The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1869-06-25
NASBY-
Mr.. Massey NURSES THE NEW LABOR
MOVEMENT AT THE CoRNERS-THE
RESULT IN AN INDIVIDUAL CASE

weeks ago, and perdoost. ez mite hey
bin expected, most profound feelin.-
Our white artizans assembled to-
wunst and passed resolooshens 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
Afriken. The meetin wuznt large
one, for We hey only five mechanics
NV the hawty Gzucasheu race at the
Corners, but it wuz enthoosiastic.-
Three Nv the five he'd bin at Bascom's s
four days, heYin bin jist paid off by
new. conner for house they he'd re-
paired for him, and they wuz il a
frame Nv mind for most anything
that wuz eggscitin.
I directed the attenshun Nv these
men to the fact that niger plaster
er wuz even at that time employed in
plasterin a house on the State road,
between the Corners and Garretts-
town. and l askt EN- eff they wuz co n
tent to lay still and see an inferior
race take the bread out Nv their
mouths in that way? I implored EN-
ez labrin men to preserve the dig
nitv Nv labor Shell niggers invade
yoor okkepashens
They wuznt none of EN- plasterers,
bnt they replied "Never ! Never l''
and demanded with the utmost
promptitood to be showd the wretch
that they mite go for him. But l
restrained EN- till l he'd organized EN-
into a Free Labor Unyun, which per-
hibitid anybody from workin at any,
thin which didn't jine it, and wich
perhibitid niggers from jinin it
This preliminary work accomplished,
1 remarkt, "follOw me !" They did
it with alacrity.
On reachin the house we halted,
and there our eyes rested onto site
wich blarstcd EN-. There wus a mig
ger, full-blooded niger, with cap
onto him, and oyeralls, plasterin away
whistlin and singin sometimes one,
sometimes another, and then agin
both to wunst), Methodist hymns
And ever and anon the unthinkin
man of in feriority wood stop and ez-
ecoot a breakdown, and laff to his
self, SO that he could be heard a mile.
The disgustin wretch displayed his
grovelin nacher by drinkin water out
Nv a bucket wich he he'd handy by
him.
We made short work Nv it. We
informed him that the laborers Nv
the Corners he'd organized a Union,
and that no one Good be permitted to
work within its boundaries ce2tin
members thereof.
"Berry WELL !" remarkt the Afrikin
cuss, calmly putin ON dab av NOR
tar and smoOthin it, "berry we'll ! I'll
jine the Yoonyun.
"But you can't. No niger can be
admitted"
"Den L speck L shell heV to 60 on
and work widout bein a member. De
ole woman and de babies must hab
dar bread, 700 know"
Sich insolence Good not Nv course
be tolerated. We he'd stated the
case to him calmly and dispassion-
ately. We he'd informed him Nv the
laws we he'd made, and this wretch
deliberately defed US by insistin that
he shood go on with his work Their
wuz hut one course to take, and we
took it. We snaked the platform cut
from under him, we tore up his NOR
tar bed We broke his trowel and 9th
er tools, and notified him ofishelly
that any attempt at resoomin work
would result in lynchin nv him,
The next day we found that the
nigger he'd in trooth quit plasterin,
but he'd found employment ez a stri-
ker in a blacksmith shop. Wv course
sich an outrage on the pure Cauca-
shen employed in that shop, wich his
name was 0'Toole, Good not be per-
mitted, and ez O'Toole refoosed to
work with him, he wuz discharged.
The next day | notist him on the
streets rather pale and haggard than
carryin home a shin bone
Nv beef Wich he bed bought. The
next day after 1 observed that, he lookt
better, and 1 diskivered that he he'd
found employment at last on a turn
pike road wich is bein built east Nv
the town. Issaker Gavitt and me,
the two champions Nv labor for this
seckshun, (ez We don't work we hev
time to attend to IT'D sejested to the
noble Celts employed on the job, the
hidjusnis Nv compellIn EN- to work
on an ekality with a niger, and they
struck agin it with the yoosual re-
suit. The niger was discharged.
He made but one or two more efforts.
He undertook TO git work at various
places, but by this time it wuz well
enuf knowd that the citizens Nv the
Corners wuz iDfexibly opposed to
Nv EN- IL any capassity, |
and he yielded. He got very thin,
and pale and haggard, and his large |
family likewise. It wuz evident that |
they wuznt feelin very well at home.
Notis the lateral result of freedom |
he ABsLooTLY BEGGED but Nv course |
he Corners wood give nOthin to
1igger. Then the instinktiv material
,ussidness Nv the nigger-the infer
nal depravity wich is inherent into
III Nv em-began to display Itself
He demoralized rapidly, and in week
became a most disgustin objick. He
itole chickens Nv Deekin Pogram,
eastways Deekin POgram's chickens
Fuz missin, and who should hev stole
IN but this nigger-he stole corn Nv
Elder Pennebaeker, AMI wuz finally
detected takin a ham from Bascom's
There wuz 10 doubt
z to his guilt-he wuz taken in the
Lct with the fatal ham in his possess
on. He he'd taken it home and his
Fife wuz fryin large slices Nv it.
There could be but one endin to
ich a succession Nv crimes. The
itizens wore too much ineensed to
wait the uncertain ackshen Nv the
aw and they hung him at site. The
;orners will never tolerate a niger
heef in their midst, no how.
Wv conrse I improved the occasion.
x his body was swingin in the air
asbt our people to behold the fruits
, Radiealism and Fanatycism. That
igger wuz wunst the happy slave NV