Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-05-31

tined to stop 1t among the lsraets, but 1t did mt
pay. He finally caught the dropsy in the Red Sea.
We are raisin boy children for the fun of it. They
are good thing to have in the house Mrs.
Toodles would saw"
MIR Arp, not the feelings of your people
very bitter towards the North?
81 beg your pardon, sir but you II have to split
the question, else I'll have to split the
Our people have very high regard for honorable
men, brave men, noble hearted men, and there's
a heap of 'em North, sir, and there's q heap of
widows and orphans there are sorry for but
as for this here Radical party, they look upon em
like they was hyenas q scrachin up the dead for
lvln. It's as natural to hate 'em it is to kill
snake. It's utterly impossible for me to tell the
strength and lenght and height, depth and breadth
of their contempt for the party. They look upon
a Radical as-as-as-well as beggar on horse
back-a buzzard sailin round dead eagle-a suck
iegg dog creepin up to the tail of dead lion
lThey talk about hirin Brownlow to abuse 'em, to
use language on 'em like he did few years ago
when he spoke against Pryne. If they do hire
Brownlow he'll spatter 'em, he'll daub 'em all
over, and slime 'em and slobber on 'em about
right, and it will stick, for the pores open
and their morals spungy. I'd like to stand off
about ten rods and hear him spread himself. It
would be worse than squirt gun full of cow-slop,
and have no doubt would give general satisfac
| ton"
''That's sufficient, sir" says old Boutwell,
EFF it was in their power to do so, would your
people renew the fight?"
| " Not unless they could fight the Radicals all
alone, and all the world agree to hands off
Even then there wouldn't be fight, for we
couldn't cotch you
"What do your people say upon the subject of
NEGRO equality?"
''They say it's lie, sir--it don't exist by ma
ture and never can in practice. Folks were not
created free ana equal. That may be theoreti-
cal TRUTH but it's always been practical lie.-
There's grades of society everywhere. There's
men give the sidewalk to, and there's men that
gives it to me. There's men that vote, and men
that vote me, and the grades go up, up, up, step
l l.
phens, and General Lee, and Howell Cobb, and
Ben Hill, and their sort for they are the highest
in the nation and then again 1t goes from
down. down, down to the niggers, and the Repub
leans and the Radicals, and that's as low as they
run. There sint no equality, and you can't make
one Wei vote tAe niggers certain. I'll vote Tip,
and Tips o head center. Hell vote about forty,
and the first thing you know wei elect seven big,
black, greasy niggers to Congress- Wei do it GER
tain-seven of 'em Is carAts strong, with African
musk. The other rebel States will do the same
thing, and you'll have about fifty Of 'em to draw
seats with, and you can all stick your legs upon
your desks together, and swap lies and vermin,
and be shampood at the same shop, and the fair
sexes can set together in the galleries and mix
odours, and fan their scent about promiscuous.-
We'll give you full benefit of your Civil Rights
bill, see if We don't You go on-play your cards
We are bidin our time. We are payin your taxes
and your duties and back rations for 1864 and Ii
censes and your internal revenue, and obeyin
your laws without havin any hand in maxim 'em,
| ana we are cut OH rom pensions, ana puDuC
lands; and you sold poor mans still in my coun-
ty 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 sellin the land
for the land tax, and you tryin 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 the South
all get together, they'll walk the track so fast
that you won't 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
a party. Excuse me, gentlemen, but I'm little
excited. Five cents pound on cotton will excite
anybody that makes it. Tax on industry-on
sweat and toll. Protection tariffs for Pennsylva
MIA and five cents pound tax on Southern cotton
half it. average worth-and your folks will man.
age some way other to steal the other half
Ny advice to you is to quit this foclishness and
| begin to travel the only road to peace"
| Old Blow couldn't keep up with his garbled
| tracts.
"What makes the President SO popular at the
South ?"
Contrast, sir-contrast The more he amt
like your party, the more popular he is He
would treat lis about right, reckon, if you would
let him alone, but you bedevil him so, that some
times he don't understand himself. don't think
he knew for a while whether his Peace Proclama-
ton restored the writ of habeas corpus not.
But do you go and mpeach him. and that will
bring matters to a focus. III bet you'd be in
Fort Delaware in a week and the Southern mem
bers be here in their seats, and they'll look round
stealage that's been going on, and they might ex-
claim in the language of the poet,
"Who's pin here since Tsh pin gomez
"Mr. Arp, suppose should have with
England or France what would the rebels do %
s'They'd follow General Lee, and General
johnson, and Longstreet, and Bragg and old
Bory. My opinion is that General Lee would
head the Union army, and General Grant would |
be his chief of staff, and General Buell. would
rank mighty high, and"-
'What would you do with General Sherman % |
':Sorry you mentioned him. We'd have to hire |
him, I reckon, camp fiddler, and make him
sing d" Hail Columbian by freight, as a warning
to the boys how mean it is to burn cities and
towns and make upon defenceless women and
children. No, sir, our boys would mt fight under
no SUCH"
At this time the man with the memorandum
put down some more garbled extracts
"Do you think Mr.: Arp, that if the South
should ever hold the balance ofpowel, they would
demand pay for their negroes ?"
81 can't say, sir. But don't think the South
has lost anything that way. We got their labor
before the war for their vittels and clothes and
doctors bills, and get it now for about the
same. It's all settled down that way, and your
Bureau couldn't help it. The only difference is
in the distribution. Some of us don't own as
ger or two now, and they'll all vote or turn EN-
off niger that wouldent vote I told him,
shouldn't black my boots"
At this time the Committee looked at one an
other, seemin to be bothered and astonished Gar
bled extracts we're put down with vim. Il
MI Boutwell, says he, MIR. Chairman, I think,
sir we are about through with the witness.
think, sir, his testimony settles the question to
what we ought to do with Southern traitors"
The chairman give me Republican nod and
remarked, eyes, sir, think we do. The scoun-
dres burnt my iron works. l.