Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1866-01-27
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Bill Arp to his Constituents.

tins Okkashun With profound admiration Tor
the great consideration and the nice discrimi-
nation which caused you to honor me by your
votes with a scat in the Sinate of Gcorgy-
For two momentus and insprin weeks the
Legislature have been in solemn session, one
OF whom am proud to be which. For sever
al days we were engaged as scouts, maxim a
sorter rekouysahce to SEQ whether Georgy were
State or a Injun TERRITORY whether VIC
were in the Union or out Of it-whethcr ne
and my foxes, and you and your foxes, were
somebody or nobody; and lastly, though by
no means leastly, whether our poor innocent
children, born durn the war, were all illegal
and had to he born over agin or not. This
last pint arc much unsettled, but our women.
are advised to be kahn and screen.
My friends, our aim have honestly been to
git you back into the folds of the gloryous old
Union. Like the prodyegal sou, VIC had nuthin
to live on, and feein lonesome and hungry,
ogys for, five or six months. We have been
standin afur off for weeks and weeks, but durn
the caf do they kill for us. They know we've
got nothin, for they eat up our substance, and
as for putin rings on our fingers, we couldent
cxpckt it until they bring back the jewelry
they carryea away cannot say, in the Ian
gwidge Of the poet that our labor hav been {.
labor Of love, for we have had monstrous poor
encouragement to be shore but we had all
set our heads towards the stars and stripes
and We jintly determined that come wool come
wo, sink or swim survive or perish, thunder
or litcin, we'd slip back, or sneak back, or git
back somehow or somehow else, or we'd stay
out forever and ever amen and be hanged to
en-, so called, golly
Up to this time it have bccn. an uphill bis
mess. The team was. a good one, and the
gear all sound and the wagn creased, but the
road are perhaps the rutfest, rottenest corduroy
IN the world It's pull up and skotch, and
pull up and skotch, and ever and anonymous
the skotch slips out and the tung cuts round
and away we go into the gully. Andy Jonsin
~ the driver, and he says Go Slow" and he
hollers 'Wo! ! wov' and loses the road, and
then we have to go back to the fork and wait
till he blazes the way. He seems to be doin
his best, but then thar is Sumner and Satan
and Stevens and Davis and other like gentlo
men, who. keep hollerin at him and crackin
his whip, and confusin his idces so that some
times we don't know whether he's gee-in or
haw-in. Ny friends, about them fellcrs, |
don't know what ort to say. If you do or
if anybody else does, / wish they would say it.
don't encourage cussn in nobody not at all,
but if you know of a man that can't be broke
of it durin his material life, it mout be we'll to
hire him by the year, If ther is in all history
u good exkuse, and a proper subjch, it is upon
them hairless, soullcss, boweIlcss, giMardlcss,
tratrisIdel, parasdal, sstcrsidcl, abonluabul,
contemptibul, disgustibul Individuals Isome-
times, think of em till my brain gifts sortcr ad-
died, and feel like bccumin a volunteer con
Wiki OF the l4unatik AsylcrNm. |
Charity inclines me to the opinyun that old
Sumner are crazy. J. think he has been e,ittiu
worse ever since he took Brooks on the brain,
and it do seem like the disease have proved
eontagus If they be for Peace, it must be
the Peace that passcth all undcrstandin, for
we can't fathom it in these regions. They
fout us to free the poor niggcr but dident keer
for the Union. The Western boys fout us
for the Union but dident kecr for the nigger. !
by doublc-tcamn on us they licked us and we
gin it up, but now the one don t.want our MIG
gers and the other don't want our Union, and
its the hardest skcdulc to pleas en- both that !
a poor vanished people ever undertook. Its
the most hardest war to wind up that history
rckords. Sumner, Satan and Company are
still fussin and fuming about the everlastin
nigger-want him to vote and make laws, and
squat on jewry, and want to perhibit u.s. the
rebels, from doin the same thing for 80 years
to cum! Jerusalem where is the cussin
man? They say its all right for niger not
to vote in Connecticut, bekaus there aint but