La sentinelle de Thibodaux. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 1861-1866, 1866-03-03
Bill Arp
TO HIS CONSTITUENT

| Dkkashun with Il profound admlfauoA 10
the great consideration and the nice dis
elimination which caused you to hono1
me BY your voice with q seat in the Sinatt
of Georgy. For two momentous and in.
spilin weeks the Legislature have beef
in solemn session, one of whom l ana proua
to I've which. For several days we were
engaged ia skouts, making a sorter re
kenysance to see whether Georgy were
State or Injun territory-whether WI
were in the old Union or not-whethei
me and my foxes, aud you aud your foxes
were somebody or nobody, and lastly
but by no mems leastly, whether oui
poor innocent children. born during tn,
war, were all illegal and had to be borl
over again o. not. This last pint arr
mach unsettled. but our women are ad
yised to be calm aud screen. $40.
Fly friends. cur aim have honestly beer
to git you all buck into the folds OF the
gloryous old Un-ion. Ike the prodygal
son. we had huthin to live on, and feeling
lonesome and hungry, have been bowin
and scrapin and maxim apologys tor hive
or six months. We have been seen
standip afur off for weeks and weeks. but
durn the calf do. they kill for Us. They
know we've got nuthin. for they eat up
our substance, and as for putin rings ON
our fingers, we couldn't expect it until
they bring back the jewelry they carryed
away. | cannot say, in the langwidge OF
| the poet. that our labor have been q labor
of love, for we've had monstrous poor en-
arrangement to be shore !; but we had all
set eur heads towards the stars aud
stripes, and we jintly determined that
come wool come wo, sink or swim, survive
or perish. thunder or iightnin. we'd slip
back. or she * back, or git back somehow
or somehow else, or we'd stay out forever
and ever amen and be hanged 20 elm, So
called. | golly.
Up to this tlme it have been an uphill
business. The team was a good one and
the gear all sound and the waginli creased
but the road are perhaps the ~rnfast, rot
tenest corduroy in the world. Its pull up
and sketch. aud pull up and sketch, and
ever and anonymous the skotch slips out
and the tung cuts round and away we go
into the gully. Andy Johnsin is the
driver, and he says "go Slow" and hal-
lers "wo! wo!" and loses the road, and
then we have to 60 back to the fork and
wait till he blazes the way. He seems to
be dom his best, but then there is a Sum
ner and Satan and Stevens and Davis and
other like gentlemen, who keep hollerin
at him and crackin his whip and confusin
his idees. SO THAT sometimes we dentknow
whether he is gee-in or haw-in. My
friends, about them ~fellers, / don't know
what ! ort to say. If you do, or if any
body else does, | wish they would say 1t.
! 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 mont be-
well to hire him by the year, If there is
in all history a good exkuse and a proper
subsek, it is upon them heartless, bowlless,
gizardless, ftatriSidel, suisidel, parasidel, |
sistersided, a~hominaibul, cnntemptibul,
disgustibul individuals. / sometimes
think of EN- till my brain gifts ser,er
aided, and l feel like becom;n o volunteer
conyikt of the Lunatik, Asyiaram. g
Charity i~,selines Die to the epinyon that
old Sutincr are crazy. | think he has
been gittin worse ever since he took
ION the brain, and it do seem like
disease have proved contagus.s IfI
they are for Peace it must be- the Peace
That passetl all Understandable, for we cant
it in those regions. They fout us
to free the poor ,igger but dident keer for
the Unioa, The Western boys fout us
for the Union but dident kser for the
Ey double tcaming on us they
as and We gin it up. but now the
,ne don't want our niggers and the other
lent our Union, and it is tho hardest
to please EN- both that a. poor
people ever Undertook. Its the
most hardest war to wind up that history
'ecords- Samner, Satan aud Company,
re still a fussin and funlin about the
'verlastin higger-want him to vote and
laws, aud squat on % jewry, and
salts d to prahiaite US Confsdsrates from
loin tile same thing for 30 years to cum
leerusaiem! where il the cussin man I
hey say it il all right for niger net to I
"te in Connecticut, bekaus there amt :
at a few Of en- thar and its all wrong |
,r EN- not to vote in Georgy bekaus '
heres "a heap of en- here, and they talk !
.ogik and Ret0rik anlazin to prove how. it 7
$. Well, | hunt got q whole parscl of |
like sum, but as shore as I'm two '
high, q nigger is aligger ! don't keer G
liar yea smell him, and a vote is a vote +
don't keer whsr you drop it. golly i
0nnt Sk ofNI till EEE5 4#s@F N# 60 =
The TRUTHS, any feller-eitizens, I some Y
snes feel like we Gdent have no Govern +
'ent. / felt that way sorter when Mr.. G
ibson appointed me d committee on the a
tate Ut the Republik. When the Sekre- v
ny read out my naIne all mixed up with Q
10 Republic, l felt that | WAS obliged 10 u
Risin mages.ikully to my feet, b
US ], Mr.. President, I beg to be res d
exkused sur, If yos ~raease. If +
lar is any ReIpublik on this side of Jordin b
cant purseve it at this time With these r
'ccks. Thar was a place III eIA Virginy 9
Port Republic, hut Mr.. Rebel b
erieral S%tonewall jackson wiped out its (
'ntents generally in 1863, and | haven't i
nee heard of it i'll Northern literature. !,
have heard of a skrub consarn over t
out Washington they call a Repuhlik, "
It sure, it are likely to prove the grand il
t iTnpesfare that ever existed. on a con- tt
aent of freedom. | suppose. sur. it ere q
be moved to Boston or the Internal re- Ct
Dns in few days and I went nnthin to hi
with III. ExkuSa mo. sur Inf must W