The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-04-20
Brick, PomeroH to Bill Arp.


Bill, for why do you still Arp on my
daughter-so to speak? There must be
something very wrong in your nature
Reckon you must have lost something or
found a horse shoe and no horse to hang it
on. We believe you are 9. very bad Bill,
and so we don't want to pass you in silence.
You write as if there was something wrong
with you-as if there were clouds floating
over the land of magnolias and the sunny
South generally. Really, Bill, We are sur
prised. H
There never was SO uugrateful people
as you southern gentlemen are, and now
after all has been done for you, to see let
ters written by you SO full of insinuatiOns,
is too much.
The fault of all this lies with you. Wer-
emit you folks most dogoned wicked before
this war? Honest Indian, now, Bill! Didn't
you get proud, and is not pride sin? And
didn't you own niggers down there and lar
rup them continually to raise cotton for
New England nabobs to spin-sugar to
sweeten our coffee, rice to eat in our pud-
dings and tobacco to chew and squirt over
meeting house floors? Answer US, Bill.
And didn't you folks stay down there and
attend to business litele too close? And
didn't you have better horses, better clothes,
better houses, finer grounds, better furni-
ture and more land than we had!
We are all Christians in the north. We
felt that all these fine things were dragging
your soul down to hell We didn't want
you to rest in birthstone being in torment,
So we tried to correl you in Abraham's
bosom. Abraham was a great and good
man who died some time since, as we read
of somewhere.
And then, Bill you kept your niggers
too fat. Our factory operatives grew jea
Gus. And our girls went down there TO
teach your girls something, and fell in love
with your boys and wouldn't come home.
We felt that you were wicked. We didn't
want you to go to hell! All the fine things
you had were leading you away from saliva
tion, so we sent Butler, and Curtis, and
Banks, and Washburn, and Steele, and Ho-
vey, and Prentiss, and Hurlburt, and seve-
raj of the elect of our Christian churches
down there to win you out of the jaws of
hell by Withdrawing your fine furniture,
such as pianos, books, pictures, rosewood
bedsteads, marble tables, silverware, hors-
es, cotton and all such plunder, to place
of safety!
You were wrong to engage in War-verY
wrong to do that thing. New England alone
could conquer you Why, Bill, if you had
billion of millions of dollars. and enough
nice furniture to furnish all the houses in
the country, New England could steal it in
four years; and if New England Abolition
lists could not, the Kansas saints and west
ern children of Christian Abolitionists
could. Havn't we prayed for you in near
ly all our churches? And havn't we told
you better? You waHaed to get out of the
UnionI All, Bill, States once in can never
get out! That is what we always told you.
All those friends of the great martyr tell
you SO. We want to keep you in. We
fought you at Antietam, Pea Ridge, Get
tysburg, ,Vicksburg, Fredericksburg, Shiloh,
Mobile, Fort Donelson, and the deYil only
knows where, to keep you in the Union.
And then we sent Christian missionaries
down there, Bill, to rescue your valuables
and remove them north for safety, you
know. And we burnt down your houses,
and we took what food your wives and
children had-and, we sent your cotton to
market for you, you know, Bill! And We
sent three million men to war to keep you
derned felers in this happy Unlon God
only knows how many of you folks We kill
ed, for one northern man was always good
for Eve southern men, to say nothing about
mules, niggers, cotton and keepsakea md
Bill. we have stepped into some little debt
on your accoSht. You see, Bill, cotton
was too cheap. Tobacco was too cheap.
Rice was too cheap. Sugar was too cheap.
Happiness was too cheap. Our national
debt was too small. It Vas costing too
much to keep that negro boarding house of
yours SO we remedied that by killing your
] niggers or giving them the benefit of liber-
| ty, rags, old bones and abolitionism. And
we made your cotton more valuable. And,
Bill, we enhanced the price of everything
for you, and made demand for carpenters
and house builders down there. You for
get how we have benefited your wicked
country. Bill. or you would not Arp so
continually on imaginary evils.
And we did all this to keep you in the
Union. We sent old John Brown, peace
to his ashes! fresh from stealing horses in
Kansas, to atone for his sins by rescuing
negroes from your grasp in Virginia. And
for this little pleasantly on the part of one
of our martvrs-one of our illuminated title