Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-02-15
Natuura1ls geaaiug.
Letter to Bill Arp.
FRoMBoB vARKIs, A NORTHERN AsPIRANT
-oD

FOR LITERARY HONORS.
Another aspirant for literary honors has
just emerged from obscurity in New York
city. His first communication appears 10
o late number of the Metropolitan Record,
and is addressed to the witty and talented
Bill Arp $500.
Mr.. ARP, ESQ.,, GEoRaY Your
trump, Bill, and though I amt far ahead
in dollars, I'll bet on you. I've bin readin'
some of your letters, and like 'em. Gee
Hosefat, how, you do sting some of them
fellers that fit with Sherman !! Some of 'em
wants to know mighty bad whar you live
SOS they kin send back some furniture mark
ed B. A. Tain't thar's. Iseed chap yes
terday with two silver FORK and knife
Knowed at onct they KUN from Georgy,
for they was gennuin. he wanted two dol
lars on EN-, but I'd seen him haug'd fust.
Nary stolen property for me, speshily from
Georgy. It's bully old State Georgy is,
and though it did git licked, it amt skeer-
ed. I'llbet on Georgy Virginny amt be-
hind nuther. What dye think of Bob Lee.
Amt he high old fighter? I tell you Bill,
I hear some chaps talkin' so much about
how they liked your fellers that l get mad.
Coll darn em, they didn't do no fghtin.'-
Most of 'em was in the bounty business, an
shoutin' at meetins. There amt no fight
into 'em, but they's powerful on talkin.'
Then talkin' about Old Virginny, amt
some foak proud of Stonewall jackson and
Jeb Stuart? Sam Hill how them slashers
did fall on the Feds No time for prayin'
there, tell you. 1t was jest up an git,
nary favor. That part of Virginny whar
they Gt shouldn't raise nothin' but laurels.
Bu. all the big fighters wasn't on one side
nuther. Sheridan KUN down mighty heavy
in the Valley, and Fitzpatrick done some
tall ridin down your way. No use denyin'
it, Bill, your foax got licked sometimes, but
know what side the odds was on. Three
to one amt fair shake, an it mostly went
that way. But you made big fight, though,
an I tell you we amt ashamed of you
Beecher says you fit bully and he knows.
He wasn't thar. All our jinerals so, too.
They were thar.
I'm Gopperhed, Bill, regular double
twisted sympasbizer. Some foak say your
fellers don't like Copperheds. Let em 60 a.
head. I don't care. amt worshippin you.
I don't love the South perticklerly. amt
goin' to say your foax have all the vartoo
and CRATE men. Nary time. know better
and so do you. But you've got big share,
though, and your wimmin' is glorious
They don't ware pants an address meetins,
but when they git gOiu their tungs is pow
erful. I reckon they can hate morn is
healthy, but they can't spare none for home.
They sent so much after the Feds that the
stocks must be nigh run out. Well, haint
they got reeson to hate? That's what
want to know.
What'r you going to do with the freed
men; Amt they noosance? l reckon
they amt much better'n they use to was
Well, poor critters, l pity 'em. They amt
much to blame if they air lazy. They wasn't
eddycated. They don't know what freedom
is. They kant rekuperate nor be made
Provisional Governors, nor Tax Kollec-
tors, nor anthing but niggers. What's the
use o talking about maxim 'em cityzens
when they can't spell. Better give 'em
somethin to eat, or bring 'em to Boston
Well, ne I reskon Boston don't want 'em.
Set 'em to work, if you can, if they don't
stick to it, make 'em. You mustn't be too
hard on 'em though. Spose you lock up
every mothers son of 'em that goes into the
vsgrant bizness, and give 'em shower'bath
doses if they amt williu to work. Tbatll
fetch 'em, I reckon for they don't take
kindly to water. Filanthropy isvery good,
but it's sometimes demoralizin'. 1t mostly
gets into the newspapers and stay there,
SOS the darkey's kant get no good it, for
they amt much on readin'. I'll bet before
Andy johnson goes back to Tennessee,
they'll larn somethin' He won't teach
'em, but hunger and Jack Frost will. He
likes 'em just we'll enuf to let 'em alone,
and if your foax will take care of 'em he'll
help you. Give 'em votes Shaw be don't
want you to.
Look at Jamaka Aint them darkies
been free long enuf to larn sometbin p
Well, I reckon they have, and they haze
larned sometbin too. They've larned to re-
lapse and cut throats. They're powerful on
relapsin. Andy don't 60 in for givin' 'em
votes, but work. He believes in protectin'
'em, an he won't stand any nonsense. He
goes in for loyalty an labor, an if both sint
right he'll raise row That's all. Don't
you think loyalty is very fine word? It
sounds so nice, an looks we'll in print
Our foaks Il aint one of 'em) made it up
when your foaks was secedin.' Everybody
is used to it now, an it goes down mighty
slick here. If you want to larn it SOS to
put it in your letters, jest jine the Freed
mems buro. Some of them collidge chaps
will teach you, for they know every lang
widge except a few. Aint you sorry you
wasn't edicsted whey they was =? They have
powerful sight of larnin' in Massachusetts,
but sint it healthy down your way?
Your talk about Andy johnson is bout
right If I was down your way we'd take
somethin.' He amt the United States, nor
our farther. He amt goin' to sell himself
to the South, and you don't want to buy
him. Andy johnson aint for sail. He's
on the Union track and if foax foller, he'll