Daily 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

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ton Committee | have felt sorte
slighted because no mention amt beer
mode Of mine | suppose it has beer
suppressed. but / am not 10 be hid ou
in obscurity Our country is the spe
cial Jury, and by and by this busines.
will 90 up before it on appeal tn,
record must 90 up fair and complet,
and therefore I'll take occasion tC
make public what | swore to. | saio
good deal more than / can put down
Mr. Editor, and at times my language
was considered impudent, but they
thought that was all the better for then
side. for it illustrated the rabelliOus
-pirit-I heard one Of 'em saw Let
him 70 on-thc ruling passion strong
in death He's good State evidence. "
When was put on the stand old
Boutwell, .wOre me most fiercelv and
solemnly to speak the truth, and l OBJ
served that he was then entertaining
about q quart Of double rectified. and
it looked like it had soured on his sto-
mach Old Blow was settin off on one
side, with memorandum book, gettal
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, / believe, sir =
so called says l.
You reside in the State Gcorgia.
do you?'
4 can't say exactly" SAYS !. II
live in Rome, right in the fork of two
iniuu rivers.
In the State Of Georgia, says he
liercely
In state Of uncertainty about
that, says l. We don't know whcth-
cr Georgia is a State or not. ! would
like for you to state yourself, If YOU
know. The state Of the country re
quircs that this matter should be set
tied, and | will proceed to state, -
Never mind, sir" says he How
old are you, Mr. Arp r
That depends on circumstances, -
says / Il don't know whether to
count the last five years or not Du-
rim the war your folks said that a State
couldn't secede, but that while she was
in state Of rebellion she ceased to ex-
ist. Now you say we got out and we
shan't get back again until 1870. A
man age has got sOmethin to do with
his rights, and if we are not to vote,
| don't think we ought to count the
time. That's about as near as | can
come to my age sir"
'Well, sir says he; .'are you IA
miliar with the political sentiments Of
the citizens of your State p
"Got no citizens yet, sir, that we
know of will thank you to speak of
us as people
Wei, sir says he, I'm humor
your obstinacy Are the people of
your State
Don't speak of it as a State, sir. if
YOU please I'm on oath now. and
you must excuse me for being partic-
ular, Call it section.
Mr.. Arp are the people of your
section sufficiently humbled and re
pentant to come back into the Union
ON such terms as we may think proper
to impose p
Not much they amt says / i
don't think they are prepared for it
yet They wouldn't voluntarily 90 it
blind against your hand They say
the deal wasn't fair and you've mark
ed the cards and stole the trumps, but
at the same time they don't care a
darn what you do They've become
indifferent and don't care nothin about
your Guy Fawkcs business. | mean
no respect to YOU, gentlemen, but
was swOre to tell the whole truth
Our people ain a noticin' you only
out of curiosity They don't expect
anything decent, or honorable, or no
ble from YOU, and they've gone to
work diggin and plowin and plantin
and raisin boy children =
Right here the man with memo
randum scratched down garbled eN-
tract, and old Boutwell, SAYS he !:
What do YOU mean by that, sir !?
What inference do You intend ?"
I'm stain facts, says l, you
must draw your own infcrences.-
TLeY are rojsin bog chiidreH. ANY
harm about that? ANY treason p
Can man raise boy children? Per
haps you'd like to amend the Consti-
tuition and stopit Old Pharoah tried
to stop it among the Israelites, hut it
didn't pay. He finally caught the
dropsy in the Red Sea. We are raisIn
boy children for the fun of it. They
are a good thing to have in the house,
As Mrs. TOOdIes would saw
Mr.. Arp, are not the feelings of
your people very bitter towards the
North p
Il beg your pardon, sir, but you'll
have to split the question, or I'll have
to split the answer. Our people have
4 very high regard for honorable men,
brave men, noble hearted men, and
there's a heap of EN- North, sir, and
there's a heap of widows and orphans
there We are sorry for; but as for this
here Radical party, they look upon EN-
as if they ways hyenas a scratchin up
the dead for livin. It's as natural to
hate EN- as it is to kill n snake. It's
utterly impossible for me to tell the
strength and length and hight, depth
and breadth of their contempt for that
party. They look upon Radical as
as-as-well, rs a beggar on horse
back-a buzZard sailing round q dead
eagle-a suck egg dog creepin up to
the tail of dead lion. They talk
of hirin Brownlow to abuse EN-, to use
language on EN- like he did few years
ago when he spoke against Pryne. If
they do hire Brownlow, he'll spatter
EN-, he'll daub EN- all over, and slime
EN- and slobber on 'em about right,
and it viii stick, for the pores are open
and their morals spongy. I'd like to
stand off about ten rods and hear him
spread himself 1t would be worse
than q squirt gun full of COW slop, ard
| have no doubt would give general
satisfaction"
That's sufficient, sir, says old
Boutwell,. "Ef it was in their power
to do SO, would your people renew the
fight :"
Not unless they could fight the
Radicals all alone, and all the world
agree to hands Off Even then there
wouldn't be no fight, for we couldn t
cotch YOU
What do your people say upon the
subject of negro equality 2"
They say its lie, sir-it don't ex-
ist by nature and never can in practice,
Folks were not created free and equal
That may be a theoretical truth, but
it's always been practical lie. There's
grades of society everywhere. There's