Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-02-01
From the Nashville Banner.
Bill Arp to his Old Friend.

Elections. For the last few years you have
travelled round right smart and must have
made heap Of luminous observations. L
hear you are now liviD in Nashville, where
you can see all sides of everything and read
all the papers-where you can study Para
disc lost without book, and see the Devil
and his angels, without drawing on the i'm
agination, and I thought may be you might
assist me in my troubled feelings. | have
always, Mr.. Happy, endeavored to see the
bright side of every pikter, if it had any,
but there is one or two subjecks about which
1 had nigh gin it up.
l want you to tell me if you can, about
what time are the black republicans goin to
quit persecutin our people? What are they
so everlaStin mad with US about? Old Skew
ball says its for treeson that we've gone and
done. and that om the slowest perseeviDg
man be ever seed not to have found 1t out
Now Treeson is nifty bad thing, and
any man found guilty of treeson ought to be
talked to by preacher right under gallus,
and then be allowed to stand on nothin for
few hours by the clock. Shore enuf Tree
son. | mean Treeson where man slips
around on a sly in time of war and takes
sides sgin his country. Just as though, for
instance, | should have worked agin my
suvreen State after she had seeded, and
had stole her powder or deserted her in her
time of peril, while she was defendin her
self against the combined assaults of the
world, the flesh and the devil. wouldn't
have blamed nobody for hangin me for the
like, would you? But Skewball says We
aint got no suvrccn States-that the war
bav settled thequcston agin us ou that pint
| don't think so NV friend | admit that We
aiut uothin in partikler now, but we did hav
suvreen States before the war, and the
sword ANT settled or unsettled no great
principles. There aint no trial Of right or
wrong by wager of battles now. a days For
nifty nigh hundred years this country
Lave been big debatin society on these
questions. From the time of Hamilton and
Jefferson down to 1861, the right of State
to dissolve her own partnership have been
argued by powerful minded men, and there
has been more for it than agiu it. More
PresidentS-more Senators, more statesmen,
more judges, more people. MASSACHUSETTS
aud Connecticut We're for it at one time,
and beilered round and paved dirt amazin
to git cut, bat they found out Barcus was
wilin and they didn'I 90. believe, how
ever, that old Nutmeg did stay out about
two hours and half
Well, the South went cut nifty unwilling.
ly, Mr.. Happy, as you know. She had been
mity nigh kicked out for long time, and
there was big party that wanted us to 60
out and stay out Everybody knows we
dident git along in peace, so We concluded
10 do like Abraham aud his brother-in. law
to Scperate our households What they
wanted to keep US far never could see,
and can't see yit. wouldent have mig
ger or dog to stay around me that dident
want to Some say they wanted US to
Stregtheu EN- agin their enemies in case Of
furrin war. Does any man in his seuces
exrectus to hel p the black republicans whip
any body? Have we got any worse enemies
tAan they are? They cant make US fight |
reckon il We don't want to. We've fout e.
Duf and made nothing by it but glory, and
we aint going 10 jiue in another war to
crafty other people. Dodds says before
be'd pull trigger for Thad Stevens he'd
have his sGui ,ransnigrated to bench leg
fee, and bark at bis daddy's mules 1000
year wonder if the experience of the
last four years amt satisfied these fellows
that our boys are 4 Dangerous set to be
turned loose IN the time Of war? Wouldn' t
yoG think that, as a matter Of policy, they
wonid soft-soddcr little and quit their
Slandcrin ! If we do fight for EN- there will
be one condition certain-thcy must be put
where David put Uriah, and our boys mout
consent to make charge or two behind EN-
al ,hc pint of the bagDet.
Bu; want you to tell me, John, If am
right about the history of this biSuess. 1t
aiDt long story and I'll tell it the way |
see it. Old Pewrytan went off one day with
soue ships, and took few beads and some
juccGa5ps and brought up a lot of captured
ul.gcIs nom the Notcntots or some other
tUJs. and stole few more from the coast OF
Afriky and brought en- over aud educated
tbew to work in the field, aud cut wood and
skccr bars and SO forth, but not includin vo
tin, nor mus;cr;n, nor the jury bisncss nor
50 forth.
Well, after while they found that the
cold winds ard Goldfish airs Of New EDgland
&idcnt agree with the uigger, and so they
honun to slide EN- down South as fast as
possible. After they had sold em and got
the mmcy, they jincd the church and got
san'''hpd about slavery, sorter like the wo
man that GOT converted and then give all
Der noy2y'S away to her unconverted sister
We'll, the Old Dominion and sich of hel
~9., as Washington and Jefferson, and
Madison aud Randolph, bought EN- and
worked cIn t. satisfaction, whercupon old
Pew cot jealous aud began 10 leach agiu
it to break it down. The fakt is, they