Hanover； Or The Persecution of the Lowly： A Story of the Wilmington Massacre
Chapter 16. Tempting Negroes To Return
Jack Thorne
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_ CHAPTER XVI. Tempting Negroes to Return
Wilmington Officials Scouring the Woods for Refugees--Want Them to Return and Go to Work. Special to The World.
Wilmington, N. C., Nov. 13.--Affairs are settling down to their normal condition here. Chief of Police Edgar G. Parmle and several representatives of the new city government drove out ten miles on the various roads leading from the city to-day, to induce the refugee Negroes to come back.
City officials also attended the colored churches and urged the pastors and their people to go into the woods to induce the frightened Negroes to return and resume their work.
The pastors of the white churches referred to the riot in their sermons to-day. The burden of the discourses was that the struggle at the polls Tuesday was for liberty, decency, honesty and right; that it was not so much the drawing of the color line as a contest for the supremacy of intelligence and competence over ignorance, incompetence and debauchery.
Dr. Hoge, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, who recently preached in the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York, and was mentioned as Dr. Hall's successor, took as his text: "He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city."
"We have done both," he said. "We have taken a city. That is much, but it is more because it is our own city that we have taken."
Dr. Hoge justified the movement which led to the change of government. _