The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1865-10-26
From the Louisville Journal.
Bill Arp Addresses Artemus Ward.

Mr.. ARTENUS WARD, ShOWmAn-SUR
The reason L write to you in partlckler,
are bekaus you are about the only man
know in all Gods country" so called.
For sum several weeks | have been wan
tin to say sumthiu. For several years
we rebs, so called, but now late OF said
country deceased, have been tryin nifty
hard to do sumthn. We didn't quite do
1t, and now it is very painful, L assure
you, to dry up all of a sudden and max
out like we wasn't thar.
! Ny friend, / want to say suu1thin.
suppose there is no law agin thinkin,
but tninkin doant help me. / must ex
plode myself general SO as to feel bet
ter. You see I'm tryin to harmonize.
I'm tryin to soften down my feelins. l. m
endeavoring to subjugate myself to the
level of surrounding circumstances, 80
called. But I can't DO it until 1 am al
lowed TO say Sumthin. l want to quar-
lrel with sumbody then make friends.
| amt no giant killer. [ amt no Nor.
weigian bar | amt no boarconstrlcter,
but I'll be hornswaggled if the talkin and
the writing and the slanderin. has got to
be done on one side any longer. Sum
of your folks hay got tn dry up or turn
our folks loose 1t is blamed outrage,
so called. Amt your editors got nuthln
to do but peck at US, and squibb at ms
an crow over as. Is every man what
kan write paragraf to consider Va as
bars in a cage, and he is always jobblng
at US TO hear US growl? Now you :eee'
nv friends, that's what's Instantaneous
and do you ast tell EN-, one and all, eplu-
2 ribu, unum, so called, and If they don't
sion it a. once or turn US. loose to say
what we please, why we rebs, So called
have unanimously and jintly severaliy
resolved to-to-to-to-thin very hard
of tiff not harder.
n That's tho way to talk it. ain
. agiwne to commit myself. know wher
10 nut on the brakes. | amt agwine TO say
# all I think like Mr. Ethridge, or Mr.
d Adderig lest tell you, Artemus, an d yoI
, NAV tell it TO your show. If we amt al
a lowed to spress our sentiments, we cal
take it out in hatin; and hatin run
% heavy in my family, shure. hated
il man so bad once that all the hair Gun
n OFF my head, and the mao drowned him
D, self in a hog-waller that night. L kou"
- 10 it again, but you see PEl trien to hal
monze, to acquiesce, to oekum Kahn "n
" screen.
oy New suppose that, poetikally speaklr
in D;xie's fall
We sinned all"
But takin the way see it, q big felier an
M a little Teller, so called, got into a Mt
and they fout and fout and tout a. Ion
70 time. and every body all around KEEP he
ne Ieriug hands off but KEEP helping the .
Teller, until finally the little teller cave
IL in and hollered enuf. He made bu
- fife tell you, Selsh. Well, what did II
~ teller do? Take him by the hand ar
n help him up, brush the dirt ort b
" clothes? Nary time /! No. sur But
l. a
throwed mud on him, and drug HI
u ahout and rubbed sand in his eyes, al
-. now he's gwipe about huntin upon
ion poor little property. Wants 10 corhsca
his Il. so called. Blame my jacket If 1t al
~ emf to make yout head swim.
:. But Ima good Union man--so cali
amt agwine to fife no more. l sha
k vote for the next war. | amt no gurrll
u I've dun TUX the oath, and I'm gwine
"A keen it. but as fur my bein subjugat
and humilyated and amalgated and en-
ne vated. as Mr.. Chase says, il amt so-ns
yer lime. liant ashamed of nothin neither
lad Amt repentin-a Amt AKIN for no onenoT
short winded pardon. Nobody neen
= be playing priest round me. ! amt
Us no twenty thousand dollars. WISH | "a
Iad I'd give it to these p7or WIDOWS anu
low ins, I'd fasten my own numerous
ION iinttrestlu OFFSPRING III .
and half They shouldn't eat TOOLS
u drink brarch water no Tor ger. Poor
ars, fortunate things to come into tins 3
one loonary world &C SIGH time. ln :r1
Of four or FIVE of EN- that never saw SIR
~ nor a monkey show--never had pock
I'm knife nor piece of cheese, nor rees
mn Tnero is Bull, Run Arp, aud harp'
ned Ferry Arp. and Chickabominy Arp,
q, never seed the pikters in spellin 90
ID / tell you nv friend, We are ~tne Poo'
."u people on the face OF the earth-eut
he'd are poor and proud. We made q OF
ugh fite, Selah and the whole Amerlkln
,or- lion ought TO feel proud Of IT, 1t sn
"a what Amerikins can do when tney IA
oo- they are imposed ono Called, Dl'
( OF honr four fathers tite. bleed, and die 40
all little tan ON tea whennot one IN. u
, i, sand drunk il. B. Klaus they suksee
: wasent it glory? But if they hade
lace sunre Sc il would have been treason,
lehey would have been bowin and scrs
the round king George fur pardon. .
ord Goes. Artemns, and to my mind n
u, wi Ole thing was stewed down, it VIZ
sauy m Ike about half pint OF humons.
lden had good men, great men, Christian
eafy lwho thought we was rite. and mar q 2