The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-10-03

From the Louisville Sunday JlurnaLI
ROME, Ga, Sept. !, 1000
Mr.. ARTEMUs WARD, Sho'cnaan-.;fS%S
The reesun write to you III peICLA
are bekaus you are the only man ! Anom
In all Goods country" so-catsea' For sum
ssve,aI weeks hav been swantln tu say
so,netbin! For sum several years we
rshs so-calLed. but new late oil saia couh
~ deceased, hav been tryin NIFTY hard 10
do ,ouethin. We didn't quite do 1t, ana
now its very painful, assure you, to dry
mn all of sudden and make out like we
wasn't thar.
NV friend, want to say sumthin
suppose there is no law agin thinkin, but
thinkin don't help me. 1t don't let
down my thermometer. / must explode
myself generally so as to feel better
You see I'm tryin to harmonic. tm
irwin to soften down my feelins. I'm IN
deavoring TO subiugate myself 10 the
level of surrounding circumstances, 80
called But can't do 1t until am al
lowed tn say somethin. l want TO quar-
raj With somebody and then make friends.
Amt no giant-killer. L amt no NOT
r,ea;an har | amt no boar-constrlkter,
hnf J'Il be hornswaggled If the talkin
a.d the writin and the slanderin has got
= no all done on one side any longer
some of YOUR folks have got to dry up or
trrn our folks loose. It's blamed out
RAGE. so-cqlled. Amt your editors got
nnfbin else to do but TO peck at us, and
sonib at rs, and crow over u.s. Is ev-
erv man what kan write paragrat to
consider MS bars in cage, and be always
q iohhin at us to hear us growl9 Now
Won see, my friend, that's what's dishar-
monious, and do you jest tell EN-, one and
all, pluribus unum, so-catted, that II
thew don't stop it at once or turn us loose
to say what we please, why we rebs, so.
called, have unanimously and jointly aud
severally resolved to-to-to-thlnk very
hard of tiff not harder.
That's the way to talk it. l amt
agvine to commit myself. know when
to put on the brakes. l amt agwine to
say all think like Mr.. Ethridge, or Mr..
Adda7ig, So-called Nary time. No sir.
But I'll jest tell you, Artemus, and you
may tell it to your show: If We amt al
lowd to express our sentiments, We can
take IL out in hatia; and hatin runs
heavy in my family, shure. hated q
man so bad once that all the hair cum
off my head, and the man drowned him
self in hog-waller that night. kould
do it agin, but you see I'm tryin to har-
monize, to acquiesce, to becum kahn and
screen.
Now suppose that poetikally speak
in,
I'm Dixis's fall
We sinned all"
But talkin the way / see it, a big fellar
and little fellar, so-called, got into fite,
and they fout and fout and fout long
time, and every body all around KEEP hol-
lerin hands off, but KEEP helpin the big
fellar, until finally the little fellar caved
in and hollered enuf He made a bully
fte tell you, Selah. Well, what did the
big fellar do take him by the hand and
help him up, and brush off his clothes
Nary time No sur But he kicked him
arter he was down, and throwed mud TN
him, and drugged him about and rubbed
sand in his eyes, and now he's gwi, -
about hunting up his poor little r.,on
erty. Wants to confskate il. so ,,,faa
Blame my jacket fit aiut er &c ~ 81
your head swim. ''O
But In good Unior mo, oooo ued
I amt e. sgWlne 10 nVe no more. 1 shan't
I IoUo AZ, S4e s9 ~ var. faint no gurilla.
I've done tux TIE oath, and I'm gwine to
eeSp H. c9V p for my bein subjugated,
anu nun, gated, and amalgamated, and
eNerVa!tu, as, Mr. Chase says, it amt San ,i7
nary ''me, int re$pientinAaint akin for no
one morse pardon Nobody needn't be
piayln Priest around me. amt got no
LWeptrJ thousand dollars Wish | had;
ia give it to these poor widers and or
ms I'd fatten my own numerous and
interestln offspring in about two minnits
and half. They shouldn't eat roots
and drink branch water any longer
Poor unfortunate things to cum into this
subloonary world at sich time. There's
four or five of 'em that never saw II c,r-
kns nor % monkey shOw-never had IL
pocket knife, nor a piece of cheese, nor a
,eesin. There is Bull Run Arp, and Har-
per's Ferry Arp, and Chikahominy Arp,
that never seed the pickters in spelling
book. 1 tell you, my friend, we are the
poorest people OH the face of the earth
but we are poor and proud we made a
bully tte, Selah and the whole Ameri-
kin nation ought to feel proud of il 1t
shows what Aiueri,Si JUS can DO when they
are lmposssI on-"SocalIed" Didn't our
tour fathers fite, bleed, and die about a
little tax on tea, when not one in thouS- |
and drunk it? Bekaus they sukseeded
WaSent it glory? But if they hadent |
suppose it, would have been treason, and |
they world have been bowin and scrapin |
round King George for pardon. So it
goes, Artemus, and to my mind, if the |
whole thing was stewed down, il would
make about half pint of humbug, We
bad good men, great men, Christian men,
who thot we was right, and many of 'em
have gone TO the.undiskovered country.
aud got pardon as is pardon. When
l die, I'm nifty willin to risk myself nm
der the shadow of their wings whether
the climate be hot or cold. So mote il Inc
Selah' I
Well, maybe I've said eupr d.
don't feel easy yit. I'm u -. I pUt
man, sartin and shr~ Sooe Eh'oh
briches died BIZ -.e. I've had my
Inctat and 20, and I've got biac
twice in Il often feel blue, and about
s;t - a while so to the doggery and
s.,,, I'ae, ana then 1 look up at the blue
'Viu nh% heavens and sing the melankol-
: onoryus of the Blue.tailid Fly. I'm
b;nE ~ durndest to harmonize, and
/ could suoseed if it wasent for
soma things When see black-guard
arn;ng around the streets with gun on
his Shoulder, why right then, for a few
minutes, hate the whole Yanky nation.
Jerusalem, how nv blood biles. The in