Daily Mississippi clarion and standard. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1866, 1866-06-10

vote about forty, and the first thing
you know wei elect seven big, black,
greasy niggers to Congress. Wei do
it certain-seven of 'em Is carats
strong, with African musk. The other
rebel States will do the same thing,
and you'll have about fifty of 'em to
draw seats with, and you can all stick
your legs upon your desks together,
and swap lies and vermin, and be
shampooed at the same shop, and the
fair sexes can set together in the gal
leries and mix Odours, and fan their
scent about promiscuous. Wei give
you full benefit of your Civil Rights
bill, see if we don't. You 90 on-play
your cards. We are bidin our time"
We are payin your taxes and your
duties and back rations for 1864, and
licences, and your Internal revenue,
and obeyin your laws without havin
any hand in maxim 'em, and we are
cut off from pensions, and public
lands; and you sold poor mans still
in my county the other day because he
couldn't pay your tax on some peach
brandy he stilled for his neighbors two
years ago; and soon you'll be sellin'
the land for the land tax, and you're
tryin your best to play the devil gen
orally; but you'll catch it in the long
run. See If you don't Talk about
Fenians. When the good men of the
North and South all get together,
| they'll walk over the track so fast that
70 - Of hn
way. You'll subside into obscurity,
and your children will deny that their
| dadies ever belonged to such a party
Excuse me, gentlemen, but | am a lit
tie excited. Five cents a pound on
cotton will excite anybody that makes
| 1t. Tax on industry-On sweat and
toll. Protective tariffs for Pennsylva-
MIA and five cents a pound tax on
Southern cottOn-half it's average
worth-and your folks will manage
sCme way or other to steal the other
half My advice to you is to quit this
foolishness and begin to travel the on
! ly road to peace"
Old Blow couldn't keep up with his
garbel extracts
What makes the President so popu-
lar at the South :"
Contrast, sir, contrast. The more
he amt like your party, the more popu-
lar he is. He would treat us about
right, | reckon, if you would let him
alone, but you bedevil him SO that
sometimes he don't understand him
self l don't think he knew for a
while whether his Peace Proclamation
restored the writ of habeas corpus or
not. But do you 90 on and impeach
him, and that will bring matters to a
focus. I'll bet you'll be in Fort Dele
ware in a week, and the Southern mem
bers be here in their seats, and they'll
look round at the political wreck and
ruin and plunder and stealage that 5
been goin on, and they might eXclaim
i'll the language of the poet,
1" Who's pin here since I'sh pin gone.
Mr.. Arp, suppose we should have
a war with England or France, what
would the rebels do p
They'd follow Gen. Lee, and Gen.
Johnston and Longstreet, and Bragg
and old Bory. My opinion is, that
Gen. Lee would head the Union army,
and Gen Grant would be his chief OF
staff, and Gen Buell. would rank mighty
high, and'--
what would you do with Gen.
:. Sherman p
Sorry you mentioned him. Wed
have to hire him, reckon, as a camp
fiddler, and make him sing Hail Co
iumbid by freight, as a warnin tC
the boys how mean it is to burn cities
and towns, and make war upon de
fenceless women and children. No
sir, our boys wouldent fight under nc
such"
At this time the man with the mem
orandum put down some more garbled
extracts.
do you think, Mr. Arp, that if thC
South should ever hold the balance o
power, they would demand pay TO
their negroes :"
81 can't say, sir. But l don't thinl
the South has lost anything that way
We got their labor before the war TO
their vittels and clothes and doctor
bills, and we get it now for about tn
: same. It's all settled down that wa,
and your Bureau couldent help ii
The only difference is in the distribu
ton. Some of us don't own as man,
as we used to, but everybody has go
a nigger or two now, and they'll al
vote em or turn EN- off. A niger tina
= wouldent vote as told him, shoulder
= black nv boots -
: At this time the Committee looke'
at one another, seemin to be bothere
/ and astonished. Garbled extract
e were put down with vim.
''Mr. Boutwell," says he, "Mr. Chair
y man, / think, sir, we are abou
:, through with the witness think, sill
mis- testimony settles the question a
Il to what we ought to do with Souther
e traitors"
The chairman give me republica
IL nod and remarked, eyes, sir, | thin
e we do. The scoundrels burnt m
e iron works"
l, Whereupon retired, having give
q general satisfaction.
u Yours truly, BILL ARP.