Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1866-03-03
Bill Arp Addresses his COnstitu-
ents,

. great Consideration and the nice
Discrimination which caused you &c
honor me 10y your votes with n seat
in the SinNlc Of Gcorgy, For tive
momentus and inspirin weeks III,
Legislator hay been in solem ses
sion, one Of whom I'm proud TO b,
which, For several DAYS we wer,
engaged rs shouts, maxim u sortc,
rekonysnncc to see whether GcorgS
were State or lngun TERRITORY
whether we were in the old Union
or out Of it.-wheter me d my
foxes and YOU and your foxes were
somebudy or nobudy, and lastly
but byno means lcastly, whether oul
poor innocent children born durir
the war, We're Illegal and had to b,
born over agin or not, This last
pint are much unsettled, but oul
woman are advised to be kahn and
screen.
Ny friends, our aim hav honestly
beer. to git you all back into the
folds of tho gloryus old Union
Like the prodygal son, we had
nuthin to live on, and fcelin lone.
some and hungry, hav been bowin
and scrapin maxim apologys for FIVE
or six months. We hay been seen
standin Nfur Off for weeks and weeks,
but durn the CAT do they kill for us.
They know we've got nuthin, for
they eat up our substance, and as
for putting rings on our fingers, we
couldent expekt il until they bring
back the jewelry they carried away.
l cannot say, in the langwidge of
the peot, that our labor have been
labor Of love, for we've had mons.
trus poor encouragement to be shore;
but VIC had all our heads towards
the stars and stripes, and we jintly
determined that, come wool, come
wo, sink or swim, survive or perish,
thunder or lightcnin, we'd slip back,
or sneak back, or git back somehow
or somehowclse, or we'd stay out
forever and ever amen and be hang
cd to en-, 80 called, / golly.
Up to this time it hav been ali
up hill business. The team was q
good one and the gear all sound and
the wagin creased but the road arc
perhaps the ruftest, rottencst cordy-
roy in the world. It's pull up and
skotch, and pull up and sketch, and
ever and anonymous the skotch slips
out and the tung cuts round and
away VIC go into the gully. Andy
Jonsing is the driver, and he says
go slow," and he hollers "Wo
wow and loses the road, and then
we hav to go back to the fork and
, wait till he blazes the way. He
seems to be doin his best, but then
thar is Sumner and Satan and Ste.
vens and Davis and other like gen.
tlemen. who keep holerin at him
and crackin his whip, and confusin
his idccs, so that sometimes we
don't known whether he's gec-in or
haw-in. My friends, about them
Teller, l don't know what ort to
say. If you do, or if anybody does,
l wish they would say it. / don't
encourage cussin in nobudy, not at
all, but if you know of q man that
can't be broke Of it durin his natter
al life, it mout be well to hire him
by the year. If thar is in all histo-
ry good exkusc and n proper sub
iekt, it is upon them heartlcss, soul
So, bowelless, gizzardless, fi'atrisi-
del, suisidel, parasidel, sistersdel,
abominabul. contcmptibul, DISCUS
tibul individuals. | sometimes think
of EN- till my brain gifts sorter ad-
died and feel like bccumin volun-
teer convikt Of the Lunatik Asylo-
rum. Charity inclines mo TO the
opinyun that old Sumner arc crazy.
think he has been gettin worse
over since he took Brooks on the
brain, and it do seem like the des-
case hav proved contagus. If they
are for Peace, it must be the Peace
that passeth all understandin for we
cant fathom it in these regions.
They fout us to free the poor niger
but dident care for the Union. The
Western boys fout us for the Union
but dident keer for the niger By
double teamin on us they licked us
and we gin it up, but now the one
don't want our niggers and the 9TH
err don't want our Union, and it's the
hardest skedule to pleas en- both
that a poor vanished peepul ever
undertook. Its the most hardest
war to wind up that history rekords.
Sumner, Satan and Company, are
still fussin ard iumin about the cy-
erlastin nigger-want him to vote
and make laws, and squat on a
jewry, and want to pcrhibit us rcb-
els from doin tho same thing for 80
years to cum Jerusalem! whar is
the cussin man2 They say it's all
right for niger not TO vote in
! Connecticut, bckaus there amt but
/ few Ct EN- thar and its all wrong
/ for en- not to vote in Gcorgy bekaus
there's a heap Of EN- here, and they
talk Logik and Retorik amazin 10
prove how it is. Well. haint got
a whole passed. Of sense like sum,
but as shore as I'm two foot high,
niger is a niger ! don't kcer whar
you smecl hun, and a vote lie a vote
/ don't keer whar you drap il. /
golly they cant git over that.
The truth is, my Teller sitiIens, /
sometimes feel like we dident hav
no government. | felt that way
sorter when Nj Gibson sppinted
me a committee on the State Of the
Republik. When tho Secretary
read out my name all mixed up
with the ReDublik. / felt that / was