Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1866-01-12
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From the Nashville Banner.
BILL ARP TO HIS OLD FRIEND.

a few lines by way of unburtenin my sorrowiul
reflextions. For the last few years you have
travelled round right smart and must have made
heap of lumnus observations. ]. hear you are now
livin in Nashville, where You can see oil sides of
everything and read all ..,he papers, where you
can study Paradise lost without n book, and see the
Devil. and his angels,. without drawn ON the i
and | thought may be you might I
assist me in my troubled feelings" ] have always
Mr.. Happy, endeavored to see the bright side Of
every pikter if II had any but there is one or two
subjecks about which had nifty nigh gin it up.
want you toaell me If you can, about what /
time are the black republicans gon TO quit perse-
cutin our people? What are they so icveras,in I
mad with US about2 Old Skewball says It's for 4
treeson that we've gone and done, and that | am !,
the sowest perseevin man he ever seed not to have
found il out. .- ..
Now Treeson Is nifty bad thing, and any man 1
found guilty Of treeson ought TO be talked TO by
preacher right under gnlus, and then be allowed
TO stand on nothn for a few hours by the clock.
Shore enuf treeson I mean. Treeson where man
slips around on the sly in time of war, and takes
sides agin his country. Jest though for instance
/ snould have worked agn my suyrin State after
she had seceeded and stole her powder or deserted
her in her time Of peril, while she was defendin
herself against the combined assaults of the world, |
the flesh and the devil ! wouldn't have blamed
nobody for hanging me for the like, would you ?
that the war have settled the question agin US on
that pint don't think so my trend admit that we
aint nothin in partikler now, but we did hav sav-
reen States before the war, and the sword aint
settled nor unsettled no great principles, There
aint no trial of right OF wrong by wager of battle
now adays. For nifty nigh hundred years this
county have been big debatin society on these
question:. From the time Of Hamilton and Jefferson
down to 1861, the right Of State to dissolve her
own partnership have been nrguel by powerful
minded men, and there he's been more for it than
agn it. More Presidents--more Senators, more
statesmen, more judges more people. Massaychu-
sets and Connecticut were for IL az time, and
bellered ro"nd and paved dirt anazin to git out
but they found out Barcus was willin and they
didn't co. believe, however, that old Nutmeg
did stay out about two hours and half
Well the South went out nifty unwingly MI
Happy, as you know. She had been nifty nigh
kicked out for q long time, and there was big
party that wanted us 10 go ont and stay out
Every body knows dident git along in peace
so we concluded to DO like Abraham ana his
brother in law; TO separate our households. What
they wanted 10 keep us for never could see and
cant see yit. wouldent have nigger or dog
10 stay round me that di6ent want to. Some say
they wanted us 20 strengthen EN- agin their enc
mics in case of furrin war. Does any man in
his senses expect us 10 help the black republicans
whip any body? Have we got any worse enemies
than they are? They can't make us fight reckon
if we don't want TO. We've fout enuf and made
nothing by it but glory, and we ant going TO gne
in another war to crafty other people. Dodds
says before he'd pull trigger for Thad. Stevens,
he'd have his soul transmigrated TO bench leg'd
fce; and bark at his daddys mules 1000 years. |
wonder If the experience of tho last four years
aint satisfied these fellows that cur boys dan
gerous set to. be turned loose in time of war
wonldeht you think that as matter of policy
they would soft solder little, and quit their
slandcrin. If we do fight for EN-, there will be
one condition certain They mout be put where
David put Uriali, and cur boys mout consent to
make charge or two behind en- at TIE pint Of the
bagnct. '1-- .---.-" ff'i af
| But want You TO tell mr., Iuhn, ,.if am right
about the history of rhis bisness. 1t, aint long
story and-l u tell il the way see it, Old Pewry-
| tan went off one day with some ships, and took n
few bends and juce-harps and bought up a lot Of
captured niggers from the Hotentots some other
tots and stole q few more on the coast OF Atriky
and brought en- over and educated EN- to work IN
the fold, and cut wood, and skeer bars aad 50
forth, Dut not includin votin nor nuseTin nor the
jury bsncss nor so forth. h..i's I ...
Well, after while they found, that the cold winds
and goldfish airs of New England dident agree
with the niger, and so they begun to slide EN-
down South as fast as possible. After they had
sold EN- md got the money, they jined the church
woman that got converted and then give all her
norves away to her unconvertcd sister. Well, the
Old Dominion and sich of her sons rs Washington,
and Jefferson, and Madison, and Randolf, bought
EN- and worked en- 10 Substitution whereupon old
Pew got jealous and began TO preach agin II to
break it down. The fakt Is they woudent work
gals in their fktories if 1t warent profitable, for
they conscientiously opposed TO everything that
don't put muney in their gpockets. After while
they went into the striped alinonak bisness, maxim
bloody pikters of poor laseraed niggers gettin
hundred ashes for nuthin, and mournin for their
first born because they were not. Then they started
the stealth program, and while we were tryin all
the big courts and little courts TO get back one
silky melkter.by the name Of Dred Skott, they
were stealth from five to fifty day, and GOVERN
their carcasses over With niger larceny, and
smug,in the Con stitution into abOshin mush.
They built n fence around the institution as high
as Hamans gallus, and hemmed n in, and laid
segh to it Jest like an army would besege city to
starye out the Inhabitants. They KEPT peggin ut
us untell we got ad--show enuT mad--and we
resolved TO cut loose from EN- and paddle our own
canoo. - s4' t- ,H
Now all ,hls time we had some good trends
among em--some who swore we We're imposed
upon and. said we had good cause TO dissolve the
partnership They said that if we did sesecd and
the aholishuness made war upon us, they would
stend by US throw their lives and fortunes and
tHSlI SuhItu HOnOI IlBHl III Aut SithCIls huA
first fight would be over their dead bodies and so
forth and so on. My memory Is bad, hut re-
member that sonic OF EN- were named james
Buchanan, and Dan Dikinson, and John Cokrsn
and Logan, aud Cushn, aud Butler surnaned the
Beast, and McLernnnd, and Steven a, Douglas who .
got Ills commission about the time he died, and
carried il with him 10 parts unkpoYn, and lastly
man by the name Of Andy Johnson who suppose
are some distant relation 10 the President OF the
United States of Amcrky Bnt man aint re-
sponsible for the bad conduct VI his relations, and
don't throw II up 10 nobody. ! suppose that our
President are doin the best he cin, aud Mr. Eth.
ridge oughent to be taken up on his record.
Well the war come on, and show enuf Logan
and Cusbip and MeLerDRnd and Butler and Com
pany buzzed around whie like hun5le-bees tin
they were brought up and then they'll over on
the other side. They got their reward aud they
are welcome 10 il so far as am concerned.
How is it now Mr., IIappy2 They conquered Us
BY the sword, but they haven't conYinced Us o;
nuihin much that kpos of. All i lost save
knn nd hat tiaR etaa 4.