The Placer herald., 1865-12-30
Another Letter from Bill Arp.

written the following IN the same Sraln on
toe state Of the country:
"Sweet land of Liberty, of thee sing"
Not much don't, not at this time. II
there's anything sweet about liberty in this
part of the vineyard, | can't see it, The
land is good enuf, and | wouldn't mind
hearin' hyme or two about the dirt | live
on, but as for finding sugar and liberty in
Georgy soil, it's all mistake. uowsun-
ever, I'm hopeful I'm much camer and
sereener than was few months ago.
begin to feel kindly toward all people, ex.
cept some. I'm now endeavorin' to be-
great national man. I've taken up mottoe
of no North, no South, no East, no West;
but let me tell you, my friend, III bet on
Dixie as long as I've got dollar It's no
harm to run both skedules. In fak, it's
highly harmonious to do so. I'm good
Union reb, my battle cry are Dixie and the
Union.
But you see, my friend, we are gettin'
restless about some things. The war had
becum nifty heavy on US, and after the big
collapse, we thought it was over for good.
We had killed folks and killed folks until
the novelty OF the thing had wore oft, aud
we were nifty nigh played out all over.
Children were lncreasin and vittes dimnish'
in. BY a close calcuashun it WAS purseev
ed that we didn't xiii our enemies as fast as
they were imported and about those times l
thong ht it was pity that some mirake of
grace ha Int cut off the breed Of furriners
some eighteen or twenty years ago. Than
you would haze seed fair fight. General
Sherman wouldn't have walked over the
track, and Ulysses would have killed more
men than he did his own side. have
always tho't that General ought to be
per'kler which side lie was a sacrtisn.
Well, if The war is over, what's the use Of
film up our towns and cities with soldiers
any longers Where's your Reconstruction
that the papers say is going on rapidly |?
Where's the liberty and freedom? The fakt
is, General Sherman aud his ca'erplers
made such a clean sweep of every'hing,
don't see much TO r.konstrakt. They took
so many liberties around here that there's
nary liberty left. could have rekonstruk,
ted thousand such States before this. Any
body could. There wasn't nuthin' TO do but
jus, 60 off and let US alone. We've got
plenty OF Sia,esmen-plsu,y Of men for
Governor.
Joe Brown ain'l dead yet-he's a waitin'
--standin' at the door with his bat off
Then what's the soldiers here for? What
good are they doin? Who wants to see 'epl
any longer! Every body is tired OF the war,
and we don't want to see any signs of it,
The niggers don't want EN-, aud the white
men don't want 'e,a and AS for the women
whoopee! goIly Well, there's no use
talking; when The stars fall again, may be
the women will be harmonized- That mail
business, that oath about gettin' letters !!
Gee-tiger They always was jealous about
the males an, how, and that order just broke
the came's back Well, must confess that
it was a powerful small concern. would
try to sorter smooth it over, if knew what
tosa but | don't. If they was Altered Of
the wimen, why didn't they say SO! If they
wasn't. what do they make 'em swear for |?
Jest to aggravate 'em Didn't they know
that The best way TO harmonic a man was
to harmonze bis wife first? What harm
can the wilnen do by receavn' their letters
oath free? They cant vote, nor they can't
preach, nor hold offs nor play soldier, nor
muster, nor wear breeches nor ride sraddle,
nor cuss, nor chaw terbacker, nor do nuthin'
II valiant kurnel made a woman put up her
fan because it had piltur Of Burygard
upon it. Well, she's barmouized, reckon.
Now the trouble of all sich as that after
these bayones leave here and 90 bone,
these peltycoal tyrauts can't come ba'k any
more. Some Georgy fool will mash the juce
out of em, serlin. and that wouldn't be
neither harmonious nor helhy. Better let
the wimen alone.
Then there's another thing that I'm wait
ing for. Why don't they Reconstruct the
niggers. If they are ever goin' to p? They've
give 'em powerful site of freedom, and
very little else. Here's the big freedmens
buro, and the little buros all over the coun.
try, and the papers are full Of grand orders,
and special orders, aud paragra4fs, but III
bet possom some of 'em steals my wood
this winter, or freezes to death. Freedmen's
buro! Freedmen's humbug, l say. Just
when the corn needed plowin' the Wrist, the
buro rung the bell aud tolled all the niggers
to town, and the farmers lost their crops;
and now the freedman is gettin' cold aud
hungry, and wants TO 60 back. and there
an'l uulhin' fur 'em to 60 to. But freedom
is big thing. Hulraw for freedoms buro
But IFS all right. I'm for freedom myself.
Nobody wants any more slavery, If the
abolishunists let's us alone we will fix 1t up
right, and we can fix it up now. The bnro
amt goin' to. It don't know anything
about it. Our people have got heap more
feeling for the poor niger than any abolish
unist. We are as poor as JOB, but III bet a
dollar we can raise more money in Rome to
build uigger church than they did in Bos'
tun. The papers say that after goin' round
for three weeks, the Boslun christians raised
thirty.seven dollars 10 build niger church
in Savannah. They are powerful in theory,
but nifty scarce in practice. But is no use
talkin Every body will know by walln
who's been fooled. Mr.. johnson says he's