The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-01-11
Bill Arp Addresses his constitu.,.

Bill Arp Addresses his Constituents.
REsrEKTABUL PEOPLE: I address
you on this okkashun with profound
admiration for the great consideration
which caused you to honor me bv
your votes with seat in Sinate Of
Georgy- For two momentus and in
spirip weeks, the Legislature hav
been in solem session. one of whom
am proud to be which. For several
days. we were engaged as skouts,
maxim a sorter rekonysance to see
whether Georgy were State or a
lrJun Terrytory-whether were in
the old Union or out of it-whether
me and my foxes, and you and your
Jokes, were somebody or nobody:
and lastly, though by no means
lastly, whether our poor innocent
Children, born during the war, were
all illegal and had to be born over
again or not. This last pint are
much unsettled, but our women are
advised to be kahn and screen:
My friends, our aim have honestly
been to git you. all back into the folds
OF the gloryous old Union. Like
the prodygal son, we had nuthin te,
live on, and feelin lonesome and
hungry, have been bowin and scrapin
and maxim apologys for FIVE or six
months: We hav been seen standin
afur off for weeks and weeks, but
aurn the caf do they kill for us.
Ihey know we've got nothin, for
they eat up our substance, and as
Tor putin rings on our fingers. we
couldent expekt it until they bring
back the jewelry tftuy carved away.
L cannot say, in the langwidge of the
poet, that our l:aLo:: ha" been a labor
OF love, for we've had monstrus Door
encouragement to be shore; but we
mad all set our heads towards the
stars and stripes, and we jintly de-
termlned that, come wool come wo.
sink or swim, survive or perish.
thunder or litenin, we'd slip back. or
sneak back, or git back somehow or
somehow else, or we'd stay out for
ever ana ever amen and be hanged to
EN-, SO called, I golly.
up to this time it have been an ND
hull business. The team was o. good
one and the gear all sound and the
WaSln creased, but the road are per
maps the rutfest, rottenest cordyroy
IN the-world. It's pull up and skotch,
and pull up and skotch, and ever and
anonymous the skotch slips out and
the tung cuts round, and away we 90
INTO the gully. Andy Jonsin is the
driver, and he says, s'Go SLOW" and
he hollers "Wo! wor r' and loses the
road, and then we have to go back to
the fork and wait till he blazes the
way. He seems to be .doin his best
but then thar is Sumner and Satan
and Stevens and Davis and other like
gentlemen who keep hollerin at him
and crackin his whip, and confusin
ms ldees, SO that sometimes we don't
know whether he's gee-in or haw-in.
MY friends, about them fellers, /
cont know what [ ort to say. If YOU
edo, or if anybody does, I wish thew
would say it. I don't-encourage
cussin In nobody not at all, but if
you know OF man that can't be
bFeAe- es~1t durin his material life f
mout be well to hire him by the year.
Ii ther is in all history a good exkuse
and proper subiek, it is upon them
hairless, soulless, bowelless. cizzard-
less, fratrisidel, suisidel. parasi5eI
sslstersidel, abominabul contempt
bul, dlsgustit'ul individual. i some
times think OF EN- til, nv brain oits
sorter added, nd I feel like becumin
volunteer C qiht of the Lunatik
Asylorum
charity inc-ipas me TO the opiny,,n
that Old Sumner are crazy. think
he has been gittin worse ever since
he took Brooks on the brain, and #
do scam like the disease have proved
contagns. If they be for peace. it
must be the peace that passeth all
nnderstandin, for we can't fathom il
IN these regions. They fout us to