The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-06-24
A Letter TO Bill Arp.

Letter TO Bill Arp.
Pomeroy, Of tho La Crosse wis
consin) Democrat, has addressed the
following letter to Bill Arp, down in
Georgia:
1;ill, there never was so ungrateful
4 rpople Us you Southern gentlemen
All. and now after all has been done
lor you, to see letters written by you
so full of insinuations, is too much.
The fault of all this lies with you.
Wern't you folks most dogoned
wicked before the war? Honest In
dian, now, Bill! Didn't you get
proud. and is not pride q sin? And
didn't you own negroes down there,
and larrup them continually to raise
cotton for New England nabobs to
spin-sugar to put in our coffee, rice
to eat in our pnddings, and tobacco
to chew and squirt over meeting
house floors? And didn't you have
better houses, better clothes and bet
ter horses, finer grounds, better fur
nit,lre and more land than we had?
We are all Christians in the North.
We felt that all these fine things was
dragging your souls down to hell.
We didn't want you to rest in brim-
stone, being in torment, so we tried
to correl yon in Abraham's bosom.
Abraham was great and good man,
who died some time since, as we read
of somewhere.
And then, Bill, you kept your Mig
gers too fat; our factory operatives
grew jealous. And our girls went
down there to teach your girls some
thing, and fell in love with your boys,
and forgot to come home. We felt
that you were wicked We didn't
want you to go to hell. All the fine
things you had were leading you
away from salvation, SO we went and
sent Butler, and Curtis, and Banks,
and Washburn, and Steele, and Ho-
vey, and Prentice, and Hurlbut, and
several of the elect of our Christian
Churches down there to win You out
of the jaws of hell by withdrawing
your fine furniture, such rs pianos,
books, pictures, rosewood bcdsteads,
marble tables, silver ware, horses,
cotton and NIL such plumber to q place
Of safety.
You were wrong to engage in war
very wrong to do that thing. New
England alone could conquer Won.
Why, Bill, if you had a billion of mil
lion of dollars, and enough nice fur
niture to furnish all of the houses i'm
the country, New England could
steal it in four years; and if New
England Abolitionists could not. the
Kansas saints and Western children
of Christian Abolitionists could.
f1avn't wo prayed for you in nearly
all our churches? And havnt we
told you better? You wanted to get
out of the Union! All, Bill, States
once in can never get out! This is
what we always told you. al these
friends of the great martyr told you
so. We wanted to keep you in. We
fought you at Antietam, Pea Ridge,
Gettysburg, Shiloh, Mobile, Fort
Donelson, and the devil only knows
where, to keep you in the Union.
And then we sent Christian mission
aries down there, Bill, to rescue your
valuables and remove them North for
safety, You know? And we burnt
down your houses, and we took what
food your wives and children had,
and we sent your cotton to market
for you, you know, Bill! And we
sent 100000 of men to war to keep
you burned fellers in this happy
Union.
God only knows how many of you
folks we killed, for one Northern
man was always good for five South
ern men, to say nothing of mules,
nggers and keepsakes. And, Bill,
we have stepped into some little debt
ON yonr account. You see, Bill
cotton was too cheap. Tobacco was
too cheap. Rice was too cheap
Sugar was too cheap. Gold and silver
were too cheap. Happiness was too
! cheap. Our national debt was too