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Excerpt from A Statement of Facts Concerning the Bloody Riot in Wilmington, N. C., Of Interest to Every Citizen of the United States The white people - ef Wilmington intended to remove all the able leaders of the colored race, stating that to do so would. Leave them better and obedient servants among the Negroes; and all'the better class -of the colored citi zens were driven from the city, showing to the World that they were not after the criminal and ignorant class of Negroes, but the professional and business men. The whites claim that Dr. T. S. Lee, D. D., Rev. Dr. J. Allen Kirk, and lawyer 7. E. Henderson were the strongest forces at the head of their race in the city. These and many others with them were driven and sent away from the city. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.