The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1866-06-01
You. Mr.. Arn2u

get back until 1870. A mans age has cot
somethin' to do with his rights, and five are
not to vote, don't think We ought to count
the time. That's about as near as I can
come to my age, sir.
We'll, sir" says he, 'are you familiar
wNn sne political sentiments of the citizens
of your state"
Got no citizens yet, sir, that we know of.
| will thank you to speak of us a. 'psople.'"
Well, sir, says he, "Pll humor your OBJ.
stinacy. Are the people of your state"-
Don't speak OF il as state, sir, if you
please. I'm on oath now, and you must ex-
ouse me for being particular. Call it a 'ssc-
tion.'"
"Mr. Arp, are the people of your section
sufficiently humbled and repentant to come
back into the Union on such terms as we
may see proper to impose?'
Not much they amt" says I. 81 don't
think they are prepared for it yet. They
wouldn't voluntarily 60 it blind against your
hand. They say the deal wasn't fair and
you've marked the cards and stole the trumps,
but at the same time they don't care a darn
what you do. They've become Indifferent
and don't care nothin' about your Guy
Fawkes business. I mean no respect to you,
gentlemen, but I was swore to tell the whole,
truth. Our people amt q notioin' you only
out of curiosity. They don't expect any thing
decent, or honorable, or noble from you, and
they've gone to work diggin' and plowin and
plantin' and raisin' boy children"
Right here the man with a memorandum
book scratched down a garbled extract, and
| old Boutwell, says he, "Whst do you mean
| by that, sir? What inference do you in
| tend ?''
Ppm Stain facts" says l, you must draw
your own differences. They air rastn boy
1 cLilJa.oo ha,t has,
on? Can't a man raise boy children? Per
haps you'd like to amend the constitution
and stop it. Old Pharaoh tried to stop it
| among the Israelites, but 1t didn't pay. He
finally caught the dropsy insthe Red sea-
We are raisin boy children for the fun of it.
They are good thing to have IN the house,
as Mrs. Toodles would say"
"Mr. Arp, are not the feelings of your peo-
| pie very bitter towards the north 2"
| II beg your pardon, sir but you'll have TO
split the question, or else Pll have to split
the answer Our people have very high
| regard for honorable men, brave men, noble
hearted men, and there's a heap of 'em north,
sir, and there's heap of widows and orphans
there we are sorry for; but as for this ere
radical party, they look upon 'em like they
| was hyenas scratohin' up the dead for liy-
| IN. 1t is as natural to hate EN- as 1t Is to
kill snake. It's utterly impossible for lie
to tell the strength, and length, and height,
| depth and breadth of their contempt for tina,
party. They look upon a radical as-as AS
we'll, as beggar on horseback buzzard
| sallin' round a dead eagle-a suck-egg dog
creepin' up to the tail of dead lion. They
talk about hirin' Brownlow to abuse 'em, to
use language on 'em like he did few years
| ago when he spoke against Pryne IF they
| do hire Brownlow, he'll spatter 'em, he'll
daub 'em all over, and slime 'em and slobber
ON 'eu about, and it will stick, for their pores
| are open and their morals spongy, I'd like
| to stand off ten rods and see him spread him
| self. 1t would be worse than a squirt gun
full of COW STOP, and | have no doubt would
give general satisfaction"
That's sufficient sir" says old Boutwell,.
eft it was in their power to do so, would
your people renew the fght?"
mot unless they could fight the radicals
all alone, and the world agree to hands eff.
Even then there wouldn't be no fight, for we
couldn't catch you"
"What do your people say upon the subject
of negro equality ?"
They say it's lie. sir--it don't exist by
nature and never eau by practice. Folks
were not created free and equal. That may
be 8 theoretical truth, but it's al ways been a
| practical lie. There's grades of society every
where. There's men | give the sidewalk to
and .hare's men tina. give it to There's
men that | vote, and men that vote me, and
the grades 60 up, up, up, step by step, IRON
my sort to Mr.. Davis, and Mr.. Stephens and
Gen. Lee, and Howell Cobb, and Ben. Hill
and their sort; for they are the highest In
the nation; and then again it goes from ms
| down, down to the niggers, ana the repn BIZ
cans and the radicals, and that Is as low a.
they run, There Amt no equality, and you
cant make one. We'll vote the niggers GER
tain I'll vote Tip, and Tips head centre
| Hell vote about forty, and the first thing you
know wei elect seven big. black, greasy mig
gers t. congress. Wei do it certain-sever
of 'em is carats strong, with African musk
The other rebel states will do the same thing
and you'll have about forty of 'em to draw
seats with, and you can all stick your legs
upon your desks together, and swap lies and
vermin and be shampooned at the same shop
and the fair sexes can set together in the gal
leries and mix odors. and fan their seen
about promicuous. Well give you full
benefit of your civil rights bill, see if W
don't. You 20 on-play your cards. w
are bidin' our time. We are payin' you
taxes and your duties and back rations 70
1864, and licenses, and your internal revenue
and obeyin' your laws without hsvin' any
! hand in maxim 'em, and we are cut off from
? pensions, and public lands; and you sold
poor man 8 SUN IN my county the olDeT IA
because he couldn't pay your tax on peach
r brandy he stilled for his neighbors two y ear
ago; and soon you'll be sellin' the land 70
land tax, and you trying your best to pla
the devil generally; but you'll catch it IN tn
long run. See if you don't. Talk about fe
mans. When the good men of the north an
= the south all get together, they'll walk owe
the track go fast that you won't have time t
get out of the way. You'll subside into oh
security and your children will deny that shei
dsddies ever belonged to such party. E.
cuse me, gentlemen, but Pm 3 little excited
!, Five cents pound on cotton will excite an
- body that makes it. Tax on industry, O
= sweat and toll. Protection tariffs for Pennsy
y vonia and five cents pound tax on souther
:. cotton-half it's average worth and you
folks will manage some way or other to stei
\ the other half. Ny advice to you is to gu
), this foolishnees and begin to travel the on
= road to peace"
y Old Blow couldn't keep up with his ga
\ bled extracts
what makes the president SO popular
, the seuth?"
Contrast, sir--contrast. The more b