Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1870 — NASBY. [ARTICLE]

NASBY.

[From Um Toledo Blada.l MR NASBT OOIS TO MEW TOEE TO CALIi AND ENG INKER A MEETING OF LABORING MEN IN OPPOSITION TO THE EMPLOYMENT OF CHINESE. Hasp ot bii ST atm, 1 Sixth-Wain, Moo Vou,l July «, tm, I I run up to Noo YoTk last week on special biznia. I saw in a noosepaper that seventy-five Chinese hed located tjieirselvea In North Adams, Massychoorita, and therein I saw a gleam nv lite for the Dimocrisy. Here, sed I to myself, is richnis 1 . Here is what will wunat more fire the Dimocratic heart and rouse Dimocratic indignation. The Dimocrisy must alluz hev an inferior race* and now that we’ve lost the nigger. Providence has stept In at the nick of time and furnishes us the Chinaman, Immejitly on my arrival, I sought out the Dimocratic Central Committee uv our ward, aud called a meetin uv “nil labrin Amcrikens uv the 6th Ward opposed to the interdtfekehen uv forin pauper labor Into Ameriky.” Toddy CVRyan, wich runs the Shamrock B’loon next door to mlno, and Dennis O’Shaughnessy, and Pat O’Flynn, and Jemmv O’Fallon, and Terrence McCoole, and Jemmy O’Brien, all uv em runnin S’loons in the block the Harp uv Erin is located in, entered into the matter with spent. We’re rivals in biznis, but, thank Heaven, in politics we km act together ez a unit. Our interests are identikle. We tried to git some shoemakers and brick masons ana rich to attend the meetin, but they all insisted they wuz too bizzy. In the cvenjh the meetin wuz convened in the back room uv the Harp uv Erin, Teddy O’Ryan in the Chair, and Dennis O’Shaughnessy (bar tender for Pat O’Keefe) Secretary. A Committee on Resolution* was appointed, consisting uv Jemmy O’F&llon, Patsey McShane, and Jemmy Sheeney. The Chub man remark t that the comin uv the barbarious Chinese to the Eastern States had filled him with profound alarm. Eza labrin man he sollumly protested agin bringin forrin pauper labor to these happy shores to compete with us. With ail kiz sole he protested agin this impor; tashun uv proverty-driven forriners to Ameriky. He hoped the meetin wood do its duty in this matter. He would interdooce to the meetin Mr. Jean Jacques Pierre La Tourette, a gentleman of North Adams, Massychoosets, where this outrage agin Amerikin labor was bein perpetrated. Mr. La Tourette riz and addrest the meetin in French, ez he coodent speak English, he havin been in this country only ten months. Weprocooreda Frenchman wich cood speak English who translated him for our benefit. Mr. La Tourette remarkt that, the principal thing laborin men hed to contend with wuz imported pauper labor. The Chinese wich had bin adventid in North Adams wuz a inferior race wich cood live on nothin and cood consekently work for nothin. They had none uv the habits and tastes uv civilizashcn. They did not drink likker; in fact one uv em, Clung Choy, didn’t know what likker wuz. (Expresshun uv disgust from the entire assembly.) One hundred uv his people hed bin indoost ten months ago to come to the Yoonited States from Lower Canady by the promise uv ekal rites. Them wich emigrated with him from Lower Canady hedn’t anythin in pertikeler to eat in that country, and still less to wear; in fact, the half uv em wuz bein supported by the parish authorities. We came to the Yoonited States, the manufakterers paying our sere on the railroads, expecting to find a land uv good wages and plenty. Wat hez been the result? Why, jest es we hed all jined the Crispins, and established who shood and who shood not labor in North Adams, and likewise wat wages shood be paid, an how they should be paid, but before we got control uv the books uvthe concern, we are confronted with forrin pauper labor brought from a forrin shore, and we aro out in the cold. Mr. La Tourette remarked that when he sed “we” he spoke uv his associates. He didn’t labor hisself—he wuz a friend of humanity, whose biznis it wuz to organize laborin men agin the encroachments uv capital Dennis O’Shaunnessy, our Secretary, wanted to know what wages wuz paid them ignerant Chinese. Mr. La Tourette answered about 22 cents a day, wich anser, ez it wuz considered essenshel to put on record, I wrote down, ez Air. O’Shaughnessy’s early educashen hed bin neglected. “Good Lord!” ejackilated Teddy Ryan, “ that’s only two drinks and a fifth 1 We want no rich labor cz that.” Father McGrath, after givin notice that next Sunday a beautiful gilt Image of St. Boniface, wich hed bin presentid his church, wood be displayed lor the adorashen uv the devout, demanded that the most stringentest laws should be passed preventin the immigrashen to this country uv heathen and idolaters. He bleeved in religious tolerashen, but the ijeee uv a joss-house bein erectid in Noo York filled him with alarm, and he wood prevent it by all the law. Jemmy O Fallon reported the followin resolooshens: W abbas, .Ccrtin blotid aristocrats to Msraychooelta hev iniportid ignerant and degraded Chinese to take the place nv the labrers in that Stale, and Warbas, Tho leaders nv the Dimocraay nv Noo York Is the espeshl champions nv labor, therefore by the leaders nv the Hltnocrasy. uv Noo York be

Re/olved, Thai the Dimocrasy hez alinz held that free labor is the safeguard uvAmerlhii liberty, 'caplin south nv Mason Dixon’s line, where H hez allcz seemed to us that labor shood be owned by tbe most dominantest class, Resolved, That the importashen uv forrln pauper labor Into Maesychooelts is an lev ashen nv therltcs nv the amerikin labrln class wich shood be resistld to the death. (Cries uv ‘-Good for yez. Jemmy 1” “Be dad we'll all vote for thotl ’ ‘' Let Jemmy O’ Fail oh alone for pntilna thing nately 1 ’’ And under the excitement of tbe moment, the assemblage all Jmed In slngtn “The Wearin nv the Green." osptin LeTourette, who burst out Into tbe Mareelllasb hymn. Resolved, That to the end that labor In this country may be free and nnrestrictid, wo connsel our friends In North A (lams to lmejttly kill all the Chinese, and all others who consents to work with em. Resolved, That Ameriky hez bln tbe refnge 'uv the opprestavail nasbuns, and ez we are determined that it shall aUuz be aich, we protUt agin any Chinese comin in on any terms watever. Letters endorsin' wot wa shood do for the ooz uv labor wuz rseeved from Hon. John Morrisey, Hon. Benjamin Wood, Hon. Femandy Wood and other distinguished friends uv labor. Patsy McShane commenced a speech on the hecnousnis nv importin pauper labor, urieh wood hev hod a good effeck, but Jdhnny McQuade, wich don’t like him, interruptid by askin him how long ago it wuz that he and all his brothers and cousins wuz taken out uv a work-house in Ireland and hed their fare paid to this country by a raleroad company, and whether when he landid he heda decent rag to his back dr a cint in his pockit. Mr. McShane retorted by wantin to know es the McQuades, ivery mother’s son uv em, hednH bin in the same fix. The argyment wuz concloodld by tbe two clinchin, and in a minit tbe entire assemblage wuz indulgin in ez bootiful a site ez I hev ever seen" in Noo York. Nevertheless good wuz accomplisht, ez we hev this labor movement fairly on its feet. I shel go back to Delaware immejitly, for there is movements nv importance there wich is about to bo commenst I hev to draft an address to tie Democrasy uv that State. 1.

PETROLEUM V. NASEY,

(Wich wuz Postmaster.)

jgy At lection is invited to the card of the Northwestern Female College of Evanston, 111., in another column. .i