Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1866-06-15

whole truth. Our people amt noticir
you only out of curiosity. They dom
expect anything decent, or honorable,
or noble from you, and they've gone tc
work diggin and plowin and plantin and
raisin boy children"
Right here the man with memoran.
dun scratched down garbled extract,
and old Boutwell, says he: What do
you mean by that sir? What inference
do you intend Z"
I'm Stain facts" says I. !" You
must draw your own differences. They
are raisin boy-children. Any harm
about that? Any treason? Can't Q
man raise boy-children ? Perhaps you'd
like to amend the Constitution and stop
it'll Old Pharaoh tried to stop il among
the Tsraelites, but it didn't pay. He
finally caught the dropsy in the Red
Sea. Wcare raisin boy children for the
fun oft They are good thing to have
in the house, as Mrs. Toodles would say. .
" Mr.. Arp, are not the feelings Of
your people very bitter against the
North Z"
~ beg your pardon, sir, but you'll
have to split the question, or else TIL
have to split the answer. Our people
have very high regard for honorable
men, brave men, noble hearted mon,
and there's q heap of 'cm North, sir,
and there'sa heap of widows and orphans
there we are sorry for; but as for this
here Radical party, they look upon EN-
like they was hyenas scratchin up the
dead for Twin. It's as natural to hate
'em as it is to kill snake. It's utterly
impossible for me to tell the strength,
and length, and height, depth and
breadth Of their contempt for that party
They look upon a Radical as--as--as-
well, as beggar on horseback Ia buzz
zard sailin round dead eagle-a suck
egg dog creepin up to tho tail Of dead
lion. They talk about hirin Brownlow
to abuse 'em, to use language on EN-
like he did few years ago when he
spoke against Pryne. If they do hire
Brownlow, he'll spatter EN-, he'll daub
'em all over, and slime EN- and slobber
on 'em about right, and it will stick, for
their pores are open and their morals
spongy. I'd like to stand off about ten
rods and hear him spread himself. /,
h.oasa be worse than assguirt-gun full
Of cow-slop, and have no doubt, would
give general satisfaction
"That's sufficient, sir" said old Bout
we'll. IF it was in their power to do
SO, would your people renew the fghtr
" Not unless they could fight the
Radicals all alone, and all the world
agree to hands off, Even then there
wouldn't be no fight, for we couldn't
cotch you"
What do your people say upon the
subject of negro equality r.
They say it's lie, sir--it don't
exist by nature and never can in practice.
Folks were not created free and equal.
That may be theoretical truth, but it's
always been practical lie. There's men |
give the sidewalk to-. and there's mon
that give 1t to me. There's men that
vote, and men that vote me, and the
grades up, step by step, from my sort to
Mr.. Davis and Mr.. Stephens, and Gen.
Lee, and Howell Cobb, and Ben Hill
and their sort; for they arc tho highest
in the nation; and then again it goes
from me down, down, down to the
niggers and the Republicans and the
Radicals, and that's as low as they run.
There amt no equality, and you can't
make one. We'll vote tho niger GER
tain. I'll vote Tip and Tips a head
scentre. He'll vote about forty, and the
first thing you know, we'll elect seven
big. black, greasy niggers to Congress.
Well do it certain--seycn of 'em eigh-
teen carats strong, with African musk
The other rebel States will do the same
thing, and you'll have about fifty of EN-
to draw seats with, and you can all stick
your legs upon your desks together and
swap lice and vermin, and be shampoocd
at the same shop, and the fair sexes can
sit together in the galleries, and mix
odors, and fan their scent about promis-
cuous. Wen give you full benefit Of
your Civil Rights bill, sec if we don't.
You go on-play your cards. We are
biding our time. We are payin' your
taxes and your duties and back rations
for 1864, and licenses, and your internal
revenue, and obeying your laws without
hayin any hand in maxim 'em, and we
are cut off from pensions, and public
land, and you sold poor mans still in my
county the other day because he couldn't
pay your tax on some peach brandy he
stilled for his neighbors two years ago;
and soon you'll be selling the land for
the land tax, and you're trying your best
to play the devil generally; but you'll
catch it in the long run. See if you
don't. Talk about Fenians. When the
good men. of the North and South all get
together, they'll walk over the track SO
fast that you wont have time to get out
Of the way. You'll subside into obscurity,
and your children will deny that their
daddies ever belonged to such party.
Excuse me, gentlemen, but I'm a little
excited. Five cents pound on cotton
will excite anybody that makes it. Tax
on industry--on sweat and toll. Protec-
ton tariff for Pennsylvania. and five
cents a pound tax on Southern cotton
half its average worth and your folks