Year: 1866

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erals get rich as mud from finding things
you folks lost? And is rot there housefull
after housefull of keepsakes up north, pick
ed up in the woods and on woodpiles 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 ungrateful! And then didn't
we keep this war up, till the States were
all back in the Union? And didn't we go
to war and keep on going to war to keep
your dogoned States from going out of the
Union? And didn't you want to get out
Of the Union? And didn't we act magnani-
nous, and as soon as war was over, unite
in saying that you were outof the Union?
Really, Bill it seems as if you had it all your
own way! This war has proved a success.
A brilliant success. We were bound to
push it through in ninety days, and we
should but for your stubbornness. All we
wanted was your niggers-and your cotton,
mules, furniture, silver ware and such odd
tricks which you folks could buy better
than we could. for you had money! Itwas
wrong to keep slaves, Bill, but it was not
wrongito steal. This war was to preserve
the Union. Every body said so. The
Union has been preserved-so much for us.
NolO, brethren, let as pray.


Your States are kept out of the Union
which is still preserved! You wanted re-
construction, Well reconstruct you! You
folks are very wicked, Bill. God Furnishes
wickedness. Gods agents live in the north
exclusively, Bill! And wen let you back
into 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. Then you must move out of your
houses, that is, what are left, and let the
niggeTs in. And you must give the niggers
your plantations. And Bill, you must
give them all your property, and then sup
port the cause of the late war by manual
labor. And you must let the niggers vote,
for they are wanted for Republican Con-
gressmen, Senator, and sich. And you
must ignore all your personal or war debts,
and not pay them even on the basis of hon
or. And you must help US pay for licking
you. And ere you do this, you must have
all your property taken from you, SO it will
be easy. We are just and magnanimous
people in the north We are liberal and
brotherly! We want peace and harmony!
We don't want you folks to go to hsll, nor
do we want you to dress better than we do.
Personally, we know but little of this coun-
try. In eighteen hundred and sixty-three
we left your country Immediately in ad-
vance of bayonet for saying that some of
our folks were stealing from some of your
folks, and for writing naughty letters to the
La Crosse Democrat, charging some of our
generals with robbing and cOwardice. And
we have had very pleasant time oHit at
home for thinking as much ourselves; but
we are convinced that the war for the pre-
serYstion of the Union was a splendid sue
cess-that the country is better of-that
the niggeEs are happier-that people are in
better circumstances,;;e especially thieves and
robbers, who have fattened upon blood and
stolen their enemies poor-that the way 10
make one section of the country love anoth-
er section is to fight, rob, steal and desc
late them into happiness-that our taxes are
lighter-that republican retrenchment and
reform is good thing for poor people and
tax-payers-that the sure way to national
greatness is to quarrel with sections con-
tinually-that people are apt TO love their
persecutors-that it is honorable and an
evidence. of manly Christianity to hammer
on a man after he is down-that it is a
blessing for poor men to pay interest on
bonds the rich hold not taxable-that the
niggers are better off in idleness. rags,
sickness and shallow graves, than at con-
tented labor-that it is unchristian to resent
insults, and that you folks down south,
and especially you, Bill Arp, SO called, are
ungrateful people not to admire the present
state of affairs in the Union, so called.


Indignantly yours,


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