Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1866-02-17
nm Arp Addresses hts Constituents.


shuu for The great consid erashun and the
nice dscrimnsshun which caused you to
honor NE by your votes with q sess 10
the senate Of Georgy. For two momen.
tous and inspirin' weeks, the legislature
has been il solemn session, one Of whom
am proud to be which. For several
days We we're engaged as scouts, making
q scrier rekonysauce to see whether Geor-
~ was . state or I'M un territory
whether we was in the ole Union or out
Of i,-whe,ber me and my foxes, and you
and your foxes were mbody or nobody,
and lastly, but BY no means leastly,
whether our poor innocent children, born
during the war, were all illegal. and had
to be born over again or not. This last
pint are much unsettled, but our women
are advised to be calm aud screen.
My trends, our aim has HONESTLY been
10 git you all back into the folds Of the
glorious old union. Like the prodygal
son We had nothing to live on, and feelia'
louesum and hungry, hav been bowin' and
scrapin' and maxim apo'ogys for Eve or
six months. We hav been seen stan
din aiur off for weeks and weeks, but durn
the calf do they kill Cor US. They know
we've got no.hin, for they eat our sub
atance, and as for putin rings on our FIN
gers, we ccu'dent expekt it until they
bring back the jewelry they carried away.
l con not say, il the langwidsa of the
pois, that our labor have been the labor
Ct love, for we've had monstrous poor en-
eoursg ement, to be shure; bu: We had all
set our heads towards the stars aud stripes,
sad We jinsly determined that, come wee!
come "o, sink or swim, survive or perish,
thunder or lightning, we'd slip back, or
sneak back, or sit back somehow else, or
we'd stay gu. for ever and ever amen and
be hanged to 'e,n, so-ea,led, gol'y!
Up to this time it hev been 40 uphill
hizness. The team was good wun, aud
the gear all sound, andthe wagin CREASED,
bu. the road are perhaps the ruiFest, rot
ines: cordyroy in the wurld. It's pull up
and skotcb, and ever and Autonomous the
sko,ch slips GU. and the ,ung cuts round,
aud away We 60 into the gully Andy
johnson is driver, and he says Go slow,
| and he boilers "wo. wo!'' and loses the
road, and then We hev to 20 back to the
fork and Wal, I'LL he bluses the way. He
seems to be doin his best, bat then there
is Sumner aud Satan and Stevens and
Davis, and other IKE gentlemen, who
keep hoierid At him aud crackiu bis whip,
and confusin HE idess, 50 tina. sumtmss
We don't know whether hos geein or hsw
in. Ny trends, about them lelers, don't
know ~ha. l ors to say. II you do, or il
anybody does, wish they would say it.
| don't encourage cussia in nobody, TO.
At all, but ii ycu know of nan ,ha. caa /,
be CURED Of it duriu his material life time,
it mous 30 We'll to hire him by the piece.
II there 10 in all history a good exkuse
aud proper subject, it is upon them
hairless, soulIess, towe!less, gizzssIle.,,
fss!risida', suisidsl. parasiia, abomina-
| bui, consemp,ibui, disgus,iba! individuals
sometimes think Of 'sn till my brains
gifts sorter added, aud feel like becom-
in a volunteer convik: to the luuatc asy-
| lorum. Charity ineiines TIE to the opn-
yum that old Sumner are crazy. | think
he has been gessn worse ever since he
took Brooks GA tie brain, and i. do seem
that the disease has proved contsgus. II
they are for peace, !! mus; be the peace
tha. passe,h all undsrs,Andin, for We can /,
ta.hom it in these regions. They fou. Us
to free the poor bigger, but dident keer
tos the niger. BY double teamin on "
they licked US, and we give il up: but
now the Que dcat wan, our niggers, and
the other don't want our Uuiou, and ina
| the hardest skedule 10 pleas 'em both that
| . poor vanquished people over undertook.
Is the most hardest war to wind no that
history rekords. Sumner, Satan and
COMPANY, are still fust aud fu in abou,
| the everiastin nigger-want him to vote
and make laws, aud squat on Jury, and
want to prohibit us rebels from dom the
same thing for thirty years to cum! Je-
russem where is the kussiu man !? Thew
say it is all RICH. for niger not to vote
| in Connecticut, bekaus there amt but lew
Of them thar; and it's all wrong tor 'em
10. to vote in Georgy because there's a
heap of EN- here, and they talk Logik
and Retorik amazin to prove how i. ia
Well, | haint 60. a whole passed. Of sense
like sum, but as shoore as I'm two feet
high, a niger is a. niger, l dod't keer
whar you smell him, and vote 10 a vote.
don't keer whar you drap it. aolly
they can't git over that.
The truth is. Teller citizens, l suutimes
feel like w didas have no government. |
felt that way sorter when Mr. Gibson ap-
pointed me > committee on the state of
the reoublik. felt hat | was Obliged to
resting R;sin majestikully TO my feet,
says l, "Mr. President, l beg to BE- re.pec-
tybly excused sur, II you please. II thar
10 any republik On this aide Of Jordin l