Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1865-11-24
BILL ARP, a.,
Candidate for Congress for the Seventh
ssst Is Congressional Districts sp- a

Since my recent artfkal on the State of the
country | hev koucluded to become kandidate for
Kongress IFS no use lettin Union sneaks hev all
the field 70 themselyes--esp especially them what re-
fugeed North when Sheridan kun Along this way
and but his horse ID M stable never ran North
myself; bat did run South leetle sfaster, -thau
was comfortable.J was So sure we'd rwhip old
Sherman that never made. no prepurashuhs 20
skeedadle until he was down on US ike thousand
Of brick and then there wafhtno tinie % pack up
my duds; or in 'skiptrss ffaze, fsiake up Wy bed
and ipqt -es- ssJ u1.lu abne1re6 srsfifbb b,.ivot
Sans ,hq6llsment-ISdns esrS'4onie, ] left my bed
and bodybuilding them long and final adue,
having pledged myself as all distinguished nen of
the Rst peramshsa had Iepeatly dun, never 10 sab-
NIT 10 Abe Lincoln or rekoRstruchen. f s...s, q.
We were all 70 die in the last ditchA especial
ly me, JEFF. and 10; and golly, Thought our
time had KUN, sure ehuf; but preferred not .dyiu
till reached the last ditch and .konsequently, /
kept skedadlin across every ditch KUN to, hopin
somethin encouragin might turn up before reached
the last one but It didn't turn up, and me, aud
JEFF and all The rest Of as, who had been iSeepia
safe distance from bullets, found ourselves in the
last ditch, Well the fact is, we didn't feel half
as much like dyin there as we expected to, before
we got there; and soon question arose whether
we should go back under old Abe OF die. Well It's
no use taikini We didn't want to die, 80 we con-
cluded to take the amnesty oath and 90 back. We
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it before long. $50 ~ '' ' sat
But I'm forgittin my Candidacy Gas Stewart says
in his circular) but lis NO odds ef | do. Thcrs
plenty more that skedadled when did and didn't
dye in the last ditch neither. All want is for
as who didn't dye in the last ditch, when we had d
chance TO, be sure 10 get into posshun again, aud
have the ofises; and to drive off Union sneakss
and take all their greenbacks, and konfskate all
their lands; and in the language of Jo to the Leg
isiatur 'drioe their scises and children drter the
housslsss homeless, pehmyless aad starpisg" The
man that can 60 10 Kongross with this object in
in view Is the man of my choice. Ef thought
couldn't serve you in riding the South of stubborn
old Union men, and gettin all the ofiises ourselves
you couldn't send me to Kougress. a. % roithro9
"A am workin man. I'helped work Mp The big
6te. worked hard to keep the fts agoin without
6teng anyInyself; and succeeded so well in workin
TO keep out Of a fite when every body was wanted,
think have sufficient reputation as workin
man to entitle me to ycur support SAG Hsmsa
.f.s-.. .,,,...,. BILL ARP.
P. S.-I had intended this for publication in the
Rome Courier, but the Editur '{d~,s hnn) wanted
to charge me 10 dollars for IT. so T. CONCLUDED Ito
write out few copies myself, and to get some of
my Geetger uihdrmonizedi aonnrnuu Of my acquain-
tance to write some copies for me and give them
ginersl srculation, lsa. s1scH s B, A, ,9h