Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1869 — NASBY. [ARTICLE]

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fi | - . ftoiwAWfcTTtedo Blfcte.) jfK. Narby nuhse* the new labor movement AT THE CORNERS—THE RESULTS IN AN INMVJOUAj, CAKE - I ■> Host (>m». Coxmtarr X Roam. 1 i S'. (Wlcb la In Um Htato av EADtnckv,) V June», ISM. f The s glia then nv the question uv niggers labrin with white men in Washington, reached the Corners four weeks ago, and perdooet, es mite hev ben expecti<C a moat profound feelin. Onr white artizana assembled to-wunat and passed resoloo•bens in sympathy with their brethern In Washington, and urging ov em to hold out to the bitter end rather than cotnpermiae their dignity by lowerin themselves to the level uv the greasy Afriken. The meetsn wuzut a large one, for we heV only five mechanics uv the hawty Caucaahen race at the Corners, but it wuz enthoosiastic. Three uv the five bed bin at Baacom’s for fonr days, hevin bln list paid off by a new comer for a house they hed repaired for him, and they wuz in a frame uv mind for most enything that wuz eggscitin. I directed the attention uv these men to the fact that a nigger plasterer wuz even at that time employed in plasterin a house on the State road, between the Corners and Garrettstown. and I askt em es they wuz content to lay still and see an Inferior race take the bread out uv their mouths in that way? I implored emeu labrin man to preserve the dignity nv labor. Shel niggers invade our okxepashens?

They wuznt none uv em plasterers, but they replied “ Never! Never I” and demanded with the utmost promptitood to be thowd the wretch that they mite go for him. But I restrained em till 1 hed organized em into a Free Labor Uavun, wich perhibitid anybody from wOr kin at anythin wich didn’t jine it, and wich perhibitid niggers from jinin it. This preliminary work accomplished, I remarked, “ follow me!" They did it with alacrity. On reachln the house we halted, and there our eyes rested onto a site wich biarsted em. There wuz a nigger, a fullblooded nigger, with a cap onto him, and overalls, plasterin away, whistlin and singin (sometimes one, sometimes another, and then agin both to wunst), Muth.-dist hymns. And ever and anon the untonkin man of inferiority wood stop andexecoot a break down, and lass to hisself, so that he cood be heard a mile. The disgpstiin wretch displayed his groveliß packer by drinkin water out uv a bucket wich hehed handy by him. We made short work uv„ it. We .informed him that the laborers uv the Carters hed organized a Unyun* and that po one cood be permitted to work within its boundriea ceptin members thereof. “ Berry well 1" remarkt the Afrikincuss, calmly puttln on a dab uv mortar and it, “berry well! I’ll jine the Unvnn.” *• Bit you can’t. No nigger kin be admitted.” “ Den I speck I shel hev to go on and work widout bein a member. De ole woman and de babies must hab dar bread, yoo know.” Hich insolence cood not uv course be tolerated. We hed stated the case to him calmly and dispassionately. We hed informed him uv the laws we hed made, and this wretch deliberatly defied us by insistin that ht thood go on with his work! Ther wuz but one course to take, and we took it. We snaked the platform outfrom under him, we tore up his mortar bed; we broke his trowel and other. tools, and. notified him offlshelly that any attempt at tesoomin work wood result in lynchin uv

The next day we found that the nigger hed in trooth quit plasterin, but hed found employment ez a striker in a blacksmith shop. Uv course sich an outrage on the pure CanpWhena employed in mat jfebp, wich fats name was (TToble,' cood rim hv permitted, and ez O’Toole refoosed to work with him, he wuz discharged. TO next day I hotist hhp on the stteSt*r|thA, sale and haggard than otherwise, c&rryin some a shin bone uv beef wich Jie.hed bought. The npxi day afterward I observed that he look! better, ahd>l dis Svered that he hed found employment at st onn t«rnpika*»oad wich iaAein built east uv the town/* Isaaker Garin and me, the twfl cK&mpttms uY laborfor this sdekthun, (ez we don’t work we hev time to attend to it,) st jested to the noble Celts employed on the job, the hidjusnis uv compellin em to work on an ekality with a nigger, and they struck agin it with the yoosual result. The nigger wu? discharged. He made but one or two more efforts. He undertook to git work at various places, but by this time it wuz well enuff known that the citizens uv the Corners wuz inflexibly opposed torecognisin uv em in any capassity, andheyeelded. He got very thin, and pale and haggard, and his large family likewise. It wuz evident that they wuzut feedin very well at home. Notis the natcral result of freedom 1 He absolootly begged 1 but uv course (he Corners would give nothin to a nigger. Then the instinktiv nateral cussidness uv the nigger—the infernal depravity wich is inherent into all uv em—began to display itself. He demoralized rapidly; and in a week became a most disguatin objick. He stole chickens uv Daefcin Pogram, leastways Deekin Pogram’s chickens wuz iflusin, and who should hev stole em but this nigger—he stole corn uv Elder Pennebacker, and wuz finally detected takfn a him from Bascom’s smoke-house. There wuz no doubt ez to his guilt—he wuz taken in the act with the fatal ham in his possession. He hed taken it home and his wife wuz ffyin large alices uv it There could be but one endin to rich, a succession uy crimes. The citizens vfere too much incensed to await the uncertain ackshen uv the law and they hung him at site. The Corners will never tolerate a nigger thees in their midst, no how. ' v ' Uv course I improved the occasion. Ez his body wuz a s wingin in the air I askt our people to behold the fru ts uv Radicalism and Fanatycism. That nigger wuz wunst the happy slave uv a happy owner; -there wuz atween em a nateral relashen. The nigger workt and his owner eat, and thus wuz iul tilled the entire dooties uv life. He wuz not himg then for he wuz worth too much money to hang. How hed it bin with him sence ? He dem&ndid to be made a free man—he wuz made a free man, and here he is. I told em that there wuz no need nv saying more—that body a danglin in the air, wich its sole wuz a marchin on, wuz the most elokent sermon hrich cood be preacht. The man whose house the nigger wuz as plasterin wuz in town yesterday, trying to get Causashin plasterers to finish the Ka but rz there ain’t none uv em here he "t succeed in very wdH. He probably won’t get into his new quarters this fall. I am not certain what become nv his family. There wuz a nigger woman’s body pulled out uv the dam a day or two kfU-rwXhfowich somebody remarkt wuz the wife uf'lfee deceast, and Capt McPelfer remarkt that when he went to the Cabin uv the deceast nigger to secoor his share uv the furnitoor, that two leadin niggers from Gerrettetown were notiat makin off with the children. But there’s no tellin whether there’s any trooth in .these rumors or not I think I shel go to Washmgtoa and put myself at the head nv the anti-nigger labor movement now bein inogurated there. Petroleum .Y. Najbt, P. M., (Wien weans Post Master.) Two men have been fined in London for cropping dogs’ cars, on the ground that it was cruel. It was stated on the trial that the Queen wonld never have the ears of one of her dogs cropped.