The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1866-07-19
). Brick,' Pomeroy to Bill Arp.

s. Brlck' POmerOy to Bill Arp.
The following article embraces food
of deep and merited irony which we can
not allow to pass
Bill, for why do you still Arp on my
daughter-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 to hang
it on. We believe you are 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 il there were clouds floating
over the land of magnolias 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 see let
ters written by you SO full of instructions,
is too much.
The fault of this lies with you. Wern't
your folks most dogoned wicked before
this war2 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 sweeten our coffee, rice to eat and squirt
tobacco over our meetin house floors? An
swer us, Bill! And didn't you folks stay
down there to attend to your own business
a 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 ore all Christians In the North. We
felt that all these fine things were dragging
your souls down to he'll. We didn't want
you to rest in birthstone, being in torment,
SO We tried to correl you in Abraham's
bosom. 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 jeal
GUS. Aud our girls went down there to
teach your 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 go to hell All the
fine things that you had were leading you
away from salvation, so We sent>Butler and
Curtis, and Banks, and Washburn, and
Steele, and Hovey, and Prentiss, and Hui
burt, and several of the elect Of our Chris
tian churches, down there to win you out
of the jaws of hell, by Withdrawing your
fine furniture, such as pianos, books, pic
lures, rosewood bedsteads, marble, tables,
silverware, horses, cotton, and all such
plunder to place of safety!
You were wrong to >pgage in war
very wrong to do that thing. New Eng
land alone could conquer you. Why, Bill,
if you had billion OF millions of dollars,
and enough of nice furniture to furnish all
OF the houses in the country, New Eng
land could steal it in four years; and if New
England Abolitioniss could not, the Kau-
sas saints and the Western children OF
Christian Abolitionists could Havn't we
prayed for you in nearly all our churches !?
And havn'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 always 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, Get
tysburg, Vicksturg, Fredericksburg, Shi-
lob, Mobile, For. Donelson, and the devil
only knows where, to keep you in the I'm
ion. And then we sent Christian mission
aries down there, Bill, to rescue your val.
uables and remove them North for safety,
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 10 war to
keep you burned fellows in this happy Tn.
ION. God only knows how many oi your
folks we killed, for one Northern man was
always good for five Southern men, to saw
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 remedicd that by killing
your negroes, OF giving them the benefit
OF liberty, rags, old houses and abolition.
ism: And we made your cotton more val
liable. And, Bill, we enhanced the price
OF everything, for You. and made demand