Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-05-17
VEINS AND YOUUNS.
Brick POmerOy 10 Bill Arp-A Racy
Letter.

Letter.
Did you hear any thing drap mp this way?
Something fell down! The man at the other
end Of the avenue snapped cap, Bill, just
to see If the nipple was clear That cap
means business 1t il some ways to the
other end of the avenue where the vultures
have gathered 30 feed upon the corpse so
terribly mangled, but the man at the other
end of the avenue has a quick eye, a cool
brain, a steady nerve, and his gun is ready
Just you sit down behind a stump like and
keep cool 1t is doggoned aggravating to
keep cool in a fight, but You must do it.
The report of that cap whistled from Maine
20 Minnesota, and several million of true
sportsmen are ready to load for the man at
the other end of the avenue to fire
And tell your folks there to keep still
10 plant their cotton, corn, rice and sugar
cane. Give them good advice, Bill. Help
them smooth down the hillocks, and level
the sod over the graves where so many Of
your brave boys and our boys are sleeping
together. Build up the houses our boys
pulled down, and As soon as we get our war
duds of, we will help you, Bill. You see
we are unhitching the team which ran away
and broke down your gates. We don't like
the team any better than you did. Your
gate post was our gate post. The team that
broke il down was bad one-the man at
the other end of the avenue is unhitChng it,
Tell your folks 10 be brave in peace as they
were in war. The early winds of Spring
The February and March Winds-are of
more account than you dream Of They are
blowing the dead leaves out Of the forest |
They are blowing the dead ducks far out to
sea They are clearing away the debris
wheeling the little sticks hither and Won.
Rolling, flying, and eddying around, the !
leaves and twigs are leaving their late rest
ing place, and il will not be long, Bill, be- |
fore all this rubbish will be removed, and
the grass and flowers will again beautify the
earth as before. And there shall be no
more prowling and no more poachers
The man at the other end of the avenue is
not a clown, buhoon, a vulgar Jester, low
wit, boorish story teller. All, no. Bill. |
He is a very good man, and you will like
him. We like him because he is just The
people like him because he is generous and
statesmanlike.
We have been having some little trouble
mp this way, Bill The jewellers who lately |
sat in our banquet hall were scullious, but |
they are going home soon. And when they |
have all gone, we shall have very nice |
party there Time is lesscning the ice i'm |
Aht siiNSi- US huON suoW YOU /
folks have been treated, and we are telling |
Others
Not long since we told the people that
our people, when fighting your people,
were stealing themselves rich they said
we were disloyal and put us in prison.
And they pulled down our printing offices
They threw our type into rivers. They
mobbed us in our places of business. They
shot at and wounded us ON the street. They
withheld our business from us They
sought 10 array the people of the North
against those who believed in doing fair
They did all these things in the name of
God and the great moral party. But spring
fashions are now coming on, Bill, and in a
little while you and ! will meet somewhere
and be good friends, and your boys and our
boys after n while will be loving the same
girls and riding down the same lane
together.
Il is hard to sit behind the stump Bill,
and see the fighting going ON. 1t may be
hard for your folks &C. work on the planta-
TONS TO rebuild their cities and bleach ont
their mourning goods, while there is trcmor
Of war vet on the air, Bill, hut you can do
IL. DO YOU be true and brave-we will an
swer for the rest. You have more witnesses
in the North than YOU know Of There are
skeletons in many families hereaway and
hey are skeletons that some people would
be doggoned glad TO get rid of-glad if They
never had taken them in.
There are pianos, silver sugar bowls, sill
yer cream pitchers, silver sugar tongs, gold
watches beautiful paintings, valuable books,
important documents rings, breast pins,
ockets, laces, silk goods, fast horses, marble
Lop bureaus, rosewood furniture. guitars,
keepsakes and mcmentoes of
gold and silver and other witnesses here
rom your district witnesses in the Conyen-
ion against the thieves who oyerrun your
,ountry in the name of loyalty and stole
rom YOU while their comrades were fighting.
And these witnesses are having weight now.
Their testimony is becoming more and more
important. Not more in your behalf Bill,
han against the plumber loving thieves and
owards who went into the war 70 steal more
han 10 fight 20 I'll their pockets more than
o.subdue the rebellion, so called.
We have got sick Of this kind Of foolish
less. We sent for Maginnis, and he is now
At The other end of the avenue with gun
in his hand, ready 10 enforce further en-
on our domain. Ii is hard, Bill, /
10 forget the insults Of the past, but we
must do It. We both fought we'll We
hurt you and you hurt us We are both
Americans, and you know, Bill, that is
good stock. Up here in the North, the !
people are sick Of feasting on blood. and we :
viii have no more Of it, except in defence
Of law, order and the Constitution. The &
mask is being stripped from the highwaymen
who lately patrolled our mountain paths !
md all is coming out we'll. So be Of good
,heer. DO you stand close by the flag, Bin.
and well stand close by it, The war =
past. The bloody curtain is rolled mp. You
axe hold Of one end, and we will take hold '
II the other, and carry it far away. The
Genes Of the past shall never be re-enacted,
Bill, and il youns will be brave, weuns will /,
tand BY you and viii soon be happy to-
,ather BRICK PoMEhoY: !
An interesting duck by the name Of Oscar
? Barnes writes 10 certain citizens Of Al {
,ion, n. Y, whom he victimized in oil OPP
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