what they did was basically stole the election from inmidation, shotguns at the polling booth, stealing ballot boxes and leading up to that we had a war of words. a war of words took an interesting turn. there are kinds of anti-black speeches all all over the state the famous orator, was an x federal kernel. there was another piece of writing the featured primacy. alexander manley published a newspaper that he billed as the first afro-american called the daily record. it was sort of a newspaper for the community within a community. it was ignored by the white community. in an editorial in august of 1898 he was responding to a speech given by rebecca felter who was the wife of a congressman, she ended up in congress by herself. she said the greatest danger to white farm wife across this was being raped by black men. if it took lynching a thousand of them, then so be it. there's always been a little bit of doubt as to whether manley wrote the editorial himself but in the editorial mrs. dalton from georgia makes a speech before the agricultural society in tybee georgia in which she advocat