Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1866-03-28
BRICK POMERoY TO BILL ARP.

DC something very wrong In your ma
turc. Reckon you must have lost
something or found a horseshoe 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 asifthere was something wrong
with you-as if there were clouds
floating over the land of magnolias
and the sunny South generally. Re-
ially. Bill, We arc surprised,
There never was so ungrateinl q
people as you southern gentlemen are,
and now after all has been done for
you, to see letters written by you so
full of insinuations is too much.
The fault of all this lies with you.
| Weren't you folks most dogoned wick
cd before this war? Honest Irdian
now, Bill! Didn't you get proud,
and isn't pride sin? And didn't
you own niggers down there, and lar
rup them continually to raise cotton
{ for New England nabobs to spin
sugar to sweeten our coffee, rice tc
eat in our puddings and tobacco TO
chew and squirt over meetin house
floors? Answer us, Bill Ard didn't
you folks stay down there to attend
to business 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 are all christians in the north.
We felt that all these fine things were
dragging your souls down to hell.
We didn't want you to rest in brim-
) stone, being in torment, so we tried
: to correl you in Abraham's bosom.
Abraham was q great and good man
who died some time since, as VIC read
! of somewhere.
And then, Bill, you kept your mig
,, gers too fat. Our factory operatives
grew jealous. And our girls went
down there too teach your girls some
thing, and fell IN love with your boys,
and forgot TO come home. We felt
that YOU were wicked We didn't
want to see YOU go TO hell All the
fine things you had were leading you
away from salvation, so we sent But
: Ter and Curtis, and Banks, and Wash
burn, and Steele, and Hovcy, and
: Prentiss, and Hulburt, and several ot
the elect of our Christian churches
down there TO win you out of the jaws
of hell by withdrawing your fine fur
niture, such as pianos, books,pictures,
: rosewood bedstcads, marble tables,
silver ware, horses. cotton, and all
! such plumber, to a place of safety!
= You were wrong to engage in war
} very wrong to do that thing. New
England alone could conquer you.
I Why, Bill, if You had billion of mil
lions of dollars, and enough of nice
furniture TO furnish all Of the houses
/, in the country, New England could
! steal it in four years; and if New
England Abolitionists could not, the
Kansas saints and the western chill
! dren of Christian Abolitionsts could,
Haven't we prayed for you in nearly
: all our churches? And hav'nt we
told you better? You wanted to get
out of the Unionl All, Bill, States
/. once in can never get out That is
G what we always told you. All those
e friends of the great martyr tell you
r so. We want to keep you in. We
{ fought you at Antictam, Pea Ridge
! Gettysburg, Shiloh, Mobile, Fort Don.
: elson, and tho devil only kncws where
n to keep you in the Union. And then
A we sent Christian missionaries down
i there, Bill, to rescue your valuablcs
d and remove them North for safety,
: YOU know And we burnt down
i your houses and we took what food
YOUR women and children had-and
we sent your cotton to market for you,
you knew, Bill And we sent three
G million men TO war TO keep you durn.
q d ed fellers in this happy Union. God
u only knows how many of you folks
? we killed, for one northern man was
!, always good for five southern men, tc
d say nothing about mules, niggcrs, cot
n ton and keepsakes. And, Bill, we
+ have stepped into some little debt on
your account. You see, Bill, cotton
. was too cheap Tobacco was toe
> cheap. Rice was too cheap. Sugar
i, was too cheap. Happiness was toe
= cheap. Our national debt was toe
: small 1t was costing too much tc
. keep that negro clearinghouse o
yours, so we remedied that Dy killing
your nlggers or givin them the bcno
r fit of liberty, rags, old bones and Alb
J. olitionism. And we made your cotton
G more valuable. And, Bill, we en-
+ hanced the pricc Of everything fol
you, and made demand for carpen
i. tcrs and house builders down there
,, You forget how We have benefited
= your wicked country, Bill, or you
would not Arp so continually on i'm
agnary evils
And we did all this TO keep you IN