, 1865-12-08
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Bfl Afb Addresses Artenus Ward.
% RoNE, Ga, Sent. ! 1865,

b. Mh. AhIkAOcl WAhOi nNpNMoN---oHTf--Ah NC |
reRsun write 10 you In partikler are bekause |
you are about the only tnan Know in all Gods
country, 80 called. For sum several weeks I |
have bsen wautin ~ say Sumthin. For sun sew !
eial weeks we rebs, so called, but now iAte of
said conRtEy hdeeeased, have been Hyin nifty !
hard tn do .sumthin. We didn't quite do It, aud
now its very painful, IAassure you, 10 .dry up all
Of aspddea, aph make opt like We wGsn't thar.
My friend, want TO say sumthin. Isuppose
there IL % law Sghihst thtAkih;'' ''bdt thlhkin 1
don't help me. 1t don't let down my thermome-
ter, must explode myself generally so as tu
feel better You see I'm tryih TO harmohite.
1 m tryin 70 soften down my feelius. I'm en-
deavorin to subjugate myself to the level offs
roundin circumstance so called. But cant
do it until lin allowed TO say sumthin. want
TO quarrel with somebody and then make trends.
aint no giant Killer aint no Norwegian Dor.
aint no boarconstrictor, but i'll be hornswog-
gled if the talkin, and the writin, and the SLAM
derin has all got tdbe done on one side any Ion /
ger Sum of your folks have got to dry up or
turn your folks loose. It's blamed outrage, so
called. Amt your editors got sumthin else to
do but to peck at as, and squib at us and crow
over us? Is every man that can write a paragraf
10 consider us as bars in cage, and be always a
jDbbin at us to hear US growl? Now you see, my
frend that's what's disharmonious, and do you
jus tell em, piurbus unum, so called, that if
say what we please, why, we rebs, so called,
have unanimously and jointly and severally re-
solved to-to--think very hard of tiff not
harder.
That; the way to talk it, I aiut agwine to
commit myself. know when to put on the
brakes, aint agwine to say all think, like
Mr. Etheridge, or Mr.. Adderig, so called. Nary
time No, sir. But Ill just tell You, Artemus,
and yPu may tell it to your show If we aint al
Loo 10 La -
out in hatin and hatia runs heavy in my family,
shure: hated a man so bad once that all the
hair cum of my he'd, and the man drowned
himselfin hog waller that night. should do
it agin, but you see I'm tryin to harmonize 70
acquiesce, to become kan and screen.
Now suppose that poetikaly speakin,
"ln Dixie's fall ..
We snned all.
But talkin the way zee it, big feller and
little feler, so called, got into fte, and they
fout and fout long time, and everybody all
round KEEP hollerin hands of, but KEEP helpin the
big feller, until finally he literally caved in and
hollered enutf He made bully fite, | tell you,
Selah Well, what did the big feller do} take
him by the hand and help him up, and brlsh of
his clothes? Nary time No, surf but he kicked
him arter he was down, and throwd mud on
him, and drug him about and rubbed sand 10 bis
eyes, and noH he's gwine about huntin up his
poor It,tle property. Wants to con6skate it, SO
called Blame my jacket if it aint enuf to make
your head swim.
But am good Union man. so called. | aint
agwine to 6te no more. | shant vote for the next
war. aint no guerrilla. pve done took the
oath, aud I'm gwyne 10 keep it, but as for being
subjugated and humiiyated, and amalgamated,
and enervated, as Mr.. Chase says, it ant so
nary time. aint ashamed of nuthin neither
aint repentn, aint akin for no one-horse, short
winded pardon Nobody needn't be playin
priest around me. uint got no twenty thousand
dollars Wish had; I'd give it to the poor Wild
ers and crfns. I'd iatten my own numerous and
interesttn offspring in about two minutes and
half They shouldent eat roots and drink
branch water no longer. Poor unfortunate
things TO come into this subloonary world at
sch time Thares four or FIVE of EN- that
never saw Il sarkis nor a monkey show-never
had pocket knife, nor piece OF cheese, POr
! reesin. There is Bull Run Arp, IlarPer's Ferry
Arp, and Chickahominy Arp that never seed the
picters in spellin book. ] tell you, my friend,
we are tue poorest people on the face Of the
earth-but we are poor and proud. We made
bully 6te, Seldh and the whole nation ought to
feel pfoud of 1t. 1t shows what AmcEikins can
do When they think they are imposed on-so
called. Didn't our four fathers fte, bleed and
die about a little tax on tea, when not one in
thou sand drunk it2 Bekause they sukseeded
wusent it glory? But if they hadent suppose
it would have been treason, and they would
have been traitors, and they would have been
bowin and scrapin round King George for par
don. .
So it goes, Artemus, and to my mind if the
whole thing was stewed down, 1t worl Id make
about a half pint of humbug. We had good
men. great men, Christian men, who thought we
was right, and many Of them have gone to the
| Iuudiskovered country, and have gotta pardon as
| is pardon When die, Pm nifty willin to risk
myself under the shadow of their wings, wheth-
| er the climate be hot or cold. So mote it be-
| Selah I! s a .'f ..a
| Well, maybe I've said euuf. But don't feel
| easy .yit I'm a good Union man, sertin and
| shure I've had my breeches died blue, and
I've got blue bucket, and livery often feel blue,
and about twice in q while go to the doggery
and get blne, and then look up at the blue
| serulean heavens and sing the melancholy cho-
| ryus of the Bluetailed Fly. I'm doing my durnd-
/ est to harmonize, and think could succeed If
| 1t wasent for sum things. When ] see black
GUARD goin around the streeys with gun on his
! shoulder, why rightAhen foF a few minutes hate
| the whole Yankee nation. Jerusalem, how my
| blood biles, The institution what was handed
7 down to US by the heavenly kingdom Of Massa-
! chusetts now put over us wHh powder and DALI
| Harmonize the devil? Amt we human beings!-
| Aiut we got ewes and ears and feeln and think
IL
women and children and babies and baooons
| and ALL A man can tell how faf it is to the city
/ by the smell better than the mile post They
won't work for us and they won't work for
themselves ana they will perish to death this
winter as shure as the devil is hog 50 called.
They are now baskin in the summers sun, LVln
on roastin ears and freedom, with nary idee that
winter will cum agn, or that castor oil and salts
cost money. Sum of 'em hundred years old,
are whining around about goin to kswlidge:-
The truth is, my frend, sumbody's badly fooled
about this bizi1ess Sumbody has drawed the
elefant in this lottery and don't know whatto do
with him. He S just THROWN his sno1t around
loose, and by and by be II burt sumbody. These
niGgers will have to 60 back to the plantations
and work aint agoin' 20 support nary one Of
EN-, and when you hear anybody say 50 you
tell 'em tsit's iie," SO called. golly, amt
got nothin to support myself on. We fcqt oar,
selves out of everything excePtin children ana
land, and suppose the land are to be turned
over TO, the niegersfor graFeyards-
Well, my frend don't want much. amt
ambitious, as ,used to be. Yougan have got
yodf shows and monkeys and sirkusses and brass
bands and organs, and can play on the Hetroly-