The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-11-21
VOLUME VI1.---NO. 20.
From the Rome (Ga.) Commercial.
Bill Arp on the Collapse.

AS the poet sed 4"the agony is over" Them
cards in the sleeve would hav beat any honest
hand. Besides, as Thomp. Allan would say,
We played badly. Baltimore Convention, and
| OConnor and Alex Stevens and limited sup
ply of votes has beat us. Well, we still live.
I'm not goin to bed about it. Old Greeley amt
no kin to me. Grant aint neither, and that's
whats the matter. 1 talked for Greeley and
writ for him and voted for him, but never
did banker after him. 1t made such an ever
lastin fuss in my family had like to run away.
You see Mrs. Arp wasent rekonsiled. She were
strait, and when she amt rekonsiled things
aint as plassid as silver lake around my house.
don't mean that times is hot or desperate but
to say the least of it they are pekuliar. A
man likes to hav his bed and his board screen.
Don't he? So you see as my wife was strait
it dident become me to be very crooked. And
want-at home. She's good oman and shell
endure everything and never grunt nor groan,
but she wont compromise worth a cent. l told
her l had no partikler use for Greeley and that
he was darned old infatyated humbug, but
that our paper belonged to the great unterry-
fide, unsatisfde, transmorgrifde Democratic
party and must keep into line. She sed some
remarks about papers lyin by the day and by
the week and about self respect and indepen-
dence and the like, and grew meek like Moses
in few minutes. The fact is, I'm meek
man. I've laid awake of nights ruminatin
how meek was.
Mrs. Arp thinks the paper ought to take
''TRUTE" for motto and work up to it, 1 told
her it would be dangerous experiment, but
she says it has never been tried yet. If
wasent afeerd the little Arps would perish to
deth durin the experiment would try it. Old
Shank says we cant be worsted, for he has tride
lying for 20 years and it wont pay. He saysit
would be an episode in the press, kurosity,
something like elephant or an eklipse or John
Robysons circus He says sometimes paper
sukseeds by lyin, like the New York Herald
and the Tribune and Forney's paper, but it has
to be we'll backed. The Herald has got so now
it can quit party and set back in cheer and
tell the truth in its old age; like an old sp,k-
ulatur who has made a fortune by cheatin
and lyin and then puts his money in stocks
from 80 per cent down to 10, and that Forney
is the only editor who ever went up to lOO
and kept it there.
Well, now that Grant has got in, don't see
any necessity for runnin the Commercial at a
high pressure. If all the lyin issues aint ded
they are past doctorin. Now is good time to
90 to developin the country. We can raise
children and chickens by the 1000 in years.
Some of our folks is tellin around how the
country could have been saved, and all that.
Old Shank thinks he knows, but he don't
He's q good fellow, old Shank is. he don't
gas around, but jest tells me privately, and
asks me to say nothing about it. which 1 don't.
But heard one feller goin it, and he said,
"Gentlemen, if the people of the South had
hav taken my advice, this kalamity wouldent
hav happened. talked to em, and preached
to em, but you might as we'll have tried to stop
Gawtamaller hurricane with thinable full of
sulphuretted hydrogen gas"
Well, don't like his sort nor his gas 1t
don't do any good The thing has happened
the dog is ded. Grant aint agoin to take away
our bred corn nor tobaker. AS for few little
post Offices and tax collectors, I dident care
ANYTHING about EN-. Them whats got EN- needs
EN-, reken, and its took power of low down
hard work to get em.
We hav got all the State officers, from Gov
ernor Smith down to the bottom, and I'm sat-
isfed. Hurrah for old Georgy!
BILL ARP.
PSI remarked to-day in crowd: "We
are nation of thieves" and an offs holder
slipped up to me and whispered, "Call no
names Bill, call no Names" Thars something
1vrono ohout that man R A.