The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-06-10
Our Black Communist

En- middle age friendships are not easily
formed. Hardened by hard knocks, the
tough heart sheds the finer sentiments as
Sticky as a side OF sole leather sheds rain
water. But some characters are so pun
gent that they penetrate like ammonia or a
shoemaker's awl. Among these characters
we place Marcellus West, Of Washington
CITY. Great man! Mouth. piece OF black
men, striking for 50 so a day! First Com
munist of the Transatlantic! We love.
thee. Young men and maidens full oft
have loved by letter, but we have. loved by
telegraph. That ingenious, useful and cost
" instrument tells us what Marcellus West
said last Tuesday night, and We loved him
for what he said then'and there.
He made an infiammatory speech. We
like none other. He said he and his fellow
strikers were workingmen. Such are we.
They had to work to keep their families
from starring. Much -nathas---We-. wept.
II, continued young Marcellus, they, that is
the workingmen, are kept out OF york, why
then they are no longer w%orkinsmen No,
thrice no. They will have the blood Of these
contractors. Aye! and this will keep their
families from starving. Think OF contract
ors' blood pudding. Eloquent thought!
Welike blood.
But, rising to the height Of his great at
gument, Marcellus shrieked-'ff this no
'swork continue, te would say to them to take
"a contractors head off his shoulders when
lever and wherever they should meet them
Bold and tasteful Marcellls. You prefer
the head, then. So do we.
s.He told them," 30 says the telegram,
which has made Marcellus immortal in o.
night, ''to go to their districts and form
associations for laboring men, elect dele
"gates, and send memorials to these id
"Yankee charlottesville meanest and most
Contemplate set OF men or Gods earth!!"
Alb, Marceii1s, you missed it there. You
carried it q little too far. Damned is an
oath, Marcellqs, and the remainder OF the
sentence is Ku-Kluxish in the extreme.
We are loyal, and we see no reason. why
these id Yankee contractors should be
the meanest and most c~onteaptfble set OF
men on Gods earth. They may be so. You
ought to know, Marcellus. But why the
telegraph should burden itself with your i'm
mortal eloquence, and your profanity at the
same time, we cannot tell. We love yen
nightly, Marcellus, but we cannot approve
of this cd" sentence Of yours. You
must have been excited at the time, aud
you used naughty words, which you
will be sorry for, Msrcelius.
Nevertheless, We ara ford OF you. Go on,
Mar. Let yourself aut. Relieve your woolly
mind, and the big heart Of. yours in your.
broad, brawny, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES black
breast. Spit it ,out--spit it freely, Strike
for the green gra-no, strike for your 50 80
a day, and the collapsed bread-oaskets OF
your loved charcoal ones at home. Strike!
Speak, Rant! Rave! Threaten! Do
anything-anything-bu curse. And if
curse ysu must, curse not the contractor.
BE may be mean. he may be contemplate,
he may be the 'meanest and most con-
temptible man on Gods earth, with one
exception. That is the Radical politicians
who induced you and tens OF thousands Of
your fellow-blacks to flock to Washington
to vote to keep them in office, and then
turned the cold shoulder on you, and offered
you only ST. so a day for your honest labor.
If you are obliged to curse, Marcellus, curse
these same Radicals, and-We will join
you.