The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1866-03-23
BRICK POMEROY'S SECOND LETTER
TO BILL ARP.


business! 1t is some ways to the 9TH
er end of the avenue where the vul-
lures have gathered to feast upon the
corpse so terribly mangled, but the
man at the other end of the avenue
has quick eye, cool brain, a steady
nerve. and his gun is ready Just you
sit down behind a stump like, and
keep cool. ItisdOggoned aggravating
to keep cool in a fight, but you must
do it. The report Of that cap whistled
from Maine to Minnesota, and several
millions of true sportsmen are readyto
load for the man at the other end Of
the avenue to fire.
And tell your folks there to keep
I still-tO plant their cotton, corn, rice
and sugar cane. Give them good adj
vice, Bill. Help them smooth down.
the hillocks, and level the sod over the
graves where so manyof our brave boys
and your brave boys are sleeping to-
gether. Build up the houses our boys.
I
war duds off we will help you Bill.
You see we are unhitching the team
which ran away and broke down your
gate. We don't Iikethe team any bet
! ter than you did. Your gate post was
our gate post. The team was bad one
the man at the other end of the ave-
nue. is unhitching it. Tell your folks
to be brave in peace as they were in
war. The early winds of spring-the
February and March winds are of more
account than you dream of. They are
| blowing the dead leaves out Of the for
est. They are blowing the dead ducks
far out to sea! They are clearingaway
the debris-wheeling the little sticks
hither and yon. Rolling, flying and
/ eddying, around the leaves and twigs
are leaving theirlate resting place, and
| it will not be long, Bill, before all this
rubbish will be removed and the grass
! and flowers will again beautify the
| earth as before. And there shall be no
more prOwling-no more pOachers.
| The man at the other end of the ave-
nue. is not clown, buffoon, a vulgar
jester, low wit, boorish story teller.
All no Bill He is very good man
and you will like him. We like him
| because he is just The people like
| him because he is just. The people
| like him because he is generous and
statesmanlike.
We have been having some little
| trouble up this way, Bill. The revel-
lers who lately sat in our banquet hall
were kitchen scullions, but they are
going home soon. And when they
have all gone, we shall have a very
nice party there. Time is loosening
the ice in the river. Some of US know
how you folks have been used and we
are telling others.
Not long since when we told peo-
| pie that our people when fighting your
people were stealing themselves rich,
they said we were disloyal and put us
in prison. And tn Y pulled down our
printing offices. They threw our type
into rivers. They mobbed us in our
/ places Of business. They shot at and
/ wounded us on the street. They sought
to array the people of the eNOrthagainst
those who beIievedin toting fair. They
! did all these things in the name of God
and the greatm0ral party! But spring
fashions are now coming on, Bill, and
| in little while you and | will meet
somewhere and will be good friends,
and your boys and our boys after a
/ while will be loving the same girls and
riding down the same lane together.
1t is hard to sit behind the stump,
Bill, and see the fight going on. 1t
may be hard for your folks to work on
their plantations, to rebuild their cit
les and bleach out their mourning
| goods, while there is a tremor of war
yet on the air, Bill, but you can do it,
| Do you be true and brave-we will an
sWer for the rest. You have more
! witnesses in the North, Bill, than YOU
know of. There are skeletonsin many
families hereaway, and there are skel-
tons some people would be dOggoned
glad to get rid of-glad if they had
never took them in.
There are pianos, silver spoons, sill
yer sugar bowls, silver cream pitchers,
I silver sugar tongs, gold watches, beau
tiful paintings, valuable books, i'm
portant documents, rings, breast pins,
lockets, silk goods, fast horses, marble
top bureaus, rose wood furniture, quit
ars, photographs, keepsakes and me-
ment0es of gold and silver and other
witnesses here from your district wit
nesses in the convention against the
thieves who Overran your country in
the name of loyalty and stOlef from you
while their comrades were fighting.
And these witnesses are having weight
now. Their testimony is becoming
| more and more important. Not more
in your behalf, Bill, than against the
plunder loving thieves and towards
who went into the war to steal more
than to fight, to fill their pockets more
than to subdue' the rebellion so called.
We got sick of this kind of foolish
ness. We sent for Macginnis, and he
is now at the other end of the avenue