The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-06-29
,Out as near as I can come to my age

about as near as I can come to my age
sir.''
''Wen, sir,' says he, care you familiar
with the political sentiments of the citizens
of your States?''
'Got no citizens yet sir that we knw of.
will thank you to speak of US as 'peo-
ple'"
"Well, sir" says he, "rll humor your
obstinacy. Are the people of your Slate
Don't speak of it as a State sir, if you
please. I'm on oath now, and you must
excuse me for being particular. Call it
section.'
''Mr. Arp, are the people of your section
sufficiently humbled and repentant to come
back into the union on such terms as we
may think proper TO impose?''
''Not much they amt, saysI. 81 don't
think they are prepared for it yet. They
wouldn't voluntarily go it blind against
your hand. They say the deal wasn't fair
and you have marked the cards and stole
the trumps, but at the same time they don't
care darn what you do. They've become
| Indifferent and don't care nothing about
your Guy Fawkes business. / mean no re-
spect to you, gentlemen, but was sworn to
tell the whole truth. Our people amt
noticin you only out of curiosity. They
don't expect anything decent, or honorable,
or noble from you, and they've gone to work
diggin and plowin and plantin and raisin
boy children"
Right here the man with memorandum
scratched down a garbled extract, and old
Boutwell, says he: "What do you mean
by that sir? What inference do you in
tend?"
''I am stain facts,'' says I, ''yOu must
draw your own inferences. They are raisin
boy children. Any harm about that? Any
treason? Can't man raise boy children?
Perhaps you would like to amend the Con-
stitution and stop it. Old Pharoah tried to
stop it among the Israelites, but it didn't
pay. He finally caught the dropsy in the
Red Sea. We are raisin boy children for
the fun of it. They are good thing to
have about the house, as Mrs. TOodles
would say"
''Mr. Arp, are not the feelings Of your
people very bitter towards the North?"
81 beg your pardon, sir, but you'll have
to split the question. or else I'll have to
split the answer. Our people have a very
high regard for b sQrable men, brave men.
noble hearted m there's heap OF
widows and orp e we are sorry for;
bt his b, party, they look
uPoh~ - s sGsail..
up the dead for livin. Its as natufSlss
hate 'em as it is to kill snake. It's ut
terly impossible for me to tell the strength
and length, aud hight, depth and breadth
of their contempt for that party. They
look upon Radical as--as-well, as beg
gar on horseback buzzard sailin round
dead eagle-a suck-egg dog creepin up
to the tail of dead lion. talk about
hirin Brownlow to abuse ~, to use Ian
guage on 'em like he did few years ago
when he spoke against Pryne. If they do
hire Brownlow he'll spatter 'em, he'll daub
'em all over, and slime 'em, and slobber on
'em about right, and it will stick. for the
pores are open and their morals spongy,
I'd like to stand off about ten rods and near
him spread himself. It would be worse
than a squirt-gun full of COW slop, and
have no doubt would give general satisfac-
tion.''
"Ef it was in their power to do so, would
your people renew the 6gbt?"
''Not unless they could fight the Radicals
all alone, and all the world agree to hands
off, Even then there wouldn't be no fight.
for we couldn't cotoh you"
f ''What do your people say on the subject
of negro equality?"
''They say it is lie, sir-it don't exist
by nature and can not in practice. Folks
were not created free and equal. That may
be theoretical truth, but it's always been
a practical lie. There's grades Of society
everywhere. There's men 1 give the side.
walk to, and there's men that gives it to
me. There's men that vote, aud men that
vote me, and the grades up, up, up, step
by step, from my sort to Mr.. Davis and
Mr.. Stephens. and General Lee. and Howell
Cobb, and Ben. Hill, and their sort; fol
they are the highest in the nation; and then
again it goes from me down. down, down
to the niggers and the Republicans and ths
Radicals, and that's IS low as they run
There amt no equality and you can't make
one. We'll vote the niggers certain, III
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