Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1865-11-01

| Ue mSuo . uuiiy h6us3 SSAS-,
American. nation oughtto feel proud OF II
/ It shows whaf Amerikins can do when the.
TANK they are imposed on-aso ealtea:'
Dida't: our four fathers fte, bleed and di'
Eabout a little ,tax. on tea, when. not one in
thousand drank It BelSeus they sukseedeo
waseus it glory,? But ifsthaY hadent. sup
pose it would have besnsstreasoa, and they
would have been bewin and scrspin round
King George for pardon. So lt5gOea, Arte-
| mus, and to my mind, if the whole thing was
stewed down it would make about half o pint
OF humbug. We had good men, great men,
Christian men, who thought we was right,
and many of 'om hare gone to the uudiskov-
cred country, and havegot q pardon as is
pardon. WhenI die, Pm nifty willia to risk
myself under the shadow of their wings,
whether the climate be hot or cold. So
mota ii be. Selah!
Well, maybeI've said enufl But ! don't
felleasy yit Pm good Union man, sertin
and shure. I've had my breechea died blue,
and I've bot blue bucket, and Livery often
feel blue, and about twice in a. while, Ego to
the doggery and git 6sle, and then I lock up
at the blue sserulean heavens and sing the
melancholy choryas Of the Blue. tailed Fly.
Pm doing my durndest to. harmonize, and
think I could succeed if it wasent for sum
things. When seea blackguard going round
tho streets with a gun on his shoulder, why
righ. then, for few minits; 1 hate the whole
Yanky nation. Jerusalem, how my blood
biles. The institution what was handed down
to us by the heavenly kingdom of Msssachu-
sotts row put over Us with powder and ball!
sHarmonizeahe devil! Amt We human be-
ings? Ain'twe got eyes and ears and feelini
and fhiukin2 Why the whole of. Afriky has
come to town, women and children, and ba-
bies asd baboens and all. A man can tell
how. fur. it is to the city b. the smell better
than the mile post. They won't work for US,
and they wont workfor themselves, andtheyll'
perish to death this winter as shore as the
devil Is a'hog, so-caLed. Fhey are now baskin
in the summers sun, Iivin on roastin ears and
freedom, with nary idee that the winter vii.
cum agin, or that caster oil aad salts costs
money. Some of ''etn a hundred years old,
are whinin around about goin to kawlidge.
The truth is, my friend, sumbody's badly
fooled about this bizness. Sumhody has
drawed the elefant in this lotteryi and don't
know what to do with him. He's Jest thrown
his snout about loose, and hy-and:by he'll
hurt sumbody. These niggefs will have to
90 back to the plantations and work. / amt
agoin to support nary one of 'em, and when
you hear anybody say SO, you tell 'em "its q
lie," so called. / golly, amt got nuthin to
support myself on. We fOut ourselves out OF
everything except children and land, and l
suppose the land are to be turned over to the
negroes for grayeyards.
We'll, my FRIEND I don't want much. amt
ambitious as used to was. fOu,all have got
YOUR shows and monkeys and sirkasses and
brass bands and organs, and can play on the
petroleum and the harp Of thousand strings
aud so on, but I've only got one favor to AK
of you. ]. want enuf powder to kill big
yaller .stump-tail dog that prowls rounds my
premises at night. Pom honor, / went shoot
anything blue OF black or mullatter.+ Will
you send ite Arc you and yonr foaks SO
skeesed Of me and'my foaks, that you won't
let us have any amynishuD p Are the squirls
and crows and black raccooDs to eat up our
poor little corn patches? Are the wild tur-
keys to gobble all round US with impunity 2
If mad.dog takes the liderfoby, is the
whole community to run. itself to death to
get out of the way7 Igolly it looks like
your pepul had TUX the rebelfoby for good,
and was never gwine to git over it. See
here, my friend, you must send me a little
powder and ticket to your show, and me
and you will harmonizo, sertin.
With these few remarks ! think feel bet:
ter, ana hope j haint made nobody 6tin mad,
for Itn not on that line at this time. am
.rooIy your friend-all present or accounted
for.
- BILL ARR, so called.
P.S-Old man Harris wanted to buy my
fiddle the other day with Confedeslk money
He said it would be good agin. He says thai
Jim Fanderbuk told him that Warren's Jack
had seed a man who had just cum from Wiz.
einny, and lie sed- man t,ld his cousin Man
Edy. that Lee had whipped 'em agin. Old Hhr'
ris, ,saya that feller by the name Of Mack {
Million is coming over. with million Of men
But nevertheless, Notwithstanding, somehow
or somehow else, .I'msdubous about the mon
ey. If you was me, Arte,nus, ,:wouldyou max
| the lie trade? ~ t-@ b. a.
pg Oar cotemporary, the Courier, Wit
coommendable energy, made its appearance
yesterday morning, much to the gratifcaatio e ,
of it's numerous friends. A considerabi
quantity Of type and other material was save