The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1866-01-18
BiIl Arp Addresses his Constit'

from the Metropolitan Record, n. VI
The Metropolitan Record, of New
York, has been so fortunate as to en-.
gage that very respectable and highly
humorous Georgia gentleman, Mr.. Bill
Arp, as contributor to that paper
The following is his first contribution
Respektabm People: y
] address you on this okkashun with
a profound admiration forthc great CON
sidoration aud the nice discrimination
which caused you 20 honor me by your
votes with a seat in the Sinate Of Geor-
gy. For two momentus and inspirin
weeks the Legislature have been in sol
EN- session, one Of whom ] am proud to
be which. For several days We were
engaged as skouts, maxim sorter of re-
konysance to see whether Gcorgy were
a State or lnjun terrytory--whether we
were in the old Union, or out Of it,
whether me and my foxes and you and
your foxes were somebody or nobody,
aud lastly, but by no means leastly,
whether our poor innocent children,
born durin the war, were all Illegal and
had to be born over again or not. This
last pint are much unsettled, but our
women arc advised 70 be kahn and Sc
recn.
Ny friends, our aim hay honestly
been to git you all back into the folds Of
the gloryoas old Union Like the pro-
dygal son, we had nuthin TO live on, nod
feelin lonesome and hungry have been
bowin aud serapia and maxim npologys
for five or six months We have been
seen standin afur Of for weeks aud
weeks. but durn the oaf do they kill for
us. They know we've got nuthin, for
they cat up our substance, and as for
putin rings on our Fingers, VIC couldent
cxpekt it until they bring back the jew
elry they oarrycd away ] cannot say,
in the langwidge Of tho post, ,ha, our
labor hay been labor Of loye, for we've
had monstrus poor encouragement TO be
shore bat we had al set our bead. to.
wards the stars aud stripes aud we
jintly determined that, come wool come
wo, sink Of swim, survive or perish,
thunder or litcnin, we'd slip back, 81
pnesk back, or git back fomthos or
somehow che. or we'd stay out forever
and ever amen and be hanged to Gun, 50
called, ! golly
Up To this time it hay been an up
hill business The team was good one
and the gears all sound aud the wagon
creased, but the road ere perhaps the
ruiIcst, rottenest corduroy in the world
It's pull up and skoich. aud pull up and
skotch, aud ever aud anonymous the
skotch slips out andthc tune cuts round
and away we go into the gully Andy
Jonsin is the driver. and he says, Go
slow, and he boilers "Wo! wo .' and
loses the road, and then We hav 20 go
4 back to the fork and wait till be bIazes
the way. lie seem 20 be doin his best,
but then there il Sumner aud Satan aud
/ Stevens aud Davis aud other Ike gen.
tleinen, who keep hollerin at him and
crackin his whipand coniusin his idces,
so that sometimes We don't know whcth.
er he's gce-in or haw.in, Ny friends,
about them fcllors, / don't know what |
ort TO say. Ii you do, or If anybody
does, wish they would say il. don't
encourage cussin in nobody, not at all,
but IL you know Of man that cant be
broke Of it durin his naleral life, itmout
be well to hire him by the year. If
ther is in all history a good exkuse and
= proper subjek, il is upon them hart
less, soulless, bowelless, gizzardless,
fratrisidel, suisidel, parasidel, sistersi-
del, abominabul, contemptibul, disgusti-
bul individuals. ] sometimes think Of
EN- till my brain gifts sorter added, and
/ feel like beeumin volunteer conyikt
Of the Lunatik Asylorum. Charity in
clines me TO the opiniyun that old Sum
ner are crazy. think he has been
Agittin worse ever since he took Brooks
e brain, and it do seem like the
b have proved contagus. If they
Peace il must be the Peace that
all understaudin for we cant
il in these regions. They fout
zee the poor niger but dident
he Union. The Western boys
the Union but dident keer
ger By double teaming on
ed us and we gin it up, but
don't want our niggers and
1T want our Union, and its
kodule to pleas EN- both
pnished peepul ever under.
most hardest war towind
Bry rekords. Sumner, Sa
pany are stilla fussin and
the cyerlastin niger