The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1865-11-16
Another Letter from Bill Arp.

An0tner Ietter from ELL arp.
Bill Arp" who lately made very
happy hit, in q letter to Artcmus Ward.
has written the following in the same
strain on the state of the country:
t From the Rome Courier
BILL ARP ON TIE STATE OF THE COUNTRY.
"sseet land of Liberty, Of thee sing"
F. Not much ] don't, not atthis time. If
there's anything sweet about liberty in
Ibis part OF thesvinoyafd, 1 can't see it,
Tho lands good enuf, and wouldn't
mind Learin Il, hyme or two about the
dirt live on, but us for indin sugar and
liberty in Geqrgy soil, it's alla mistake.
Nowsumcver,. Pm hopeful. Pm much
calmer and sereener than was a few
lnontlls-ago. / begin to feel kindly to-
wards all people, except some. Pm now
endeavorin to sbe a great national man.
I've taken up a mottoo-of no North, no
South, no East, mo West; but let me tell
you, my friend, Tibet on Dixie as long,
MS Eve got dollar. Its no harm to run
both skednles. InsEakt its highly harmo-
,nious to do so. Pm good Union rcb.
and my battle cry aye Dixie and the
Union.
: But you see, my friend, i've are gettin
l-bekummity heavy on us, and afterth big
i:coKapse we thought it was over for good.
1--we had killed folks and killed folks until
1.the novelty OF the thing had.wore off, and
Eve we're nifty nigh played out all over.
l5Children were increasin and vittels dfmin-
ishin. BY q close calculashun it was pur-
.soeyed that we didn't kill our enemies as
| fast rs they were imported, ,<and about
thoso times / Thoughts itwas pity that
some nlirakle of grace hadn't cut off the
breed Of formers some eighteen or twenty
years ago Then you would have seed q
/ fairs fight General Sherman wouldn't
have walked over the track, and Ulysses
would .llavc killed more men than he
Edid-of his o,cn side. | have afwayssthot
1 that Il General ought to, be pertikler
which.side &c was sacrifsin.
Well, if the war id over what's the use
Of film up our towns and cities with sol
diers any longer. Where's your reckon,
strnktion that the papers say is g9ih on
so rapidly?. Where's the liberty and
freedom The fakt is, General, Sherman
and his caterpillers made sich a clean
tswecp of everything, I don't see much to
|,rekonstrukt. They took SO many liber.
Eties around here that there's nary liberty
left. Il could have rckonstrnkteda thou
lsand sich States before this. Anybody
Ecould. There wasn't nuthin to do but
1jestto goaff and let MS alone: We'yego
s|Iplenty of statespeR..plenty of men fol
Il Governor.
Joe Brown laint deai-he's a waitin-
! kstandin at the door with his that off
Then what's thessoldiers here for-wAat
sgood are tlIey doin-who wants to sec
T Fem any longer. Everybody 'isstiredso
.1tho wan and we don't Want to-. SEQ any
|!morc signs3ofit. Thelniggers don't want
Fem, and the white folks. don't want 'em
. and as for the 7.wimmen-whoope !s'l
sEgolly! Well, l,there's no use talkin-wher
the stars full agin maybe the wimmen vii
f[ibe harmonizcds That mail business.
I:(that oath about gittin letters! Gee-tiger
) They always was Jealous about the male
Ianyhow, and that order Jest broke th'
cameps back. Well, I must confess tina
; it was powerful small consarn. woul(
|, Etry to sorter smooth it over if I knowet
: what to say, but I, don't. If they wa
afeerd of the @immen why didn't the.
. say so? If they wasn't what do the.
t make 'em swear for2 Jest to aggreyat
: 'em? Didn't they know that.the bes
) way to harmonize man, was to harmon
5 ize bis wife first? What harm can: tn
/ wimmen do by receivin their letters oatl
, free? They can't vote, nor they can
r preach, ner hold ofis, nor play soldier
J. nor muster, nor wear breeches, nor rid
|, straddle, nor csss, nor chaw tobacker, no
J do nuthin hardly but talk and rite letters