The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1869-07-08

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SDAY Y, JULY
i MASSEY.
Mr.. Ndsby Nurses the NsU Labor
~ Morenent at the C0rners- The Re.
suH IN an Individual Cas-. e
From the Toledo Blade. f3.
Posr OrrIcE CoNrEDRIT x ROADS,
(which is in the Stait Nv Kentucky
bib ts7a ~ &c. June ., 1859. }
The agitashen NV the question NV
niggers labrin with white men in
Washington, reached the Corners
four weeks ago, and perdoost ez mite
have been expected, a most profound
feelin., Our white artizans assembled
10 wunst, and passed roso2ushens in
sympathy with their brethren in,
Washington, and urgin NV en- to hold
out to this bitter end rather than
compermise their dignity by lowerin
themselves to the level NV the greasy
Afrikin. The meeting wurnt large
one, for we have only five mechanics
av the|haughty caucashen race at the
Corners, hut it was enthusiastic
Three nv the Ave he'd bin at Bas.
CONS for, four days, hevin bin, just
paid off ~ new conner for 4 house
they he'd repaired for him, and they
wuz in q frame nv mind for most any
thing that wuz eggscitin.
l directed the attension nv these
men to the fact that Niger plaster
Ier w,ix even at that time employed
in plasterin a house on the State road
between the Corners and Garretts-
town, and I askt EN- efthey whz con-
tcnt to lay still and see % inferior
race take the bread oufr nv their
mouths in that way9 emplored EN-
OF iabrin men to preserve this digni-
ty nv labor. Shall niggers invade yoor
okkepashens2 ragi71 os
81 They wuzn't none Nv them plas-
lterers, but they.rcplied, aNeverl nev
er! and damanded with the utmost
promptitood to be showed the wretch,
that they mite go for HIM. But / re-
strained EN- tilf I he'd organized EN-
into aGFree Labor Unyun wich per-
hibited anybody from workin at any
thing wich didn't jine 1t, and perhibi-
ted niggers from jinin it. This preli-
minary work accomplished, Iremarkt,
Follow 9mer' They did it with
alacrity. ia & sfll .5aI
IN On reachin the house we halted,
and there onr eyes rested on q site
which blarstod. EN-. There wuz o
bigger q ull-bloodcd nigger, with a
cap onto him, and -areralls. plasterin
away, whistlin and singing 7(son.s
times one, sometimes another, and
,tAen agin both to wupst Methodist
hymns; and ever and anon. the un-
thinking man Of inferiofity wood
stop. and execoot o braked0wn, and
laff to hisself, so that he esod be herd
a mile. The disgustin wfetch wood
display his grovelin nacher by drinkin
water out OF a bucket which he he'd
handy by him. q
4 We made short work NV it. We
informed him that the laborers of the
Corners he'd organized Union, and
that no one Good be permitted to work
within it's boundaries ccptin members
thereof. .9Ha
BERRY wellp- -remarkt the African
cuss calmly putting on dab of NOR.
tar and smoothein it, berry we'll I'll
jine the yoonyun."
"But you can't. No niggel kin be
admitted" ts f5ae,. Z
eden / spec l shell hoy to go on.
and work without bein member
De ole woman and de babies must
hab dar bread yoo know"
Such insolenee Good not of course
be tolerated. We had stated the case
to him calmly and dispassionately.-
We he'd informed HIM by the laws we
had made, and this wretch deliber-
ately defed us by insistin that he
| should 60 on with his work! Their
wuz but one coarse to take, and we
took it. We snakod the platform out
from under him, we tore up his NOR
tar bed; we broke his trowel and
other tools, and notified him officially
that any attempt at resoot1in work
| wood result in lynchin Nv him.
The next day we found IN truth
the nigger he'd quit plasterin, but he'd
found employment ez a striker in q
blacksmith shop. Uvcourse such an
outrage on the poor caucashen en-
ployed in that shop, wlch his name
was OToole, Good not be permitted,
and, ez O'Toole refoosed to work with
him, no wuz discharged. The next
day l nctist him on the streets rather
pale and haggard than otherwise,
carryin in home shin bone of beef
wich he he'd bought. The next day
afterward 1 observed that he lookt
better, and 1 diskivcred that he had
found employment at last on a turn
pike road witch is bein built east Nv
the town. Isaker Gavitt and me, the
two champions of labor for this seek
shun, ex we don't work we hev timo
to attend to IT. scJcesosa 70 riic
noble Colts employed on the job, the
hinjustis NV compellin EN- to work on
an ekaIity with the niger, and they
struck agin it with the yoosual result.
The nigger wuz discharged. lie un-
dertook to git work at various places,
but by this time it wuz well enuff
known that the citizens NV the Cor
ners was infexibly opposed to recog-
nishin nv EN- in any capassity, and
he yielded. He got worry thin, and
pale, and haggered, and his large
family likewise. 1t wuz evident they
wuzn't feedin very we'll at home
Motifs the material result NV freedom
He absolutely begged But Nv course
the Corners would give nothin to the
nigger. Then the instinktiyc natoral
cussidness nv the nigger-tho infer
nal depravity wich is inherent unto
all nv cm--bcgan to display itself
He demoralized rapidly, and IN i
week, became amost disgustin objick.
He stole chickens NV Deekin Pogram,
leastways Dcekin Pogram's chickens
wuz missin, and whoshould hev stole
EN- but this nigger. Hc stole corn OF
Elder Pennebacker, and was finally
detected taken ham from Bascom's 5
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