The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-07-08
Miscellaneous.
[FrOm the Toledo Blade.
NASBY.
Mr.. Nasby Nurses the New Labor
Movement at the COrners-ThG
Result in an Individual Case.

I ~ AkDIl
! Ir. NasDy Nurses the New Labor
Movement at the COrners-ThG
Result in am Individual Case.
PosT OFF1s, CoNFEDRIT X ROADS,
4 (Wich is in the State Nv Kentucky,
June g., 1859.
The agitashen Nv the question nv mig
gers labrin with white men in Washing
ton, reached the Corners four weeks ago,
and perdOOst, ez might hev bin expected,
l most profound feelin. Our white artizans
assembled to-wunst and passed resOfOo-
shens in sympathy with their brethren in
Washington, and urgin Nv EN- to hold out
/ to the bitter end rather than compromise
/ their dignity by lowerin themselves to the
! level Nv the greasy Afril1en. The meetin
wUznt a large one, for we hev only five
mechanics Nv the hawty Caucashen race at
the Corners, but it wuz enthusiastic.
I Three ny the five he'd bin at Basconl's for
four days, hevin bin jist paid of by new
conner for house they he'd repaired for
] him, and they WUz in a frame Nv mind for
most any thing that wuz eggseitin.
/ Idirected the attenshUn of these men to
the fact that nigger plasterer Wuz even
at that tinfe employed in plasterin house
on the State road, Between the Corners and
GarrettstOwn, and askt EN- if they wuz
/ content to lay still and see an inferior race
take the bread ont nv their mouths in that
way7 I implored EN- ez a labrin man to
! preserve the dignity nv labor. Shell mig
I gers invade yOor okkepashens?
They Wuznt none Nv em plasterers, but
/ they replied, "Never! Never!" and de-
manded with the utmost promtitoOd to be
showed the wretch, that they might go for
him. But L restrained EN- till he'd Or
ganized EN- into Free Labor Unyun,
wich perhibited anybody from workiu at
anything wich didn't jine it, and wich per-
hibited niggers from jinin it. This pre-
| liminary work accomplished, 1 remarked,
"fOllOw me ~ They did it with alacrity.
On reachin the house we halted, and
/ there our eyes rested onto a site Wich
blarsted EN-. There wuz a niger, a full
| bloOded nigger, with cap onto him, and
Overalls, plasterin away, Whistlin and
singin (sumtimess sone, sumtimes another,
and then agin both to-wunstl Methodist
hymns. And ever and anon the unthinkin
man Of inleriority wood stop and execoote
breakdown, and Ian to hisself, so that
/ he Good be heard mile. The disgustin
wretch displayed his grovelin nacher by
drinkin water out nv a bucket wich he
he'd handy by him, -rI "a
We made short work nv it. We in
] formed him that the labeFers Nv the Corn
ers he'd organized Union, and that no
one could be permitted to work within its
boundaries ceptin members thereof.
"Berry well % remarl1t the Afrikin cuss,
| calmly putin on a dab nv mortar and
smOOthin it, '.berry well ! III jine the
! Yoonyun."
"But you can't. No nigger kin be ad-
mitted."
"Den speck shell hev to go on and
work widOut bein member. De ole wO-
man and de babies must hab dar bread, yOo
know"
Sioh insolence Good not nv course be toll
Grated. We he'd stated the case to him
calmly and dispassionately. We he'd in
formed him Nv the laws we he'd made, and
this wretch deliberately defed us by in
sistin that he shOod go on with his work
Their wu8 but one course to take, and we
took it. We snaked the platform out
from under him, we tore up his mortar
bed, we broke his trOwel and other tools,
and notified him ofishelly that any at
tempt at resuming work wood result in
lynchin Nv him. = ~ 81 -..s-s
The next day we found that the nigger
he'd in trOoth quit plasterin, but he'd found
employment ez a striker in a blacksmith
shop. Nv course sich an outrage on the
pure Caucashen employed in that shop.
wich his name was O'Toole, Good not be
permitted, and ez O'Toole refoosed to
work with him, he wuz discharged. The
next day notist him on the streets rather
pale and baggard than otherwise, carryin
home a shin bone Nv beef wich he he'd
bought. The next day afterward I OBJ
served that he lookt better, and dislliv-
cred that he he'd found employment at
last on a turnpike road wich is bein built
east Nv the town. Issalzer Gavitt and me,
the two companions Nv labor for this sec
ton (ez we don't work we hev time to at
tend to it,, sejested to the noble Celts en-
ploved on the job, the hidjusnus nv COM
pellin EN- to work on an ekality with
nigger, and they struck agin it with the