Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1866-01-24
From the Na.lpisle. Baaner.
Bill Arp TO his old Friend.


From the Na.huilie. Banner.
49,. Bill Arp to his old Friend.
Mr.. JOHN HAPpY-SuR:
want to write to you personally abou
some things that's wcighin on me. l lool
upon you IS friend, and feel like droppil
few lines by way of unburthenin my sor
rowful refeItions. For the last few year
YOU have travelled round right smart, aut
must have made heap Of luminus obserra
,ions. hear you are now iivin'in Nashville
where you can see all sides Of everything
and resd all papers-where you can study
Paradise lost without book, and see th'
Devil and ais angels, without DRAWN on tht
imagination, aad thought may be you nigh
ASSISTING in my troubled feelings. l have
always, Mr.. Happy, cndeavored to see The
bright side Of every p;kter if it had any, bu
there is one or two subjecks about which
had nifty nigh gin it up.
want you to tell me, if you can, about
what time are the black republicans soin tc
quit persecutin our people? What are they
are so everiastin mad with Us about Olt
Skewbald says its for treason that we've gone
and done, and that ain the slowest per
seevin man he ever seed not to have found
it out
Now treason isa nifty bad thing, and auy
man found guilty of treason ought to be
talked to by preacher right under gallus
and then be allowed to stand on notain for
few hours by the clock. Shore enuff trea
son I mean. Treason where man slips
round on the sly in time Of war, and take.
sides agin his country. Just as though. fox
instance, ] should have worked agin my suv
rim State arter she had seeded, and had stole
her powder, or deserted her in her time Of
peril, while she was defending herself agin
the combined assaults of THE world, the flesh
and the devil. wouldn't have blamed no
body for hansin me for the like, would you
But Skewbsll says we aint got no suvreen
States-that the war hav settled the que6-
ton agin us. Ga that piat do.t think So
INV friend. I adtni, that we aint nothin in
partikler now, but we did hav suvreea States
before the war, aud the sword amt settled
nor unsettled no great principles. There
aint no trial of right or wrong by wager OF
var nov adays. For mighty nigh hu2-
s6red years this country have been o big de-
Sbatin society on these questions. From the
time of Hamilton and. Ierson down to 1861,
tho right of m State to dissolve her own part
nership have been argued by powerful mind.
ed men, and there has been more for it than
agn it. More Presdents-more Senators,
more statesmen, mere judges, more people.
Massychusetts and Connecticut were for it
at one time, and bellered round and paved
DIRT amazn to git out, but they found out
Barcus was wilin, ami they didn't go. be-
lieve, however, that old Nutmeg did stay out
about two hours and J. half.
Well the South went on NIFTY unwillingly
Mr.. Happy, SIS you know. She had been
nifty nigh kicked out for long time, and
I there was a big party that wanted US to &C
out and stay out. Everybody knows tha,
we dident git along in peace, 80 we conclu,
law; to seperate our households. Wha'
they wanted 20 keep US for never could see
and can't see it yet. wouldent have nie'
ger or dog to stay round me that diden
want to. Sons say they wanted us to strength
en- 'em agin their enemies in case of furrer
war Does any man in his sober senses ex
pect Us to hel p the black republicans whiI
any body? Have we got any worse enemie
than they are : They can't make us fight
3, reckon il we don't want to. We have fou
enuf aud made nothing by it but glory, ant
we amt going to give another war to gratil
other people. Dodds says before he'd pull
trigger for Shad Stevens, he'd have his sou
transnigrated to. bench leg'd flee, an,
bark at his daddy's mules 2000 yeats.
wonder if the experience of the last fou
years aint satisfied them fellers that our boy
are dangerous set to be turned loose in t.
time of war. Woaldent you think that as q
matter ofpolicy they would soft soddor US
,i,tle, and quit their sland.rn. If We d.
fight for 'em, 1t will be on one condition Ger
tain-they must be put where David pu
Uriah, and our boys must consent to make
charge or two behind 'em with the pint o
the bayonet.
But want you tell me, Johr, if am righ
about this business. 1t amt long story
I'll tell it the way see it. Old P.wrytal
went of one Cay Wi some ships and took
few beads and JUICE harps and bought up u
lot OF captured niggers from the Hottentot
or some other tots, and stole few nure OF
the coast of Afriky and brought 'cm over an,
educated 'em to work in tho field, and Gu
wood, and. skeer bars and so forth, but no
includin votiu nor mus,erin, nor the jury bus
mess and SO forth.
;Weli;S Sarter while they found that the coll
winds, and ccdfish airs of New Englan
szdident agree With the niger, and so they be
gdnsto slide era down south as fas. as .poss
s Bic Arterihsy had sold them and got th
f,uaes, they jned the church and becaln
sagctifed about slavery, sorter like the VIC
- nan that g0t converted and then gave a
her novels away to her unconverted sister
Well, TIC Old Dominion and such other sor
as Washington, aud Jefferson, and Madison
and Randolf, bought EN- and worked en-
satisfaka.ien, whereupon Ole Pew got jeaiou
and began to preach agin it to break it dpwl
Pie fact is they woudent work gals in the
fsktories fit wsrrent SO profitable, for the
are conscientlously opposed to eyerythin
that don't put ,nnney in their pockets. A
ter awhile they " Mt into the striped alm;
nsc business, making bloody pik:ers CT por
lasera.sd niggers geltin n hundred lashes ft
nuthing, and u.ourc;ug for their first Dor
because they were not. Then they starte
the Stealing program, andavtile We were tr,
Z II all the big courts and little courts to g
back one silky mclatter BY the name ol Ore
Skss. shey se,a stealth from hss TO Aity