Daily Mississippi clarion and standard. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1866, 1866-06-10
The DAILY CLARION and STANDARD
From the Metropolitan Record
Bill Arp is Called Before the Recon-
structiOn Committee.
SUPPRESSED TESTIMONY. }

tlon Committee | have felt sorter
sighted because no mention amt been
mode of mine | suppose it has been
suppressed, but | am not to be hid out
in obscurity. Our country is the spe-
cial jury, and by and by this business
will go up before it on appeal. The
record must go up fair and complete
and therefore I'll take occasion to
make public what swore to. | said
a good deal more than l can put down,
Mr. Editor and ut times nv language
was considered impudent, but they
thought that was all the better for their
side, for it illustrated the rabellious
spirit heard one of 'em say: Let
him go on--the ruling passion strong
in death. He's good State's evidence" ;"
When | was put on the stand old
Boutwell, swore me most iiercely and
solemnly to speak the truth, and OBJ
served that he was then entertaining
about q quart of double rectiied, and
it looked like it had soured on his sto-
mach. Old Blow was settin off on one
side, with a memorandum book, gettn
ready to note down some "garbled eX-
tracts
Old Iron Works was Chairman and.
when he nodded his Republican head,
old Boutwell, says he:
Your name is Arp, l believe, sir 2
80 called" says l.
you reside in the State Georgia,
do you?'
Il can't say exactly" says |. Il
live in Rome, right in the fork of two
injun rivers
In the State of Georgia" says he
fiercely.
''ln Il state of uncertainty about
that says l. I'VE don't know wheth-
er Georgia is a State or not. Iwould
like for you to state yourself, If you
know. The state of the country re-
quires that this matter should be set
tied, and will proceed to state" -
"Never mind, sir" says he "IIow
old are you, Mr.. Arp?"
That depends on circumstances, y
says l. II don't know whether to
count the last five years or not Du-
rim the war your folks said that State
couldn't secede, but that while she was
in a state of rebellion she ceased to ex
ist. Now you say we got out and VT
shan't get back again until 1870. A
mans age has got somethin to do with
his rights, and if we are not to vote
l don't think we ought to count the
time. That's about as near rs | car
come to my age, sir
"Well, sir" says he; care you ia
miliar with the political sentiments o
the citizens of your State?'
SCOT no citizens yet, sir, that W.
know of. will thank you to speak o
us as people"
''Well, sir" says he, I'll humo
your obstinacy. Are the people o
your State
Don't speak of it as a State, sir, i
you please. I'm on oath now, anC
you must excuse me for being partic
ular, Call it section.
"Mr. Arp, are the people of you
section sufficiently humbled and re
pentant to come back into the Uniol
on such terms as we may think prope
to impose :"
Not much they amt" says l. {"
don't think they are prepared for
yet They wouldn't voluntarily 90 i
blind against your hand. They sa,
the deal wasn't fair and you've mark
ed the cards and stole the trumps, bu
at the same time they don't care
darn what you do They've becom
indifferent and don't care nOthin abou
your Guy Fawkes business. / mea
no respect to you, gentlemen, but
was swore to tell the whole truth
Our people amt a noticin' you Onl
out of curiosity. They don't expec
anything decent, or honorable, or nc
ble from you, and they've gone t
work diggin and plowin and plant
and raisin boy children 7"
Right here the man with q meme
randum scratched down garbled e2
tract, and old Boutwell, says he
What do you mean by that, sir
What inference do you intend p
I'm Stain facts" says l, '1o
must draw your own inferences.-
They are raisn bog children. An
harm about that? Any treason ?
Can't man raise boy children? Pc
haps you'd like to amend the Const
tuition and stopit. Old Pharoah trie
to stop it among the Israelites, but
didn't pay He finally caught tt
dropsy in the Red Sea. We are raisl
boy children for the fun of it. The
are a good thing to have in the hous
as Mrs. Toodles would say"
''Mr. Arp, are not the feelings
your people very bitter towards tt
North p
81 beg your pardon, sir, but you
have to split the question, or I'll ha'
to split the answer. Our people ha7
very high regard for honorable me
brave men, noble hearted men, al
there's a heap of 'em North, sir, al
there's a heap of widows and orphan
there we are sorry for; but as for th
here Radical party, they look upon e
as if they ways hyenas scratchin l
the dead for a livin. It's as natural
hate 'em as it is to kill snake. II
utterly impossible for me to tell t
strength and length and hight, dep
and breadth of their contempt for tn
party. They look upon Radical as
as-as-well, as a beggar on hors
back-a buzzard sailing round de;
eagle-a suck egg dog creepin up
the tail of dead lion. They ia
ofhirin Brownlow to abuse 'em, to u
language on 'em like he did few yea
ago when he spoke against Pryne.
they do hire Brownlow, he'll spatt
'em, he'll daub 'em all over, and sir
'em and slobber on 'em about rigl
and it will stick, for the pores are op
and their morals spongy. I'd like
stand off about ten rods and hear h
spread himself 1t would be wor
than squirt-gun full of COW slop, al
have no doubt would give genel
satisfaction"
THAT'S sufficient, sir" says {
Boutwell,. "Ef it was in their pow
to do so, would your people renew t
fight ?"
mot unless they could fight
Radicals all alone, and all the woI
agree to hands off, Even then th'
wouldn't be no fight, for we could
cotch you"
"What do your people say upon
subject of negro equality p
sThey say its lie, sir--it don't (
ist by nature and never can in practi
Folks we're not created free and equ
That may be a theoretical truth,
it's always been practical lie. Their