The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1865-12-20
BILL ARP ON THE STATE OF
ossdo1mI THE COUNTRY, du rif

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In this part of the vineyard, can't see
|itai Th6lland'aIgobd enuf, andI wouldn't
mind Shearih,Tabyme or two aboutdtbe
RdiIe IliyS dpb bntI ass dor,fndin aspgaE and
liibefty ip Gsorgy soil, it's an d fnistake d
H6sshnever, a'm jhopsfel Nm mdGh
calmer and sersensr than I was a few
mdhthslgo. Ibegin to feel kindly tow
ards all people, except some. I'm now
endevering to be great national man
I've taken up amotso of no North, no
South, no East, no West; but let me
tell you, my friend, I'll betiou Dixie as
long as | have dollar Its no harm to
run both skedulesD In fakt, it's highly
harmonious TO do SO. I'm good Union
reb, and my battle cry are Dixie and the
Unionii l. W-K1IONE ,24UGT2
But you seei my friend, we are gettin
restless about some things The war had
bekum, nifty heavy on us, ard, after the
/ big collapse, VIC thought that it was over
for good. We had killed folks and kill
cd folks until the novelty of thing had
wore cf, aud We were nifty nigh played
outS al loterB Children we're IiDcrcasin
and vittuls diminshin. BY close cal.
culashun it was perceived that We didn't
kill our enemies as fast as they were i'm.
ported, and abont those times / thought
it was pity that some mirakle Of grace
hadn't cut off the breed of lurriners some
1907 20 years ago Thea YOU would
have seed fair f.ht General Sherman
wouldn't have walked over the track, and
Ulysses. would have Killed more men than
he. did-- on lis otrn side.g IIhaye always
,hot that General o-seht to te pertik Ter
which side he was sacrifsin .,,tt
Well, II Ihe war is over, what's the
use of ilinvup our towns and cities with
soldiers any longer? Where's your re.
konsfruction that the papers say is goin
on SO rapidly? Where's the liberty aud
frcedom2 The fakt is General Sherman
and his caterpillars made such clean
sweep of everything, don't see much to
r,konsttukt. They togk SO many libcr-
ties around here that there's nary liberty
left. Ic0uld have rekopslrptkcda thOuS.
ard sich States before this, Any body
could. There wasn't nuthin TO do but
just to 90 off and let us alopo. We've
got plcn'y.of siatcsmcn-plcnly Of men
Ior Governor Joe DroWh amt dead o
he'sa watin-staudin At The door with
his hat off Then what's the soldiers
here fOrI what good are they doin Z
WHO wants to see EN- any longer? Ev-
erybtdy is tired of the war and don't
want 10 see any more siSns-of it. The
niggers don't want en-, and the white
men don't EN-, and as for the wimen-
whoopec. l gollyl Well, there's no
use taIkin when the stars fall again may.
by the wimen will be more harmonizel.
That male business, that oath about get
ting letters! Gee tiger They always
was jealous about the males, anyhow, AID
that order jest broke the camel's back.
We'll, must confess it was a powerful
ANAL concern, | would try to sorter
smooth it over if | knowd how, but
don't. lfthey wossfcercd Of the wimen
why didn't they say SOY If they wasn't
whst do they make 'em swear for? Jest
to aggrava'c en- I Didn't they know that
the best way to harmonize a man is to
halmonize his wife first 7 What harm
can the wimcn do by receiving letters
oath freeH They can't vote, nor can t
preach nor hold offs, nor play soldier,
nor muster, nor wear breeches, nor ride
strnddle, nor cuss, nor chaw terbacker,
nor do nuthin hardly but talk and rite
letters. hoarn that valiant kernel
made a woman put up her fan because il
had q pictcr of BOrygard pom it, Well,
she's harmoni2ed, | reckon. Now the
trouble Of slcE is that after these bayo.
nets leave here and go home, these petit
coat tyrants can't come back any more.
Some GeOrgy fools will mash the juice
out of 'em, Sertin, and that wouldn't be
neither harmonious nor healthy Better
let the wimen alone, ',s y, y. .,'., ,'..7' "a ~
z Then there IS another thing I'm wal.
ten for. Why don't they RECONSTRUCT
tho niggers if they are ever goin o.
They've ,giye'vmta powcnaksite of free.
dom, ind devilish little else. q d Here's the
big ffeedmaD's buro, and the little buros
ali over, the country, and the papers are
full Of grand orders and special orders,
and paragrafsp but I'll bet a possum that
somo Of 'em steal my wood this winter or
freeze to DEATH Freedmah's buro freed.
mans bumbug, l say. just when the
corn needed plowin the worst, the buro
rupg Che bell and tolled oil the niggers
70 towpi and the farmers lost their crops,
and now the freedman is gettin cold and
hungry and wants to go back, and there
amt nuthin for ,em TO go to 70 But free
dom is q big thing. Hurraw for free.
m's4burol Sweet land Of liberty, Of
thee | don't sing !! But it is all right
I'm for freedom myself. Nobody wants
any more slayerys If tho Abolitionists
had let US aionc,5 We Would have fixed il
up right a longtime ago, and we can fix
Il up now The buro amt fired it, AID
itainta goin 10, It don't know anything
about il. Our people have d heap moro
fee'lp forthe poor niger than any Abo
liuonist 1--WE AREAS poonas Job, but I'll
bet q dollar NC can raise more money in
Roiae 70 build anigger church than they
did IN Bostowug Thc papers say that af.
ter goip round for three weeks, the Bos.
town Christians raised thirty seven dol. |