Abbeville press. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1860-1869, 1866-01-26

out q HAppleC uOur IL was TO llm
Than the old mans tongue could speak.
Yet he knew twas but pleasant dream,
That too soon had passed Ger
That his eyes were dim and his locks were
grey,
And he could be young no more.
BILL ARP ADDRESSES HIS CONSTITUENTS
Ieespekta6ul People,:
address you on this okkashun with n
profound admiration for the great consider
alton and nice discrimination Which caused
you to honor me by your votes with a seat
in the Senate Of Georgia. For two mo-
mentus and inspirin weeks, the Legislatur
hav bin in solemn session. one Of whom
am proud to be which. For several DAYS
we were engaged as scouts, making a sort of
rekonsance to see whether Georgy were a
state or ingln territory, whether We were
IN the old Union or out of it, whether me
and my folkes and you aud your folkes
were somebody or nobody, and lastly, but
by no means leastly, whether our poor inno-
cent children, born durin the war, were a II
illegal and had to be born over agin or not.
Ihe last pint are much unsettled, but our
wimmen are advised to be kahn and screen.
My friends, our aim hav honestly bin to
git you all back into the foals of the glor.
Gus Union. Like the prodigal son we
had nothin to live on, and feelin lonesome
and hungry have bin bowin and scrapin and
maxim apologys for five or six months, we
hav been seen standin afur off for weeks aud
weeks, but duru the caf do they kill for US
They know we've got nuthin for they eat up
our substance, and as for putin rings on our
fingers we couldn't expect it until they
bring back the jewelry they have carried
away. 1cannot say in the language of the
poet, that our labor has bin a~labor of love
for we've lad mons.rous poor eucourape>
ment to be shore; but We had all set our
heads towards the stars and stripes, and we
jintly determined that come wool come woe
sink or swim, survive or perish, thunder or
iitenin, we'd slip back, or sneak back, or get
back somehow or somehow else, or we'd
stay out forever and ever, amen and be
hanged to 'em. so called, golly.
Up to thistime it has been an uphill bu.
siness. The team was good one and the
gear all sound, and the wagin greesed, but
the road are perhaps the ruffest, rotti.
nes: cordroy in the world. Its pull up and
scotch, and pull up and scotch, and ever and
anonymous the scotch slips out and the
tung cuts round and away we 90 into the
gully. Andy johnson is the driver, and
ne says go slow" and he boilers ''wo, wo''
and loses the road and then we have to 90
baekto the fork and wait till he blazes the
way. .Hs seems to be doin his best, but
then, Ahar is Sumner and Satin and Stevens
and Davis and other like gentlemen, who
Keep hollerin at him and crackin his whip
and confusin his idees so that sometimes we
don't know weather hee's gee-in or haw in
NY friends, about them fellers I don't
know what | ort to say. If you do, OF if
anybody does, wish they would say it. ]
don't encourage cussin in anybody, not a,
ALL but if you Know Of man tha. can't be
broke of it duringshis material life, it mou,
DO wen 70 hire him by the year. If there
's IN all history good excuse and prone,
s"o|lcs' It Is upon them heartless, soullsss
bogellesa, g1zzar{d|ess, fratricida),. suisidal
paEAsidaI, slstercjdai, abdm;nsh,i .Es.,i..
tibul, di$gastabni individda... TX some,,ma
think ofem till my brain gifts soster added
audT feel like. .becumin volunteer cony;o
otthe Lunatie Assylorum. Charity incline
mstoths opinion that old Sumnur are era
zy.."I think he has been giten wers eve
since he took Brooks on the brain, and
dpSsenl lsthe diseae hsspsoysd, oontagu
Hthey are for Peace it must be the Peac
that passes AL undsrstandfn for we can
fathom it ia these regions. They tough
ustto free ths. poor nigger, but did'B kse
for the Unien. The western boys fout4u