The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-04-21
CheGntetti9enus.
Nasty.
Mr. Nasty Gives the Reason for
tho Lack Of Prosperity AT the
Corners.

IONFEDHlT n hOADst
Witch is in the State Of Kentucky !
April lG, 1877. }
There i. no disputiu the fact, the Cor.
ner is not prosperous. Their amt no
ouidin goin on, Their amt no trade NV
any account, and Their is yooniversell
duIlness, wich is discouragin to the we'll
wi,her Nv his kind. Not that it makes
rny espeChel difference TO me, for all that
require il my likkcr regIer, and plenty
Of the same, without labor; but enter.
prism man wich bleeves that progress il
good thing wood be disharled at the
yoHdishin Nv things at the Corners. Ez
Tor me, | kin sing
whence walk 10 take the air,
How many pOoPl ,re
But kin sHy that don't care
II they all Hlrve but me-
heyn't got e. many or 81 extensive
DowelI w compashun ez ! yoost to hev.
Ny sympathies is coHstipaled.
It isn't at all difficult to determine the
reason for depreshn that eggsi8ts here.
When Tllden and Reform wuz counted
mt, S to Z, and the yooseTper Hayes wuz
lroggerated, we expected that the leeSt
that he wood do wood be to recall the
troops from the South, and make US free
men agin.
HeZ he done il? lie is, we understand,
inendin to do it in South Kerliny, but
how is it elsewhere? Notrue Southerner
kin be entcrpriain and progressive so
long ez he ia ground down under the iron
heel Nv military power. Our citizens
ieel their condishn 20 keenly, they were
so deprest by the continyooance Of mill.
iary rool that they havnt dun stroke
rs any kind Nv work for yeers. Their
eeldJ are all left uncultivatid except ez
hey kin indoose new nggers witch cum
here TO work in en-, but e. they havnt
anything to pay EN- with they never
work second time, wich makes EN-
aDylhing but u sure dependence,
1t is oneu7 the most teChin sites in ma.
cher to sec tho people lnyin on thCr backs
At Bascom's and leanin on his bar, de-
porin the oEkepancy nv the South by
military, and ther consekcnt inability to
hoe Their corn or cut Their grass.
Only last week heard lssakcr GayiIt
remark.
Watts the yoose nv putin in Il crop
this Spring, Of the South is to be over
run BY bloo-koted hirelings, pHrpctyoo-
all2
And then when Bascon refused to give
LIN credit for another drink, lsaaEer
turned sadly TO me, aud rcd with voice
choked with emotion:
"You sec how it IL? Oh the cussid
tyranny Of an unCOustooshnel admins.
lrGtion! Oh thegrindiDg cileCS NV mil.
jtary okkepNshen Wat kin men do IN.
Ter SIGH circumstance"
1t is trOo that Their amt no soljeTs at
lie Corners, and never hev bin sense the
y.Ilage wuE okkepied by the FederaIs in
1852, but that don't make TO difference.
Al,o We hev votid here fist ez VIC pleased,
anl We hev kept the niggcrs and carpet
blssers from votin, but that don't make
any difference nuther. There is troops
10 l0ozeaner and South Kerliny, and
Packard and Chamberlin is de fucto Gov.
rrHors NV them States. How kin Il trOo
kentuckyian put in crop or hoe his
corn 70 long ez SIGH state nv things
rggsist? How KIN ther be any enterprise
or development NV resources, or any pro.
sress, when We hev to spend all our time
clRnkin the chances OF our brothers fur.
Their South2 All that kin be expected NV
Us is to hang our harps on the willerS at
ba'com's, and drown our grief at his
bar.
And sence it ls settled that We amt
SOin to hey the Fedrel oGises, Bascom hea
reioosed IA further credit, and the poor
comfort Of his liSker Tor, to speak more
4kkeritly, the comfort Nv his poor likker)
"a denied us. When drou,h is added to
slavery the sitooashen ia terrible indeed.
Wat the yooserper wants to do il to
withdraw the troops from the South.
lake the graap Vi nine hundred sellers
RON the throtes Of the three millions NV
sontEernCrs, and let us breethe. And
this done, give the otfses, in a spirit NV
conclIiashen, TO the Constilooshnel pa.
tEiots wiCh was pardoned by A. Johnson,
aud ali will be well agin. | kin never be
reconsIled SO long ez Their is niger in
Tue posloais at the Corners-nevGr.
keer very little though. My bizness
through lie heI bin, mostly, strugglin
With yiCissitoods, and my struggles is
rapidly DRAWN TO close. Pcrsnelly l
hey little interest in it, tho wood like
to hey my pathway to the tomb smoo,hed
by reasonable credit and, consekeu,ly,
'rs'er snpplics. But when look around
me and see how iron.heClcd opprcqhn
Kills out Cn;ctp,ze in the Corners, ! can.
moi but help but eutcrin my sollum pro.
May the yooscrPer heed the warnin,
a"d !etup on the South aio re dclirium
ifemenS SO withers the populashen ez to
'eeye no DimCcrats to be relieved.
PETROLEUM V. NAsDY,
EI-RaIormer.