The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-12-24
Massey.
Mr.. Nasty Wonders at the Kindness of
h North In Not Knowing thRG the
Country Is Ruined.

PITTsBuRd,
Which is in the State Nv PennSylvany,
December Is, 1879.
We waz a sitting in Bascom's one mite
last week, Deekln PraQram, Issaker Ga
witt and me, lamentin owe the condishn
Nv the kentry, which hez bin our princi.
pie biznis for this many a weary day. We
felt that We wuz roolned. Either wuz no
way Nv compellin the niggers settled here
to do our work, ez in the good old times,
ther he'd bin no crops got in last summer,
and ez the Government reioozed to ishoo
G1eenbax in Unlimited quantities aud
spend the same on the system Nv internal
improvements witch the Corners so earn.
estly desire. BasCom's pashense BEGUN
eSaustid and for two weeks he hez croOel-
" refoozed US credit for likker, and all we
hev had is SIGH a the proceeds Nv the
Deekin's double-barreled shotgun wood
bring. He sighed ez he sold it, but when
he thot tibet niggers to kill were GROWN
skeerce, he wuZ reConciled.
Il kin git on without a shot !SSun," he
sed, "but without likker, never"
l promptly borrored the half Nv the
price w him, and in that way am keepin
sole and body together.
l MIGRATED over into Ohio that ! mite
gloat over the distress wich the polisy Nv
the Radikels he'd brot unto EN-, and see
whether or no the people he'd bin cured
Nv their insanity, and wuz ready to return
to the Dimekratic fold and submit Their.
selves wunst more to the rool Nv their
material controllers the South.
Columbus wuz the first pint I struck
in the rooined State, and | happened to
git there the day the butcher Grant
arrived.
l can't say that | notist any ~pertickeler
signs Nv the room l wuz seekin for. The
blast furnishes WIZ all in full blaze, and
the smoke, in torment to Dimekratic soles,
wuE Sssendin to hevin from scores Nv
Chimueys. The streets wuz crowded with
realize that they wuz within under the
heel " a tinanshel despotism. Trains NV
cars wuz q runniR in every direckshun
loaded down with people, all ny EN- in
good close, and eZ l rode along, lin q cattle
car, which l took for reasons Nv q pekoo.
MARY nacher) l notist great stacks Of hay,
and rich, fat cattle by the thousand, and
houses with the sidin all tightly nailed,
and no glass ont Nv the winden. at one
stachen l heerd one man ask another to
take suthin, which be did, and the man
paid for it, suthin that heznt okkurred at
the Corners for yeers.
All along the route it wuz the same, and
in this city it is even wuss. l never wuz
so discurridged in my lite-neyer so utter
ly cast down. The furnaces are all run.
min on full time, the heavens is clouded
with smoke, the glass factries is heyin all
they kin do, the coal miners is all EN-.
ployed, and there amt the slitest prospeck
Nv any riots or bloodshed. When | re.
ma.kt to q workman how he liked his
chance, he answered, ''Very well, l thank
yoo," and lookin at me eZ tho be thot /
wuZ an escaped loonatic, went on with his
work.
do 700 know 700 are rooined!"
shreeked. Are you aware thar 700 are
groanin under an odiots oppreshun, and
ate the victim Nv grindin despotism? Wat
do VOC mean by stayin here and Workin
instd uv going out 4 holdin mass meetins
and resolvin g TO submit, and burnin
down shops and tearin up rails and SIGH?
Are 700 a MANI
The besotted setf simply remarkt that
.ef l didn't get out OF this he wood show
me whether he was q man or not, and
.droppin a piece nv hot iron on my loot,
jest wher the boot wuz brrAen, turned
away whistlin.
We may ez well make up our minds to
the eleckshun Nv anhther Radikel in 1880.
We hev nc capytle to 60 on. The winter
wheat looks ez tho ther wuza goin to be
anuther cuSSid big crop, and ther Is q good
market for all that kin be raised. The price
Nv manufactured goods is up so that pro-
prietors and men are both well paid, and
Their amt q goin 10 be no more riots or
public disturbances nv any kind. The
farmers are all satisfied, the merchants are
ditto, and they are goin on clAnkin Their
chanes happily. What kin Dimocrisy do
when Their amt no distress?
Their is no hope for the Dimocrisy, and
l mite ca well get my ascenshun robes
PErRoLEUx v. NAsnY.
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