GUARD TO PROTECT THEM FROM THE LUSTFUL BLACK BRUTES WHO ROAM THROUGH YOUR COUNTY?

RISE IN YOUR MIGHT, WHITE MEN OF BRUNSWICK. ASSERT YOUR MANHOOD. GO TO THE POLLS AND HELP STAMP OUT THE LAST VESTIGE OF REPUBLICAN-POPULIST-NEGRO FUSION.