Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1866-01-16
Bill Arp to his Constituents.
From the Metropolitan Record.J

Respectable Peep1e-I address you on this Okla
shun with profound admiration for the grea,
consideration andsthe nice discrimination which
caused you to honor me by your votes with sea-
i'll the Sinate of Georgy For two moment Us
and inspirin weeks the Legislature have been in
solemn session, one of whom l am proud to be
which. For several days we were engaged in
skouts, maxim u sorter of reAonysance to see
whether Georgy were State or lnjun terri
tory-whether were in the old Union or not
whether me and my foxes, and you and your
foxes were somebody or nobody, and lastly, bu
by no means leastly, whether poor innocen,
Children, born during the war, were all illegal
and had to be born over again or not This last
pint are much unsettled, but our women are ad
vised to be kahn and screen.
My friends, our aim hav honestly been to git
you all back into the folds of the gloryous old
Union. Like the prodygal son, we had nuthr
to live on, and feein lonesome and hungry, have
been bowin and scrapin and maxim apologys for
FIVE or six months. We have been seen standin
afar of for weeks and months, but durn the cali
do they kill for us. They know we've got nnthin
for they eat our substance and as for putin rings
on our fingers We couldn't expect it until they
bring back the jewel-y they carried away. l can
not say, in the langwidge of the poet, that our
labor have been labor of love, for we've had
monstrous poor encouragement to be shore (; bu'
we had all set our heads towards the stars and
and stripes, and we jintly determined that, come
wool come wo, sink or swim, survive or peri .h
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, golly.
Up to this time it hav been an uphill business
The team was good one and the gear all sound
and the wagin creased; but the road are perhaps
the rufest, rottenest cordy roy in the orld. Its
pull up and skotch, and pull up and skoteh, aud
ever and anonymous the skotch slips out and
the tung cuts round and away we 60 into the gull
ly. Andy Johnsin is the driver, and he says,
"Go slow,' and he hollers "Wo wo !" and loses
the road, and then we have to go back to the fork
and wait till he blazes the way. He seem to be
doin his best, but then there is Sumner and Satan
and Stevens and Davis and other like gentlemen
who keep hollerin at him and crackin his whip
and confusn his idees, SO that sometimes We don I
know whether he's gee in or haw-in. My friends
about them fellers, don't know what | ort to
say. If you do. or if anybody does wish they
would say it. l don't encourage cussin in no.
body, not at all, but if you know of O man that
can't be broke of it durin his material lfe it mout
be well to hire him by the year. If there is in
all history good exkuse and a proper subjek,
it is upon them heartless, souless, bowlless, giz
ardless, fratriside, suisidel, parasidel, sstersi
del, abominibul, eontemtibul, disgustbul individ-
uals. | sometimes think of EN- til my brain gifts
sorter added and feel like becumin volunteer
convikt of the Lunatik Asylorum. x
Charity inclines me to the opinyun that old
Sumner are crazy. l think he has been gittin
worse ever since he took Brooks on the brain, and
it do seem like the disease have proved contagus
If they are for Peace it must be the Peace that
psgseth all understandin, for we cant fathom it in
these regions. They fout us to free the poor Mig
ger but dident keer for the Union. The Western
boys fout for the Union but dident keer for the
niger. BY double teaming on US they licked us
and we gin it up, but now the one don't want our
niggers and the other don't want our Union, and
its the hardest skedule to pleas EN- both that a
poor vanished people ever undertook. It's the
most hardest war to wind up that history rekords.
Sumner, Satan and Company-are still q fussin
and fumin about the everlastn nigger-want him
to vote and make laws, and squat on ajewry, and
want to prohibit lis Confederates from doin the
same thing for 80 years to cum Jerusalem
where is the cussn man7 They say it is all right
for niger not to votein Connecticut, bekaus there
amt but few of EN- thar /; and its all wrong for
em not to vote in Georgy bekaus there's heap of
EN- here, and they talk Logik and Retorik amazin
to prove how it is. Well 1 haint got whole
passel of sense like sum, but as shore as I'm two
foot high niger is niger don't keer whar
you smell him. and vote is vote l don't keer