The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-05-26

and vcrmin, and be shanpood at the same
shop, and the fair sexes can set together In
the galleries and mix odours, and fan their
scent about promiscuous. Wen give you a
full benefit of your Civil Rights bill, see If
we don't. You go on-play your cards.
We are bidin our time. We are payn
your taxes and your duties and back IA
tons for 1864, and licenses, and your in
fcrnal revenue, and obcyin your laws with
out havin any hand in maxim EN-, and we
arc cut off from pensions and public lands;
and you sold a poor mans still in my county
the other day because he couldn't pay your
tax on some peach brandy he STILES for ms
ncighbors two years ago and soon your
be selln the land for the land tax; and
you're tryin your best to play the devil
generally; but you'll catch it i'll the
long run. See if you don't. Ialk
about Fcnians. When the good men
of the north and the south all get
together, they'll walk over the track so
fast that you won't have time to get out OF
the way. You'll subsidc into obscurliy ana
YOUR children will deny that their dtridleS
ever belonged to such party. Excuse
me. gentlemen, but I'm little excited.
Five cents n pound on cotton VIII eNche
ANYBODY that makcsit Tax on industry
ON sweat and toll. Protection tariffs Tor
PENNSYLVANIA, and five cents a pound tax
nm southern cotton - half its average
wortb-ond your folks will manage some
way or other to steal the other half. Ny
advice TO YOU is to quit this to0liShncSs, and
heoin 10 travel the only road to peace
Old Blow couldn't keep up with his gar
/ blcd extracts.
"What makes the President so popular
at the SOUTH
| Contrast, sir-contraSt. The more nc
amt like your party, the more popular ne
| is. He would treat us about right, !
reckon, if you would let him alone, bur
YOU bcdevil him so, that sometimes ne
don't understand himself. | don't thnk
he knew for while whether his Peace
Proclamation restored the writ of h06edS
corpus or not. But do you 60 on and I'M
peach him, and that will bring matters to
a focus. I'll bet you'd be in Fort Della
ware in a week, and the southern members
be here in their seats, and they'll look
round at the political wreck, and ruin, and
plunder, and Stcalage that's been goin on,
and they might cxclaim, in the language
Of the poet,
who's pin here since FISH pin gone =
"Mr. Arp, suppose we should have
war with England or France, what would
the rebels do"
"Thcy'd follow General Lee, and Gc-
neral Johnston, and LongStrect, and Bragg,
and old Bory. My opinion is, that Gc
neral Lee would head the Union army,
and General Grant would be his chief Of
staff, and General Buell. would rank mighty
high, and -
TWhat would you do with General Shcr-
man."
"Sorrv YOU mentioned him. We'd have
to hire him, / reckon, as a camp fiddler,
and make him sing Hail Coluo,bin' by fire
light. as Il warning to the boys how mean ii
is to burn cities and towns and make war
upon defcncclcSS women and children. No,
sir, our boys wouldn't fight under no SUCH"
AT this time the man with the memo
raudum put down some more garblcd cN-
tracts.
"Do you think, Mr.. Arp, that if the
South should ever hold the balance of
power, they would demand pay for their
negrOeSY
a can't say, sir. But don't think the
south has lost anything that way. We got
their labor before the for their vittcls
and clothe"" and doctors bills, and we get
il iiow Tor about the same. It's all settled
down that way, and your Bureau couldent
help it. The only difference is III the Ills
tribution. Some of Us don't own as many
as we used to, but everybody has got
niger or two now, and they'll all vote EN-
or turn EN- off. 4 niger that wouldcnt
vote as | told him shouldn't black my
boots
At this time the Committee looked ut
one another, sccmin to he bothered and
astonishcd. Garblcd extracts were put
down with vim.
Mr.. Boutwell," says he, "Mr. Chair
man, think, sir, we are about through
with the witness. think, sir, his teStlmo-
ny settles the question as to what We ought
to do with southern traitors :"
The chairman gave me a Republican nod,
and remarked, eyes, sir, | think We do.
The scoundrclS burnt my iron works."
Whcrcupon | retired, having given gene
raj satisfaction.
Yours truly, BILL ARP.