The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1866-07-19

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 tone for his sins by rescuing
negroes from your grasp in Virginia. And
tor this little pleasantly on the part of one
OF our martyrs-ore OF our illuminated lit.
tie pages in history-you never thanked
some few irons into Charleston harbor?
The waters of that pool will be good tonic
for years, Bill. And didn't Curtis save
your cetton? Didn't Butler save your
gold and protect your women And didn't
Banks save the Red River property? And
didn't two hundred and eighteen Generals
get rich as mud from finding things you
folks had lost? And is there not houseful
after houseful of keepsakes in the North,
picked up in the woods, and on woodpiles,
by our army chaplains and our moral boys,
while you were trying to kill those of our
folks who wanted to visit you to keep your
souls from hell?
Bill, you are ungrateiul! And then
didn't we keep up this war till all the
States were back in the Union? And
y
And !idn't we act magnanimous, and as
soon as the war was over, unite in saying
that you were out Of the Union? Really,
Bill. it seems as if you had it all your own
way! This war has proved success-a
brilliant success. We were bound to push
it through in ninety days, and would, but
tor your stubboInncss. All we wanted Was
your negroes, your cotton, mules, furniture,
sifver-ware and such odd tricks, which you
folks could buy better than we could, for
you had more money! 1t was worng to
keep slaves, Bill, but 1t was not wrong to
steal This war was TO preserve the Union.
Everybody said SO. The Union has been
preserved-so much for us.
Your States are kept out OF the Union,
which is still preserved You want re.
construction. Wen reconstruct you -
You folks are very wicked, Bill. God pun
ishes wickedncss. Good agents live in
the North exclusively, Bill And wc'll let
preserved, when we get ready. First, you
must hunt up the balance of your property
and give it to some Of our great and good
agents and generals. Then you must move
out of your houses, that is, what are left,
and let the negroes in. And you must
give the negroes your plantations. And,
Bill, you must give them all your property;
and then support the late war by manual
labor. And you must let tie negroes vote,
for they are wanted for Republican Con-
grcssmen, Senators and sich. And YOU
mast ignore your war debts, and not pay
them, even upon the basis Of honor. And
you must help us pay for licking YOU
And ere you do this, you must have your
property taken from you, so it will be easy.
We are just and magnanimous people in
the North We are liberal and brothcrly.
We want peace and harmony! We don't
want you folks to go to hell, nor do we
want you to dress better than we do. Per
sona,ly, we know but little of this country.
In eighteen hundred and sixty three, We
LETT our country, Immediately in advance
OF bayonct, for saying some of our folks
were stealing from some of your folks, an
Tor writing naughty letters to the La Crosse
Democrat, charging some of our generals
with stealing and cowardicc. And we
have had very pleasant time of it At home
for thinking as much us you think, but
now we are convinced that the war Tor the
Union was Il splendid succcss-that the
country is better oif-that the negroes are
happier-that the people are in better cir
cumstances, especially the thieves and
robbers, who have fattened on the blood
and stolen their enemies poor-lhat the
way to make one section of the country
love another, is TO fight, rob, steal and
desoatc them into ppiness-that our
taxes are lighter-that Republican re-
trcnchment and reform is a good thing
for poor people and tax payers-that tho
sure way to national greatness, is to quar-
rel with sections continually-thata IA peo
pie arc apt to love their persecutors-that
it is honorable, and evidence of manly
christianity, to hammer a man after he is
down-that it is a blessing for poor men
10 pay interest on bonds, while the bonds
the rich hold are not taxable-that the
negroes are better off in rags, sickness and
shallow graves, than at contentcd labor
that 1t is unchristian to resent insults, and
that you folks down South, especially you,
Bill Arp, so called, are an ungrateful people,
not 10 admire the present state of affairs
in the Union, SO called.
Indignantly yours,
"BRIck" PoMERoY.
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