Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1866-01-25
Ifiii Arp Addresses his ConssItu-
enfq.

For several days we were engaged as kouts
maxim rckonysonco to sec whether Georpy
were State or lnjun tcrritory-yhcthcrw We
were in the old Union or out of it-wbetb.
or me and my foxes and you and your foke,
were somebody or nobody, aud lastly, bu,
by no means leastly, whether our poor inno
cent children, born during the war. were ali
Illegal, and had to born over again or not.
llls last pint are much unsettled, but oi,
women are advised to be kahn and screen.
MY friends, our aim hav honestly been to
glt you all back in hc folds of the GLORIOUS
old Union. Like the prodygal sou, we had
nuthin to live on, and iecin lonesome and
hungry, have been bowin and scrapin and
making apologys for five or six months. We
nave been seen, standin afar off for weeks
ana weeks, but durn the calfdo they kill for
us. They know we've got nothin, for they
eat up our substance, and as for putin rings
on our fingers, we couldcnt cxpckt il until
they bring back the .jcwclry they carved
away. l cannot say, in the langwidpc of the
poet, that our labor heve been a labor of Low.
Tor We had monstrous poor announcement
to be sbure; but we had all set out heads
toward the stars and stripes, and we iintly
determined that come wool come wo, sink
or swim, survive or perish thunder or litcn-
IN, we'd slip back, or sneak back. or cit
back somehow or somehow else, or we d
stay out forever and ever amen, and be
hanged to EN-, so-callcd, | golly.
Up to this time it may have been an up-
hill business. The team wasa good one and
the gear all sound and the wagin creased.
but the roads are perhaps the ruflcst, rotten.
est corduroy in the world. It's pull up and
skotch, and pull up and skotcll, and ever
and anonymous the skotch slips out and the
tung cuts around and away we go into the
gully. Andy Jonsin is the driver, and he
says Go slow, and he hollers "\Vo wo!"
and loses the road and then we have to 20
back to the fork and wait till he blazes the
way. lie seems to be doin his best, but
then thar is Sumner and Satan and Stevens
and Davis and like other gentlemen, who
keep hollering at him and cracking his whip.
and conluSn his idccs, SO that sometimes
We don't know whether he's gec.in or
haw in.
My friends, about them fellcrs, l don't
know what | ort to say. If you do or if
any body does, | wish they would say it
| don't encourage cussin in nobody, not at
all, but if you know of man that can't be
broke of it durin his material life, it mout be
well to hire him by the year. If there is
in all histry good exkusc and proper sub
iek, it is upon them hairless, soulless, bowel.
less, gizzardless, fratrsidel, suicidcl, parasi-
del, slster,idel, abominabul, contcmptibul,
disgustibul individuals. | sometimes think
of EN- till my brain gifts sorter added, and
think OF bccumin volunteer convict to
the Lunatik Asylorum. Charity inclines
me to the opinyun that old Sumner are
crazy. | think he has been rittin worse m
ever since he took Brooks on the brain, and
it do seem like the disease have proved CON
tagus. If they are for Peace it must be the
Peace that passcth allunders funding for we
cant tathom it in these regions. They fout
us to Tree thee poor niger but didn't care
for the Union. The Western boys fout us
for the I Mon but didn't care for the niger.
By double tcamln on us they licked US and
we GIN 1t up, but now the one don't want
our nlggcrs and the other don't want our
Union, and its the hardest skedule to pleas
em both that poor vanished peepul ever
undertook. Its the most hardest war to
wind up that history rekorls. Sumner,
Satan x Company are still ft,ssin and fumin
about the cvcr astin nigger-want him to
vote and make laws, and squat on a iewry,
and want to perhibit us rebels from DUNG
the same thing for 80 years to cum! Jeru.
salem! where is the cussing man? They
say its all right for niger not to vote in
@ H"'''iuo.ou,, ,hr G.haIS tncre amt cut rev OF
vn,o @ 'a ;n an nr Ia hoi az, ",Ins ior en- not 10
houo ho.o 1" ,J "GotGy oehaus theres heaP OF EN-
nu'u,; "nu .ney 'alk I!osiK ana hctorlk
a",~,h nhal, ~ p.oIo eoM !. Is; wen amt got
sh" " wmo'o l",sel o' sense IKE sum, but as
nau n. dont a. III L .mo ,ooo nish nlsEer IS nlg
s1, no, Hoa ~ o HocT Mle1G you sneil nm ana
i Wy I roll, 10 To,I ,La, 4 uou heer whar you urap
|" ~, so"y '''ey can. gu over that.
-. lhc truth Is, my Teller ,stizcns, | some
times 1cGi nKc we dident have no Govern
ment. ,!, l fclt that way sortcr when Mr..
Gibson G appointed me committee on the
state OF the hepubllk. When the Sekre-
tary read out my name all mixed up with
this! Republik, | felt that | was obleeged to
r[enlg; Eisn majestikully to my feet, says
l, "Mr; President, beg to be respeklybly
e1k4sed sur, if you pleyse. If thar is
any Kcpublik on this side OF Jordon cant
pursevee 1t this time with these speks Thar
was place in old Nirginny called Port Re
publik, but Mr. Rebel Stonewal jackson
wiped out its contents generally in 1868,
ana L haven't since heard Of it in Northern