The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1866-02-14
Bill Arp Addresses his 0onstitu-
g E ents.
from the N. Y. Metropolitan Record

The Metropolitan Record, Of New Yorl
has been SO fortunate as to engage tia
very respectable and highly humorou
Georgia gentleman, Mr.. Bill Arp, as a cor
| tributorto that paper. The following
his first contribution: - ,'z'
| REspEKTABUL PEOPLE IL address yo
| on this okashun with profound admilsl
| ton for the great consideration and th
4 nice discrimination which caused gyDu t.
i honor me by your votes with d seat in th
| Sinate of Georgy. Fortwo momentou
| and inspiring weeks the Legislature hav,
| been in solemn session., one efwhonlll an
| proud to be which. For several days WI
were engaged as skouts. making sorter o
! rekonysance to see whether Georgy were ,
State or lnjun Territory --whether we were
In the old Union, or out of it-whether nle
and my folks and you andIyoui folks were
somebody or nobody, and lastly, but bymo
means leastly. whether our poor innocent
| children, born durin the war, were all lille
/ gal and had to be born over again OF not
This last pint refmuch unsettled, but oul
i women are advised to be kahn and screen
4 My friends, our aim hay been to git you
all back into the foldsyof the gloryous old
Union. Like the prodygal son, we had
l puthin to live on, and .feelin lonesome and
hungry, have been bowin and scrapin aud
1 making apologys for FIVE or six MONTHS
| We have been seen standin afur off for
| weeks and weeks, but durn the CAT do they
kill for US. They know we've got nothin.
for they eat up our substance, and as for
putin tings on our fingers we couldent ex-
pekt ituntil they bring back the jeweIry
they carried away. ! cannot say in Che
langwidge of the poet, that ourilabor hav
beenla labor OF love- for we've had mon
lstrous poor encouragement to be shore
but we had all set our heads towards the
stars and stripes; and ejintly determind
that, come wool come We sink or swim sur
viye or per,sh, thunder orliteain, w'd sin
back, or sneak back, or git back somehow
or somehow else, or we'd stay out forever
and over amen and be hanged to EN-, SO
called, l golly. ts 0. a,i
Up to this time it hav been an up hill
business. The team was good one and
the; gear all sound and the wagin creased
but the road are perhaps therulfest, rotten,
est corduroy in the worle. Its,pull up and
skotch, and pull up and skotch, and ever
and anonymous the sketch slips out and
the tung cuts round and away we 20 into
the gully. Andy Jonsinis the driver, and
he says,st"Go Slow and he ho!lors !" Wo!
wo" and loses the rood, and then we have
to go back to the fork and wait till he bla,
yes the way. LIE seem to be doin his best
| but then thereis Sumner and Satan and
Stevens and Davis and other like gentle
| men, who keep hollerin at him and crack
ing his whipand confasill his ideas, so that
sometimes We don't know whether he's gee
in or hawrin. My friends, about them fel.
lers, don't knowaowhat | ort to say. Ii
you do, or,if anybody does, i wish they
would say it. j don't encourage cussin in
| nobody, not at all, but if you know of a
man that can t be broke of it durin bis ma
tural life, it mout be well to hire him by the
year. II ther is in all history a good ex-
| kuse. and q proper. subjek, it isiupon them
hairless, soulless, boWelless, glzzardless,
iratrisidel, suicidel, parasidel,, ;sistarsilel,
abomlpahul, tcontemptlbal, disgustibuI in,ii-
ylduals. / sometimes think of Elm till nv
brain gifts sorter added, and / feel like be-
cqnin q volunteer conyikt of the Lunatik
;Asylorum, Charity inclines me to theop-
ipyun that old Sumner are cracy. / think
be has been gittin wurse ever since he took
Brooks On the Brain, and it do seem like
the disease have proved contagious. If
they are for Peace it must be the Peace
that passeth oil ,understandin for we cant
fath ON it in these regions. They fJut US
to free the poor Niger but didn't ikeer for
the Union, The Western boys fout us for
the Union but didn't keer, for the nigger.--
By double teaming Oh US they licked us
and we gin it up, but now the one
don't want our. Union, and its the hard
est skedule to- pleas EN- both that apoor
vanished people ever undertook. Its
the most hardest; war to wind up that
history records. Sumner, Satan and Com
rpany re'still "a fussin and fumin about the
eyeriastIn nlgger1-want, him to vote and
ulake laws, and squat on a jewry, and want
to prohibit US Rebels from doin the same
thing for 80 years TO cum! Observation-Disclosures
rs the cussin maas They say its all right
for niger not to vote in Connecticut, be-
Klaus there amt but o few of en- there; and
its all wrong for Elm not to vote in Georpy
bekaus theirs heap Of EN- here, and they
talk Laeik and Retorlk aniaziIftp proyehow
il is Well 1 ahaint got whole !passerof
sense like sum, but as slloreias i'm two
foot highs a;nipger is anigger, i don't keer
,whar you smell Thin, andavoteis aJvote I
dOut kaer wharyou darpit. goEy! they
can't git over that. ii Ies
The truth is, my feller sitizens, | some.
times feel like .WerdidHlt; have nd Govern.
ment. I felt that way sorter when, .Mr,
Gibson appointed me committee on The
state of the Republik. When the sekre,
tary read ont yname and omdged inDi Win
the Rcpublik.I feltstliatd Was OBLIGED a
renig. Risin .zsiestikully- to my feet, saws
|, MIR. President heg to be respestyhly ex.
ikused sif, If YOU please. Ifthar is 81 Re-
.publik one this side OF Jordfh I can't nus uls
.sseyes lit at this,elime with these sneks
'Vha,. IL