Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1865-09-29
From the Louisville Sunday journal.
BILL ARP ADDRESSES ARrEMUs WARD.
Row.. Ga, Sept. l. 1865.

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Mr. Artepm Ward, Sto,cman---lSy: The
reesun writo to you In pcrtiklcr, are be-
Klaus You are about the only man know
In all Goods country so-ealeld. For sum
several weeks ] hay been wantin tn say
sumthin. For sum several years We robs
so-called, but now late Of said county de-
ceased, hav been trying nifty hard TO do
sumthin. We didn't quito do II, and now
It's very painful. ' assure you, to dry up
all Of sudden and make out like we
wasn't thar.
My frend, I want 10 say sumthin. I
suppose there Is no Law agin thinkin but
thihkin don't help me. II don't let down
my Thermometer. ! must explode myself
generally so as TO feel better. You see
Tn trying to harmonize. Tn tryin 10
soften down my feelins. I'm endeavor-
ing TO subiugste myself 10 the level Of sur.
reundin circumstances, so-coiled. But I
can't do II until I nm allowed to say sum
thin. want to quarrel with somebody
and then make friends. I Amt no giant.
killer. I sint no Norwegian bar. ] amt
no boar.constriktcr, but I'll be hornswag.
gled II tho talkin and tho writin and tho
slanderin has got 10 be all done on one
side any longer. Some OF your folks have
got to dry up or turn our folks loose. It's
a blamed OUTRAGE, so.co,led. Aint your
editors got nuthin else 70 do but to peck
atus, and squib nt US, and crow over Us ?
Is evory man what kan write a paragraf
to consider us as bars in cagc, aud be al
ways a jcbbin at us 10 hear us growl ?
Now you see my frend, that's what's dis.
harmonious, and do you jest tell en-, one
and ALL pluribus unum, so-cdlled, that
if they don't stopTit at onco or turn us
loose to say what We please, why wc rebs,
so-eallcd, have unanimously and jointly
and severally resolved to-to-to--think
very hardpof tiff not harder. assa
That's the way TO talk IL. / amt agwinc
to commit myself. I know when TO put
on the brakes. i amt agwiue TO say all
I think like Mr.. Ethoridgc, or Mr. Adder
rig, so-called. Nary time. No, sir. Bni
I'll jest tell you, Artcmus, and You ma y
tell Il to your howiVIfTwe nint allowed to
, express our sentiments, wc can take II out
in hahn; and hatin runs hoavy in my fami-
Ily, shure. hated man 90 bad once that
all the hair cum of my head, aud the man
drowned himself in hog.wallcr that
night. I kcald do il agin, but you soc
I'm tryin TO harmonizc, to acquiesce, to
bekum kahn and screen. W..
4 Now / suppose that pootikally spoakin
"Iu Dixies fall
We sinned all"
But talkin the way see Il, big fellel
and little fellor, so called, got into Rtc
and they fout and fout aud fout q loel
time, and everybody all round KEEP holler
in hands of but kep hclpin the big fellsr
until finally the little Teller caved In ant
hollered enuf. He made bully Rte Itol
you, Selah, Well what did the big felle,
} do ? take him by the hand and help hiu
up, and brush the dirt of his clothes ?
Nary timel No sur But he kicked hin
arter he was down, and throwd mud OF
him, and drug him about aud rubbed sand
, in his eyes, and now he's gwine abou
huutin up his poor littleproperty, Want
to oon6skato Il, 80 called, Blame my Jake
il il aint euaf 20 make your head swim,
But Fm a good Union man-so-cdiied
J aint agwiue TO Ate no more, shan
. vote for tho next war, Lain't no gurrillN
? I've done TUX the oath, and I'm gwine 10
keep Il, but as for my boin subjugNted
J and humilyated, aud smalgamated, aud
{ enervated, as Mr., Chase says, il aint So
T nary time. amt ashamed Of nuthin
q neither, ain't rcpontin, aint akin for n,
one horse, short. winded pardon, Nobody
needn't bo playin priest around me,
y aint get no twenty thousand dollars. Wish
l had; I'd give il 70 these poor widsr'
. aud oriins. I'd fAtten my own numerous
q aud iutersstin offspring in abOuttwo miaie
a and half They shoaldeat eat roots aud
I drink bra eh water no longer. Poor un
4 fortunate things 10 cum into this sub
!, lOonary world at sich time, There
4, four or ave Of 'em that never saw a sir
a kus nor monkey show-aever had I
1 pocket. knife, nor piece of cheese, nor {
i reesin. There is Bull Run Arp, aud Har
Q per's Ferry Arp, aud Chikhominy Arp
I that never seed the pikters in spelhu
/, book. tell you my ftend, We are ,h'
(, poorest people on the face Of the earth =
r but we are poor aud proud. We made I
5 bully 6ght, Selah aud the whole AmSri
kin nation ought 20 feel proud of IT, II
Q shows what Amerikias eau DO when they
Q think they are imposed Oa--se-oail',l
4 Didnt our f0ar fathers 6te bleed, aud dis
o about little tax on teea, when not eas
Q In shoasan drunk ny Bekaas they SAX