The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1866-01-18
Bill arp Addresses his Constituents.

REsPExFUL PEEPLE-I address you on this
okashun with a profound admiration for the
great consideration aud the nice disOrlmlna-
ton which caused you to honor me by your
votes with seat III the slnate OF Georgy.-
For two momentus and inspirin weeks the
legislature hav BEEN IN solem session, one OF
whom | am proud to be which. For several
DAYS We were engaged as skouts, maxim u
sorter rekoaysance to see whether Georgy
were u state or In uH TERRITORY whether
we we were in the old Union, or out of it
whether me aud nay foxes and you and your
foxes were somebody or nobody, and, lastly,
bat by no means leastiy, whether our poor
innocent children, born during the war, were
all illegal aud had to be born over agin or
not. This last pint are much unsettled. but
our women are advised to be calm and ser
cen.
NY friends, our aim hav honestly baoa to
git you al back in the folds OF the gloryous
old Union. Like the prodygal son, we had
nuthin to live on, and eehn ionesum and
hungry, hav been bowin and scrapin and
maxim apologys for FIVE or six months. We
hav been seen standin afur off for weeks and
weeks, but durn the calf did they kill for us.
/ They know we've got nOthia, Tor they eat up
/ cur substance, and as for putin rings on our
/ fingers, We couldent expect 1t until they
bring back the jewelrg they carried away. l
/ cannot say, 10 the laugwedge of the poet, that
/ our labor hav been labor of love, for we've
/ had munstr0us poJr encouragement TO be
| shure but we had all set our heads towards
| the stars and stripes. and we jintly determ.
! ined that come wool come wo, sink or swim.
survive or perish, thunder or litenin, we'd
slip back, or sneak back, or git back sonhow
or somhow else or we'd stay out forever and
ever, amen, and be hnndge to EN-, so-called,
] goiiy,
Up to this time it have been an up hill
business. The team was Il good one and the
gear all sound and the wagln creased, but
the road are perhaps the toughest, rottenest
corduroy in the world. Its pull up an skotch
ana pull up and skotnh and ever and anony
nous the skoich slips out and the tung gifts
round aud away 60 into the gully. Andy
J0nsin Ia the driver, and he says eco slow, -
aud he hollers ''Wol wo" and loses the
road, and then we hav to 90 back to the fork
and wait till he blazes the way. he seems
TO be doing his best but then there is Sum
ner aud Satan and Stevens and Davis and
other like gentlemen, who keep nollerin ut
him and crackin his whipi1aud confusiu his
idees, so that sometimes we don't know whe-
Their he's gee-in or haw in. Ny friends,
about them tellers, | don't know what | ort
to say. If you dc, or if any body does, /
wish they would say it. | don't encourage
cussin in nobody, not at all, but if you know
Of Il man that can't he broke of it durin his
material lie, IL Ilout be well to hire him by
the year. Ii there is in ali history q good
exkuS and proper snbiek, it is upon them
heartIess, souiless, boweiless, gizzardiess,
iratisidal, suicidel, parisidai sstorsidal. alb
oninidal, con5emptibul, disgustibul, indivi.
duals.
I sometimes shnk of en- till my brain gifts
sorter added, and | feel like becomin vol
unteer convikt Of the Lunatik Asylorum.-
Charity inciines me to the opinyun that old
Sumnar are crazy. | think he has been gi.t-
ing worse since he took Brooks on the brain.
and it seem like the disease have proved con
tagus. If they are for peace IT must be the
peace that passeth all underetaudn. for we
cant iathom it in these regions. They fout us
20 Tree The niger, but diden't keer for the
Union. The western boys tout us for the I'm
ION but dIden't keer Tor the niger. BY
double teemin on US licked us and we gin 1t
up, but now the one don't want our Union,
and It's the hardest skedus to please EN- both
that a poor vanished peepul ever undertook
1t ls the most hardest war to wind up that
history records, Sumner, Satan and Company
are still fussin and fnmin about the ever
sstin ngger--want him to vote and MAKE
laws, and squat on jewry, and want 10 per
hibit US rebels from doing the same thing tor
30 Years TO cum. ,Ieruselem J where IS the
GUESSING man They say It's all rght Tor
niger not to vote in Coanectlcut, Ok aus
there amt hut a few of thern thar, and It's all
RIGHT for Niger not to vote IN Georgy oe-
keus there's heep OF EN- here, ana they TAX
Lock- and Retorik amazin to prove no" 1t ls.
wal I baint got a whole passel OF sense Ike
go, b,, ss shore as Ism two foot high TO a
,ir,oar 7 don't kear where you smell him and
vote ia a vote, i don't keer whsr you drop 1t.
! tbsv cant get over that.
The truth is, my Teller sltisens, sometime
feel like we dident hav no government. felt
hat wav sorter when Mr.. Gibson appointed
i ma n committee on the state of the republik.
When the eekretarv read out my name all
mixed up with the republik, | felt that was
obleeged to reng. Risin magestikullyto my
feet, says /, Mr. President, beg to be respek-
tybly excused, sur, if pou pleyse. If thar is
any republik on this side of Jordin, can't
pu rseve it at this time with these speks.--
; There was a place in old Virginny cai!ad Port
kepublik but Mr.. Rebel General StonewalI
jackson wiped out its contents generally in
! 1868 and | havnt heard Of it sense in northern
literature. [ have heard of skrub consarn
over about Washington they call republik,
/ but, sur it are likely to prove the grandest
lmposture that eyer existed on continent Of
freedom. l suppose, sur. 1t are to be moved
l to Boston or the internal regions in few
days, and want noshin to do with it. Elk
cuse me, sur, but / must insist ON being re-
: spektably discharged" / took my seat amid
the most profoundess and tumultuous silence
, ever seed, aud Mr.. Gibson remarked that he
would-ent impose the republik on the respek
table man agin his wishes. He then trans.
fered me to the finant- committee, and sed be
hoped we would take:simmediate action, for