The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-02-05
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am perfectly and entirely happy for
hev formed a number NV deliteful acquaint-
ances in this trooly great city, witch make
my pathway pleasant and cheerful. l hey
added to the decorashuns NV my bar, por-
trates of Sammon P. Chase, Fernand,
Wood, and Pendleten, one wv witch is SURE
to be our standard bearer in the next con-
test witch colleckshun l shall keep addin t.
sz get the means. hev a stiddy run u,
trade, and am seldom alone, witch SCOT.
me exactly. But few men like to be alone
A man is bad company for hisself, for h,
alone is the only one who knows precisely
how cussed mean he is. The two Aldermen
wich paternizes me pay ez they drink wicl
patronage alone is almost suffishent to sup
port me, ez they are conscienshusly indus
trious drinkers. They pay, not becoz the,
hcv any preioodis in that direckshun, bu'
becoz money costs en- nothin, and becoz.
likin my face, they hev desire to keep me-
among EN-. One Nv EN- wus pleased t.
compliment me yesterday. "Nasby," sed
he, "that nose wv yours Indicates YOU
pelitiks more certenly than wat you say
The heart is deceetful and the tongue oft
times speeks wat the heart doth not prompt
the nose kin never lie. Its allus safe to ap-
proach SIGH a nose with a cash offer to dc
dooty ez a repeater. Two more hot whis,
keys and one for yerself, while 700 are a,
it,
Isn't it pleasure to mix drinks for one
who combines shrewd knowledge Nv human
nacher, whiskey, and prompt pay, in sicl
correct proportions? Wv course it is. But
my buzzum friend is Terence O'Sullivan.
who is perhaps the most regular custome'
hev. Mr.. OSullivan is one of the Oldest
Dimocrats in Moo York, it hevin bin tire.
years sence he left Cork. 1t is not know
wat he wuz before leavin Irelaad-there is
a mystry hangin over him. From wat
is convivyelly looseued, there wuz con
spiracy organized agin him in his native
country, consistin Nv sheriff, four wit
nesses, judge and twelve joorymen, wicl
resulted in his incarcerashen, in a basteel
There WIZ a peckit book and watch mix
ed up in it, the partickelers of witch I new
er got On his releese Mr.. Sullivan per,
cecdid to wunst to Moo York, and com
menst life ez laborer on an excavashen or
Broadway. Forchunitly six weeks after
he landid an eleckshun took place, and he
Immediately got employment ez a repeater.
Deorin the war he wuz engaged in enlistin
hisself under various names for the bounty.
the monotony NV witch okkupasheh lie vari
ed by occasional burglaries and operations
in the streets on intoxicated Westerns men.
He hsz bin second and bottle holder in
many prize fights, and hez an interest in
two unpretendin faro banks and one lottery
shop.
Wv course Mr.. O'Sullivan holds Office
Hevin one hundred and sixty-three votes
at his control. he is a skool direkter, in
specter of Boa Censtrikters in the menage-
ry at Central Park, clerk to three boards.
and in addishen hez sub-contraet fo'
street cleanin. Ez Their Amt no Boa Con-
strikers and no Boards, and ez the streets
are never cleaned, why Mr.. O'S. hez tol-
cradle soft thing NV it, or wood hev were ii
not that he hcz TO divide his salaries W
among so maay. But, nevertheless, he
lives comfortably and happy.
Mr.. O'Sullivar hez brother who is, at
| this time. an inmate NV the State Prison al
Sing Sing, for highway robbery, and last
Monday we Nr@t up to Sing Sing to see
him. We arrived .jist as the convicts wuz
a marchin in t. Inner and took posisher
when we Good sec EN-, so that Mr.. O'S. Good
point out his IL :forchnit relative to me e.
they passed.
| "There he is good Hevins -
"What agit,a tes you, my friend % sed l.
| "Leok.' SCI he, "the fourth man in
the sixth file?''
I saw at once what agitated him. Hi:
brother was the fourth man in the sixth
file, AVID side by side with that brother, {
white man, wuz-a niger! both dressed
exactly alike.
"Hevins.'' ejackilated OSullivan, il
this thing permitted in the Democratic
State NV Noe York? Hov we fought MIG
ger ekality at the polls SO many years tt
hav it practissd hero, in a Democratic
State under Democratic offishils ?"
"And here too, where only Democrat
is degraded by it - I put in.
We sought out the Warden and demand
id that this infamous practice be changed
The Warden sympathized with us, but SCI
it coadn't be. There wuz no provision II
the laws gevernin the prisons NV the State
for kecpiR Iiggers separate. You see,
he remarked, "it's only now and then tina
any NV the degraded race git hero; ant
there's no provision made for 'em. 1t can
be helped ssThen," sed O'Sullivan, sd
understand that the Democrisy Of No
York city is to be continyoolly threatened
with niger ekality?'
s.They are till the Legislacher change
it, retorted the Warden.
We left the prison shortly after that, MI
O'Sullivan in a most melancholy mood.
Nasby,' sed he finally, after silenc
Nv perhaps half an hour, dsorin wieh tim
he wuz plunged into the deepest thought
:. Nasby," it's all up with me. l shell ne,
er break into house, or pick pocket, c
60 through a drunken man agin. Wat
hev seen to-day hes determined me. l sh'
never agin take chance NV goin to Sin
Sing. Why it might be my forenoon to /
put beside that niger ~
+ And a shudder NV ill-concealed angus
5 agitated his frame, and the strong ma
wept bitter tears.
comforted him ez best Good. l tel
G him that shood he be arrested for say
murder, be tried and convicted, and ser
to the penetenshary, and be forced to marc
side by side with a niger, the disgrace,
o l sed, "won't be yoors, twill be the in
= Janus wretches who put 700 there.
voc sheod, of yoor own free will. put yeo