The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-09-11
SATURDAY MORNING. sEPEhnhhH =
.,l.enlIS1i roLltIOAL OrINIoN.
A story About Ten Thousand Kegs Of
SnlIs BouEht at wheeling.

U,o.x About Ten IhOusand Kegs OF
" nails BouEht at wheeling.
After the Republican party doomed into
National proportions in the celebrated
canvass Of 1856. there WAS a Southern
editor who came North and prepared what
wss known as a "black list" Of well known
Republican business houses in Philadel-
mia and New York. They were all spot
ted with an asterisk, and thereby designa'
ted as houses which Southern merchants
should not enter when they came North
TO purchase goods.
The project fell into disgrace as being
nothing more norless than Matchmaking
scheme, inasmuch as it came to be under!
stood that for the payment OF a consider
alton the name of even Black Republican
house could be kept out Of the list that
Southerners were called on to taboo In
their dealings.
The spirit that prompted and underlaid
the movement, however, made deep i'm
preston on the Northern people, They
saw in it the same overriding, despot
ic and intolerant determination
to coerce Northern opinion on the
slavery question that had oyerridden, coerc-
ed and crushed out all freedom of speech
and OF the press on slave soil. Therefore
the North resented it, aud the consequence
wastbst the tabooed houses found as many
customers, aud more, in the North and
West than they lostin the South. Many OF
said houses really made money by being
thus tabooed by the said Southern black
mailing bull dozer. b
Akin TO this species Of business intimi'
dstion is a late article in the Pittsburgh
POD, the object Of which is 10 show that
the reputation Of that city for stalwsrt
Republicanism hiss lost aud is losing very
considerable trade from the South. In
order that this new species Of attempted
bull-dzing in the interest Of the Solid
South may be properly appreciated, we
subjoin the POTS article, as follows:
"You have no idea, said well known
business man to the writer yesterday,
chow much injury has been done to Pitts
bnTgh industries by the bitter, uuncom-
promising spirit Of the Republican leaders
here" ~,
"in what respect has it been an injuryT
asked the writer.
SIN many ways. 1t has hurt the city's
i trade with the South, and has shut US Gu.
tirely of from what.w was once most profit
able market. Pittsburgh you see has the
reputation OF being bitterly radical in its
Republicanism, more 80 than any other
city in the Middle States"
GDo you know Of any particular instance
in which this has hurt Ptttaburghr
"Oh, vel, many. Last year a wealthy mer-
chant from Georgia, whom l have known
for many years, came to Pittsburgh to buy
ten thousand kegs Of nails. He stopped
at the Monongahela House, and at break.
fast time sent for a paper without specify
inc what lis political faith should be. dc
was handed a Commercial, and shortly al.
Ter that he came around TO my office and
said. Listen TO this, and he read savage
paragraph in which all Southerners were
called rebels and renegades and were cut
and slashed at right and left. When he I'M.
ished readingit he said, Do you think Iwiil
do any business in q city which allows
paper 10 speak in that way OF nearly the
whole population Of the South? No, sir,
/ would not buy cents worth here 1t 1t
was entirely to my advantage TO do SO.
The war Is over, and we people down
south want to be treated with some de.
cency, and not have such stuff as thst
thrown at us. The consequence oil the IN
cident was that he went down to Wheel.
ing aud bought his ten thousand Kegs Of
nails there and went home and told his
neiShbors the whole story"
"Did he ever change his mindF
.No, sir, he never did. This year an
other merchant who is friend OF the first
mentioned gentleman, went to New York
aud there bought twenty thousand kegs OF
nails. Hetold New York iron dealer that
he would do all his buying in Pittsburgh,
az Il would be more convenient Tor him,
il Il we're not for the fact that the place
was such a nest Of radical Republicans
that Southern Democrat was not likely
10 feel like giving the city any help"
"Do you know Of any other similar
cases2p
did an immense trade by boat with the
South. one 81 81 t trsdo m %ss IN wagon
w pLsnsseS wagon 5i bodies and trimmings,
wheelbaroSs, plows and agricultural i'm;
plements; The wharyeS used 70 ,l De l plieG
up win ms sor ia,a
tb ss iHw rise. Now this has almost died out
and what little is sent South goes by rail.
Several Southern nave sola ibs