La sentinelle de Thibodaux. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 1861-1866, 1866-06-02

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and men that vote me, and tie grades e.
up, up, up. step by step. from my sort t.
Mr.. Davis and Mr.. Stephens, and Gen
Lee, and Howell Cobb, and Ben Hill, AMI
their sort for they are the highest in thu
nation and then again 1t goes from mi
down, down, down to the niggers, and thu
Republicans and the Radicals, and that i
as low as they run. There amt no equality
and you cant make one. We will vote tn.
niggers certain. l will vote Tip, and Til
is a head center. He will vote about forty
and the first thing you know we viii
elect seven big, black, greasy niggers te
Congress. We will do it certain sever
of EN- IL carats strong, with African
musk. The other rebel States will do the
same thing, and you will have about fifty
of EN- to draw seats with, and you can al
stick your legs upon your desks together
and swap lies and yermin, and be sham
pooned at the same shop. and the fail
sexes can set together in the galleries
and mix odours, and fan their scent about
pr~omiscuous. We will give you a full
benefit Of your Civil Rights Bill, see 81
we don't. You go on play your cards
We are bidin our time. We are payin
your taxes and your duties and back
~rations for 1864, and licenses, and your
internal revenue, and obeyin your laws
without havin any hand in maxim en-, and
we are cut off from pensions, and public
lands and you sold a poor mans still in
my county the other day because he
couldent pay your tax on some peach
brandy he stilled for his neighbors two
years ago ; and soon you will be sellin the
land for the land tax j: and you are tryin
your best to play the devil generally but
you will catch it in the long run. See eff
you don't. Talk about Fenians. When
the good men of the North and the South
all get together, they will walk over the
track SO fast that you wont have time to
get olt of the way. You will subside into
obscurity, and your children will deny
that their daddies ever belonged to such a
party. Excuse me. gentlemen, but | am
a little excited. Five cents a pound on
cotton will excite anybody that makes it.
Tax on industry-on sweat and toll. Pro-
lection tariffs for Pennsylvania, and FIVE
cents a pound tax IN Southern cotton
half its average worth-and your folks
will manage some way or other to steal
the other half. My advice to you is to
4~4t GillS lUOllatu6SS anu UGSuU W IldFGl
the only road to peace.
Old Blow eouldent keep up with his
garbled extracts.
What makes the President SO popular
at the South
Contrast, sir, contrast. The more he
amt like your party, the more popular he
is. He would treat US about right, I
reckon, if you would let him alone, but
you bedeyil him SO, that sometimes he
don't understand himself. I don't think he
knew for a while whether his Peace
Proclamation restored the writ Of habeas
corpus or not. But do you 60 on and i'm
peach him. and hat will bring matters to
a focus. / will bet you would be in Fort
Delaware in a week, and the Southern
members be here in their seats, and they
will look round at the political wreck and
ruin and plumber and stealage that has
been goin on, and they might exclaim, in
the language of the poet,
Who's pin here since Tsh pm cone /"
Mr.. Arp, says he, suppose we should
have a wal with England or France, what
would the rebels do?
They would follow Gen. Lee, and Gen. |
Johnston. and Longstreet, and Bragg, and
old Bory. Ny opinion is. that Gen. Lee
would head the Union army, and Gen.
Grant would be his chief of staff, and Gen.
Buell. would rank mighty high, and
What wouldyou do with Gen. Sherman?
Sorry you mentioned him, says /. We
would have to hire him, I reckon, as a
camp fiddler, and make him sing Hail
Columbia by freight, as a warnin to the
boys how mean it is to burn cities and
and make war upon defenceless
women and children. No, sir, our boys
wouldent fight under no such.
At this time the man with the memo
put down some more garbled
Do you think, Mr.. Arp, that if the
South should ever hold the balance of
power they would demand pay for their
negroes?
cant say, sir. But I don't think the
South has lost anything that way. We
got their labor before the war for their
Flttels and clothes and doctor s bills, and
we get it now for about the same. Its all
down that way, and your Bureau
souldent help it. The only difference is
n the distribution. Some of us don't own
many as we used to, but everybody has
a niger or two now and they will all
'ote EN- or turn EN- off. A niger that
vote as / told him, shouldent
,laekm boots.
AT this time the Committee looked at
me another, seemin to be bothered and
.stonished. CARRIED extracts were put
Town with a vim.
Mr.. Boutwell, says he: Mr.. Chairman,
think, sir, we are about through with
witness. | think, sir, his testimony
cities the question as to what we ought
Q do with the Southern traitors.
The chairman gave me a Republican
cd and remarked Yes, sir, I think we do.
he %scoundrels burnt my iron works.
W%hereupon | retired, having given
eneral satisfaction. BILL ARP.
WELL-TIMED REMARKs.-No man ever
slt anything but irritation at seeing a i
gown doing the business. Of a
sweeper, or attached any value