Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1866-01-19
ANOTHER LETTER FROM BILL ARP.
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REsPEcTABuL PEEPLE: address you on this
okkashun with profound admiration for the con-
sideration and the nice discrimination which caused
you to honor me by your votes with a seat in the
Sinate of Georgy. For two momentus and nspirin
weeks the Legislature have been in solemn session,
one Of whom am proud to be which. For seve-
raj days we were engaged rs skouts, making sor-
ter rckonysanee to see whether Georgy were a
State or lnjun terrytory-whetber we were in
the old Union or out of it--whether me and my
foxes and you and your foxes were somebody or
nobody, and lastly, but by no means leastly,
whether our poor innocent children born during
the war, were all illegal and had to he born over
agin or npt. This last pint are much unsettled,
but our women are advised to be kahn and screen
My friends, our aim hav honestly been To git you
all back into the folds of the goryous old Un-on.
Like the prodygal son, we had nuthin to live on,
and feelin lonesome and hungry, hav been bowin
and scrapu and maxim apoogys for five or six
months. We have been seen standin afur off for
weeks and weeks, but durn the calf do they kill
for US. They know we've got nothin, for they eat
up our substance, and as for putting rings on our
fingers, coudent expekt it until they bring back
the jcwciry they carryed AWAY. cannot saw, in
the langwidge of the poit thatou labor have been
a labor OF love, for we've had monstrus poor eu-
couragemsptto to be shore; but we had all set our
heads towards the stars and stripes and VIC jintly
determined that, come wool come wo, sink or swim,
survive or perish, thunder litenin 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 10 EN-, so called, golly.
Up 10 this time it bave been an up hill bisness.
The team was good one and the gear all sound
and the wagin creased but the road. are perhaps
the rufest, rostcnes, corduroy in the world. Its
pull up and skotch, and pull up and skotcb aud
ever aud anonymous the skotch slips out and the
tung cuts round and away We 60 into the gully
Andy Jonsn is the driver, and he says Go slow"
and he hollers "Wo! wol' and loses the road and
then we have to 60 bachto 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 gentlemen, who keep
hollerin at him and crackin his whip and confusin
his idees, so that sometimes 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 does, I wish they would say it. !
don't encourage cussin in nobody not at all but il
You know Of man that can't be broke of it du-
rim his material life il mout be well TO hire him by
the year. II ther is in all history good exkuse
aud proper subek, il is upon them hairless, soul
less bowelless gzzardlsss fatrisidel paraside alb
ominabul, conemptibul, disgustibul individuals.
sometimes think of EN- till my brains gifts sorter
added and feel like becumin volunteer convikt
of the Lunatc Asylorum. Charitys inclipes me to
the opynun that old Summer are crazy think he
has been gittin wosse ever since he took Brooks on
the brain, and it do seem like the disease have
proved con'ags. If they are. for Peace it mnst be
the Peace that passeth all understanding for we can
fahom i, in these regions They iout us to free The
poor Niger but ddent keer for the Union. The
Western boys fout for the Union but dldent care
for the nigger By, double teamin on us they
licked US and We give It up, but now the one don't
want our niggcrs and the other don't want our mig
gers and the other don't want our Union, and its
the hardest skedule to please EN- both thata poor
vanqnished pcepul ever undertook. It's the mSsi
hardest war TO wind nip that history rckorls.-
Sumner Satan aud Company, are still fissin and
fuming about the everlastin nigger--want him to
vote and make laws, and squat on jewry, and
want to perhihitus tebcls from doing the same
thing for 80 years to cum. Jerusalem where is
the cussia man? They say II is all right for
niger not to vote in Connecticut bekause there
aint but few Of EN- thar, and its all wrong for
en- not to vote in Georgy bekaus there's heap of
em here, and they talk Logik and Retorik amazn
to prove ho', tits We'll haint got whole pas
sci Of sense like sum- butns shore as I'm two foot
high nigger is niger don't keer whar yop
smell him. and a vote is vote don't keer whar
you drap ii. | golly they can't get II over that.
The truth Is, my feller.citzens, sometimes feel
like we dident have no government ielsShat
way sorter, when Mr.. Gibson appinted ME COM
mttee on the State ofithe Republik. When the
Sekretary read out my name all mixed up with the
Repubk ! felt that ] was obeeged to renig.-l
Risn maestkully to my feet says ], "Mr. Pres-
dent, Ibcg to'be respekably exkused sir, IL you
please. If thar is any Rcpublik this side of
Jordan, cant purseee ID at this time with these
speks. Thar was place in old Virginy called
Port Repubk, but Mr.. Rebel General Stoncwall
Sackson wiped out It's contents generally 10 1853,
aud haven't since heard of j: in Northern ltera,
ture | have heard of scrub conssrn over about
Washington, they call Republick, but, sur, it
are likely to prove the biggest imposure that ever
existed on continent of freedom. suppose, sur,
il are 10 be moved TO Boston or the internal regions
in few days and ! want nulhin TO do with it,
Exkuse me. sur, but must insist on bein Tespek-
taby discharged" | took my seat amid the ITo.