The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-06-11


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 spstter 'em, he'll daub
'em all over, and slime 'em and slobber
on 'em about right, and it will stick, for
the pores are open and their morals
spongy. I'd like to stand off about ten
rods and hear him spread himself Ii
would be worse than a squirt-gun full
of cow-slop and have no doubt would
give general satisfaction" ....
g" That's sufficient, sir" says old Bout
well. q Eff it was in their power to do
so, would your people renew the fightl"
" Not unless they could fight the Radi
calls all alone, and all the world agree to
hands off, Even then there wouldn't
be no fight, for we couldn't cotch YOU"
What do your people say upon the
subject of Negro equality ?"
They say it's a lie, sir--it don't exist
by nature and never can in practice.
Folks were not created free and equal.
That may be theoretical truth, but it's
always been practical lie There's
grades of society everywhere. There's
men give the sidewalk to and there's
men that gives it to me. There's men
that vote, and men that vote me, and
the grades 60 up, up, step by step, from
my sort to Mr.. Davis and Mr. Stephens,
and General Lee, and Howell Cobb, and
Ben Hill, and their sort; for they are
the highest in the nation; and then
again it goes from me down, down to
the niggers, and the Republicans and
the Radicals, and that's as low as they
run. There amt no equality, and you
can't make one. Well vote the niggers
certain. I'll vote Tip, and Tips head
oenter.' He'll vote about forty, and the
first thing you know we'll elect seven
big, black, greasy niggers to Congress.
Well do it certain-seven of 'em lS
carats strong, with African musk. The
other rebel States will do the same thing,
and you'll have about fifty of 'em to
draw seats with, and you can all stick
your legs upon your desks together, and
swap lies and vermin, and be shampoon-
ed atthe same shop, and the fair sexes
can set together in the galleries and mix
ordours and fan their scent about prom.
iscuous. Well give you full benefit of
your Civil Rights bill, see if we don't.
You 90 on-play your cards We are
biden our time. We are payin your
taxes and your duties and back rations
for 1864, and licences, and your internal
revenue, and obeyin your laws without
havin any hand in maxim 'sm, and we
are cut off from pensions, and public
lands; and you sold poor mans still in
nv county the other day because he
couldn't pay your tax on some peach
brandy he stilled for his neighbors two
years ago; and soon you'll be selling the
land for the land tax, and you're tryin
your best to play the devil generally
bnt you'll catch it in the long run see
Il Won don't. Talk about Fenians. When
the good men of the North and South all
get together, they'll walk over the
track so fast that you won't have time
to get out of the way You'll subSide
into obscurity, and your children will
DENY that their daddies ever belonged to
such q party. Excuse me, gentlemen,
but / am "a little excited. Five cents
pound on cotton will excite anybody
that makes it Tax on industry-on
sweat and toll. Protection tariffs for
Pennsylvania and five cents pound on
Southern Cotton-half its average worth
-and your folks will manage some way
or other to steal the other half. My ad-
vice to you is to quit this foolishness
and begin to travel the only road to
peace"
Old Blow couldn't keep mp with his
garbled extracts
what makes the President so pOpu
lar at the South9"
Contrast, sir contrast. The more
he amt like your party, the more popu-
lar he is He would treat us about
right, | reckon, if you would let him
alone, but you bedevil him so, that some
times he don't understand himself. |
don't think he knew for while whether
his Peace Proclamation restored the writ
of habeas corpus or not. But do you go
on and impeach him, and that will bring
matters to focus. I'll bet you'd be in
Fort Delaware in a week, and the South.
ern members be here in their seats, and
they'll look round at the political wreck,
and ruin and plunder and stealage that's
been goin on, and they might exclaim in
the language Of the poet.
Who's pin here since I'sh pin gone'.
"Mr:Arp, suppose we should have a
war with England or France, what
would the rebels do?"
They'd follow General Lee and Gen
eral Johnston, and Longstreet, and
Bragg and old Bory. My opinion is
that General Lee would head the Union
army, and General Grant would be his
Chief of Staff, and General Buell. wonld
rank mighty high, and" .
What would you do with General
Sherman 2"
"Sorry you mentioned him. We'd
have to hire him, l reckon, as camp
fiddler, and make him sing Hail Colum-
Jia by freight as a warnin to the boys
how mean it is to burn cities and towns,
and make war upon defenceless women
and children. No, sir, our boys would
fight under no such "
At this time the man with the memo
randum put down some more garbled ex-
tracts.
do you think, Mr. Arp, that If the
South should ever hold the balance of
power, they would demand pay for their
negroes 2
81 can't say, sir. But / don't think
the South has lost anything that way.
We got their labors before the war for
their vittles and clothes and doctors
bills, and we get it now for about the
same. It's all settled down that way,
and YOUR Bureau couldn't help it. The
only difference is in the distribution
Some of us don't own as many as we
used to, but everybody has got niger