Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1866-01-24
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Bill, Arp to his old Friend.

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.ses. Bill Arp to his old Friend. 4
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- - want to write to you personally about
some things that's weighin on me. l look
= upon yen IS q friend, and ] feel like droppin
a few lines by way of unburthenin my sor-
:. .1roxful refextions. 3 For tho last. few years
you haycstrsTelled round right smart, and
must have uiade;a heap of1aminus obserya-
.iofis.. iF-hsar' voc are now iivinsin Nashville,
where you can. see all sides of everything,
and read allthe papets-;where you can study
Paradise lost without a book, and zee the
Devil and his. angels, without drauin on the
imagination, and I thought may be you might
a.sistans llymy troubled feelings. / have
always, Mr. Happy, cndeayored to see the
bright side Of every p;kter if it had any, but
there is one1or two subjecks' about which ]
had NIFTY nigh ginit up. . =.,5s--. !
l want you to tell me, if you can, about
what time aresthe black republicans soin to
quit persecutin our people? What are they
are so eyeriastia mad with US about2 Old
Skewbald says its for treason that we've gone
and done, and that I am. the. slowest per
seevin maa he ever seed not to have found
1T out. ~ ~ s 80
- Now treason Is nifty bad thing, and any
man found guilty of treason ought to be
talked to by preacher right under gallus,
and then be allowed to stand on notaia for
few hour, by the clock. Shore enuff .trea.
sonI mean. Treason where man slips
Yound: ON the sly in time Of wsr, and takes
,ssidessagin his country Just as though, for
instance, should hare worked agini my suv
rim State arter she had seeded, and had stole
her powder, or deserted her in her time Of
peril, while she was defending herself agin
the. combined assaults OF the world, the flesh
and the devil. & I wouldn't. have blamed no
body for .hangin me for the like, would you ?
But Skewball says we amt got no suvreen
States-that the war hav settled the que5-
ton agin US. On that pint do.t think so,
nv friend. I admit that we amt nothin in
partikler nov, but We did hay suvreen States
before the war, and tie sword amt settled
nor unsettled no great principles. There
aint NO trial of right or wrong by wager of
war now adsJs. For mighty nigh hug
sSSred years this country have been o big de-
abatin society on these questions. Fro. the
time of Hamilton and Jefferson down to 1861,
tho right of Estate TO dissolve her own part.
nership have been argued by powerful mind
ed men, and there has been more for it than
agin it, More Presidents-more Senators,
more statesmen, mere Judges, more people.
Massychusetts and Connecticut were for it
at one time, and bellered round and paved
drt amazin to git out, but they found out
Barcus was willin, AMI they didn't 60. be-
Geve, however, that old Nutmeg did stay out
about two hours and o half.
Well the South went on nifty unwillingly,
Mr.. Happy, Us you know. She had been
nifty nigh kicked ont for long time, and
4 there was big party that wanted. Us to 60
out and stay out. Everybody knows that
we dident gis along inpeace, so We eonclu-
dsd to do Ike Abraham and his brother In
: law; to &seperate our households. What
they wanted to keep us for never could zee,
and ,can'tsse it yet. Iwouident have mig.
- ser or % dog to stay, round me that dident
want TO. Some say they wanted US to strength.
en- 'em agin their. enemies in case of q furren
war. Does any man in, bis sober senses ex
4pect Us to hclpthe black republicans whip
: any .body2 Have we got any worae enemie:
!, than they are 2 They can't make Us fight
= .eckon1if we don't want to-. We have fou
enuf and mace nothing b.. it but glory, and
we we amt going to give another. war to CRAFTY
,.shcr people D0dds says before he'd pull q
> trigger for Shad Steyeuss he'd have his sou
sfransmigrated tos g, bench leg'd fee, auG
ybark at his daddy's mules 20o0 years.
.wonderif the, experience of the last foul
years amt satisfied them fellers that our boyi
:, are dangerous set to be turned loose in The
J. time of war. Wealdent you think that as q
Z matter ofpolicy they would soft soddor US 1
little, and quit tLeir slanderin. If we de
fight for, ,em, it will be on one condition Ger
stSin ahey nsts.be put SShsrs David pm
Uriah, and our boys must consent 10 make I
charge or two behind 'em. ait6 the pint o
: the: bayones. ~ - .,s,
-, But Ixant you tell.me, Johr, iif ! am righ
shout this burness.' 1t aint long story
I'll tsll it the way see it. OLD P.wryt,l
went OF one day wi i some ships and took
few beads and JUICE harps and bought up.
lot Of captured niggers from the Hottento,
or some. other tots; and stole a. few more O,
sasthe coast of Afriky and brought 'em over ant
= educated 'em to work in tho field, and Gu
wood, and. skeer bars and so forth, but no
: includii yotin nor musterin, nor the jury bus
mess and SO forth. ~
- ef,, alteF @uiiS si.ey 'ous'o sA~.S Tue Soi'
winds, and goldfish ATS Of New Englaa,
szaident agree With the niger, and SO they be
glhato slide en down south as fes. as ,possi
8 tble sser ahey had sold. them and got th
m9nes; they iined the church and, 4becaln
sascfi6ed about slavery, serter like The VIC
man that; ;gat converted and then gave al
I sels a&iy 10 her sunconyested sister
" Een, tke; Old Dominion and such ofaher son
- as Washington, aud JsferSson, and 'Aadisoi
sad Randolf, sought em and worked ea t
satisfakatisn, whereupon Ole Pew got jealou
and began TO prescb agir It to break it dpwl
Tho cfact isthey Readea work gals in thel
fsktnries tfi. warrent so profitable; for the
sgare lcobscientiously opposed. to eyeEythin
thst' 'dont: put ,hane5 IN their p6ckets.'s a.
ter awhile they " at into the striped alma
rec hus;1,ess. making bloody pik.ers Of poo