, 1866-04-06
Svalfa aeaila Statesman.
Bn Arp % His Constituents.


". For two momentus and inspirin weeks
the Legislature have been in solemn session,
one of whom am proud to be which. For
several days we were engaged as skouts,
making a sorter of rekonysancs to see wheth-
er Georgy were State or Injun territory
whether we were in the old Union or out of
it-whether me and my folkes and you and
your folkes war sumbody or nobody; and
lastly, but by no means leastly, whether our
poor little Innocent children, born durin the
war, were all illegal and had to be born over
agin or not. This last pint are much unset,
tied, but our women are advised to keep
kan and screen.
My friends, our aim have honestly been
to git you all back into the folds of the glo>
rious old Union. Like the prodygal son,
we had nothin to live and feelin lonesome
and hungry, haYe been bowin and scrapin
and maxim apologys, for four or five months
We have been standin afur off for weeks
and weeks, but durn the caf do they kill for
US. They know we have got nothun, for
they eat up our substance and as for putin
rings on our fingers we cudn't expect it uu-
til they bring back the jewelry they carried
away. l cannot say in the langwidge of the
poet, that our labor have been labor of
love, for we have had very poor encourages
ment to be shore; but We had all set our
heds towards the stars and stripes; and we
jintly determined that come wool come wo,
sink or swim, survive or perish, thunder or
litenin, 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, 1 goIly.
Up to thisStime it have been an up hill
, business. The team was a good one and the
gear all sound and the Vaughn creased, but
the road are perhaps the rutfest, the rotten,
est cordyroy in the world It's pull up and
skotch and ever an anonymous the skotch
slips out and the tung cuts round and away
we go into the gully. Andy johnson is the
driver, and he says go SLOW" and he hol-
lers "wo! wo." and loses the road, then we
have to 90 back to the fork and wait till he
blazes the way. He seems to be doin his
best, but then there is Sumner and Satan
and Stevens and Davis and other like gen.
tlemen, who keeps hollerin at him and
crackin his whip and confusion his ideas, SO
that sometimes we don't know whether he's
geein or haWin. My friends about them
tellers, l don't know what ort to say. If
you do, or if any one else does, wish they
would say it. [ don't encourage cussin in
nobody, not at all, but if you know of man
who can't be broke of it durin his material
life, 1t must be well to hire him by the
year. If there is in all history a good ex>
cuse and proper subjeck, it is upon them
hairless, soulless, bowelless, gizzardless.
fratricidel, paracidel, sistersidel, abominabul,
contemptibu, disgustbul individuals.
sometimes think of 'em till. my brain gits
sorter added, and | feel like beccmin a vol,
lnteer convlkt of the Lunatik Asylorum.
Charity inclines me to the opinyun that
old Sumner are crazy. think he has been
glttln worse ever since he took Brooks on
the brain, and itsdoes seem like the disease
have proved contagious. If they are for
Peace, it must be the Peace which passetb
all understanding, for we can't fathom it in
all these regions. They fOut us to free the
poor nlgger, but dident keer for the Union.
The Western boys fout US for the Union. but
dldent keer for the niger BY double teams
ing on us, they licked US and we Gin it IN
but now the one don't want our niggers and
the other don't want our Union, and it is the
hardest skedule.to please 'em both that
poor vanquished people ever undertook. It's
the most hardest war to wind up that histo
ry rekords. Sumner, Satan and Company
are still fussin and fumin about the ever.
lastln niger; want him to vote and make
laws, ana squat on a jewry, and want to pro.
hlolt US Rebels all from doin the same thing
for thirty years to come. Jerusaleml where
IS the cussin man? They say it is all RIGHT
for niger not to vote in Connecticut be.
kause there amt but few of 'em thar; and
It's all wrong for EN- not to vote in Georry.
bekaus there's heap of 'em here, and thew
talk Logik and Retorik amazin to prove
how 1t Is: Well, | haint gotta whole parsel
OF sence like sum, but as shore as | am two
foot high, niger is a niger, don't keer
whar you smell him, and a vote is a vote, 4
don't keer whar you drap it. 1 golly! they
can't git over that.
The truth is, my feller citizens. 7 some,
times feel like we dident have no Governs
ment. felt that way sorter when Mr. Gin
son appointed me committee on the State
OF the RePublik. When the Secretary read
out my name all mixed up with the Repub-
HNj iSl' Iudb was OOleegeQ to renlO HI.
sin magesticully to my feet, says "NIr. Pres
ident, l beg to be respektbuily exkused sur
If you please. If thar is any Republik this
side of Jordin, l cant purseye it at this time
with these specks. Thar was place in OId
Virginia called Port Republik, but Mr.. Reb.
ell General Stonewall jackson, wiped ont ;ts
contents generally in 1868, and [ haven't
since heard Of it in Northern literature 7
have heard of skrub cousarn over about
Washington, they call Republik, but II are
likely to prove the grandest impos,ure that
ever existed on continent of freedom 7
suppose, sur, it are to be moved to Boston
or the Internal region in a few days and |
want nothin to do with it. ExEuse me
sur, but must insist on being respektabIy
discharged" l took my seat amidst tho
most profouudest and tumultusus silence |
ever seed, and Mr.. G.. remarked that he
Wouldent impose the Rep6blik on any men |
agin his wishes. He then transferred me to |
the tlnants Committee, and sed he hoped |
We would take immediate action, for The
state had no money a. we'll as bimsolf - 1