Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1863-02-18
Another Letter from Bill Arp to Mr..
Linkhoru.


vate, is equal to the letters of Jack Downing,
whose popularity extended wherever the Eng.
lish language was read:
Mr.. Linkborn, Sur:-Are it not possibul
that you, are usin too much proklaInashun ?
Alore'n lS months ago you published an edik,
orderin the boys to retire and be peaceabul,
but they dis.retired and went to ftin. The
effek ver bad, very bad. Now you're pro-
klamed that uiggers ar free after; Janywary,
and rm Altered it siltprove fee simple title
for all time.
Every free nigger will gitin the kotton patch
now, shore: for the tarnal rebels do every
thing by kontrarys. Niggers hav ris 20 pnr
sent and are CROWN more darker and more
blacker evry day. A big plantation now looks
like the sun wer in A klipse- Your procla-
u,ashun hav eutaled Afriky upon US 80 strong
that you kin actually smell it. Tippio says
I'VE call him Tip for short) that he are pus-
sonally interested, and thinks you had better
make em free fust, and isshu your. proklama-
shun afterwards. Gen. Hunter tried it your
way and over krapped himself: Tip never
got no free papers ut all.
Mr.. Linkhorn, Sur: I'm Altered you've Ia
ken in more ground than you kin tend
You're trying to do too much at onst. Gen.
Hunter tried your plan and koudent work it
over three States, so you had better praktis
on homypathic doses. Ii you'll begin on
Dade kounty you kin tell what your masheen
will do, for thar amt but one niger thar, and
they keep him in kage as kuriosity. Or
NAV be you had better experiment on dogs
fust.. If you could manage to give em oil
hydrofoby think it would work, and then
YOU might try i. on the niggers and other
horned katie. If they wont aksept your
freedom, why, let em alone. 1t are useless
to kali elm if they wont KUN. | wonst hearn
fe!ler in thca,ur say he koud kali sperits
from the nasty deep, butthe sperits never kun
Land he never got nary drink-so go it gently
I Mr.. L:nkborn, but go it sh9rsss, The world
tire assh and the devil are aaSting to you tt
extend the egis of freeduulEaSer, all kreashn'
.,,yer .l,inys animals and in animal ove
bull bats and screech owls, grub.worns ant
Grind stones, niggers and alligator', and eve
rvthing that don't spill as the yearth turns up
side down. You'll have free fte, MIR. Link
I h rn, in doin all this, but never mind-pitcl
in-grate is your reward.
5 Mr. Lnkhoru, Sur: II are amazin to thinl
what big COB yon have undertook. 1t ar
3 biz COB shore. Matthy Matlicks nor hi
! daddy koudpnt tiggtr how lung it will TAX
you to yit thru akkorlin to your ieebul prog
= ress. The double rule Of 8 wont tech it, mol
n ,are and tret: Great Bethel what powe
G of work Hedent you better sublet the cor
; trak to sum Uropean Nashuns? Shore
i you're born, you'll need heap of underta
kers before u finish your overland march
: If L koud march Ike Jackson it would d'
: but Z kant. DR.. Battey says that Jackson
Is troops take the govt if they're "a hours
y Mr.. Enkhorn, Sur: Our people git moi
e stubborn every day. Tkey 60 nifty nigh nj
n kel and say they re savin their su"dy klo'e
e wear tn Jour hanging. They just glory
J. Twin on huff ra.huns and stewin salt out
le their smoke house dirt-they say they rath'
's 6te u than feed U, and sware by the gost
N Kalhoun they will eat roots and drink bran'
't water the balance of time before they W
kernowly to your abolition die-nasty. Chic
ahominy! what COB you've Undertook
ce Do lIanible help you any? hsarn tell tn
is he lest sot in the korner of your oils all d
ry long, and never sed word but Niger, ''g9
Is, niqqer and that since your proclamashun
We face hav turned darker and his hair INC
- k;nkyer.
We Mr.. Linkhorn, Sur: Hav you any late ne
m from Mr.. Harper's ferry. l hearn that sto
e- W Jackson kept the payrolls for few -d'
IT. and that about $4,000 crossed over IN
'o' hours. He's a Smart ferryman shore!
ne your folks know how to make it pay2 lt'
''a a bad cross in, but. still, l suppose, are hf
no safer than Balls bluff or Shepherdstown
an Them's dangerous fords, Mr.. Linkhorn, sho
mt and I'm Altered il your folks keep eros
Oh sich sickly rivers, like the Potomak
Chickyhominy, you'll have all the sknm
~ your populashun killed up, spd will have
rI.i I enkroach on your good society.
Mr.. Liukhorn, Sur: Your Generals do
hs. travel the right road to Richmond no h'
-, The way they've been tfyin to KUN are II
H. nifty Longstreet, over two powerful IL
=. - and across tremengious Stonewall 1t wo
..l, , be safer and cheaper for EN- to 60 round
~ the Rocky Mounting, II spending time in u
nch tary exkurshuns are their chief otjek.
- But must klose this brief epistle. l
MID very gloomy, Mr. Linkhorn, about this des'
tiv war, and haint no heart to write mi
-, As General Byron sed, II amt now VIII
- use ter was, and my sperits are phlutt
..a faint and To-"
oro' Yourn till deth,