Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-06-25
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From the Toledo Blade.]

From the Toledo Blade.l
Mr.. Nasty NURSES THE NEW LABOR MOVE
MENT AT THE CoRNERs-THR RESULTS
IN AN INDIVIDUAL CASE .s. r. ...
POST OFFS, CoNFEDRIT ROADS. !
(Which is in the State nv Kentucky,l
r-,- rflE June 9, 1869. }
The agitashen Nv the question Nv mig
gers labrin with white men in Washing
ton, reached the Corners four weeks ago,
and perdoost, ez mite hev ben expectld, q
most profound feelin. Our white srtlzans
assembled to-wunst and passed resoloo'
shens in sympathy with their brethren IN
Washington, and urging ov EN- TO mold
cut to the bitter end rather than comper'
mise 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 Caucashen
race at the Corners, but it wuz enthoosi-
astic. Three NV the five he'd bin at Bas-
CONS for four days, hevin bin jist paid of
by new conner for house they he'd re-
paired for him, and they wuz in frame
Nv mind for most enything that wuz egg
scitin. ..4..;
directed the attention NV these men
to the fact that a niger plasterer wuz
even at that time employed in plasterin a
house on the State road, between the Cor
ners and Garrettstown,a and askt EN- Ell
they wuz content to lay still and see an
inferior race take the bread out Nv their
mouths in that wayf i implored em ez a
labrin man to preserve the dignity Nv
labor. Shel niggers invade our okkepa-
shens? ~ u ~ =" -.
They wuznt none NV EN- plasterers, but
they replied "Never! Never |" and de.
manded with the utmost promptitood to
be showd the wretch that they mite 60 for
him. But restrained EN- till l he'd or
ganized EN- into Free Labor Unyun,
witch perhibitid anybody from s.workin at
anythin witch. didn't jine it, and wieh per-
hibitid niggers from jinin it. This pre-
liminary work accomplished, remarked,
follow mel" They did it with alacrity.
On reachin the house we halted, and
there our eyes rested onto a site WITCH
bIarsted EN-. There wuz a niger, a full
blooded niger, with a cap onto him, and
overalls, plasterin away, rwhistlin' and
singin sometimes one, sometimes another,
and then agin both to wunst), Methodist
hymns. And ever and anon the unthink-
in man Of inferiority wood stops and execoot
break down, and laff to hisself, so that
he Good be heard mile The disgustiin
wretch displayed his grovelin nacher by
drinkin water out Nv bucket witch he
he'd handy by him.
We made short work Nv it. We in
formed him that the laborers Nv the Cor,
ners he'd organized Unyun, and that no
one Good be permitted to work within Its
boundries ceptin members thereof
Berry we'll !" remarkt the Afrikin cuss,
calmly putin on dab Nv, mortar and
smoothin it, cherry well I'll jine the
Unyun."
But you can't. No niger kin be ad.
mitted."
"Den speck shell hev to go on and
work widout ,bein member. De ole
woman and de babies must hab dar 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 in.
formed him Nv the laws we he'd made, and
this wretch deliberately defed us by insist
in that he shood go on with his work
Their wuz 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 offishelly that any attempt at
resoomin work wood result in lynchin NV
him. fr re- T% {, ~ {,
The next day we found that the Niger
he'd in trooth quit plasterin, but he'd found
employment ez striker in a blacksmith
shop. Nv course SIGH an outrage on the
pure Caucashens employed in that shop
witch his name was OToole, 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 haggard than otherwise, carryin
home shin. bone Nv beef witch he he'd
bought. The next day afterward OBJ
served that he lookt better, and dis
kivered that he he'd found employment at
last on turnpike road witch is bein built
east Nv the town. Issaker Gavitt and me,
the two champions NV labor for this seek,
shun, (ez we don't work we hev time to
attend to it, sejested to the noble Celts
| employed on the job, the hidjusnis Nv com,
pellin EN- to work on an ekality with a
niger, and they struck agin it with the
yoosual result. The niger wuz dis.
charged. He made but one or two more
efforts. He undertook to git work at
various places, but by this time it wuz well
enuff known that the citizens Nv the Cor
ners wuz infexlbly opposed to recognisin
Nv EN- In any capassity, and he yielded. He
got very thin, and pale and haggard, and
his large family likewise. 1t wuz evident
that they wuznt feedin very well at home.
Motifs the material result of freedom He
absolootly begged! but Nv. course the Cor
ners would give nothin to a Niger Then
the instinktiv material cussidness Nv the
nigger-the internal depravity witch is in
herent into all Nv em--began to display
itself He demoralized rapidly; and in q
week becamea most disgustin objick. He
stole chickens Nv Deekin Pogram, least.
ways Deekin Pogram's chickens wu7
missin, and who should hey stole EN- but
this nigger-he stole corn NV Elder Penne.
hacker, and wuz finally detected takin q
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 posses.
sion. He he'd taken it home and his wife
wuz fryin large slices Nv it. aa IT..
There could be but one endin to SIGH q
succession Nv crimes. The citizens were
too much incensed to await the uncertain
ackshen Nv the law and they hung him al
site. The Corners will never tolerate a
niger theef in their midst, no how.
Nv course Improved the occasion. e.
his body wuz swingin in the air l askt
our people to behold the fruits Nv Rsdi
calism and Fanatycism. That niger WI,
wunst the happy slave Nv happy owner
| there wuz atween EN- a material relashen
The niger workt and his owner eat, and
thus wuz fulfilled the entire dooties NV life
He wuz not hung then for he wuz worth
too much money 10 hang. How he'd it
bin with him sence? He demanded to be
made free mamie wuz made free
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