White mobs killed nearly fifty Negroes over the next three days. The Constitution’s banner headlines included “Governor Calls All Troops Out,” “Chased Negroes All the Night,” “Too Much Talk Was His Doom,” “Riot’s End All Depends on Negroes,” “He Used a Dead Body to Ward Off Bullets,” and a sidebar from Delaware called “Whip with Nine Thongs Avenges White Women Assaulted by Negro.”
