Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1866-02-10

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Letter from Bill Arp to his
old Friend, John Happy.

personally about some things that's
a wcighin ON me, look upon you
Ms friend, and | feel like droppin
YOU few lines by way OF unburth-
enin my sorrowlhl reflections, For
the last few years you have travelled
round right smart and must have
made heap of luminous observa.
shuns, ] hear you are now Twin
in Nashvi', where you can see all
sides of everything and read all the
papcrs-wherc you can study Para
disc lost withouta book, and can see
the Devil and his angels without
DRAWN on the imaginashun, and
thought may be You might assist
me in my troubled feelings. / al
ways, Mr., Happy, cndeavorcd to sec
the bright side of every pikter if it
had any, but there is ono or two sub.
iects about which | had mighty nigh
gin il up.
| want You to toll me if you can,
about what time are the black re-
publicans goin to quit persecutin
our people? What are they so ever
lastin mad with us about2 Old
Skewball says its for treason we've
gone and done, and that l am the
slowcst perceivon man he ever seed
not to have found it out.
Now treason is II mighty bad
thing, and any man found guilty Of
treason ought to be talked to by a
preacher right under the gallus, and
then be allowed to stand on nothin
for few hours by the clock. Shore
cnuf Treason | mean. Treason where
a man slips around on the sly in
time Of war and takes sides agin his
country. Justas though, orinstanco
I should have worked agin my
suvrin State after she had seeded,
and had stole her powder or had de-
serted her in the time Of peril, while
she was defendin herself agin the
combined assaults Of the world, the
flesh and the devil. l wouldn't have
blamed nobody for hanging me for
the like, would you?
But Skewball says we aint got no
suvrcen Statcs-that the war have
settled the question agin us on that
pint; don't think so my friend. /
admit that we amt nuthin in per-
ticker now, but we did have suv.
reen States before the war, and the
sword amt unsettled no great prin-
ciplcs. There aint no trial of right
or wrong by wages Of battle now a
days. For mighty now hundred
years this country have been big
debatin society on these questions.
From tho time of Hamilton and JEFF
terson down to 1851, the right of a
State to dissolve her own partner
ship hay bin argued by powerful
minded men and there have been
more for it than agin in it. More
Pfesidents-more Senators, more
judges, more people. MASSACHUSETTS
and Connecticut were fur it at one
time, and belered round and paved
dirt amazin tn git out, but they
found out Barcas was willing and
they didn't go. believe, however,
that Cd Nutmeg did stay out about
two hours and a half.
Well, the South went out nifty
unwillingly, Mr. Happy, as You
know. She had been nifty nigh
kicked ont for a long time, and there
was big party that wanted us to
go out and stay out. Everybody
knows that we didn'a get along in
peace. so we concluded to do like
Abraham and his brothcr-in- law; to
seperate our households. What they
wanted to keep us for, l never could
see, and can't sec yit. / wouldn't
have niger or dog to stay round
me that did mt want to. Some say
they wanted US To strengthen EN-
agin their enemies in case of a filrrin
war Does any man in his sences
expect us to help the black republi.
cans whip anybody? Have we got
any worse enemies than they are?
They can't make us fight reckon
if we don't want to. We've fout
enuf and made nuthin by it but glo-
ry, and we amt agoing TO CINE in
another war to crafty other people.
Dodds says before he'd pull another
trigger for Thad. Stevens, he'd have
his soul transmigated to bench leg'd
fee. and bark at his daddy's mules
1000 years. / wonder if the expe.
rience of the last four years amt
satisfied these fcllers that our boys
are q dangerous set to be turned
loose in time Of war Wouldn't you
think that as q matter of policy
they would soft solder us a ittleand
quit their slandcrin. If we do fight
for EN-, there will be one condition
certain. They modt be put where
David put Uriah, and our boys mout
consent to make charge or two be-
hind EN- at the pint of the bagnet
But / want you to tell me, John,
if am right about the history of
this business. faint long story,
aud I'll tell it the way l see il. Old
Pewrytan went off one day with
acme ships. and took n few beads