The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-06-18
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man only-the mildcst and most inofTens-
i've man I ever talked Without certain
harmless women and innocent children,
who had done nothing to offend the Union,
were all but destroyed. The same bar
barous act had been committed more than
once before and with more bloody re.
suits, but had led to no large consequences
cqre6at glIid rate sacrU' but this time there
happened to be Gates inthe place, to-wit,
an honest, intrepid journalist, with mind
in advance Of his age. He came, he look
ed, he spoke to the poor shaken creatures
one OF them shaken for life, and doom.
ed now to start from sleep at every little
sound till she sleeps fOrCver-and the
blood In his brave heart boiled. The iel'
ony was publicly reprobated. and with
horror; by the Union, which had. never
theIess, hired the assassins; but this we'll
worn lie did not impose on the rdtES, or
chronicler ahead OF his time. He went
round 10 all the manufacturers, and ask
ed them TO speak out. They burst not Tor
their lives but closed all doors, and then.
with bated breath, and all the micn Of
slaves well troddcn down, limited where
information might be had. ThereupOn
the rates aforesaid HoldlaSt yclept-went
from scent to scent, till he dropped on n
discontented grinder, with fish'like eyes,
who had been in "many night job." "
This man agreed TO split, on two condi'
tions: he was TO receive sum OF money,
and to be sent into another hemisphere,
since his life would not be worth straw,
IL he told the truth about the Trades in
this one. His terms were accepted, ana
then he made some tremendous revela'
tlons; and, with these in his possession
Holdfast wrote leader upon leader 10
prove that the Unions must have been
guilty Of every Trade outrage that had
taken place for years in the district; put
adroitly conceaiing that he had POSITIVE
Grotait replied incautiOusly, and got
worsted before the public. The abIest
men, if not writers, arc unwisc 10 fence
with writers. 49,,
Holdiast received phonetic letters threat
enipg his life; he acknowledged them IN
his Journal, and invited the writers to call.
He loaded revolver and went on writ
Ing tho leaders with finger on the trigger.
California! Oh, dear no, the very centre
Of England.
Ransome co.operated with him and col.
lected further evidence, and then uoldiast
communicated privately with a portion OF
tho London press, and begged them to as.
Sist him to obtain o Royal Commission OF
inquiry, in which case he pledged himself
TO prove that a whole string Of murders
and outrares had been ordered and paid
for by the very Unions which had public.
lyreDudiated them in eloquent terms, and
been believed.
The London press took this up; two or
three members Of the House OF Commons,
wild, eccentric men, who would not be-
tray their country to secure their rc.clec'
ton to some dirty borough, sided with
outraged law; and by these united efforts
Commission was obtained. The Com
mission sat, and, being conducted with
rare skill and determination, squeezed our
of IN incredible mass Of perjury some ter
rible truths, whose discovery drew eIo'
uucnt leaders from the journals; these
filled simple men, who love their country,
with the hope that the Government oil
this nation would shake off its lCthargy,
and take stringent measures to defend
the liberty Of the subject against so cruel
and cowartlly conspiracy,and to deprive
the wOrkmen, in their differences with
the masters, OF an unfair and sanguinary
weapon, which the masters could use, but
never have as get and, by using which,
the workmen do themselves no lasting
good, and, indeed, have driven whole
trades and much capital out oil Inc OPP
pressed districts, to their own great loss
That hope, though not extinct, Is ialnleT
now than il was Matters seem going all
the other way. An honest, independent
man, who did honor to the Senate, has
lost his scat solely for not COnniving at
these Trade Outmgcs, which the hypO:
critics. who have voted him out, pretend
10 Clenounce. Foul play is still rampant
and triumphant. It's victims were SympA'
thizcd with for one short day, when they
barred their wounds to Royal Commission
ers: but that sympathy has deserted them,
they are now hidden in holes and corners
iron, their oppressOrs, and have to go by
false names, and are kept out Of work; for
OCIiASc gtten lGSeris is the fundamental max
i'm of their OppreSsors Not so tho assas-
sins; they flourish. have seen win
these eyes one savage murderer employed
ut high wages, while Il man he all Dut
DESTROYED is refused work on all hands,
md was separated by dire poverty from
another SCARED victim, his wife, till |
brought them together Again, have
seen wholesale murderer employed on
the very machine he had been concerned
in blowing up, employed on it at the wages
Of three innoxious Curates. And l find
this is the rule, not the exception. mo
punishment but for already punished ill.,
noccncc; no safety but for triumphant
crime"
The Executive is fast asleep in the mat.
ter-or it would long ago have planted
the Manchester district with hundred
thousand special COnstablCs-Nnd the glo-
bule Of legislation now prescribed TO Par.
lament, though excellent in certain res.
poets, is null in Others would, il passed
into law, rather encourage the intimida-
ton ofone man by twenty, and make him
starve his family TO save his skin-Crucl
alternative-and would not seriously check
the darker and more bloody Outragcs, nor
prevent their spreading from their present
DoDulous centres all over the land Sec.
Ing these things, have drawn my pen
against cowardly assassination and sordid
tyranny; have taken II few undeniable
truths, out Of many, and have labOred to
make my readers realize those appalling
facts of the day, which most men know,
but not one in hundred thousand realizes,
until Fiction-which, whatever you may
have been told to the contrary, is the high
est, widest, noblest, and greatest OF all the
arts-comcs to his aid, studies, penetratcs,
digests, the hard facts Of chronicles and
blue,boOks, and makes their dry bones
live.