Dancy was worried that blacks in Wilmington would meet violence with more violence. The next morning, November 11, he wrote a letter to the Wilmington Messenger. Every good citizen of this city regrets the difficulties of the past two days. Every good citizen is also anxious that perfect peace be restored at once. I therefore appeal to my own race to do nothing that will in the slightest degree inflame new passions or revive old ones. Let us be quiet, orderly, submissive
