Year: 1866

own ways lnIS war mas proved SUCCESS.
We we're bound to push it through 10 ninety
days, and we should but for your stubborn.
ness. All We wanted was your niggers-snd
your cotton, mules, furniture, silver ware and
such odd tricks which you folks could buy
better than we could for you bad more
money! 1t was wrong to keep slaves, Bill,
but it was not wrong to steal. This war
was to preserve the Union. EVERYBODY said
so. The Union hae been preserved-so
much for us. Now, brethren let as pray.


Your States are kept out Of the Union
which is still preserved You wanted recon,
struction. Well reconstruct you! 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
Then you must move out of your houses,
that is, what are left, and let the uiggsrs in
And you must give the niggers your planta.
tions And Bill, you must give them all
your property, and then support the innocent
cause of the late war by manual labor
And you must let the nggers vote, for they
are wanted for Republican congressman, Sen
ators and sich. And you must ignore all
your personal or war debts, and not pay
them even upon the basis Of honor. And
you must hell us pay for licking you. And
ere you do this. you must have all your pro-
perty 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 60 to hell, nor do We want
you to dress better than we do. Personally
we know but little Of this country. In eigh
een-bundred and sixty'three we left your
country Immediately in advance Of bay
onet for saying that somei Of your folks
were stealing from some of our folks and for
writing naughty letters to the La Crosse
Democrat, charging some Of our generals
with robbing, and cowardce. And we have
bad very pleasant time of it at home for
thinking much as you think, but now wa are
convinced that the war for the preservation
Of the Union was splendid success-that
the country is better off-that the negroes
are happier-that the people are in better
circumstances, especially the thieves and
robbers who have fattened upon blood and
stolen their enemies poor-that the way to
make one one section Of the country love
another section is to fight, rob, steal and des
olate them into happiness that our tax.
es are lighter-that republican retrenchment
and reform is good thing for poor people
and tax-payers-thst the sure way to nation
al greatness is to quarrel with sections COM
tinualy-tbat people are apt to love their
persecutors-that it is honorable and an evil
dence of manly Christianity to hammer q
man after be is dowu-that it is a blessing
for poor men to pay interest on bonds the
rich hold not taxable-that the negroes are
better off in rags, sickness and shallow graves
than at contented labor-that it is unchris,
tian to resent insults, and that you folks
down south, and especially you, Bill Arp, so
called, are an ungratefu people not to admire
the present state Of affairs 10 the Union, so
called Indignantly yours,


"BRIcK" PoMERoY.