The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-02-05
THE DAILY EMPIRE.
Il. h. ROBINSON,
PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR.
Bill Arp Addresses His Con-
Stitueuts.

| hHhph Whlch caused You To honor me bv
lpuI votes with seat in the Sinate of
| '%orGy. For two mOmcntus and inspirin
weeks the Legislature hay been in solem
session, one Of whom | am proud to be
| which For several days we were engaged
| as skouts, maxim Il sorter rclonysauce to
| see whether GcOrgY were u State or a In
| lWn territory whether we were i'm the old
| Cn-ion, or out of IL; whether me and nv
| Jokes aud you and Your foxes were some
body or nobody, and lastly, but by no
means lcastly, whether our poor Innocent
| children, born during the war, were ali IL
| leGal, and bad to be born over again or not.
| his last pint are much unsettled. but our
women are advised to bc kahn aud screen.
NY friends our aim hav honestly been
to at you all back in the folds of the glory-
| ooS old Union. Like the prodygal son, we
had nuthln TO live on. and feclin lonesome
and hungry, have been bOwin aud scrapin
ana making apOlogys for i've or six months.
we hay been seen Stlndin a fur Off for
weeks and weeks. but duru the calf do they
kill for us. They know we've got nothin,
for they eat up our substance. and ms for
putin rings on our fingers, we couldent
eNpeXt it rntll they briug back the iewelry
tney carried away. ] can not say. IN the
lhngWidge OF the poet, that our labor hay
been Labor Of love. for we've had mon
sirus poor encouragement to be shore but
we had al set our hcadstoward the stars
ANA stripes. and we jiutly determind that
come wool come wo. sink or SWIM survive
or perish. thunder or litenin. we'd sin
back or sneak back, or git back somehow
or somehow else, or we'd stay out for ever
ana ever amen. and be hanged TO em. So
called. golly.
lpto this time it may have been an up-
Mn business. The team was good one
a'd the gear all sound, and the wagin /
creased. but the roads are perhaps the fest |
corduroy in the world It's pull up
ana Shotch, and pull up and skotch, and .
eyer and anonymous the skotch, Sins (
odl and the tung cuts around and away we l
go into the gully, Andy Johnsin il the /
driver, and be says Go slow" and hollers I
"Wo! wo!" and loses the road, and then =,
we have to go back 10 the fork and wait till 4
ne blazes the way. He seems to be doin
his best, but then thar is Sumner and Satan .
and Stevens aud Davis and like other p,en
tlemeh. who Keep hollerin ut him and .
cracking his whip, aud confnsin his ideas,
so that sometimes we don't know whether
he's gee-in or haw-n.
NV friends. about them fcllers, | don't
know what ort 10 say. If you do or if
anybody does. | wish they would say IL.
don't encourage cussin il uobody not af ali
but IL you know of a man that cant he
broke of it durin his natural life, Il mout
be well to hire him by the year. Ictbprc Is
IN all history good eNkusC and a DroDpr
subiock, It Is upon them hairless SoulIess.
boWeIlesS, giZZarilcss. fratIicidCl. suicidcL
paFasiucl slster5idel, abominabul, cOntcmp-
tlpul disgustbal individuals. ! sometimes
think Of en- til my brain gets sortcraddled,
and feet like becomin n volunteer con-
vickt TO the Lunutik ASVlorum Charity
lnclines me 10 the opinyun that old Sum
nor are crazy. ! think he has been mittin
worse ever since he took Brooks on the
brain, and 1t do seem like the disease have
II. l..
must DE the Peace That pas,eth all UNDER
standtn' for we cant fathom il in these re-
gions They fout us 10 free the poor MIC
ger but didn't kceriOr the onion.
The Western boys font ms for the Union
but dIdent kcer for the niggeI- Bv double
teamin on rs they licked us and we DIN N
up bitt now The one don't want onr nlpgcrs
and III" other don't want our Union. and its
the hardest skedule to pleas en- both that
poor vanished peepul ever undertook. lis
lle most hardest war to wind up that his
tory rrkords, sumner Satan and C0mponv
pany are stlil itl.su and flmiu about the
hyerlaStin Digger--want him to VOTE and
make laws ana squat on icwrv. and want, {
TO .perhibit rs rebels from doin the same
ming for 30 years to cuml Jerusalemi /
%neie WI Is me cusslnS man They say its !
tii TighJ lor niggar not 10 vote in Con-
oecticut, bekaus there aint but few of en- !
.hori ana Us all wrong for EN- not 10 vote
n Scorgy bekaus there's heapof en- hero,
nd they talk LoTik and Retorik amozin tol .
prove how II is. Wcll I haint rot a whole
1asSei OF sense like sum, but as shore as \
IN two foot high q niggor Is niggcr / c
iont keer where you smell him. and n vote
: vote ] don't Geer whar YOU dram II. T
solly they cant cit over that. 7
. The truth Is my ieller-sitisens some-
ime feel like we dldent hay no Goyern-
hent' ! felt thai way sortcr when Mr.. Glib
on applnted ne committee on the State
u the ltepubllk, When the Sckrctary read
,,lt my name all mixed up with this Rcpub-
w frlt that ] was oblecgcd to renip. n
tisin magcstkully TO my feet. saws l. .,SIr.
resident beg 10 be respcktybiy cNkused p
ur, If yOu pleVsc, II THAR is any RcDubJa. h
a this side Of Jordiu l cant pursete il at
ms time with these Spels. Thar was a
lnce IN Old VirginnY called Port Repnblik,
ut Mr, lsvbei Gen. Stouewall jackson 90
.iped out is contcut, generally In lS6a and
hayent'-iucc hoar1ofit In northern litera,
lre' lhaye heard Of skrub consaru over d
hout Washington thry call Repuhlik. bnt
mr. ~ are likely 70 prove the grandest i'm. OF
0stNre that ever existed on a continent OF te
'eedom. ] suppose sur II are 10 be moved
, Boston or the Internal regions m a few
ays and want ngthin 10 DO with n. Fx =
use me. sur but must Insist on being re-
oektably discharccd.n | took nv seat ~
mid the most profopndcst and tumultuous hs nc
lenco ever seed and Mr.. Gibson remarked In
nat he would-ent impose the Republik on lai
nc respectable man agin his wishes. He
zen transterd me to the Finants Commits
e, and sed he hoped we would take nm
ediate action, for the state had M money, "
well A. himself and board was high and y
u Selems frequent. This may not hay Sao
'on his eNaktuRl langwidgo but is anglin III
ward Il. .S. la
! bowed my head and said Ditto, exsep sa, sss