Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1865-11-30
Grill Ard"

Inc Chattanooga GGzette ID aiter the re-
doubtable "Bill" With s'sharp stick," In
regard to some illusions made in his late
letter on the state of the country The. ar
ticle begins as follows:
The latest aspirant in the arena of comic
% literature, has written letter published
in the Nashville Republican of Sunday, in
which he INDUCES in considerable growing
at some things which do not suit him in the
reconstruction Of the country. Perhaps he
has right to doit, but We submit, Bill,
that your attempts at "harmonizing" are
not likely to succeed, while you are indulg.
ing in such terms as calling the Union men
of the South sstories" and stslink hearted
fellows" and the Union men of the North
"Black Republican pups" Because you
could not kill off "your enemies" as fast
as they were imported is no reason why you
should keep up an i'll feeling which true
men are trying to smooth down. Do you
expect to better the matter by the use Of
such language as this2
. The following is the reply to the same,
published in the Rome Courier of the 9th
instant:
NOoGA GAZETTE.
Gentle Sur - don't think you tote
fair / haven't expressed my laserated feel.
ins in pnblik but twice since the war. /
dident live in Chattanoogy, aud 1 dident
have no GazeH For about three months
you bullied US in your paper to your entire
satisfaction. Until Mr.. johnson sorter took
up for US, you never sent sheet to Rome
that dident hurt our feelins and bore into
our heart like a cotton gemlet. You copied
from Yankee papers the meanest Of their
SANDER, and it seemed to be perfectly con.
genial to your sentiments
Well, sur, we bore it like an Injun We
bore it silently add proud. We looked at
our desolated land, our lonesome chimneys,
our grave yards, where you unburied our
dead and sunk your rife pits; where you
broke to fragments the iron railing, and took
the very tombstones to put in your forti6ca.
tions. We read your exaltations Of North.
ern bravery and Southern treason, and we
scorDed you from the bottom of our hearts.
Now when of late an humble individual
makes bold. to bust his biler and express
his sentiments in Two breef letters, you get
up like sanctiied preacher and read him
publik iekture about harnaonizin. Gen
tie sur, it don't bekum you. When I've in.
suited you about 1000 times We will be
even. But don't intend to insult you at
all. If you are an honest man and a gen.
erous oonqueror, I amt after you. When
you make an effort to convince Mr.. Harper's
Weekly and the black Republicans that our
people, from General Lee and Mr.. Davis
down to the high priyates, are just as good,
and brave, aud honorable as they are, I'll
harmonize with you
But, Gentle Sur, haven't you spred your.
self too fur from home2 What hav you
been doin about harmonizin your own peo.
ple2 Our little burnt city is fast fillin MP
with your best citizens During the war
you let 'em stay, but after the war they are
forced to. leave. Like exiles they are seek
ing refuge in Cherokee, Georgy, and there
stands your paper like a lampless, lightless
beakon on the shore, aud sustaius the men
and measures that made em leave. You
are seein em day after day desertin your
State, and you look away off and employ
your pen in lekturiu a poor stranger about
harmoniziu.
Gentle Sur, shorten your sights. Begin
to work on your home concerns or you'll
lose all your best society. They are vel
come here, and we'll all stand by em, bat
then l have always thought that every
great State ought to have some good men
left in it. Don't you?
Gentle Sur, tote fair.
. Not youn, BILL ARP.