The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1865-12-21

He Writes ON the state Of the
Country. s.

= As11S WAA sAAC SentC VI tMe
Country. ss 80
"Bill Arp, " who lately made very
happy hit, in a letter to Artemus Ward,
has written the following in the same
strain on the state of the country: 5o
y from the Rome (Ga. Courier Jse :
BILL ARP ON THE STATE OF THE coUN-
Sweet land of Liberty, of thee sing. !,
Not much l don't, not at this time.
IF there's anything sweet about liberty
in this part of the vineyard, I can't see
it. The land'sgood enuf and I would MT
mind hearin a hyme or two about the
dirt live on, but as for fndin sugar
and liberty in Georgy soil, its all mis-
take. Howsumeyer I'm hopeful. I'm
much calmer and sereener than I was
few months ago. begin to feelkindly
towards all people, except some. I'm
now endeavorin to be great national
man, I've taken upa notice of no North,
no South, no East, no West; but let
me tell you my friend, I'll bet on Dixie
as long as I've got dollar. Its no
harm to run both skedules. In fakt its
highly harmonious to do SO. I'm a
good Union reb, and my battle cry are
Dixie and the Union.
But you see, my friend, we are gettin
restless about some things. The war
had bekum nifty heavy on us, and after
the big collapse, we thought it was over
for good We had killed folks and kill
led folks until the novelty of the thing
had wore off, and we were nifty nigh,
played out all over. Children were IN
creasin and vittles diminishin. BY a
close calculashun it was purceered that
we didn't kill our enemies as fast. as
they was imported, and about those
times / Thought it was pity that some
mirakle' Of grace hadn't cut off the
breed of furriners SOME Is or 20 years
ago. Then you would have seen a far
fight. General Sherman would at have,
walked over the track, and Ulysses
would have killed more men than he,
,did-o his o,cn side. have always
tho't that General ought to be pertik-
ler which side he was sacrifsin.
Well, if the war is over, what's the
use of fillin up our towns and cities with
soldiers any longer. Where's your re-
knostruktion that the papers say is goin
on sorapidly Where's the liberty and
freedom The fakt is, General Sher-
man and his caterpillers made such a
clean sweep of everything, I don't see
much. to RECONSTRUCT. They took so
many Liberties around here that there's
nary liberty left. I could have rekon-
.et~ukted q .ho.ase,ad siah Statos before
this. Any body could. There wash
nuthin to do but jest to go off and let
us alone. We've got plenty of States
men-plenty ofmen for Governor.
Joe Brown amt dead-he's a waitin
,-standin at the door with his hat off.
Then what's the soldiers here for
what good are they doin-who want to
see them any longer. Everybody is
tired of the war, and we don't want to
see any more signs Of it. The niggers
don't want 'em and the white men
don't want 'em, and as for thewimen-
whoopee! i golly! Well, there's no
use talking when the stars fall agin
maybe the wimen will be harmonizcd.
That male business-that oath about
gittin letters Geetiger! They always
was jealous about the males anyhow,
and that order jest broke the camePs
back. Well, ] must confess that it was
powerful small concern. / would try
to sorter smooth it overif I knowd what
to say, but don't. IF they was afeerd
of the wimen why did MT they say so.-
IF they was mt what do they make 'em
swear fer. Jest to aggraVate 'em p
Didn't they know that the best way to
harmonic man, was to harmonize his
wife first? What harm can the wimen
do by receiver their letters oath free
They can't vote, nor they cant preach
nor hold offs, nor play soldier, nor mus
tor, nor wear breeches, nor ride strad.
die, nor cuss, nor chaw terbacker, nor
do nuthin hardly but talk and rite let.
ters. heard that a valent kernel made
a woman put up her fan because it had
a pikter Of Borygard pom. it. Well
she's harmonised, / reckon. Now the
trouble of all sich is that after these
bayonets leave here and go home, these
pattycoat tyrants can't come back any
more. Some Georgy fool will smasl
the juice out Of 'em sertin, and thai
wouldn't be neither harmonious or heal
thy. Better let the wimmefl alone.
q Then there is another thing I'm wait
in far. Why don't theyrekonstruktt the
niggers if they are ever goin to =
They've give 'em powerful site Of free
dom, and very little else. Here's the
big freedmen's buro, and the little buro'
all over the country, and the papers ar.
full of grand orders and special orders
and paragrafs, but Ell bet e possun
tsome Of aem steals my wood this wintel
or freezes to death. Freedmenss hum
bug I say. Jest when the corn neede1
plowin the worst, the buro rung the be1
and tolled all the negroes TO- town, IN
the farmers lost the. crops; and nov
the freedmen is getting cold and hun
| CRY, and wants to go back, and the;
amt nuthin for 'em to go to. But free
dom is . big thing. HurYaw for free
dom,s buro Sweet1 lind of liberty. I,