Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-11-30
Bill Arp on the state OF the
Country.

hyme or two about the dirt i live on, but
as for findln sugar aud liberty in Georgy
soil, it = all a mistake Howsumever, I'm ,
hopeful I'm much calmer aud sereener
than | was few months ago. | begin TO ]
feel kindly towards all people, except some. I
I'm now endevering to he a great national
! man. I've taken up mottoe Of no North,
no South, no East, no West but let me I
/ tell you, my friend, l II bet on Dixie as long |,
as I've got dollar It's no harm TO run
both skedulcs. In fakt, it. highly harmoni-
Gus to do 50. I'm good Union rcb, 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 keavy on us, and, after the big
collapse, we thought that it was over for
good. We had killed folks aud killed folks
until the novelty of the thing had wore off,
and we were nifty nigh played out all over.
Children were iucreasin aud vittuls dmin-
ishin. BY a close calculashun it was per-
seevcd that we didn't kill our enemies as
fast as they were imported, and about those
times | thought it was pity that some
mirakle of grace hadn't cut off the breed Of
turrincrs some Is or 20 years ago. Then
you would have seed fair fight. General
Sherman wouldn't have walked over the
track, and Ulysses would have killed more
men than he did-cf his ocn side. have
always tho.t that General ought to be per-
tikler which side he was sacritisin.
Well, if the war is over, whats the use
Of film up our towns and cities with soldiers
any longer? Where's your reconstruction
/ that the papers say is gon on so rapidly?
Where's the liberty and freedom? The
: fakt is General Sherman and his caterpillers
, made such clean sweep of everything, |
don see much to Reconstruct. They took
50 many liberties around here that there
nary liberty left. Icould have reconstructed
thousand sch States before this. Any
body could. There WASH t nuthin to do but
: Just to 20 off and let US alone. We've got
y plenty OF fstatesmcn-plenty OF men for Gov
/. ernor. Joe Brown aint dead-he' q watin
--staudin at the door with his hat off: =
n Then what's the soldiers here for? what
i any longer? Everybody is tired of the war
and we don want to see any more signs Of
# it. The niggers don't want 'em, and the
c white men don't want en-, and as for the
wimen-whoopce. / golly! Well, there ;
Is no use talkin; when the stars fall again may
e by the wilneu will be more harmonized. =
n That male business, that oath about getting
letters Gee tiger They always was jeal-
s, GUS about the males, anyhow, and that ordel
g Jest roke the camel's back. Well l mus
confess it was powerful small concern
L
r. knowd what to say, but don't. If the
ur was atccrd of the winien why didn't the.
say so? If they wasn't what do they max
Of EN- swear for? jest to aggravate 'cm 2
p. Didn't they know that the best way to har
monizc a man is to harmonize his wife first
m What harm can the women do by receivln
I'D their letters oath free? They cant vote
on nor they can't preach, nor hold offs, no
play soldier, nor muster, nor wear breeches
OF nor ride straddle, nor ecuss,, nor cha,vw ter
e. backer, nor do nuthin hardly but talk anC
Ill rite letters. l hearn that valiant kerne
made woman put up her fan because il
III had a picter of Borygard pom it. Wei
ls she's harmonized, | reckon. Now the
Of trouble of all sick is that after these bayonets
leave here and go home these petticoat ty
ID rants can't come back any more. Some
G. Georgy fools will mash the juice out Of EN-
sertn, and that wouldn't be neither har
of monious nor healthy. Better let the winner
OF alone.
ye Then there is another thing I'm waitir
for. Why don't they REX onstrukt the mig
C. give 'em powerful site of freedom, anC
Icvlsh little else Here's the big freed
$, mans buro, and the little buros all over th'
m country, and the papers are full OF granC
orders and special orders, and paragrats
cir but I'll bet a possum that some of EN- stea
nd my wood this winter or freeze to death
as Freedman's buro freedman's humbug,
say. Just when the corn needed plowil
m, the worst, the buro rung the bell and tolleC
IL all the niggers to town, and the farmers los
their crops, and now the freedman is getti
i'd, cold and hungry, and wants to 60 back, am
ay there amt nuthin for en- to go to. Bu
nd freedom is a big thing. Hurraw for free
CO. dom buro! Sweet land of liberty, of the
81 Rpt, - nj ri m
freedom myself Nobody wants any NOR
slavery If the aboishunists had let u
alone, we would have fixed it up right
Ih long time ago, and We can fix it up now.-
The buro amt fixed it, and it aint goin tc
1t don't know anything about it. Our pee
ka- pie have got heap more feclin for the poo
'm niger than any abolitionist. We are {
ar poor as Job, but I'll bet dollar we can raj:
,py more moneyin Rome to build anigger churc
h's rs than they did in Bostown. The papers Sa
OF that after goin round for three weeks, tn
"9- Bostown christians raised thirty,seven do
res lars to build Niger church in Savannah
r They are powerful on theory but DEVILS
'no ano scarce in practice.
o'u .au But it's no use talkin. Everybody wi
Ia know by waitin who's been foold. Nj
IL johnson says he's gwine to experiment
,.t that's : all he can do now-it's all anybody ca
a. do. Mr. Johnsons heads level. I'm fl
'U "nt him, and every body ought to be for him
cr; r only he's powerful slow about some thing
,;al amt a worshippin him, He never mat
e'"' me. | hear folks kollerin hurraw for An,
ssos johnson, and the papers say. oh he's
ws US, he's all right, he's our friend. We
wv mo spose he is, hadn't he ought to be? ID
'"S '"nt you expekt him to be dog, or a black
.ct publican pup? Because he amt hang
0S6 US, is it necessary to be playin hypoc
,odS around the foot stool of power, and max
!, Al. out like he was the greatest man IN
and world, and we was the greatest sinners
',ha Who's sorry? Who srepentin? Who all
-eno o~ proud of our people Who loves, our el
mics? Nobody but burned sneak.
tbot let EN- hang and be hanged to en-, bett
;nad nai ia beg 'em for grace, Whar's. Sokrat'
'aGa 'ai;a whars Cato? But ifAndy holds his ow
;. ,s'aa at the countrys SAFE provided these gene
80 - a. assemblys and snods, and Bishop conye
"''S tjons will keep the devil and Brownlow tie
,dor There's passed. of stink hearted iellcrs VI
note "t played tory jest TO dodge bullits or % So
pc.e property, now howlin about tor ON 9iiis
,eis e 81 want everything bekause they was ior mo
T. I,od % They was for themselves, that all they W
iruo a for and they ain t goin to get the oIis
M NJ neither. Mr.. johnson ain got no more