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An account of the African

Americans who had to flee

Wilmington

In 1898 Wilmington North

Carolina located in eastern

Carolina where the Cape Fear River

enters into the Atlantic Ocean was

a prosperous port town Almost two-

thirds of its population was black

with a small but significant middle

class Black businessmen dominated

the restaurant and barbershop trade

and owned tailor shops and drug

stores Many black people held jobs

as firemen policemen and civil

servants A good feeling between

the races existed as long as white Democrats controlled the state

politically But when a coalition of predominately white Populists and

black Republicans defeated the Democrats in 1896 and won political

control of the state Democrats vowed revenge in 1898 For many

Democrats black

political power no matter how limited was

intolerable Daniel Schenck a party leader

warned It will be the meanest vilest

dirtiest campaign since 1876 The slogan of the

Democratic Party from the mountains to the sea

will be but one word Nigger The Democrats

launched their campaign by appealing

to the deepest fear of whites -- that white women were in danger from

black males The white newspaper in Wilmington published an inflammatory

speech given by Rebecca Felton a Georgia feminist a year earlier If

it requires lynching to protect womans dearest possession from

ravening drunken human beasts then I say lynch a thousand negroes a

week if it is necessary The article infuriated Alex Manly a

Wilmington African-American newspaper editor He replied by writing an

editorial sarcastically noting that many of these so-called lynchings

for rapes were cover-ups for the discovery of consensual interracial

sexual relations The Manly article fueled raging fires White radicals

vowed to win the election by any means possible Although black voters

turned out in large numbers Democrats stuffed the ballot boxes and

swept to victory throughout the state But in Wilmington the political

victory did not soften white fury Whites staged a coup dtat anddrove all black officeholders out of office A mob set Manlys newspaper

office on fire and a riot erupted Whites began to gun down blacks on

the streets Harry Hayden one of the

rioters stated that many of the mob

were respectable citizens The Men who

took down their shotguns and cleared the

Negroes out of office yesterday were not

a mob of plug uglies They were men of

property intelligence culture

clergyman lawyers bankers merchants

They are not a mob They are

revolutionists asserting a sacred

privilege and a right By the next day

the killing ended Officially twenty-

five blacks died But hundreds more may

have been killed their bodies dumped

into the river

-- Richard Wormser

Choose another event

See an excerpt of Alex

Manlys inflammatory

editorial in this

broadsheet called The

Negro and His White

Allies

Democratic Party

Republican Party

Populist Party

Atlanta Riot

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Rebecca Latimer Felton who died in 1930 at the age of ninety-four lived a life that was as full as it was

long A writer and tireless campaigner for Progressive Era reforms especially womens rights she was

the first woman to serve in the US Senate

Rebecca Ann Latimer was born on June 10 1835 the daughter of Charles Latimer a DeKalb County

merchant and planter and his wife Eleanor Swift Latimer When the young Latimer graduated at the

top of her class in 1852 from Madison Female College in Madison the commencement speaker was

William H Felton a recently widowed state legislator physician Methodist minister and planter in

Bartow County A year later the valedictorian and the speaker were married and Rebecca Felton

moved to her husbands farm just north of Cartersville Of the five children born to the couple only

one Howard Erwin survived childhood

In 1874 William Felton ran for the Seventh Congressional District seat from Georgia as an Independent

Democrat He had been a Whig before the Civil War (1861-65) as had the Latimers and neither he

nor Rebecca Felton who served as his campaign manager cared for the so-called Bourbon

Democrats who had taken control of the state in the early 1870s William Felton won that election and

then the next two serving three terms (1875-81) in the US Congress From 1884 to 1890 he served

another three terms in the state legislature

It is important to begin a discussion of Rebecca Feltons career by talking about her husband for two

reasons First she entered the public arena through her husbands political career She became more

than just a campaign manager She polished his speeches and wrote

dozens of newspaper articles both signed and unsigned on his behalf

She helped draft the bills that he introduced in the state legislature In

1885 the Feltons bought a Cartersville newspaper which she ran for a

year and a half to promote her husband She was undoubtedly his biggest

and most effective supporter William Feltons constituents sometimes

bragged that they were getting two representatives for the price of one

Not everyone liked the arrangement however A fellow legislator

speaking from the assembly floor called Felton the political she of

Georgia an unflattering characterization that greatly angered the

husband and wife team

Second until late in her life Felton herself saw her career as tied completely to her husbands In 1911

two years after his death she published My Memoirs of Georgia Politics a long and tedious volume

written according to the title page by Mrs William H Felton The book details her husbands political

battles denouncing those who worked against him

Perhaps more than she realized the years with her husband developed her political skills and

introduced her to the friends and enemies that would define much of the rest of her political life Chief

among these was her lifelong animosity toward John B Gordon the Confederate general turned

politician and businessman who had she felt worked against her husband for his own selfish gain In

her scrapbooks she kept letters clippings and other items detailing the Feltons battles with Gordon

and others annotating them with remarks such as consummate liar and lest I forget

Although Felton never rose completely above these personal animosities her career after her

husbands retirement in the 1890s (about the time she turned sixty) was marked more by her own

desires for reform Through speeches and her writings she helped to effect statewide prohibition and

to bring an end to the convict lease system a system of leasing cheap labor to private companies

which often maintained the convicts in substandard and even inhumane conditions Both were achieved

in 1908 She supported the state university against its opponentsmdashthe churchshyaffiliated colleges and

those who felt that the states limited funds should be directed toward improving public schools below

the college level She also spoke out to chapters of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and

others for vocational education opportunities for poor white girls in the state Not until the early

twentieth century did Felton embrace the reform with which she is most associated woman suffrage

She became the Souths best known and most effective champion of womens right to vote In 1915

writer Corra Harris a fellow Georgian published a novel about woman suffrage entitled The Co-

Citizens which features a protagonist based loosely on Felton

In 1899 Felton began writing for the semiweekly edition of the Atlanta Journal an edition started by

publisher Hoke Smith to appeal to the states rural readers The Country Home was a far-ranging

column that included everything from homemaking advice to Feltons opinions on almost anything One

historian described it as a cross between a modern-day Dear Abby and Hints from Heloise The

column which continued for more than two decades provided the most direct link rural Georgians had

with Felton

Felton was also known for her conservative racial views In an 1897 speech she said that the biggest

problem facing women on the farm was the danger of black rapists If it takes lynching to protect

womens dearest possession from drunken ravening beasts she said then I say lynch a thousand a

week She condemned anyone who dared to question the Souths racial policies when Andrew Sledd

a professor at Emory College did just that in an article published in 1902 in the Atlantic Monthly she

was instrumental in forcing his resignation from the school

Felton is perhaps best remembered today as the first woman in the US

Senate When Senator Thomas E Watson died on September 26 1922

Governor Thomas Hardwick appointed a replacement to serve until a

special election could be held Hardwick pointed out that his appointee

would not actually serve because Congress was not in session when

Watson died and the next session would not begin until after the special

election

Hardwick himself wanted to be a senator and he knew that the person he

appointed would have a real advantage (as incumbent) in the special

election So rather than give an edge to a potential opponent and to get

on the good side of Georgias newly enfranchised women voters (whom he had offended by opposing

the Nineteenth Amendment) Hardwick appointed the eighty-seven-year-old Felton on October 3

Hardwick lost the special election two weeks later to Walter F George When the session opened

George allowed Felton to present her credentials before he claimed his seat She was sworn in at noon

on November 21 The next morning she made a speech thanking the Senate for allowing her to be

sworn in and noting that the women who followed her would serve with ability integrity of purpose

and unstinted usefulness Senator-elect George was then sworn in Feltons term had lasted for just

twenty-four hours

Rebecca Felton was an interesting figure in some ways she was very progressive an exceptional

Georgian in other ways she was very much a person of her time and place She died on January 24

1930 and is buried in Cartersvilles Oak Hill Cemetery The Rose Lawn Musuem in Cartersville honors

the memory of Felton as well as that of Sam Jones the well-known nineteenth-century preacher from

Bartow County

In 1997 Felton was inducted into Georgia Women of Achievement

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Joel Hurt (1850-1926)

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Further Reading

A Louise Staman Loosening Corsets The Heroic Life of Georgias Feisty Mrs Felton First

Woman Senator of the United States (Macon Ga Tiger Iron Press 2006)

John E Talmadge Rebecca Latimer Felton Nine Stormy Decades (Athens University of Georgia

Press 1960)

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Rebecca Latimer Felton who died in 1930 at the age of ninety-four lived a life that was as full as it was

long A writer and tireless campaigner for Progressive Era reforms especially womens rights she was

the first woman to serve in the US Senate

Rebecca Ann Latimer was born on June 10 1835 the daughter of Charles Latimer a DeKalb County

merchant and planter and his wife Eleanor Swift Latimer When the young Latimer graduated at the

top of her class in 1852 from Madison Female College in Madison the commencement speaker was

William H Felton a recently widowed state legislator physician Methodist minister and planter in

Bartow County A year later the valedictorian and the speaker were married and Rebecca Felton

moved to her husbands farm just north of Cartersville Of the five children born to the couple only

one Howard Erwin survived childhood

In 1874 William Felton ran for the Seventh Congressional District seat from Georgia as an Independent

Democrat He had been a Whig before the Civil War (1861-65) as had the Latimers and neither he

nor Rebecca Felton who served as his campaign manager cared for the so-called Bourbon

Democrats who had taken control of the state in the early 1870s William Felton won that election and

then the next two serving three terms (1875-81) in the US Congress From 1884 to 1890 he served

another three terms in the state legislature

It is important to begin a discussion of Rebecca Feltons career by talking about her husband for two

reasons First she entered the public arena through her husbands political career She became more

than just a campaign manager She polished his speeches and wrote

dozens of newspaper articles both signed and unsigned on his behalf

She helped draft the bills that he introduced in the state legislature In

1885 the Feltons bought a Cartersville newspaper which she ran for a

year and a half to promote her husband She was undoubtedly his biggest

and most effective supporter William Feltons constituents sometimes

bragged that they were getting two representatives for the price of one

Not everyone liked the arrangement however A fellow legislator

speaking from the assembly floor called Felton the political she of

Georgia an unflattering characterization that greatly angered the

husband and wife team

Second until late in her life Felton herself saw her career as tied completely to her husbands In 1911

two years after his death she published My Memoirs of Georgia Politics a long and tedious volume

written according to the title page by Mrs William H Felton The book details her husbands political

battles denouncing those who worked against him

Perhaps more than she realized the years with her husband developed her political skills and

introduced her to the friends and enemies that would define much of the rest of her political life Chief

among these was her lifelong animosity toward John B Gordon the Confederate general turned

politician and businessman who had she felt worked against her husband for his own selfish gain In

her scrapbooks she kept letters clippings and other items detailing the Feltons battles with Gordon

and others annotating them with remarks such as consummate liar and lest I forget

Although Felton never rose completely above these personal animosities her career after her

husbands retirement in the 1890s (about the time she turned sixty) was marked more by her own

desires for reform Through speeches and her writings she helped to effect statewide prohibition and

to bring an end to the convict lease system a system of leasing cheap labor to private companies

which often maintained the convicts in substandard and even inhumane conditions Both were achieved

in 1908 She supported the state university against its opponentsmdashthe churchshyaffiliated colleges and

those who felt that the states limited funds should be directed toward improving public schools below

the college level She also spoke out to chapters of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and

others for vocational education opportunities for poor white girls in the state Not until the early

twentieth century did Felton embrace the reform with which she is most associated woman suffrage

She became the Souths best known and most effective champion of womens right to vote In 1915

writer Corra Harris a fellow Georgian published a novel about woman suffrage entitled The Co-

Citizens which features a protagonist based loosely on Felton

In 1899 Felton began writing for the semiweekly edition of the Atlanta Journal an edition started by

publisher Hoke Smith to appeal to the states rural readers The Country Home was a far-ranging

column that included everything from homemaking advice to Feltons opinions on almost anything One

historian described it as a cross between a modern-day Dear Abby and Hints from Heloise The

column which continued for more than two decades provided the most direct link rural Georgians had

with Felton

Felton was also known for her conservative racial views In an 1897 speech she said that the biggest

problem facing women on the farm was the danger of black rapists If it takes lynching to protect

womens dearest possession from drunken ravening beasts she said then I say lynch a thousand a

week She condemned anyone who dared to question the Souths racial policies when Andrew Sledd

a professor at Emory College did just that in an article published in 1902 in the Atlantic Monthly she

was instrumental in forcing his resignation from the school

Felton is perhaps best remembered today as the first woman in the US

Senate When Senator Thomas E Watson died on September 26 1922

Governor Thomas Hardwick appointed a replacement to serve until a

special election could be held Hardwick pointed out that his appointee

would not actually serve because Congress was not in session when

Watson died and the next session would not begin until after the special

election

Hardwick himself wanted to be a senator and he knew that the person he

appointed would have a real advantage (as incumbent) in the special

election So rather than give an edge to a potential opponent and to get

on the good side of Georgias newly enfranchised women voters (whom he had offended by opposing

the Nineteenth Amendment) Hardwick appointed the eighty-seven-year-old Felton on October 3

Hardwick lost the special election two weeks later to Walter F George When the session opened

George allowed Felton to present her credentials before he claimed his seat She was sworn in at noon

on November 21 The next morning she made a speech thanking the Senate for allowing her to be

sworn in and noting that the women who followed her would serve with ability integrity of purpose

and unstinted usefulness Senator-elect George was then sworn in Feltons term had lasted for just

twenty-four hours

Rebecca Felton was an interesting figure in some ways she was very progressive an exceptional

Georgian in other ways she was very much a person of her time and place She died on January 24

1930 and is buried in Cartersvilles Oak Hill Cemetery The Rose Lawn Musuem in Cartersville honors

the memory of Felton as well as that of Sam Jones the well-known nineteenth-century preacher from

Bartow County

In 1997 Felton was inducted into Georgia Women of Achievement

Rebecca Latimer Felton (1835-1930)Original entry by David B Parker Kennesaw State University 05142003

Last edited by NGE Staff on 01152015

Environmental History of

Georgia Overview Updated

061215

Wesberry v Sanders (1964)

Updated 061215

Student Movements of the

1960s Updated 061215

Civil Rights Movement

Updated 061215

June in Georgia

HistoryA number ofsignificant historicalevents haveoccurred in

BarbecueBarbecue(barbeque BBQBarBQ) is a popularcooking method

Corra Harris (1869-1935)

Mary Latimer McLendon (1840-1921)

John B Gordon (1832-1904)

Art AcrossGeorgia

Fall in NorthGeorgia

Seven NaturalWonders ofGeorgia

Ten Major CivilWar Sites inGeorgia

Joel Hurt (1850-1926)

Henry Tift (1841-1922)

Ellen Axson Wilson (1860-1914)

James Blount (1837-1903)

Further Reading

A Louise Staman Loosening Corsets The Heroic Life of Georgias Feisty Mrs Felton First

Woman Senator of the United States (Macon Ga Tiger Iron Press 2006)

John E Talmadge Rebecca Latimer Felton Nine Stormy Decades (Athens University of Georgia

Press 1960)

Cite This Article More from the Web

Wrightsboroug

h

David Emanuel

(ca 1744-1808)

Grant Park James

Jackson (1757-

1806)

Arts amp Culture Government amp Politics

Business amp Economy History amp Archaeology

Counties Cities amp Neighborhoods Science amp Medicine

Education Sports amp Outdoor Recreation

Geography amp Environment People

The Chattooga River descends

rapidly from the Blue Ridge

geologic province and forms the

majority of Georgias northeast

bound

Read more

Louise Suggs was one of the

charter members of the Ladies

Professional Golf Association

(LPGA) and her competitiveness

accuracy

Read more

The Reverend Howard Finster

emerged from the rural

Appalachian culture of northeast

Alabama and northwest Georgia

to become one of Americas most

important creative personalities in

the last quart

The first dairy cows arrived in

Georgia with James Edward

Oglethorpe the founder of the

colony in the early 1700s

Read more

Civil Rights

Movement

Lynching Albany Civil

Rights Institut

William B

Hartsfield

(1890-1971)

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Rebecca LatimerFelton

Inauguration ofRebecca LatimerFelton

Rebecca Latimer Felton who died in 1930 at the age of ninety-four lived a life that was as full as it was

long A writer and tireless campaigner for Progressive Era reforms especially womens rights she was

the first woman to serve in the US Senate

Rebecca Ann Latimer was born on June 10 1835 the daughter of Charles Latimer a DeKalb County

merchant and planter and his wife Eleanor Swift Latimer When the young Latimer graduated at the

top of her class in 1852 from Madison Female College in Madison the commencement speaker was

William H Felton a recently widowed state legislator physician Methodist minister and planter in

Bartow County A year later the valedictorian and the speaker were married and Rebecca Felton

moved to her husbands farm just north of Cartersville Of the five children born to the couple only

one Howard Erwin survived childhood

In 1874 William Felton ran for the Seventh Congressional District seat from Georgia as an Independent

Democrat He had been a Whig before the Civil War (1861-65) as had the Latimers and neither he

nor Rebecca Felton who served as his campaign manager cared for the so-called Bourbon

Democrats who had taken control of the state in the early 1870s William Felton won that election and

then the next two serving three terms (1875-81) in the US Congress From 1884 to 1890 he served

another three terms in the state legislature

It is important to begin a discussion of Rebecca Feltons career by talking about her husband for two

reasons First she entered the public arena through her husbands political career She became more

than just a campaign manager She polished his speeches and wrote

dozens of newspaper articles both signed and unsigned on his behalf

She helped draft the bills that he introduced in the state legislature In

1885 the Feltons bought a Cartersville newspaper which she ran for a

year and a half to promote her husband She was undoubtedly his biggest

and most effective supporter William Feltons constituents sometimes

bragged that they were getting two representatives for the price of one

Not everyone liked the arrangement however A fellow legislator

speaking from the assembly floor called Felton the political she of

Georgia an unflattering characterization that greatly angered the

husband and wife team

Second until late in her life Felton herself saw her career as tied completely to her husbands In 1911

two years after his death she published My Memoirs of Georgia Politics a long and tedious volume

written according to the title page by Mrs William H Felton The book details her husbands political

battles denouncing those who worked against him

Perhaps more than she realized the years with her husband developed her political skills and

introduced her to the friends and enemies that would define much of the rest of her political life Chief

among these was her lifelong animosity toward John B Gordon the Confederate general turned

politician and businessman who had she felt worked against her husband for his own selfish gain In

her scrapbooks she kept letters clippings and other items detailing the Feltons battles with Gordon

and others annotating them with remarks such as consummate liar and lest I forget

Although Felton never rose completely above these personal animosities her career after her

husbands retirement in the 1890s (about the time she turned sixty) was marked more by her own

desires for reform Through speeches and her writings she helped to effect statewide prohibition and

to bring an end to the convict lease system a system of leasing cheap labor to private companies

which often maintained the convicts in substandard and even inhumane conditions Both were achieved

in 1908 She supported the state university against its opponentsmdashthe churchshyaffiliated colleges and

those who felt that the states limited funds should be directed toward improving public schools below

the college level She also spoke out to chapters of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and

others for vocational education opportunities for poor white girls in the state Not until the early

twentieth century did Felton embrace the reform with which she is most associated woman suffrage

She became the Souths best known and most effective champion of womens right to vote In 1915

writer Corra Harris a fellow Georgian published a novel about woman suffrage entitled The Co-

Citizens which features a protagonist based loosely on Felton

In 1899 Felton began writing for the semiweekly edition of the Atlanta Journal an edition started by

publisher Hoke Smith to appeal to the states rural readers The Country Home was a far-ranging

column that included everything from homemaking advice to Feltons opinions on almost anything One

historian described it as a cross between a modern-day Dear Abby and Hints from Heloise The

column which continued for more than two decades provided the most direct link rural Georgians had

with Felton

Felton was also known for her conservative racial views In an 1897 speech she said that the biggest

problem facing women on the farm was the danger of black rapists If it takes lynching to protect

womens dearest possession from drunken ravening beasts she said then I say lynch a thousand a

week She condemned anyone who dared to question the Souths racial policies when Andrew Sledd

a professor at Emory College did just that in an article published in 1902 in the Atlantic Monthly she

was instrumental in forcing his resignation from the school

Felton is perhaps best remembered today as the first woman in the US

Senate When Senator Thomas E Watson died on September 26 1922

Governor Thomas Hardwick appointed a replacement to serve until a

special election could be held Hardwick pointed out that his appointee

would not actually serve because Congress was not in session when

Watson died and the next session would not begin until after the special

election

Hardwick himself wanted to be a senator and he knew that the person he

appointed would have a real advantage (as incumbent) in the special

election So rather than give an edge to a potential opponent and to get

on the good side of Georgias newly enfranchised women voters (whom he had offended by opposing

the Nineteenth Amendment) Hardwick appointed the eighty-seven-year-old Felton on October 3

Hardwick lost the special election two weeks later to Walter F George When the session opened

George allowed Felton to present her credentials before he claimed his seat She was sworn in at noon

on November 21 The next morning she made a speech thanking the Senate for allowing her to be

sworn in and noting that the women who followed her would serve with ability integrity of purpose

and unstinted usefulness Senator-elect George was then sworn in Feltons term had lasted for just

twenty-four hours

Rebecca Felton was an interesting figure in some ways she was very progressive an exceptional

Georgian in other ways she was very much a person of her time and place She died on January 24

1930 and is buried in Cartersvilles Oak Hill Cemetery The Rose Lawn Musuem in Cartersville honors

the memory of Felton as well as that of Sam Jones the well-known nineteenth-century preacher from

Bartow County

In 1997 Felton was inducted into Georgia Women of Achievement

Rebecca Latimer Felton (1835-1930)Original entry by David B Parker Kennesaw State University 05142003

Last edited by NGE Staff on 01152015

Environmental History of

Georgia Overview Updated

061215

Wesberry v Sanders (1964)

Updated 061215

Student Movements of the

1960s Updated 061215

Civil Rights Movement

Updated 061215

June in Georgia

HistoryA number ofsignificant historicalevents haveoccurred in

BarbecueBarbecue(barbeque BBQBarBQ) is a popularcooking method

Corra Harris (1869-1935)

Mary Latimer McLendon (1840-1921)

John B Gordon (1832-1904)

Art AcrossGeorgia

Fall in NorthGeorgia

Seven NaturalWonders ofGeorgia

Ten Major CivilWar Sites inGeorgia

Joel Hurt (1850-1926)

Henry Tift (1841-1922)

Ellen Axson Wilson (1860-1914)

James Blount (1837-1903)

Further Reading

A Louise Staman Loosening Corsets The Heroic Life of Georgias Feisty Mrs Felton First

Woman Senator of the United States (Macon Ga Tiger Iron Press 2006)

John E Talmadge Rebecca Latimer Felton Nine Stormy Decades (Athens University of Georgia

Press 1960)

Cite This Article More from the Web

Wrightsboroug

h

David Emanuel

(ca 1744-1808)

Grant Park James

Jackson (1757-

1806)

Arts amp Culture Government amp Politics

Business amp Economy History amp Archaeology

Counties Cities amp Neighborhoods Science amp Medicine

Education Sports amp Outdoor Recreation

Geography amp Environment People

The Chattooga River descends

rapidly from the Blue Ridge

geologic province and forms the

majority of Georgias northeast

bound

Read more

Louise Suggs was one of the

charter members of the Ladies

Professional Golf Association

(LPGA) and her competitiveness

accuracy

Read more

The Reverend Howard Finster

emerged from the rural

Appalachian culture of northeast

Alabama and northwest Georgia

to become one of Americas most

important creative personalities in

the last quart

The first dairy cows arrived in

Georgia with James Edward

Oglethorpe the founder of the

colony in the early 1700s

Read more

Civil Rights

Movement

Lynching Albany Civil

Rights Institut

William B

Hartsfield

(1890-1971)

Facebook

Twitter

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with the University of Georgia Press the University System of

GeorgiaGALILEO and the Office of the Governor

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