The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1866-02-14
Bill Arp addresses bis Constituents

RzsPEKTFUL PEOPLE:
address you on This okashun with pro
found admiration for The great considera-
ton and The nice discrimination which
caused you 70 horror me by your votes with
a seat in The Sinate of Georgy. For two
momen:us and iaspirin weeks the Legsla-
turs hay been ia solemn session, ore of
whom am proud TO be which. For sevefal
days we were engaged as skOuls, maxim q
sorer rekouysauce 10 see whether Georgy
we're a Siaie OF lnjun ierfyloy-whether
We were in The old Union, or out OF it
whether me and my lolkes and you and
your folkes were somebody CT nobody, and,
lastly, but by 20 means leaslly. whether our
poor innocent children. born during the
war, were all Illegal and had TO he born
over agin or not. This last pint are much
unsettled, but our women are advised TO be
kahn and screen
My friends, our aim hav honestly been TO
gin you all back in the tods Of the glorious
old Un-ion. Like The rrodygal son we had
nujhin 10 live on, and feeh lonesome and
hungry, hav been bowin and scrapin and
maxim Apologies for FIVE or six months.
We hav been seen s,andin s'ur of for
weeks bot durn the calf do they kill for US.
They know we've got nothing, for they eat
up our substance, and a. for putin rings on
our fogers, we couldeni expekt il Until they
bring back The jewelry hey carryed away.
cannot say, in the laugwidse Of The poet
lha; o1r labor have been labor of love, Tor
we've had uousrous poor encouraaeme
10 be shure; but We bad al sci our heads
toward the stars and strips, and ve jinlly
determined that cone wool come wo, sink
or swim, survive or perish, thunder or lite
min, we'd slip back, or sneak back, or gil
back somehow or somehow eise, or we'd
stay out forever and ever amen, and lie
hanged 10 'em, so-called, goily.
Up TO This lime il bav been an M bill bu-
siness The team was q good one and The
gear all sound and the wagon creased, bu;
the road are perhaps The rufest, roueuea
cordyroy in the world lis pull up snd
sko,ch, aud pull up and sko'ch, and ever
and anonymous the sko.ch slips ouI and The
'unz cuts rouud aud away we 60 into the
gully. Aud, Jonsin is The driver and he
says Go slow" and be hollers "Wo wo 81
and loses lie road, ana hen we hav 10 60
back 20 lbe fork aud wait til be blaZes
the way. be seem to be doin his best but
then thar is Sumner and Satan and Stevens
aud o,her like gentlemen, who keep ho er-
in al LIm and crackin his whip, aud con-
iusiu his idees. so that sometimes we doh't
know whether he's gee-iu or haw-in. My
friends, about them ieilers, ! dor't know
what OF; 10 say. If You 60, or II auybod y
does, wish ;hey would say il | dom. en-
courage cCssiu in nobody, nor al al, but il
you know of a man that can't be broke oi
i, dprin his ualefal life, il moui be well to
hire him by the year, Ii ,her is in all his
,ory a good exkuse and proper snhjsk, it
is upon them bearlless, souiless, bowelless,
eizzsrdless, fralrisidel, suicidel, parasidel
sis;ersidel, abomiuabol, ccniemp pubul. dis
guslibul individuals. sometimes think o
them lill my brain gils sorier added, and
+ feel Ike becumin a volun' 'eer convikt o
the Luua,k Asyorum. Chau,y incline.
Us to The cpipyun that old Sumner are era
w. think he has been gi'tih worse eve
! since he took Brooks onths brain, and it Dc
seem ike he disease hav proved coniaeus
! If they are Tor Peace it musl be the Peace
\ tina, sasselh all unJerslandin, for we can
I faihom ihem in these regions. Thsy lou
us 10 free the poor nigger but diden't kee
for The Union. The Western boys font u
for The Union but diden'l keef Tor the mig
ger. By double ieamin on rs they licke