Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1866-02-14
BILL ARP's ADDRESS TO HIS CON
STITUENTS.
BIZ is member Of the Georgia Senate

RESPECTFUL PEEPLE: / address you
on this occasion with Ii profound ad-
miration for the great consideration
and the nice discrimination which
caused you to honor me by your votes
with seat in the Snatc CT Georgy.
For two momentns and inspirin weeks
the Legislature hav been in solem
session, one of whom Lam proud to be
which. Tor several days We were
engaged as skouts, mai'n reicnysanee
to see whether Georgy were u State
or Iniun territory--whether we were
In the old Union or out Of it-wheth-
or me and my folks and you and your
folks were somebody or nobody, and
: lastly, but by no means leastly, whoth-
or our poor innocent children, born
during the war, were all illegal, and
had to born over again or not. This
last pint are mnch unsettled, but our
women are advised TO be kahn and
, screen.
Nv friends, our aim hav honestly
been to git you all back IN the folds
Of tho gloryous old Union. Like the
prodygal son, we had nnthin to live
on, and fcelin lonesome and hungry,
have been bowin and scrapin and ma
king apologys for five or six months.
We have been standin afar off for
! weeks and weeks, but durn the eaIf
! do they kill for us. They know we've
: got nothin, for they eat up our sub
> stance, and as for putin rings on our
fingers, we couldent eXpekt il until
: they bring back the jewelry they car.
I rycd away. lcannot say, in the lang
widge Of the poet, that our labor have
C been labor of low, for we had mon-
strOus poor encouragement to he
] shore but we had all set our heads
toward tho stars and stripes, and we
!, unity determined thatoomc wool come
wo, sink or swim, survive or perish,
U thunder or litenin, we'd slip back, OF
G sneak back, or git back somehow OF
y somehow else, orwe'd stay out forever
}, and ever amen, and be hanged to en-
e so-called, l goly. M
ri Up to this timo 1t may have beer
y an uphill business. The team was 8
r good one and the gear all sound, anC
= the wagin creased, but the roads are
perhaps the ruffest, rottencst cordu
roy in the world. It's pull up anC
skotch, and pull up and skotch, anc
and anonymous the skotch slips oui
G and the tung cuts around and away
II We 90 into the gully. Andy Jonsin il
II the driver, and he says "Go slow,
4 and he holers "Wol wo~ and losei
} the road, and then we have to go bacl
is to the fork and wait till he blazes the
d way. lie seems to be doin hs best
X but then thar is Sumner and Satar
II and Stevens and Davis and like oihe
Z, gentlemen, who keep hollerin at hin
IS and cracking his whip, and confnsil
n his idces, so that sometimes we den
t know whether he's geo-in or haw-in.
Is Ny friends, about them fellers,
r. don't know what ort to say lfyo'
y do, or if any body does, / wish the,
would say It. ! don't encourage Gus
sin in nobody, not at all, but if yoi
:" know of man that can't be broke @
al it durin' his material life, it mout b
r, well to hire him by the year Itthcr
te is in all histry good exkusc and
r proper subick, it is upon them hart
a less, soulless, bowelless, gizzardless
T. fratrisidcl, suicidel, parasidel. sistersi
te del, abominabul, contemptibul dis
" gustibul individuals. | sometime
to think of en- till my brain gifts sorte
nj added, and think of becumin vol
IS unteer convict to the Lunatik Asy
u lorum. Charity inclincs me to th
l. opinyun that old Sumner are crazy
10 think he has been gittin worse eve
In since he took Brooks on the brain
le and it do seem like the disease hav
ar proved contagus. IL they arc TO
h, Peace il must he the Peace that pas
t. seth all understandin, for we can
er fathom it in these regions. The,
nc fout us to free the poor niger bu
ip didn't care for the Union. The We:
tern boys fout us for the Union bu
" dident care for the niggcr. BY doubl
IS. teamin on us they licked us and W
ry gin it up, but now the one don't wan
at our niggers and the other don't wan
@ our Union, and its tho hardest skednl
v to please EN- both that a poor vanish
10 cd pcepul ever undertook. Its til
ct most hardest war TO wind up that his
&C. tory rckords Sumner, Satan 4 Com
C, pany are still a fussin and fumin abou
Mt tho evcrlastin nigger-want him {
IL vote and make laws, and squt on
to jewry, and want to perhibit us rebel
ct from DUNG the samc thing for 3
10 years to cum Jerusalem ! whore i
,n the cussing mang They say its a
be right for nigger not to vote in Con
10. nccticut, bckaus there amt but few G
he om thar; and its all wrong for EN- no
C. tovotcin Georgy bckaus there's a hcal
ut of en- here, and they talk Logik an
ps Retorik amazin TO prove how it !:
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