The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-02-15
Bin Arp <4darcs~eS His toaS&jsa-

Georgia gentleman, Mir. Bill Arp, a. Il
contributortothat paper. Thefollowing
is his first contribution
ReSpochtabW Peepel:
address w on this okkashun with Il
profound admirashun for this great con-
-siderashun and the nice diseriminashun
which caused yu to honor me by your
votes with seat in the State Of Gcorgy.
For two momentous and nspirin weeks
the Legislature have been in solemn ses-
SION, one of whom ! am proud to be
which. For several days we were en-
gagged as skouts, maxim a sort OF rekon-
ysance to see whether Georgy were Il
State or lnjun territory whether we
We're in the cid Union, or out of it
whether me and my foxes and you and
your foxes were somebody or nobody,
and lastly, but by no means leastly,
whether Our poor innocent children,
born durn the war, We're all Illegal and
had to be born over again or not. This
last pint are much unsettled, but our
women are advised to be kahn and Sc
reen.
My friends, our aim hav honestly been
to git you all back into the folds of the
gioryous old Union. Like the prody-
gal son, we hav nuthin to liv on, and
feeling lonesom and hungry, hav been
howin and serapin and maxim apologys
for five or six months. We have been
seen standin afur off for weeks and
weeks, but durn the kat do they kill for
AIS. They know we've got nothin for
they eat up our substance, and as fur
putin rings Oh our fingers, we couldent
expekt it until they bring back the jew
elry they CARVED away | kannot say,
in the langWidge of the poet, that our
labor of love, for we've had monstlls
poor encouragement to be shore; but
we had all set our heds towards the
stars and stripes; and we jintly deter
mined that, come wool come WO, sink or
swim, survive or perish, thunder or
litenn, We'd slip back, or sneak back or
git back somehow or somehow else, or
we'd stay out forever and ever amen
and be hanged to EN-, SO allied, ] golly.
Up to this time it hay bin up hill
blsnes5. The team WAS a good one and
the gearaIl sound and the wagin creased,
but the road was the rutlt.st, rottcncst,
corduroy in the world. It's pull up and
sketch, and pail upand sketch, and ever
and anonymous the skotch slips out and
the tung cuts round and away we go in
the gully! Andy johnson is the driver,
and he says, "Go slow,o and.he hollers,
"Wo! Wo. and luses the road, and we
then HAY 10 go back to the fork and wait
till he hlaZes the way. He seems to be
dom, his best, but then there is Sumner
and Satan and Stevens and Davis and
other like gentlemen, who keep holler
in at him and eraellin his Whipand con-
fusin his iaees, so that sometimes we
don't no whether he's gee-in or haW-in
My friends, about these feliars, ! don't
no what | ort to say. If you do, if any
holy does | Wish they would say it. |
~ Al, mot
atal, and il YOU know a man that can't
be broke of H. durin his material lif it
mout be well to hire him by the year.
If there is in all history Il good oNkuse
aud a proper suhjek, ii IS upon them
hairless, soulless, boWelless. gizzardleSs,
fratrisidel, sabsidel, parasitlel, sstefsi-
del, abominabul, contomptibul, disgust
bul individuals. ] sometimes think OF
enl Till my brain gifts s0ftef saddled, and
feel like bekuning Il volahteerconvikt
Of the LuHatie AsylOrum. Charity i'll
,clnos me to the opinyun that old Sum
ner are crazy. think he has bin gittn
worse ever since lie took Brooks on the
brain, and it do seem like the disease
haN proved eantagus. Fl they are for
Peace it must be the Peace tha6 paSseth
all understanding, for we can't lath0m
il in these rEgunS. They fout us to free
the poor Hieger bat dident keer for the
Union. Tie Western boys fout US roi
the Union. bHt dident keef for Che mig
ger By double teeming on Us they lick.
ed us and We Gin it up, but now the one
don't want our niggers and the Other
don't want our Union, and lis the hardesl
skedue 70 pleas EN- both that poor
Vanished peepul ever undertook. lts
the most hardest war to wind up thai
history rekords, Sumner, Satan ano
Company are still Il iussin and 1unlii
about the everlasting nigger-Want him
to vote and make laws, and squat on :
jewry. and want to prohibit us Rebel'
from doin the same thing or 81 years Il
cum! .Jcerewsalum where Is the Gus
sin man? They say it all right for :
niger not 10 vote in Connecticut. be
Klaus there amt but a few Of um thar
and its all wrong for EN- to vote In Geof
e-v bekaus there a heap Of EN- here, ane
the talk Logik and Ketorik amazin II
prove how ii is. Wen | haint got {
whole s,assel of sense like sum, but Ii
shore a. Ila two foot high Niger is 8
niger DOM keer whar YOU smell him
and A vote is Il vote | don't keer Whal