The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-06-14
MRS. ARP's SOAP
Used to Wash the Faoes of Federal Sol:
dIers.

The Rev. Mr.. Bradwell is good man
good citizen and good preacher. BE
is colored man with form and face
that attracts attention. He is the pre-
siding elder, and was well.raised by
Savannah gentleman and has the man
ners of a gentleman. He is my neighbor
and we like him, for he sets good
example to his race. Congress has just
passed bill to pay him nearly four
thousand dollars for four bales OF cotton
that Sherman's bummers picked up and
carried away to keep for him and forgot
to return. The bill was passed unani.
mously, and We are glad of it. A thou.
sand dollars a bale is right fair price
for cotton. That claim was allowed
because Mr.. Bradwell is a colored man,
and it shows the kindly feelings of the
people both North and South to the
colored race. Maybe this is the begin.
ing of the great restoration. Maybe our
white folks will come next and get some
of the surplus that is in the treasury.
Ifthey will pay us what they owe US
and took from US with malice afore.
thought we won't say word more about
the tariff nor internal revenue. I see
there are q lot of claims being filed from
the South, and I wonder if the claimants
were Union men 80. called, or our mem.
bers of Congress just taking them
up promiscuous. If they are all
Union men they are getting pretty
numerous of late, and, I reckon will get
more thicker, more denser, as Cobe says,
if Congress is going to pay them. Most
all of the original secessionists are dead,
but the Union men are lively-quite
lively. Well, the fact is, we were all for
union on fair principles. A few wanted
to fight just for the fun of the thing, but
not many. Most of us just wanted to
secede-to dissolve the partnership
that's all. We never proposed to invade
their territory nor interfere with the
government at Washington. We never
hankered after q fight, and we never
believed there would be any. I hollered
and shouted with the boys for secession,
but when the fighting come on I quit
hollering and became as gentle as suck
ing dove. Most everybody would have
compromised but the women and the
preachers, but we were in for it and had
to fight or back down. We never invad-
ed their territory aud if they had let US
alone we would have let them alone, and
80 1 don't consider myself responsible
aud therefore they ought to tote fair and
settle up. My wife lost a barrel of soap
that we left in the smokehouse and she
wants pay for it. 1t was good, old.
fashioned lye soap, made in the dark OF
the moon. General Vandiver occupied
our house and used up all that soap in
ak weeks. He must have been an awful
dirty man. I wasen't doing very much
fighting then-I vas running-and that
was our principle business for several
months, just lodging around with no rest
for the soles of our feet. The foul
invader kept US trotting. I met q
friendly yank the other day who was
with Sherman perusing this beautiful
country. A mutual friend introduced
US, and asked him if he didn't know Bill
Arp. "Bill Arp" said he. "Bill Arp,
the Roman runagee. Why, yes, of
course. Ineyer saw his face before, bnt
his back is quite familiar" I met
another one, the next day, who said he
was up in the valley with General Banks,
and monkeyed around stonewall Jack.
son, until he could run like deer. he
said that Banks was Jackson's commits.
sary, and the boys thought it was cheaper
to feed old Stonewsll than to fight him,
and so they always fought runnin' ;
and whom their wounded men got to the
hospital, the surgeons always turned
them over face downwards, to see where
abouts in the back they were shot. eve
were the backbone Of the army" said he,
"aud always fell fighting with CTR feet to
the foe and our face to the ground.
Stonewall Jackson was spirit-a Joan
of Arc-and We never knew where be
was, or when he was coming"
have been mixing up with good
many of our Northern brethren of late,
and like them. If they are fair samples,
we will take carload and make con.
tract for more. I believe they will pay
Mrs. Arp for that barrel of soap, with
compound interest. The fact is that
nobody but liberal-minded, conservative
people will come down here from the
North. The mean, bigoted, fanatical
class, who were born hating US, don't
want to come, and they are not coming
blizzard or no blizzard. That's all right
We will have a select population after
while, and get up cross that will har'
monize the sections.
One of these friendly yanks stopped
here last Tuesday and looked at our pile
of iron ore that is in the front yard neal
he depot, and asked where it came from
We pointed to the hills and mountaini
all around us-"Why, dou'tyou do some
thing with it," he said in surprise. We
told him we hadn't been in hurry about
it; that man by the name OF Sherman
came along through this country ane
burned down all our furnaces, and il
made us so mad it took us twenty. five
years to get over it, but we have swage1
down right smartly now, and are going
to do something. He came round to
town meeting that night and took twenty
shares of stock in our new furnace ane
paid the first installmentand went away
and said we would hear from him later
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