The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-11-26
- ELL Arp

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stick i'll regard to some illusions
made in his late letter on the state of
the country. The article begins as
follows:
The latest aspirant in the arena Of
comic y literature has written letter
published in the Nashville Repuhicau
OF Sunday, in which he INDUCES in
considerable growing at some things
which do not suit him in the recon
struction Of the country. Perhaps
he has right to do it, but we submit,
Bill, that your attempts at ''harmo-
nlzlng are not likely to succeed,
while you are indulging in such terms
as calling the Union men of the South
'tories'' and ''slink-hearted fellows"
and the Union men OF the North,
BLACK Republican pups Because
you could not kill off ''your enemies
rs fast as they were imported, is no
reason why you should keep up an
i'll feeling which true men are trying
to smooth down. Do you expect to
better the matter by the use of such
language as this
The following is the reply to the
same, published in the Rome Com.ie,.
of the 9th instant
BILL ARP TO THE EDITOR OF THE CHAT
TANOOGA GAZETTE.
Gentle ,SW: don't think you tote
fair. l haven't expressed my lase-
rated feelins in pubil1 but twice sinse
the war. [ dident ivei Chattanoogv,
and l dident have no Gazen. For
about three months you buliied us in
your paper to your entire satisfaction
Until Mr.. Johnson sorter took up for
us, you never sent sheet to Rome
that dident hurt our feelins and bore
into our hearts like cotton gimlet.
You copied from Yankee papers the
meanest of their SANDER, and it seem
ed to be perfectly congcnial with your
sentiments
Well, sur, we bore it like an Iniun.
We bore it silently and proud. We
looked at our desolated land, our
lonesome chlmneys, cur yards,
where you unburried our dead and
sunk your rifle pits where you broke
to fragments the iron railing, and
took the very tombstones to put in
your Notifications. We read your
exaltations of Northern bravery and
Southern treason, and we skorned
you from the bottom of our hearts.
Now when OF late an humble individ-
ual makes bold to bust his biler and
express his sentiments in two breef
letters, 70" get up like sanktified
preacher and read Tim publik lex
ture about hlu'moni. in. Gentle sur,
it don't bekum yo'.. When I've in
suited you about 20OO times we will
be even. But don't intend to insult
you at all. Ifyou are an honest man
and generous conqueror, amt after
you. When you make an effort to
convince Mr.. Harper's WeehM and
the black Republicans that our peo-
PIE, from General Lee and Mr.. Davis
down to the high privates, are just as
good, and brave, and honorable as
they are, I'll harmonic with you.
But Gentle Sur, haven't you spred
yourself too fur from home ? What
have you been doin about harmonizin
your own people Oar li1tle burnt
city is fast film up with your best
cltlzens. Durin the war you let EN-
stay, but after the war they are forced
to leave. Like exiles, they are seek
lng refuge in Cherokee Georgy, and
there stands your paper like lamp
less, hghtless beakon on the shore,
and sustains the men and measures
that made EN- leave. You are seein
EN- day after day desertin your State,
and you look away off and employ
your pen In lekturin a poor stranger
about harmonizin.
Gentle Sur, shorten your sights.
Begin to work on your home concerns
or you'll lose all your best society.
They are welcome here, and we'll all
stand by en-, but then hay always
thought that every great State ought
to hav some good men left in it.
Don't you Gentle Sur, tote fair.
Not yours, BILL ARP.