Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1865-11-25
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From the Rome Georgia. Courier.
Bill Arp on the State, of the Country.
"sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. :"


Anything sweet about liberty in this part Of
the moral vineyard, can't scott The lands
good enuf, and wouldn't mind hearin hyme
or two about the dirt live on, but as for find
ing, sugar and liberty in Georgy soil, it's all
mistake Howsumevcr, Pm hopeful. I'm
much calmer and serener., than L was a few
months ago. l begin to feel kindly to all
people, except some. I'm now cndeavorin,to
mottoe Of no North, no South, no East, Ito
West; but let me tell you, my friend, Tll,bet
on Dixie as long as I've got dollar. Its no
harm to run both skedules In faktits high
ly harmonious to do 90, Tn good Union
Il reb, and my battle cry are Dixie and the
Union. "
But you see, my friend, we are gcttin rest
less about some things TheNar had bokum
nifty heavyson lis, and after the big collapse
We thought5it was over for good We had
killed folks and killed folks until the novelty
of the thing had wore off, and wo we're nifty
nigh played out all oyer. Children were in
creasin and vittols diminishin. BY q close
s calculashun it was pcrsccved tllat we didn't
kill our enemies as fast as they werC imported,
and about those times thought it was a pity
that some mrakle of grace hadDt cut off the
breed Of formers some eighteen or twenty
years ago. Then you would have seed fair
fight. General Sherman wouldn't have walked
over the track, and Ulysses would haye killed
more men than he did-nf his own SIDE. I
have always thot thatSa General ought to be
pertikeler which side he was sacrifsin.
Well, if the war is over, what's the use of
fllin up our towns and citieswith soldiers any
longer. Where's your Reconstruction that
the papers say is goin on so rapidly Where's
the liberty and froedom?, The fact is; Gen.
Sherman and his caterpillers made SIGH clean
sweep of everything, don't sec much to re-
konstrukt They took SO many liberties
around here that there's nary liberty left, I
!, could have Reconstructed thousand sich
States before this There wasn't nuthn to
do but jest to go off and let us aoue. We've
got plenty Of statesmen plenty of men for
Governor. !, ~
Joe Brown aint dead -hes awaitin- n-stan-
din at the door with his hat off. Then what's
the soldiers here. for-what good are they
doin-who wants to see EN- any longer. Ev-
.crybody is tired of the war and we don't want
to sec any more signs of it. The niggers
don't want EN-, and the white folks don't
want 'enl, andas for the wlmmcn-whoopee !
] golly! We'll, there's no use takin-whGn
the stars fall agin maybe the wim:nGn will be
harmonized. That mail business that oath
about gittin letters! Gee tiger! They al
ways was jealous about the males anyhow, and
shat order jest broke the camel's back. Well,
must confess that it was a powerful small
consarn | would try to sortcr smooth it over
ifI knowed what to say, but don't. IF they
was afeered Of the wimmen why ddn t.they
say so? If they wasn't what do thcy make
'em swear for? Jest to aggfevate 'em? Didn't
they know. that the best way to harmonic
man, was to harmonic lis wife first? What
harm can the wi:hmen do by receivin their
letters oath frecS They can't vote nor they
can't'preach, nor hold offs, nor play soldier,
J Nor muster, nor wear brcechcs, nor,rde strad-
dle, nor cuss, nor chaw tobackcr, nor do nuthin
hardly but talk and rite letters. I hearn that
valiant kernel made wimcn put up her fan
because it had pikter Of Borygard on 1t. -
Well she's harmonzed | reckon. Now the
trouble Of all sich is, that after these bayonets
leave here and go home these pcttycoat tyrants
cant come back any more. Some Georgy fool
will smash the juice out of en- saryin and
!. that won't.be neither harmonious or healthy.
Better let the wmmen alone. ,5 q
Then there is another thing I'mswaitin for
Why don't they rekohstrukt the niggers if
they are ever goin to? They've give 'cm a.
powerful site of freedom, and a very little else.
Here's the big freedmcn's buro, and the little
buros all over the country, and the papers are
ell e o>,ln I :. !