Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-01-14
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or HlR pATROke-Hh NioAin oiNNoA
AND Is COMPELLED TO WITNESS AN OUT
RAGE WHICH NE is UNABLE TO PREVENT
6rH WARD, Moo YoRN
,lr Dec. 20, 1889.
Ian perfectly and entirely happy for
1 hev formed number NV deliteful ao'
quAintances IN this trooly great city, wIch
make my pathway pleasant and cheefluL
hev added 10 the decorashuns OF my par,
pnfuatcs OF Sammon p. Chase, Fernanuy
Wood and Pendleton, one OF wicb assure
TO be our standard bearer in the next con
test. wich oolietkshun shel keep addin TO
ez f.Oit che means. hev a stiddy run NV
truies and I am seldom alone, wich roots
me exactly. But few men like 70 be alone,
A man is bad company for hisself, for he
alone In the only one who knows precisely
how cussed mean he Is The two Alder
men wich paternizes me pay OF they drink,
which patronage alone Ia almost suftishent
10 support me, as they arc conscienshusly
industrious drinkers. They pay, not be.
cor they hev any prejoodis in that direck-
shen, but becoz money costs EN- nothin,
and becoz, nkin my face, they hev desire
20 ksep me among em. One NV EN- wuz
pleesed TO compliment me yesterday.
Nasty" sed he, "that nose nv yoors In
dikAses your politiks more certenly than
Wbt you say u NO nSdTb IL ueCcttlui anu
the tongue Outlines speeks wat the heart
doth not prompt; the nose kin never lie,
Its allu9 taie 70 approach sioh nose with
cash offer to do dooty ez repeeter,
Two. more hot whiskeys and one for yer
self while yoo are at Il !"
Isn't Il a pleasure TO mix drinks for one
who combines shrewd knowledge NV
human nacher, whiskey, and prompt pay,
in sich correct proportionsf Nv course
II is. But my buzzum friend is Terence
O'SulliVan, who IL perhaps the most regler
customer Ihev. Mr. O'5ulhvan Is one Nv
theoldest Dimocrats In New York, 1t hevin
bin three years senoe he left Cork. II Is
not known wat he wuz before leavin Ire
land-there is a mystry hangin over him,
From wat l hev bin able 70 gather from
him when he Is convivyelly loosened,
there, wdz q conspiracy organized agin
him In his native country, oonsistin NV
sheriff, four witnesses, a Judge and twelve
joorymen, wich resulted in his incarcer-
ashen In a basteel There wuz pockit
book and watch mixed up in Il, the par
tikelers Nv wich ] never got. On his re-
leese Mr.. Sullivan perceedid TO wunst to
Moo York, and commenst life ez laborer
on an excavshen on Broadway. Forchu-
nifty six weeksafter he landid an eleckshun
took place, and he Immediately got en-
ployment ez q repeater Doorin the war
he wuz engaged In enlistin hisself under
various names for the bounty, the monot-
ony nv wich okkupashen he varied by
occasional burglaries anu operations In
the streets on intoxicated Western men.
He hez bin second and bottle holder In
many prize fights, and hez an interest In
two unpretendin faro banks and one lot
terry shop.
Uv course Mr.. O'Sullivan holds office.
Hevin one hundred and sixty.three votes
at his control he liz a skool direkter, in
specter of Boa Constrikters In the me-
imagery st Central Park, clerk to three
boards and in addishen hez ub.contract
for street cleanin. Ez ther aint no Boa
Constrikters and no Boards, and ez the
streets are never cleaned, why Mr.. O'S
has tolerable soft thing NV it, or wood
hev were it not that he hez TO divide his
salaries up among 30 many. But, never.
theless, he lives comfortably and happy.
Mr.. O'Sulliyan hez brother who Is, AT
this time, an inmate NV the State Prizen
at Sing Sing, for highway robbery, and
last Monday we went up to Sing Sing to
zee him. We arrived jist ez the eonvicts
wuZ a marching in to dinner, and took po-
sshen where we Good see EN-, so that Mr..
O'S. Good point out his unforchnit relative
to me ez tney passed.
There he is-good Hevinsi"
Wat agitates you, my friendS" sed I.
Look y sed he, "the fourth man in the
sixth file |"
saw at once wat agitated him. His
brother was the fourth man in the
sixtn file, and side by side with
that brother,a a white man, wuz-a mig.
ger both dressed exactly alike.
Hevinsl" ejackilated O'Sullivan, ais
this thing permitted in the Democratic
State Nv Moo York; Hev we fought mig.
ger ekality at the polls SO many years to
hev 1t practised here, in a Democratic
State under Democratic ofilshlsS"
And here too, where only Democrats
is degraded by itr' l put in,
We sought out the Warden and de.
manded that this infamous pnctis be
changed. The Warden sympathized with
us, but sed II coodnt be- There wuz no
provision in the laws governin the prisons
Nv the State for keepin niggers separate
You see" he remarked, ats only now
and then that any Of the degraded race
git here, and there's no provision made for
0'Sulliyan, "do | understand that the
Democrisy NV Moo York city is to b.
oontinyooally threatened with niggeI
ekalityP"
"They are till the Legislachor change,
It," retorted the Warden.
We len the prison shortly after that
Mr.. OSullivan in most melankolly
mood
Nasty" sed he finally, amer a silenc,
NV perhaps half an hour, doorln wioh tim,
he wuz plunged into the deepest though:
Nasty, it's all up with me- shell neve
break into a house, or pick a pocket, o.
60 through drunken man agin. Wat
bev seen to-day hez determined me.
shel never agin take chance of goin I,
Sing Sing. Why 1t mite be my forchoor
TO be put beside that niggerl'
And q shudder of Ill.concealed anguish
agitated his frame, and the strong mar
wept bitter teors
l comforted him as bes; Good. ! tol,
him that shood he be arrestid for say
murder, be tried and convicted and sent I,
the penetenshary, and be forced TO marcl
side by side with Niger, the disgrace,
r / sed, won't be yoors twill be the inta
mus retehes who put 700 there. If yo
shood, of yoor own free will, put yoorel
on level with nigger-for instance q
yoo shood by of or sell TO an Ethiopian
then the degredashen wood be yOors, 70
yOo mite have asserted yoor sooperiority
But in the case NV States Prison l reel,
think yoo put too much stress onto II. Ii
that case a s0operior power cOmpels yo,
70 this, and yoo Amt responsible. Wer
/ in yoor place-hed | sich promisin pros
pecks ez yoorn-I don't think shooC
permit this to stop me-"
But Mr.. o'Sullivan wuL infiexible. III
shood quit all practices wich pinted Il
the derecksun NV q penetenshary, for
would kill him TO be compelled for mini
70 eat, work or walk beside niger, eve
tho he wuz compelled to do II.
Then an idea struck me Brilliant idee
alluZ do come 10 me at precisely the rit
time. "Why yoo cussed jack ass |" sed
fallin onto his neck, "why do we talk u
this Now that the Democracy hez tn
Legislscher and win hev the control u
the city in all its departments, no Demo
crat who he1 dozen votes back NV hir
viii go the penitenshary, But few Of el
did afore, when the Ablishnists he'd III
poleece, but now that we hev Judge
poleece and all-whV my deer sir, II
chances is ez one TO million. Go on wit
yoor BURGLARY, my sweet Terence, go
au.A l. g. III.