The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1873-12-04
"PEACE PAPERS"
From The Abbeville Medium.

ROME ia, Nov. 9th, 1873.
Some time since I alluded through your
columns to new book by Major Chas. H
Smith, then in press, entitled "Peace Papers
by Bill Arp" The work has since been
issued, and take the liberty ofssnding you
a few excerpts beginning with the
| "DEDIKAsHuN
"To the unarmed, unleg'd unsy'd, unpen.
shun'd, unwept, unhouored, and unsung
soljisrs of the Confederit States, so called,
dedicate this book Their unafekted, un.
complainin patience in peace, 50 called, is
equaled only by THAR untarnishsd and un-
teryfded valor in war.
"When the patriotism and honor of our
brave boys ar reckonized by their Northern
brethren, so called; when they draw the
same penshuns, and receive the same bounty
land when evry dollar of back pay is voted
in the bill, when the widders and or6ns of
our Confederit dead are lifted up on the
game platform of Nashun's tstice, and
when the pecpul of these United States So
called, shake hands and make Trends over
the green graves of their heroes, then, and
not tell then, will there be shore snuf lasting
and unpretended peace.
"That blessed time is coming. Take
courage and wait for it, EYE MANNED, neglect
ed, and pennyess boys; cheer up, and hope
for it, ye widders and orfns of noble hand.
May you all live till it happens, if it takes a
thousan years.
- - BILL ARP.
"P. S.-If you don't cum soon, the com-
pound pterest on the back pay will brake the
Guverment, and they know it. 1t is bound
to cum. B. A."
II "PRErAsK'
"Gent,a Readr One day, as | was 60
ing along I heard man griffin his teeth,
and saw his eyes fash fire, and he slap'd
his fist in his hand like poppin wagon whips,
aud he was tsllin another man about fte
be had had His upper lip was all in
tremble, and the big vanss on his forrerd
was swellsd up like msckarony. He was
powerful mad. Feelin' an intrust in the
ike of that, stop'd and listened, and l
looked all over him to see if there wasn't
blood or dirt or hair on his clothes. Well,
IS I didn't see sny, seq |, "Mistsr, when did
all that happen? He paused and shuttin'
one eye like he was thinkin' sss he, "Well,
Observation-Disclosures
ago."
5, eve aint that nan. We hope nobody
will presoom to think we carry our war heat
that long. The fakt is, it aint the war that
our peepel IS mad about nohow. It's this
confounded, everlastin', abominabal peace
this tail to the comet-this rubin the skab
off before the sore gets well
"They've sorter let US slip back into the
Union, but they've put task.masters over US,
and sent carpet baggers down to plunder us.
They won't let us throw flowers ON the
graves of our poor boys who fell on their
side of the fence They wont give our in
valid soljiers, or our widders and orfns any
pensions. They taxd our cotton fifty mil
lions of dollars, and their courts sed it was
illegal; but they wont pay it back. 1t they
haint got laws strong enough to keep what
they stole, they'll 60 to Washington and set
ana SET I'LL Incy haeSh Su'
"Now if our settlers honor is as sakred
as theirs, why don't they psnshun our Grip.
pies? Why don't they wipe the stain of
treason from off our orfns There's Gim
Wilkins, who stood up like man in 1861,
with q heart in him as big rs meetin-house,
and when in his new soljier cloase he cum to
support arms" thought he was as
fine pikter of an American patriot as L
ever seed. But he lost a leg and an eye at
fredericksburg, and now, here he is goln
about hacked, and poor, and ragged, and
the great American Government skorns him,
and ses support yourself you dirty booger."
General Grant is disposed of as follows:
"Never mind. These chicken will cum
home to roost sum of these days. LII bet
Grant thousand dollars agin the best bull
terryer dog he's got. that if he lives 20 years
ne be set down in history as regar aksl
dental bust. I'll bet there was ten thousand
soljiers in the Yankee army who would have
made better fite, and u hundred thousand
who would hav made better President
Darn a generul who, in time of war trade:
off three men for one Hang Preslden
who gives his Government no carakter, who
wont run the masheen, who smoaks around
u frolikin with hosses and dogs, and retaillr
old army joaks in change for sickoiantl'
smiles.
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"But don't know that its any Of ou
business who is President. l suppose 1T
none of our funeral, only we do sorter feel
sumtimes. larger pride in the respektablll
ty of the American government. Whei
furriners cum over here and is lookln aroun'
for our King, we would like to show 'en
sumthin better than figger-head."
In making these extracts, all OF which,
must add, have been taken from the preiac
the ante-room, whose furniture is only
tortiori an index to that Of tho inner apart
ment-I have felt the full force Of Boswell