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The Daily Dispatch: December 25, 1865., [Electronic resource], Mining and the miner. (search)
Everything is slivered and splintered by its fury. Then fellows the "black damp" --air from which all the life-sustaining principle is burnt out — and if any escape unhurt from the concussion, they are drowned in the lifeless air. And this work, with all its severe labor and danger, begets a class of men who take in it a strange delight. When Shelley spoke of men "leaner than fleshliness misery, who waste their lives in far down darksome mines," he surely never could have seen the Welsh, Cornish and Newcastle miners. The Chesterfield mines are worked chiefly by these men, and a sturdy set of fellows they are. They prefer the pit to any other work, and have the same kind of scorn of surface men that sailors have of land "lubbers," or that trappers have of civilized folks. They feel that high qualities, that energy, courage and patience are called into play here, and that they are spending strength on strength in the stern labor of cutting their way through living rock. They love