American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1866-01-11
TON, MISSISSIPPI, JANUARY II, 1866

From the Metropolitan Record
BILL ARP ADDRESSES HIS CON
..... STITUENTS.
Respekta6M People | address you OF
this okkashun with a profound admira
lion of the great consideration and The
nice discrimination which caused you tc
honor me by your votes with a seat il
the Sinate of Georgy. For two momen.
tus and inspirin weeks the Legislature
hav been in solem session, one of whom
| am proud to be which For severa
days we were engaged as skouts. maxim
sorter rekonysance, 10 see whether
Georgy were State or Injun terryto.
ry-whether we were in the old Union
or out Of it-whether me and my foxes
and you and your foxes we're some body
or nobody. and lastly. but by no means
leastly, whether our poor innocent chill
dreD, born durin the war, were all illegal
and had to be born over agin or not
This last pint are much unsettled. but our
wimen 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
glory Gus old Union Like the prodygal
son, we had nuthin to live on. and feelin
lonesome and hungry, hsv been bowin
and scrapin and maxim apologies for FIVE
or six months. We hav been seen stand
in afur off for weeks and weeks, but durp
the caf do they kill for us. They know
we've got nolhn, for they eat up our sub
stance, and as for putin rings on our I'm
gers, we eouldent expekt it until they
bring back the jewelry they carryed
away. | cannot say. in the langwidge
of the poet. that our labor hav been la.
Dor Of love, for we've bad monstrus
poor encouragement to be shore /; but we
had all sot our heads towards the stars
and stripes, and we jintly determined
that. come wool come woe, sink or swim,
survive or perish, thunder or lightenin,
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 'em. so called. golly.
Up to this time it hav been an up hill
blsness. The team was a good one, and
the gear all sound and the vagin creased.
but the road are, perhaps, the lufest,
rotlenest, corduroy in the world. LIS
pull up and skotcb, and pull up and
skotch, and ever and aponymus the
skotch slips out and the lung cuts round,
and away we go into the gully. Andy
Jonsin is the driver, and he says. go
SLOW" and be hollers, "Wo wo p and
loses the road. and then we hav |
to 20 back to the fork and wait till /
he bazes the way. He seems to be doin
his best, but then thar is Sumner and |
Satan and Stevens and Davis and other
like gentlemen, who keep hoIlerin at him
aud crackin his whip, and eonfusin his
idees, SO that sometimes we don't know
whether he's geeia or hsw in. Ny
friends, about them fellers, | don't know
what ort to say. If you do, or any.
body does, wish they would say it.
| don't encourage cussin in nobody, not
al all, but if you know of a man that
cant be broke of it durin bis material life,
it mout be we'll to hire him by the year.
If ther is in all history a good exkuse,
and a proper subjek, it is upon them
hairless, souless, bowelIess. gizzardless,
frstrisidel, suisidel. psrssidel. sistersidel,
contemptibul. disgusibul,
l sometimes think Of 'em
till my braius gifts sorter added, and
feel ike becumin a volunteer convikt of
the Lunatik Asylorum. Charity incliues
me to the opinyun that old Sumner are
crazy. | think he has been gittin worse
ever since be took Brooks on the brain,
and it do seem like the disease have
pooved contsgus Ii they are for Peace
t must be the peace that passeth all un-
1erstsndin, for we cant fsthom it in these
regions. They fout us to free the poor
bigger but di6ent keer for the Union
The Western boys tout us for the Union
but dideDt keer for the niger. By double
esnin on US, they licked us. and We
sin it up. but now the one don't want our
nigger and the other don't want our Un-
ion, and its the hardest skedule to please
'em both that poor vanished peepul
ever undertook. It's lhe most hardest
var to wind up that history rekords.
Sumper. Satan and Company, are still
fussin and fUDiu about the everlaslin
him to vote and make laws
and squat on q jewry and want to per-
hibit rs rebels for doin the same thing
Ior 30 years to cum Jerusalem !
Where Is the cussin man They say
i's all right for a nieger not 10 vote in
beksuse ther amt bat few
,f 'em thar and its all wrong for EN- not
o vote in Georgy, beksuse there's q
reap Of EN- there, and they talk Logik
md BeIorik smaIin to prove how it is
Well l haiut got a whole psssel Of senss
ike sum, but as shore as am two foo,