Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-07-05
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3 Brick Pomeroy to Bin Arp,

* Brick Pomeroy to Bill Arp. .
The following article embraces food of
deep and merited irony which We cannot al
low TO- psss So
Bill, for why do you still Arp Cd my
daughser-so to speak? There must be
something very wrong in your nature. Reck-
on you must have lost something, or found
horseshoe and no horse to hang it on. We
believe you are very bad Bill, and so we
don't Nan't to pass you in silence. You
write sif there was something wrong with
you-as if there were clouds floating over
the land Of magnolias and the sunny South
generally. Really, Bill, We are surprised
There never was SO ungrateful o people
rs you Southern gentlemen are, and now,
after all has been done for you, to see let.
ters written BY you SO full of instructions,
is too much.
The efaultof all thislies with you. Wern't
your folks most dogoned wicked before this
war7 Honest Indian now, Bill. Didn't
you get proud, and isn't pride sin? And
didn't you OWN niggers down there, and
larrup them continually to raise cotton for
New England nabobs to spin-sugar to
swesten our coffee, rice to eat and squirt
tobacco over meetin.house Hoors7 Answer
us, Bill And didn't you folks stay down
there 70 attend to your own business little
too close ? And didn't you have better
horses, better clothes, better houses, finer
grounds, better furniture and more land
than we had?
We are all Christians in the North. We
felt that all these fine things were dragging
your souls down to hell. We didn't want
you to rest in birthstone, being in torment,
30 we tried to correl you in Abraham's bo.
som Abraham was great and good man
who died some time since, as we read Of
some where.
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 feel
that you were wicked; We didn't want to
see you 60 to hell !! All the fine things
that you had were leading you away from
salvation, so we sent Butler and Curtis, and
Banks, and Washbrrn, and Steele, and
Hovsy, and Prentiss, and Hulburt, and seve.
raj of the elect of onr Christian churches,
down there to win you out of the jaws Of
hall, BY Withdrawing your fine furniture,
suoh as pianos, BOOKS, pictures, rosewood
bedsteads, marble, tables, silverwsre, hor.
sss, cotton, and all such plunder to place
Of safety! -..
You were wrong to engage in war-very
wrong to do shat thing. New England a.
lone could conquer you. Why: Bill, if you
had a.billion of millions of dollars, and g.
nough of nice furniture to furnish all Of the
houses in the country, New England could
steal it IN iour years; and if New England
Abolitionists could not, the Kansas saints
and the Western children of Christian Abo-
litionists could. Ravn't we prayed for you
in nearly all our churches? d? And bavn't we
told you better? You wanted to get out of
the Union! Ah, Bill, States once in can
never get out That is what We have al
ways told you All those friends of the
great martyr tell you So We want to keep
you in. We fought you at Antietam, Pea
Ridge, Gettysburg, Vicksbarg, Fredericks
burg, Shiloh, Mobile, Fort Donelson, and
the devil only knows where, to keep you in
the Union. And then we sent Christian
missionaries down there, Bill, to rescue your
valuables and remove them North for safe
ty, you know And We burnt down your
houses, and We took what food your women
and children had, and we sent your cotton
to market for you, you know, Bill. And We
sent three millions of men to war to keep
you burned fellers in this happy Uuion.-
God only knows how many of your folks We
killed, for one Northern man was always
good for Eve Southern men, to say nothing
about mules, niggers, cotton and keepsakes.
And, Bill, we have stepped into some little
debt on your account
You see, Bill, cotton was too cheap. To-
bacco was too cheap. Rice was too cheap.
Happiness was too cheap. Our national debt
was too small. 1t was costing too much to
keep that negro boarding house of yours, SO
we remedied that by killing your negroes,
or giving them the benefit of liberty, rags,
old houses and abolitionism. And We made
your cotton more valuable. And, Bill, We
enhanced the price ofeverything, for you, and
made demand for carpenters and house
holders down there. You forget how we
have benefited your wicked country, Bill,
or you would not Arp so continually on i'm
sginary evils!
And we did all this to keep you in the
Union. We sent old John Brown, peace to
his ashes, fresh from stealing horses in Kan
sas, to tone for his siDs by rescuiug negroes
from your grasp in Virginia And for this
little pleasantly on the part of one of our mar
tyrs-one of our illuminated little pages in
history-you never thanked US as you should.
And didn't We throw some few irons into
Charleston harbor? The waters of that pool
will be good tonic for years, Bill. And
didn't Curtis save your cotton Didn't But