The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1866-02-02
BILL ARP ADDRESSES HIS CONSTTT-
UENFS


The Metropolitan Record, Of New
York, has been so fortunate as to engage
that very respectable and highly hu-
moroUs Georgia gentleman, Mr.. Bill
Arp, as contributor 70 that paper
The following is his fist contribution:
RespectabM People:
| address you on thi okkashun with
profound admirationior the great con-
sideration and the mic discrimination
which caused you to Dnor me by your
votes with a seat in TIE Sinate Of GeOr-
gy. For two moments and inspirin
weeks the Legislator lave been in sol
lem session, one of wlom l am proud
to be which. For seveal days we were
engaged as skouts, mixing u sorter of
rekonysance to see whether Georgy
were a State or Injun te'rytOry-Wheth-
er we We're in the old Union, or out of
it-Whether me and M foxes and you
and your foxes were somebody or no.
body, and lastly, but b. no means least
ly, whether our poor little innocent
children, born durin the war, We're all
illegal and had to be b'rn over again or
not. This last pint arfmuch unsettled,
but our wimen are adkised to be kahn
and screen.
Nv friends our ain have honestly
been to git you all badz into the folds
of the glOryOus old Un-ion. Like the
prodygal son, we had luthin to live on,
and feelin Lonesome and hungry, have
been boWin and scrapin and maxim a.
pologys for five or six months. We
have been staldin afur off for weeks
and weeks, but durn the calf do they
| kill for Us. They know we've got moth
III, for they eatup our substance, and
as for putin rings on our fingers, we
| cOuldent expect ituntil they bring back
the iewelry they arried away. | cam
not say, in the lmgwidge of the poet,
/ that our labor have been labor of love,
/ for we've had mmstrOus poor encour-
agement to be shurp; but we had all set
our heads towards the stars and stripes /;
and we iintly determined that, come
Weel come WO, sink or swim, survive
or perish, thunder or Eghtnin, we'd
! slip back, or sneak back, or git back
/ somehow or somehow else, or we'd stay
out for everand ever amen and chang
ed to, sO-called, IgOlly.
Up to this time it have been an up
/ hill business. The team was a good one
and the gear all sound and the wagon
| creased, but the road are perhaps the
ruffest, rottenest cordyroy in the world.
| It's pull up and skOtch, and pull up and
/ skotch, and ever and anonymous the
! sl1otch slips out and the tung cuts round
and away we 90 into the gully. Andy
/ JOnsin is the driver, and he says, "GO
! slow" and he hOllerS "WO! wOw and
loses the road, and then we have to go
back to the fork and wait till he bIazes
/ the way. He seems to be doin his best
/ but then there's Sumner, and Satan and
Stevens and Davis and other like gen
! tlemen, who keep holerin at him and
crackin his whip and Onfusin his idees,
so that sumtimes we don't know Wheth-
er 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, l wish they would say it. I don't
encourage cUssin in nobody, not at all,
but if you know of man that can't be
brOkeOf it durin his material life. it mOut
/ be well to hire him by the year. If
there is in all history good exlluse and
a proper subjeck, it is upon them heart
less, souIless, bowelless, gizzardlesS,
fratrisidel, suisidel, parasidel, sistersl-
| del, abominabul, cOntemptibul, DISCUS
tibul individuals. | sumtimes think
Of EN- till my brain gifts sOrter added
and | feel like becumin volunteer
convikt of the Lunatik Asylorum.-
Charity inclines me to the opinyon that
old Summer are crazy. | think he has
been gittin worse ever since he took
| Brooks on the brain, and it do seem like
the disease have proved cOntaius. /
they are for peace it must be the peace
that passeth all understandin, for W.
can't fathom it in these regions. They
foutus to free thepoor niger, butdid'n
keer for the Union. The Western boy
fout us for the Union, but didn't kee
for the niger. By double teaming OF
us they licked us and we gin it up, bu
now the one don't want our niggers ant
the other don't want our Union, and it
the hardest skedule to please EN- bOtl
that a poor vankished peepul ever un
dertook. Its the most hardest war +
wind up that history records. Sumner
Stanton and Company are still fussil
and fumin about the everlastin niger
| Uant him tO vote and make laws an