North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1866-01-17
BILL ARP ON THE STATE OF THE
COUNTRY.
"sweet land of Liberty of thee I sing"

/ land good cnut and L would mt mind hear
in rhyme or two about the dirt live on,
hut as for me fndiD sugar and liberty in
Georgy soil, its all mistake. Howsumcv-
cr, I'm hopeful. I'm much camer and Sc
reener than was few months ago. |
begin to feel kindly towards all people, ex =
| sept some. I'm now endeaverin to be a
great national man. I've taken up a mot
to of no North, no South, no East, no West;
but let me tell you, my friend, I'll bet on
Dixie, as long as got dollar It's no
! harm to run both skedules. In fakt its
| highly harmonious to do so. I'm a good
Union reb, and battle cry are Dixie and
the Union
But you see, my friend, we are gettin
restless about some things. The war had
begun nifty heavy on us, and after the big
collapse, we thought it over for good
We had killed folks & killed folks until the
novelty of the thing had wore off, and we
were nifty nigh played out all over. Chill
dren were increasin and vittels diminishin
By a close calculashun it was perceived
that we Didn't kill our enemies as fast as
| they was imported, and about those times
thought it was a pity that some mirakle
of grace hadn't cut of the breed Of furrin-
ers some IS or 20 years ago. Then you
uCuld have seed far fight. General Sher-
man wouldn't have walked over the track
and Ulysses would have killed more men
than h did--of his ovn side. have al
ways thot that General ought to be per.
| tikler which side he was sacrifsin.
Well, if the war is over, what's the use
! of film up our towns and cities with SOL
dicrs any longer. Where's your rekon-
struction that the papers say is goin on so
| rapidly ? Where's the liberty and freedom?
The fakt is, General Sherman and his cat
terpillars made such clean sweep OF every
thing, don't see much to rekonstrukt-
| They took so many liberties around here
that there's nary liberty left. could nave
| reconstructed thousand sicl States before
this. Any body could There wasn't
nothin to Go but jest 90 off and let US alone.
We've got plenty of Statesmen-plenty of
men for Governor
Joe Brown amt ded--he's waitin--
| standin at the door with his hat off. Then
what's the soldiers here for-what good
arc tlry doin-who wants to see EN- any
! longer? Every body is tired of war and
don / want to see any more signs of 1t.
| The uiggers don't want 'em and the white
| mrn don't want 'pm and as for the wmin--
whopee! golly! Wcll,there's no use talkin
when the stars fall agin may be the vim
in will be harlnonizcd. That male busi-
ness the oath about gettin letters !! Gee
tiger They always was jealous aboul tho
males anyhow, and that order jest broke
he camel's hack. Well, ! must confess it
-as q powerful small concern. would
w to sorter smooth it over if / knowG
( What to say, but | don't. If they wasn't
afeered of the wimin, why didn't they say
50? Jest to aggrcvate them. Didn't they
know that the best way to harmonic a
man was to harmonize his wife first =
What harm can the wimin do by receivln
| their letters oath free ? They can't vote
nor can't preach, nor hold orfis, nor play
soldier, nor muster, nor wear breeches, nor
! ride straddle, nor cuss, nor chaw tcrbacker,
nor nothin hardly but talk and write letters
| | hear that valiant kernel made wilnin
put ND he fan cause it had picter of
Borygard 'pon it Well, she's harmonic
ed. recon. Now the trouble of all such
| is that after these bayonets leave here and
90 home, these pettycoat tyrants can't come
home, back any more. Some Georgy fool
will smash the juice out of 'em sertin, and
that wouldn't be peither harmonious nor
healthy. Better let the wimin alone.
Then there is another thing Pm waitin
for Why don't they Reconstruct the mig
gers if they are ever goin to =? They've give
'em powerful site of freedom. and very
vary little else. Here's the big freedmen's
buro, and the little buros all over the
country, and the papers are full of grand
orders and special orders, and paragratfs,
| but I'll bet possum some of 'em steals
nv wood this winter or freezes to death.
Freedmen's buro freedmen's humbug, /
saw. Jest when the corn needed plowin
the worst, the buro rung the bell and tolled
all the niggers to town, and the farmers
lost the crops and now the freedmen is
gettin cold and hungry, and wants to 60
| 70 Ru+ fraadman &c hiv thing Hurraw