Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-03-30
Bill Arp on the Situation.

From the Rome Ga Courier.
 ROME, Bic SHANTY TERRITORY. No.3.l
 March 8, 1867.
 MR. EDITOR My intention was to have remained in dignitied obscurity the small remnant of my miserable days, but my friends Bob Hide, Sam McCrakin, Tip and other respectable gentlemen of all sexes and both colors, seem to be disheveled about the times. aud insist on my views about the mo- mcntous state of our suilerin country The good people ill Atlanta have got saiaky ill the knees, and it is the duty of every good citizen to keep the dis case from spreading if he can. haven't been to Washington, nor been playin sentinel on watch tower, but my observations convinces me there is power of fuss on hand about somc- thing. Politics looks squally and alarmin. Bill Sherinan overrun the country, and destroyed and carried away our property, and now his broth CT John is finishin up the job by robbin us of the rights and liberties our fore fathers won. General Thomas is play ln vantom with his 2l ordcrs-puttin harmless boys in the barracks for tab leauin with an old rebel flag-accusin us of all the crimes in the decalogue :; such as murder, larceny, rape arson, burglary, bigaIny,Ipcrjury and suicide, throwin up ill our teeth the magma nimity of our conquerors, as bein our safety valve from death and Beelzebub. Good gracious! what an awful people we gre!
 And ROW comes Joseph, the sentinel, with his long winded message of con- solation, telling ns how we may flee from the wrath to come-skeerin the people to death, and gcttin everything into stew. What made him ill such a hurry? why dident he keep silence for q few days until the veto was signed, and the veto was passed? Why did cnt he give MT. Jenkins chance? If the times was so perilous, why dident he go and see Mir. Jenkins, and give him his opinion in private and save all this excitement? Mir. Jenkins is the Governor: he is the sentinel on the watch tower; he's the pilot of the old ship; he's the peoples choice. He can call the Legislature when it is necessa- ry. If he is in doubt about it, he can consult with Lumkin and Cobb, and Hill and Cooper, and Hardeman and Gibson, and Brown, and decide what ought to be done, and tho people will be satisfied. But while the ship is in a storm let all the deck hands keep si- fence. The word will come from the Captain soon enough. May be that Joseph feels sortcr responsible for the fix he's got us in. May be he's repent in for the didos he cut up, and the seeds of discord he sowcd durin the war; but l doubt it. l don't think his ambition or his vanity sees anything but his own importance. It looks like he though the Capital was moved to Atlanta, and he was Governor still.- He's afraid the people will think he's dead, and just as soon as a big thing happens, and little before he clutches the occasion-seizes the opportunity delivers his message, stirs up the peo pie, sets the Gate City in ferment gets his name in the Herald and Trib. une. Joe Brown, whale, big leader conspicuous, fame, history, Mir. Jenkins nowhere, Milledgeville gone up, Jo scph E. runhin the machine in At lanta!
 Well, don't know what is at th, bottom of all this, but I am afraid tha ,wllile Joseph was in Washington some, body carried him up on to higl mountain and showed him a Kingdom or two, and he fell down and wor shipped. ,The, "''t'e kingdoms that man scty of a mountain
 his fuss whicl