The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-07-12
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Ehe Antl.MIEEer Labor Moyem'

l0RLOn, E6AC1eO -In6 SOIh0LS LONI WSSAo
ago and pefdoost, ez might hey ben ex-
pectfd. most u profound feelIn. Our
white artizans assembled to Wunst and
passed resolooshens- sympathy with
their brethren in Washington, and urg-
in nv EN- to hold out TO the bitter end
rather than compromise their dignity
by lowerin themselves to the level Nv
alaTee one. for we hev only five me.
chanics NV the hawty Caucashen race
at the Corners, but 1t wuz enthusiastic.
Thfee nv the five he'd bin at Bascom's
for four DAYS, heYln bin jist paid of by
a new conner for house they hev he'd
repaired for him, and they wuz in a
frame nv mind for most anything that
wuZ eggscitin.
directed the attenshun NV these men
to the fact that a niger plasterer wuz
even at the time employed in plasterln
a house on the State road, between the
Corners and Garrettstown, and 1 askt
EN- eff they wuZ content to lay still and
see anInferior race take the bread out
NV their mouths in that way. 1 Inn
plored EN- ez laborin man to preserve
the dignity nv labor. Shell niggers In
wade yoor okkepashensf
They Want none nv EN- plasterers,
but they replied "Neveri Neverl" and
demanded with the utmost promptitood
to be showd the wretch that they mite
90 for him. But restrained EN- till
he'd organized EN- into a Free Labor
Unyun, witch perhibited anybody from
Workin at anythin wich didn't jine it,
and witch perhibited niggers from jInin
1t. This preliminary work accomplish
ed 1 remarkt, follow me-" They did
1t with alacrity.
on reaching the house we halted, and
there our eyes rested on a site witch
blasted EN-. There wuz niger, a full
blooded niger, with cap onto him
and oVeralls, plasterln away, whistlin
and slngin, [sometimes one and some-
times another, and then agin both to
wunst) Methodist hymns. And ever
and anon the unthinkin man of infe-
riority wood stop and execoot break
down, and laff to hisself, so that he
Good be heard mile. The disgustin
wretch displayed his RroVelin nacher
by drinkin water out Nv a bucket witch
he he'd handy by him.
We made short work nv 1t, We in
formed him that the laborers Nv the
Corners he'd organized Union, and
that no one Good be permitted to work
within its boundaries ceptin members
thereof. t-
BERRY WE'LL" remarkt the Airikin
cuss, calmly putin on a dRub uv.mor-
tar and smoothin 1t, "berry well! I'll
jlne the Yoonyun.
But you can't. No niger kin be
..... -.
Den speck I shell hey to go on and
work widout bein member. De ole
woman and de babies must hab dRr
bread, 700 know
SIGH insolence Good not NV course be
tolerated. We he'd stated the case to
him calmly and dispassiOnately. We
he'd informed him nv the laws we he'd
made, and this wretch deliberately de-
fed us by insIstin that he should go on
with his work Their wuz but one
course to take, and we took 1t. We
snaksd the platform out from under
him, we tore up his mortar bed; we
broke his trowl and other tools, and
notified him ofhSbelly that any attempt
at resooming work would result In
lynchin Nv him.
The next day we found that the mig
ger he'd In trooth quit plasterin, but
he'd found employment ez a striker in
outrage on the pure Caucashens en-
ployed in that shop, witch his name was
Good not be permitted, and eZ
O'Toole refoosed to work with him, he
wu8 discharged. The next day nottst
him on the streets rather pale and hag-
gard than otherwise, carryin home a
shin bone nv beef witch he he'd bought.
The next day afterward 1 observed that
he lookt better, and l diskivered that
he he'd found employment at last on a
turnpike road wich Is bein built east
nv the town. Issaker GaVitt and me,
the two champions Nv labor for this
(ez We don't work we hev
time TO attend to IT, seJested to the no
BILE Cells employed on the Job, the hid
jusnes NV compellin EN- to work on an
ekality with niger, and they struck
aRin 1t with the YOosuRl result.
The niger wuz discharged. He
made but one or two more efforts.
He undertook to git work at va
rious places, but by this time it
zens NV the Corners wuZ innexibly OPP
posed TO recogniZin Nv EN- in any Gu
pacity, and he yielded. He got very
thin, and pale, and haggard, and his
large family likewise. 1t wuz evident
that they wuznt feedin very we'll at
home. Motifs the natural result of free
dom He absolootly begged but Nv
course the Corners would give nothin
to a Niger. Then the instlnktiv natu-
raj. cussidness nv the nigger-the in
fernal deprRVity witch Is inherent into
all nv em-beRan to display itself. He
demoraliZed rapidly, and in a week be-
came most disgustin objGck. He stole
chickens nv Deekin Pogram, leastways
Deekin Pogram's chickens wuz missin,
and who should hev stole EN- but this
stole corn nv Elder Penne-
bRcKer, and wuZ finally detected takin.
B. ham from Bascom'S smoke house.
There wuz no doubt ez to his guilt-he
wuz taken in the act with the fatal ham
in his possession. He he'd taken It
home and his wife WIZ frying large
slices Nv IL.
There could be but one endin to SIGH
q succession Nv crimes. The citizens
were too much incensed to await the
aCkshen Nv the law and they
hung him at site. The Corners will
never tolerate . Niger theef in their
midst, no how.
Nv course Improved the occasion.
IGz hiz body wuZ a swinRin in the air
and Fanatycism. That
niger wuz wunst the happy slave Nv a
happy owner; there wuZ atween EN- q
material relashen. The niger workt
and his owner eat, and thus wuz full
illed the entire dootieS nv life. He
Wuz not hung then for he wuz worth
too much money to hang. How he'd II
bin with him sence3 He demanded to
be made free mamie wuz made
free man, and here he IL. tole EN-
hat there wnz no need nv sayin more
that body danglin in the air, witch
It's sole wuz a marchin on, wuz the |
most elokent sermon witch could be
preacht.
The man whose house the niger wuz
3 plasterin wuz In town yesterday,
.ryin to get Caucasian plastrers to fn-
Ish the job, but ez Their amt none NV
am here, he isn't succeedin very we'll.
He probably won't get into his new
quarters this fall.
am not certain wat become nv his
family. There wuz q niger woman's
body pulled out nv the dam q day or
two afterward wich somebody remarkt
Wuz the wife nv the deceast, and Cap
tain McPelter remarkt that when he
went 70 The cabin Nv the defeest niger