Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1865-10-10

He made bully fte [ tell you, Selah. We'll,
what did the big feller do take him by the
hand and help him up, and brush the dirt off
his clothes? Nary time No, sur! But
he kicked him arter he was down, and throwd
mud on him, and drug him about and rubbed
sand in his eyes, and now he's gwine about
hunting up his poor little property. Wants
to con6scate it, so.called. Blame my jaket
if it aint enuf to make your head swim.
But I'm good Union man-so called. l
alnt agwine to fte no more. shan't vote
for the next war; I aint no guerrilla. I've
done TUX the oath, and I'm gwine to keep it.,
but as for my bein subjugated, and humilya-
ted, and amagamated, and enervated, as Mr.
Chase says, it amt so-nary time. L amt
ashamed of nuthin neither-aint repeDtin-
aint akin for no one-horse, short -winded par
don. Nobody needn't be playin priest
around me. aint got no twenty thousand
dollars. Wish had I'd give it to these
poor widers and or6ns. I'd fatten my own
numerous and interestin offspring in about
two minits and half. They shouldent 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 sirkus nor a
monkey show-never had pocket-knife, nor
a piece Of cheese, nor a reesin. There is
Bull Run Arp, and Harper's Ferry Arp, and
Chikahominy Arp that never seed the pikters
in spelling book. tell you, my friend,
we are the poorest people on the face of the
earth-but we are poor and proud. We
made bully fife, Selah and the whole
Amerikin nation ought to feel proud of it.
1t shows what Amerikihs can do when they
think they are imposed on--'so Called"
about little tax on tea, when not one in a
thousand drunk it? Bekaus they suksceded
wasent it glory? But if they hadent | sup.
pose it would have been treason, and they
would have been bowin and scrapin rould
King George for pardon. So it goes, Arte,
mus, aad to my mind, if the whole thing was
stewed down, it would make about half
pint of humbug. We had good men, great
men, Christian men, who thot we was right,
aud many Of EN- have gone to the dndiskov-
cred country, and have got pardon as is a
pardon. When die, I'm NIFTY willn to
risk myself under the shadow of their wings,
whether the climate be hot or cold. So mote
it be. Selah!
Well, maybe I've said enuf. But I don't
feel easy yit. | m good Union man, sertn
and shure. I've had my breeches died Jtsle
and I've got blue bucket, and | often feel
blase, and about twice in while 90 to the
doggery and git blue, and then | look up at
the blue serulean heavens and sing the mel
ankolly choryus Of the Bue-taied Fly. I'm
doiEg my durndest to harmonize, and think
| could succeed if it wasent for some things
When see black guard going around the
streets with gun on his shoulder, why right
then, for few minutes, hate the whole Yau.
ky nation. Jerusalem, how my blood biles
The Institution what was handed down to US
by the heavenly kingdom of Massachusetts
now put over US with powder and ball Har-
monize the devil Amt we human beings !?
Amt we got eyes and ears and feeling and
thinkin? Why the whole Of Afriky has
come to town, women and children aud babies
and Daboons and all. A man can tell how
fur it is to the city by the smell better than
the milc-post. They won't work for us, and
they won't work for themselves, and they'll
perish to death this winter as shore as the
devil is hog, SO called. They are now bas-
kin in the summers sun, living on roasting
ears and freedom, with nary idee that the
winter will cum ngin, or that castor oil and
salts cost money. Sum of 'em, a hundred
years old, are whinin around about going to
kawlidge. The truth is, my friend sum-
body's badly fooled about this bisness. Sum
body has drawed the eiefant in the lottery,
and don't know what to do with him He's
jest THROWN his snout loose, and by-and- by
he IL hurt sumbody. These niggers will
have to 60 back to the plantations and work.
| amt agoipg to support nary one of 'em,
and when you hear nybody say SO, tell 'em
''its lie" so-called l golly, | amt got
nuthin to support myself on. We fout our
selves out of everything exceptn children
and land, and suppose the land are to be
turned over to the niggers for grave ards.
Well, my friend, don't want much. I
amt mbitious, as used to was. You all
have got your shows aud monkeys ard sir
kusses and brass bands and Origins, and can
play on the petrolyum and the harp of thou
sand strings, and so on, but I've only got one
favor to ak of you 1 want enuf powder to
XIII big yaller stum-tail dog that prowls
around my premises at night Pom honor,
won't shoot at anything blue or black or mnl>
later Will you send it? Are you and
your folks SO skeered of me and my folks.
that you wont let us have suy amynishun? ?
Are the squirrels and crows and black ra-
koons to eat up our poor little corn patches
Are the wild turkey to gobble all around us
with impunity? If a mad dog takes the hi
derfoby is the whole community to run itself
to death to get out of the way? I golly
1t looks like your pepul had all took the reb-
elfoby for good and was never gwine to glt
over it. See here, my friend, YOU must send
me little powder and ticket to your show,
and me and you will harmonize sertin.
With these few remarks think feel bet
ter, and hope l haint made nobody ftin mad,
for I'm not on that line at this time. | am
treoly your friend-all present or accounted
for BILL ARP, so-caued.
P. S. Old man Harris wanted to buy my
fiddle the other day with Oonfederik money.
He says that Jim Funderbuk told him, that
Warren's Jack seed man who had lust come