The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1865-11-28
BILL ARP ON THE STATE OF THE
COUNTRY.
He announces Hin,se!fas a Good " Union ReJ. /"
"Sweet land of Libertv of thee SING"

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"Sweet land of Liberty, of thee I sing"
Not much don't not at this time Ifthcrc's
anything swee. about liberty in this part of the
, vineyard l can't see it. The lands good enuf
and wouldn't mind hearin hymn or two
about the dirt live on, but as for fndin sugar
and liberty in Georgy soil, its all mistake.
Howsumever, I'm hopeful. I'm much calmer
and sereeuer than / was a few months ago /
/ begin tofeel kindly towards ali people, except
some. I'm now endeaverin to be a great ma
tional man. I've taken up mottoe Of no North,
no South, no East no West; but let me tell you
my friend, I'll bet on Dixie as long as Pve got
a dollar. Its no harm to run both sEeduleS.
| In fakt its highly harmonious to do so. I'm a
! good Union reb, and my battle cry are Dixie
and the Union.
| But you see my friend, we are gettn restless
about some things. The war had bekum nifty
heavy on US, and after the big collapse, we
! thought it was over for good. We had killed
folks and killed folks until the novelty OF the
thing had wore off, and we were nifty nigh
played out all over. Children were iDcreasin
and vittcls diminishn. BY close calculashun
it was purseeved that we did't kill our enemies
as fast asthey was imported, and about those
| times [ thought it was pity that some miraklc
of grace hadn't cut off the breed of furriners
some l8 or 20 years ago. Then you would
have seen a. fair fight. Gen. Sherman wouldn't
have walked over the track, and Ulysses would
have killed more men than he diG-ofh his onn
| side. 4 hav always thot' that General ought
to be pertikler which side he was sacri6siu
Well, if the war is over, what's the use Of
film up our towns and cities with soldiers any
longer? Where's your Reconstruction that the
papers say is goin, On SO rapidly? Whares the
liberty and freedom? The fakt is, Gen. Sher-
man and his caterpiers made such a clean
sweep Of everything, don't see much to rekon-
strukt They took so many liberties around
here that there's nary liberty left could
have reconstructed thousand sich States be-
fore this. Any body could. There 'was'nt
nuthin' to do but jest to 90 off and let US alone.
We've got plenty of Statesmen, plenty of men
for Governor. Joe Brown amt dead-ho'S
Notwithstanding at the door with his hat off
Then what's the soldiers here for?-what good
rethey doin?-who wants to see 'em any lon.
ger? Everybody is tired of the war, and we
don't want to see any more signs of it. The
whoo-pee! golly Well, there's no use talk
iu'-when the stars fall agiu maybe the wimeo
will be harmonized That male bisness-that
oath about gittin' letters! Gee-tiger! They
always was jealous about the males anyhow, and
that order jest broke the camels back Well,
| must confess that it was powerful small con-
Germ would try to sorter smooth it over if l
know'd what to say; but I don't. If they
was afeered of the wimen why didn't they say
SO. If they wasn't, what do they make 'em
swear for! Jest to aggravate 'em? Didn't
they know that the best way to harmonic
man, was to harmonizc his wife first? What
BARN can the wimen do by receivn their letters
oath free? They can't vote, nor they can't
preach, nor hold offs, nor play soldier, nor mus.
ter, nor wear breeches, ride straddle, nor
cuss, nor cbaw terbacker, nor do nuthin' hardly
but talk and rite letters l hearn that vail
ant kernel made a woman put up her fan be-
kause it had pikter of Borygard 'pon it, Well
she's harmonized, [ reckon. Now the trouble
of all sich is that after these bayonets leave here
and go home, these petticoat tyrants can't come
back any more. Some Georgy fool will mash
the juice out Of 'eD, sartin, and that w0udn
be neither harmonious nor healthy Better let
the wimen alone.
Then there is another thing I'm wa:in for.
Why don't they rekonstrukt the niggers if they
are ever goin to? They've give 'em powerful
site of heedom, and deVilish little else Here's
the big freedmcn's huro, AID the little buros all
over the country, and the papers are full of
grand orders and special orders, and para
graphs, but I'll bet posson that some of 'em
steals my wood this winter or freezes to death.
Freedman buro! freedman's humbug | say.
Jest when the corn needed rlowin the worst,
the buro rung the bell and tolled all the niggers
to town. and the farmers lost the crops, and now
the freedman is gcttin cold and hungry, and
wants to 60 back, and there amt nuthin for 'em
to 90 to. But freedom is a big thing. Hurraw
for freedoms buro! Sweet land of liberty, of
thee don't sing! But its all right I'm for
freedom myself Nobody wants any more sIa-
very. If the abolishunists had let us alone, we
would have fixed if up right long time ago.
and we can fix it up now. The buro amt fixed
it, and it amt goin to. 1t don't know any
thing about it Our people have got heap
more feein for the poor niger than any abolish
unist. We are as poor Job, but I'll bet a
dollar we can raise more money in Rome to
build nigger church than they did in Bos
town The papers say that after goin round
for weeks, the Bostown Christians raised thir-
ty-seven dollars to build Niger church in
Savannah. They are powerful on theory but
devilish scarce in practice
But It's no use taking Everybody will know
by waitin who's been foold. Dir johnson says
he's guine to experiment, that's all he can do
now-its all anybody can do MrJohpson's
heads level I'm for him, and every bsdy ought
TO be for him-only he's powerful slow about
something's. I amt worshippin him. He
Dever made me- I hear folks holerin hurraw
for Andy johnson, and the papers say, oh. he's
for US, he's all right, he's our friend. Well,
7 spose he is, hadn't be ought to be? Did you
expekt him to be dog or black republican
pup. Because he amt hapgin Of us, is it
necessary to be playin hipocIit around the foot
stool of power, and maxim out like be was the
greatest in the world, and we was tie