The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1865-11-28
BILL ARP'S LAST.

Bill Arp SO called has delivered himself of
the following letter of acceptance OF the Con-
gressionai nomination, rendered him by his
friends of the Seventh Congressional District.
From the Atlanta New Era.
Bill Arp Candidate for Congress for the
Congressional District.
Since my recent artikal ON the State of the
country, I hey koncluded to become kandi-
date for Kongress.' Its no use lettin Union
sneaks hev all the field to themseiyes-espe-
cially them what refugeed North when Sher-
man KUN along this way and put his horse In
my stable. / never run North myself; but L
did run South leetle faster than was comforta-
BILE. [ was so sure we'd whip old Sherman that
/ never made no preparasbuns to skedaddle un-
tell he was down on us like thousand of bricks;
and then there warnt 20 time to pack up my
duds; or in skripter fraze, to stake up my bed
and aoalk"
Sans habiliement-,Sdns ceremOnfe. / lett
my bed and BODYBUILDING them long and
final adieu, having pledged myself, as all dis
tinguished men of the Reb pursuashuu had re-
peatedly dun, never to submit to Abe Lincoln
or reconstruction. We were all to die in the
last ditch especially me, and JEFF, and 10; apd
I golly, I thought cur time had KUN sure enuf;
but preferred not dyin til l reached the last
ditch; and consequently, L kept skedaddlin
across every ditch kun to, hopin somthin en-
conragin mig ht turn up before reached tho
last one; but it didn't turn up, and ne, and Jet,
and all the rest of US, who had been kcepin safe
distance from bullets, found ourselves in the
last ditch. Well, the fact is, we didn't feel halt
as much like dyin there as we expected to, be-
fore we got there; and soon question arose
whether we should go back under old Abe or
die. Well its no use talkin; we didn't want to
die, so we koncluded TO take the amnesty oath
and 90 back We tuck it, all Nv US, but JEFF
and he expects to take it before long.
But I'm forgittin my Candidacy Gas Stewart
says in bis circular) but its no odds eff | d.
Theirs plenty more that skedadded when did,
and didn't dye in the last ditch neither. All l
want is for US who didn't dye in the last ditch,
when we had chance to, to be sure to get into
posshun again, and have all the offises; and to
drive off Union sneaks, aud take all their green
backs, and konfskate all their lands; and in the
language of Jo to the Legislator: "drive their
wives and children after them, houseless, home
less, pennyless and starving" The man that
can go to Kongress with this object in view is
the man of my choice. Eff thought couldn't
serve you in Kidding the South of stubborn old
Union men, and getting all the ofises ourselves,
you couldn't send me to Kongress.
am workin man. helped work up the
big fte. worked hard to keep the ite agoin
without ftin any myself, and succeeded SO well
in workin to keep out of fife, when every body
was wanted, that think have sufficient repu-
tation as worker to entitle me to your sup
port. BILL ARP.
p 81 had Intended this for publication in
the Rome Courier but the Editur, (durn- him)
wanted to charge 10 dollars for it, so l kouklu-
ded to write out few copies myself, and to get
some of my Gee tiger unharmonized wimmin of
my acquaintance to write some copies for me and
give them gineral circulation. B. A.