Year: 1866

lhow we have benefited your country
Bill, or you would not Arp 30 continually
on imaginary evils.


! And we did ell this to keep you In the
| Union. We sent old John Brown, peace
to his ashes, fresh from stealing horses
lin Kansas, to atone for his sins by ressu-
ing negroes from your grasp in Virginia
And for this little pleasantly on the part
of one Of our rnartyrs--ons Of our illum-
mated title pages to history never
thanked us you should. And didn't We
throw some few iron into Charleston har-
Dor. The waters of that pool will be a
good tonic for years, Bill. And don't
Curtis save your cotton2 Didn't Butler
save your gold and protect your women
And didn't Banks save the Red River
property2 And didnt two hundred and
two hundred and eighteen generals get
rich as mud from finding things you folks
had lost? And is there not houseful
after houseful of ksepsakes picked up in
the woods and on WoOd-piles by our army
chaplains and our moral boys, while you
were trying to kill those of our folks
who wanted to visit you to keep your
souls from hell ?


Bill, you are ungratefuli Aud then
didn't we keep this war up, till the States
we're all back in the Union7 And didn't
We 90 to war and keep on going to war
to keep your dogoned States from going
out Of the Union9 And didn't we act
magnanimous, and as soon as the war
was over, unite in saying that you we're
out of the Union2 Really, Bill, itsesms
as if you had it all your own way This
war has proved q success. We were
bound to push It through in ninety days,
and We should butfor your stubbornness.
All we wanted was your niggers-and
your cotton, mules, furniture, silvsrware
and such odd tricks which you folks
could buy better than we could, for you
had more money It was wrong to keep
slaves, Bill, but it was not wrong to steal
This was to preserve the Union. Every
body said so. The Union has been pral
served-so mitch for is. Non, 5rettreA,
let as pray a.


Your States are kept out Of the Union
which is still preserved. You wanted
reconstruction. Well reconstruct yaG !
You folks are very wicked, Bill. God
Furnishes wickedness. Gods agents live
in the North exclusively, Bill And
we'll let you back in the Union, which
has been preserved, when we get ready
First, you must hunt up the balance of
your property and give it TO some of our
great and good agents or generals
Tfen you must move out of your houses
that is, what is left-snd let the mig
gers in. And you must give the niggers
your plantations. And Bill, you must
give them all your property, and then
support the innocent cause of the late
war by manual labor. Aud you must
let the niggers vote, for they are wanted
for Republican Congrsssmen, Senators
and SUCH And you must ignore all your
personal or war debts, and not pay them
even upon the basis of honor. And you
NEST help us pay for licking you. And
ere you do this, you must have all your
property taken from you, it will be so
easy. We are just magnahimous people
in the North We are liberal and
brotherly We want peace, and have
money We don't want you to go to
hell. Personally, we know but little of
this country. In eightsen-hundred d-and-
sixty-three we left your country imme-
diately in advance Of a bayonet for say
ing that some Of our folks were steeling
from some of your folks and for writing
naughty letters to the Lacrosse Demo
crat, charging some of our gensrals With
robbing and cowardice. And We have
had very pleasant time Of It at home
for thinking much as you think, but now
we are convinced that the war for the
preservation of the Union was splendid
sueoess-that the country is better of
that the negroes are happier-that the
people are in better circumstances, es-
pecially the thieves and robbers who
fattened upon blood and stolen their
enemies poor-that the way to make one
section Of theoountrylove another section
is TO fight, rob, steal, and desolats them
into happiness-that our taxes are higher
that republican retrenchment and re-
form is good thing for poor people and
-payers-tbat thesurs way to national
greatness is to quarrel with sections con,
tinually-thst a people are apt to love
their persecutors---that it is honorable
and an evidence to manly Christianity to
hammer man after he is down--that it
is blessing for poor people to pay in
terest on bonds the rich bold noticeable
that the negroes are better off in rags,
sickness, and shallow graves than at con-
tented labor-that it is Uncbristian to
present results, and that you folks down
South, and especially you, Bill Arp, So
called, are an ungrstefvl people not to
admire the present state of affairs in the
Union, so-ealled.


Indignantly yours,


BRICK " PoMERoY.