The Placer herald., 1866-03-31
BRICK" POMER0Y TO BILL ARP.

oaughter-so to speak! There must be
something very wrong in your nature
Reckon you must have lost something or
found horse shoe and no horse 10 hang it
on. We believe you are a very bad Bill,
and SO We don't want to pass you in silence
You write as If there was something wrong
with you-as if there were clouds floating
over the land of lnagnolias and the sunny
South generally. Really Bill, we are sur,
prised.
There never was so ungrateful people as
you southern gentlemen are, and now after
all has been done for you, to sec letters writ
ten by you so full Of insinuations, is too
much.
The fault of all this lies with you-
Weren't you folks most dogoned wicked be.
fore this war2 Honest Indian now, BILL
Didn't you get proud, and is not pride sinl
And didn't you own niggers down there, and
larrup them continually to raise cotton for
New England nabobs to spn-sugar to
sweeten our coffee, rice to eat 10 our pud,
dings, and tobacco to spew and squirt over
meeting house foorsl Answer US, Bill
And didn't you folks stay down there and
attend to business little too closet And
didn't you have better horses, better clothes,
better houses, finer grounds, better furniture
and more land than we hads
We are all Christians in the north. We
felt that all these fine things we're dragging
you to rest 10 birthstone being in torment, so
we tried to corral you 10 Abrahan's bosom.
Abraham was great and good man who died
some time since; as we read Of somewhere.
And then Bill, you kept your niggers too fat.
Our factory operatives grew jealous. And
our girls went down there to teach your girls
something, and fell in love with your boys,
and forgot to come home. We felt that you
we're wicked. We didn't want you to 60 to hell!
All the fine things you bad we're leading you
away from salvation, SO we sent Butler, and
Curtis, and Banks. and Washburn, and Steele
and Hovey, and Prentiss, and HurIburt, and
several Of the elect of our Christian church.
es down there to win you out Of the jaws Of
hell by Withdrawing your fine furniture, such
as pianos, books, pictures, rosewood bed'
steads, marble tables, sverware, horses, cot
ton and all such plunder, to place Of safety!
You we're wrong to engage in war-very
wronh to do that thing. New England
alone could conquer you. Why Bill, if you
bad q billion Of millions of dollars, and
enough nice furniture to furnish all Of the
houses in the country, New England could
steal it in four years; and if New England
Abolitionists could not, the Kansas saints
and western children Of Christian Aboionists
could. Havu't we prayed for you in nearly
all our churches? And havn't we told you
betters You wanted to get out Of the
Union! All, Bill, States once in can never
get out! That is what we always told you.
All those friends Of the great martyr tell you
SO. We want to keep you in. We fought
you atlAutietam, Pea Ridge. Gettysburg,
Vicksburg, Fredericksburg, Shiloh, Mobile,
Fort DoDelson and the devil knows where,
to keep you iu the Union. And then we
sent Christian missionaries down there, Bill,
to rescue your valuables and remove them
north for safety you know! And we burnt
down your houses, and we took what food
your wives and children bad-and we sent
your cotton to market for you, you know,
Bill! And We sent three million men to war
to keep you burned feIIers 10 this happy
Union. God only knows how many Of you
folks we killed, for one northern man was
always good for five southern men, to say
nothing about mules. niggers. cotton and
keepsakes. Aud Bill, We have stepped into
sanie little deb. on your account. You sss,
cotton was too cheap. Rice was too cheap.
Tobacco was too cheap. Sugar was too
cheap. Happiness was too cheap. Our ma
tional debt was too small. 1t was costing
too much to keep that negro boarding house
Of yours, so we remedied that by killing your
niggers or giving them the benefit Of liberty.
rags, old bones and Abolitionism. And we
made your cotton more valuable. And, Bill,
We enhanced the price Of rythpg for you,
and made demand for carpenters and house
builders down there. You forget how we
have benefited your wicked country, Bill, or
pou would not Arp SO continually on imagiu-
ary evils.
And we did all this to keep you 10 the
Union. We sent old John Brown, peace to
bis ashes! fresh from stealing horses in Kan
sas. to atone for bis sins by rescung negroes
from your grasp in Virginia. And for this
little pleasantly on the part of one Of our
of our illuminated title pages
to bistory.-you never thanked us as you
should. Ane didn't we throw some few iron
into Charleston harbor9 The waters of that
pool will be good tonic for years, BILL
And didn't Curtis save your cotton? Didn't
Butler save your gold and protect your wo
men? And didn't Banks save the Red River
And didn't two hundred and
eighteen generals get rich as mud from find'
ing things you folks bad lost? And is not
there housefull after houseful Of keepsakee
up north. picked up 10 the woods and on the
wood piles by our army cbaplains, and our
moral boys while you we're trying to kill
those Of our folks who wanted to visit you to
keep your souls from hel|l
Bill, you are ungratefuI! And then didn't
we keep this war up, till the States we're all
back in the Union9 And didn't we 60 to
war and keep on going to war to keep your
dogoned States from going out of the
Uniou9 And didn't you want to get out Of
- Insk