Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1866-04-25
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aBRlCK' PONEROY 10 BILL ARP.

BILL, for why do you Arp on my
daughter-so to speak There must be
something very wrong in your nature
Reckon you must have lost something
or found horse shoe and no horse to
hang it on. We believe you are very
bad Bill, and so we don't want to pass
you in silence. You write as if there
was something wrong with you--as il
there we're clouds floating over the land
of magnolias and the sunny south gener-
ally. Really, Bill, we are surprised.
There never was so ungrateful people
as you southern gentlemen are, and DOW
after all that has been done for you, to
see letters written by you SO full of in
situations, is too much The fault of
all this lies withyou. Weren't you folks
most dogoned wicked before this war
Honest Indian now, Bill, didn't you get
proud, and is not pride a sin2 And
didn't you own uiggers down there, and
larrup them continually to raise cotton
for New England to spin-sugar to
sveeten our coffee, rice to estin our pud-
dings, and tobacco to chew and squirt
over meeting house floors Answer US.
Bill. And didn't you folks stay down
there and attend to business a little too
close {? And didn't you have better
horses, finer grounds, and more land than
we had?
We are all Christians in the north
We felt that all those things we're drag
ging your souls down to hell. We didn't
want you to rest in birthstone, being in
torment, so we tried to corral you in
Abraham's bosom. Abraham wasa great
and good man, who died some time since,
as we read of somewhere.
And then, Bill, you kept your niggers
too fat. Our factory operatives grew
| Jealous. And our girls went down there
to teach your girls something, and fell in
love with your boys and forgot to come
home. We felt that you we're wicked
We didn't want you to go to hell. All
the fine things you had we're leading you
away from savation, so ne sent Butler
and Curtis, and Banks, and Washburn,
and Steele, and Hovey, and Prentiss, and
Hulburt, and several Of the elect Of our
Christian churches down there to win
you out of the jaws Of hell by Withdraw
ing your fine furniture, such as pianos,
books, pictures, rosewood bedsteads,
marble tables, silver ware, horses, cotton
and such plumber, to place of safety.
You were wrong to engage in war
very wrong 70 do that thing. New Eng
land alone could conquer you. Why,
Bill, if you had billion of dollars, and
enough nice furniture to furnish all of
the houses in the country, New England
could steal it in four years and if New
England abolitionists could not, the Kan
sas saints and Western children of Chris
tian abolitionists could. Haven't we
prayed for you in all our cb urches ?
And haven't we told you better? You
wanted to get out of the Union. All,
Bill, States once in can never get out
That is what we always told you. All
those friends of the great martyr tell you
so. We want to keep you in. We
fought you at Antietam, Gettysburg, Pea
Ridge, Vicksburg, Fredericksburg, Shi-
lob, Mobile, Fort DOnelson, and the
devil only knows where, to keep you in
the Union. And then we sent Christian
missionaries down there, Bill, to rescue
your valunbles aud removs them north,
you know. And we burnt down your
houses, and We took what food your
wives and children had, and we sent your
cotton to market for you, you know Bill.
And we sent three million men to war to
keep your burned felleTs in this happy
Union. God only knows how many of
you folks we killed, for one northern
man was always good for FIVE southern
men, to say nothing about mules, niggers,
cotton and keepsakes. And Bill, we
have stepped into some little debt on
your account. You see, Bill, cotton was
too cheap. Rice was too cheap. Sugar
was too cheap. Happiness was too cheap.
Our national debt was too small 1t was
costing too much to keep that negro
clearinghouse of yours, so we remedied
that by killing your niggers, or giving
them the benefit of liberty, rags, old
bones. and Abolitionism. And Bill, we
.enchanced the price Of everything for you,
and made a demand for carpenters and
house builders down there. You forget