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RILL ARP ON THE STATE OF THE
- COUNTRY.
"Sweet land of Liberly of thee I sing."
Not much I don't„ not at tLis time. If
there's anything sweet about liberty in this
part of the vineyard, I can't see it. The
Lad's good ciiuf and I would'nt mind hear-
in a rhyme or two about the dirt I live on,
but as for me findin sugar and liberty in
Georgy soil, its all a mistake Howsumev
er, I'm hopeful. I'm much calmer and se
reener than 1 was a lew months ago. I
begin to feel kindly towards all people, ex
sept some. I'm row endeaverin to be a
great national man. I've taken up a mot
to of no North, no South, no East, uo West;
hut let me tell you, my frend, I'll bet on
Dixie, as long as I got a dollar. Its no
harm to run both skedules. In fakt its
highly harmonious to do so. I'm a good
Union reb, and battle cry are Dixie- and
the Union.
But you see, my frend, we are gettin
restless about some things. The war had
begun inity heavy on us, and after the big
collapse, we thought it over for good.—
We had killed folks & killed folks until the
novelty of the thing had wore off, and we
were mity nigh played out all over. Chil
dren were increasin and vittels diminishin.
By a close calculashun it was* perceeved
that we did'nt kill our enemies as fast as
thee was imported, and about those times
1 thought it was a pity that some mirakle
of gnce had'nt cut of the breed of furrin
rrs some 18 or 20 years ago. Then you
•.< isld haw seed a far fight. General Sher
nnr wciil I'nt have walked over the track
and Uhsts wouid have killed more men
than h did— oj his own side. I have al
ways thot' that a General ought to be per
tikler which side he was sacrifisin.
Well, if the war is over, what's the use
of fillin up our towns and cities with sol
diers any longer. Where's your rekon
struction that the papers say is goin on so
lapidlv ? Where's the liberty and freedom?
The fakt is, General Sherman and his oat
tei pillars made such a clean sweep ol every
thing. 1 don't see much to rekonstrukt.—
They took so many liberties around here
that there's nary lih rty left. ' oul., ive
reconstructed a tin usand sich Siatet: beiore
this. Any body couhl There wasn't
notliin to do hut je-t go off and let us alone.
We've got plenty of Statesmen—plenty of
inen for Governor.
Joe Brown ain't ded—he's waitin—
standin at the d 'or with his hat off. i lien
what's the soldiers here for —what good
are they duin—who wants to see etn any
longer ? Even body is tired of war and
don t wa.it to see any more signs of it.
The -dggers don't want'em and the white
m- n don't want Vm.and as for the vvimin—
whopee! I golly! Wcll,t* "re's no use talkin
when the stars fall agin may be the wim
in will be harmonized. That male busi
ness - the oath about gettin letters ! Gee
tiger ! They always was jealous aboui thft
males anyhow, and that order jest broke
he "fimel's 1 ack. Well, I must confess it
i poweiful small concern. I would
ry to sorter smooth it over if I knowd
'•at to say, but I don't. If they wasn't
afeered of the wimin, why didn't they say
=o ? Jest to airgrevate them. Didn't they
know that the best way to harmonize a
man was to harmonize his wife first ?
What harm can the wimin do by receivm
their letters oath free 1 They can't vote
nor can't preach, nor hold orfis, nor play
soldier, nor muster, nor wear breeches, uor
i <le stra Idle, nor nor chaw tcrbacker,
u r notliin hardly but talk and write letters
1 hear that a valant kernel made wimin
put up lie fan 'cause it had a picter of
Borvgard 'pon it Well, she's harmouiz
ed, I rccon. Now the trouble of all such
is that after these bayonets leave here and
go home.these pettyeoat tyrants can't come
home, back any more. Some Gcorgy fool
will smash the juice out of'em sertin, and
that wouldn't be geither haimonious nor
healthy. Better let the wimin alone.
Then there is another thing I'm waitin
for Why don't they rekonstrukt the nig
gers if they are ever goin to ? They've give
'em a powerful site of freedom, and very
vary little else. Here's the big freedmen's
buro, and the little buros all over the
country, and the papers are full of grand
orders and special orders, and paragraft%
but I'll bet a possum some of 'em steals
my wood this winter or freezes to death.
Freedmen's buro freedmen's humbug, I
say. Jest when the corn needed plowin
the worst, the buro rung the bell and tolled
all t&e niggers to town, and tbe farmers
lost the crops ; and now the freedmen is
gettin cold and hungry, and wants to go
tea But freedmen is big thing. Hurraw
for freedmen's baro ! Sweet land ofliberty
'♦TO SPEAK HIS THOUGHTS IS EVERY FREEMAN'S RIGHT." —Thomas Jeliersoti.
TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, JAN. 17, 1866.
of the I don't sing ! But all is right. I'm
for freed men myself. Nobody wants any
more slavery. If the abolishunists had let
us alone we would have fixed it up right
a longtime ago, and we can fix it up now.
The bnro aint fixed it, and aint a going to.
It don't know anything about it Our
people have got a heap more feelin for the
poor nigger than any abolishunists. We
are as poor as Job, but I'll bet a dollar
we can raise more money in Rome to build
a nigger church than they did in Bostown,
The papers say that after goin roun for 3
weeks, the Bostown christians raised
thirty-seven dollars to build a nfgger
church in Savannah, They are powerful
on theory but mity seace in practice.
But no use talkin. Everybody will know
by waitin who's been foold. Mr. Johnson
says he's gwine to experiment, that's all
he can <fb now—its all anybody can do.
Mr. Johnson's head's level. I'm for him
and everybody ought to b fore him—only
lie's powerful slow about somethings.—l
ain't a worahippin hi in. lie never made
nie. I bear folks hollerin hurraw for An
dy Johnson, and the papers say, oh ! lie's
tor us, he's all right, he's our friend.—
Well, spose lie is, hadn't be ought to be ?
Did you expeoi him to l>e a dog. Bekase
he ain't a liangin of us, is it necessary to
be play in hiprocrit around the footstool of
power, and niakin out like he was the
greatest man in the world, and we was the
greatest sinnei ? Who's sorry ? Who's re.
penting 1 Who ain't proud of our people?
Who loves our enemies? Nobody but a
durncd sneak. I say let 'em hang :md be
hanged to 'em before I'd beg 'em for grace.
Wliar's Sokratcs, whar's Cato ? But if
Andy holds his own. the country's safe, pro
vided these general asscmblys and sinods
and Bishops conventions will keep the dev
il and Bronlow tied.* Here's a passei of
slinkhearted fellers who played tory jest to
dodge bullits or tave property, now howlin
olout for otfis—want everything bekase
they was for the Union. They was for
themselves, thats all they was for, and they
aint agoing to get liie offices r eithe'. Mr.
Johnson aint got no more respeck for 'cm
than I have. We want to trade 'em off.—
Bv hokey, we'll give two of them for
one copperhead, and ax nothing to
boot. Let 'em shinny on their own side
and get over among the folks who dont
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want us reconstrukted. There's them
newspaper scribblers who slid down to the
edge of Dixie every 24 hours, and peep
over at us, on tip toe Then they run back
apiiflia and Mowin' with a straight coat
tail, and holler out, "lie ain't dead—lie
ain t dead —look out every body. Im jest
from there—seed his toe move—heard him
grunt; he's goin' to rise agin. Don't with
draw the sogers, but send down moretrops
imrnegeately." And here's your Harper's
Weekly a headin all sich—a gassin lies and
slanders in every issue—makin insultin
piktere in every sheet— breed in everlastin
discord and chawin bigger than ever since
lie got licked,wish old Stonewall had cotch
these Harpers at the Ferry, aud we boys
had kuowed they was goin to keep up this
devilment so long. We'd make baptists
out of them sertin, payroll or no payroll.
Hurraw for a brave soldier I say, reb o r
no reb, yank or uo yank ; hurraw for a
manly foe and a generous victor—hurraw
for our side too, I golly, excuse me, but
such expressions will work their way out
sometimes breaks or no breaks.
But I'm for Mr. Johnson. I'm for all
the Johnsons —its a bully name. There's
our Governor, who ain't goin at a discount
and there's Andy who is powerful well
considerin and tlieres the hero of Shiloh —
peace to his noble ashes.
And theres Joe—my bully Joe—would
nt I walk ten miles of a rainy night to see
them hazel eyes and feel the grip of his
soldier hand. Didn ray rooster always
clap his wings and crow whenever he pass
ed our quarters ? "Instinct told him that
he was the ti ie price,'* and it would make
anybody brave to be uigli him. I like all
the Johnsons, even to Sam—L. C. He
never levied on me if he could get around
it. For 10 years me and Sam have been
workin' together in the justice court. I
was an everlastin dependent, and Sam the
Constable, but he never sol d my pioperty
nor skered Mrs. Arp. Hurraw for the
Johnsons.
Well, on the whole, there's a heap o
things to be thankful for. I'm thankful,
the war is over—that's the big thing
Then I'm thankful I aint a black Republi
can. I'm thankful that Thad Stevens and
Sumner and Phillips, nor none of their kin
ain't no kin tome. I'm thankful that the
high privilege of halin all such. I'm thank
ful I live in Dixie, in tbe State of Georgy,
and ou Governors name aint Brownlow.
Poor Tennessee !I golly didn't she catch
it. Andy Johnson's pardons wont do rebs
much goad there. They better get one
from the devil if they expekt it to pass.
Wonder what made providence afflikt 'em
with such a cuss.
Bnt I can't d well on sich a subject Its
highly demoralizing and unprofitable.
"Sweet land of Liberty, of tbee,"
I could not sing in Tennessee.
But then, we've bad a circus once more,
and seen the clown play round, and that
makes up for a heap of trouble. In fact
its the best sign oi rekonstructlon I l.avc
yit observed.
Yourn, hopin,
BILL ARP.
P. S.—And they bawled Grant's cabin
a thousand miles. Well! Shermans war
horse stayed in my stable one night. I
want to sell the stall to some Yankee State
fair. As our people ain't the sort that
runs after big folk's things, the stall ain't
no more than any other stall to mc. State
Fairs, its for sale. I suppose that Harper's
Weekly or Frank Lesly will paint a pikter
of it soon, drawingon tothir imagination.
B. A.
—Rome (Ga) Courier.
STATE TENESSEE. —OId Thaddens
Stevens, of the House of Representatives,
says he "doesn't know Tennessee." Then
he should take to the study of geography.
He will find Tennessee to be considerable
of a place. One end of it butts up against
the Mississippi —did Thaddeus c-ver hear
of that stream ?—and was once the dwell
ing place of one Andrew Jackson, an old
fellow who said that the "Federal Union
must be preserved.'* Tennessee is the
home of Andrew Johnson—does Stevens
know him?—and if Tennessee isn't in the
Union, neither is Andrew Johnson, and the
Pennsylvania radical ought forthwith to
pitch him out of the Presidential chair and
put into it a citizen of the United States.
How comes it that so virtuous aud enlight
ened a patriot should have supported for
the Vice-Presidency a man from a foreign
State, as Tennessee is if not in the Union
and not known to the Legislative Depart
mcnt of the Government ? Why docs Ste
vens sit quiet and see a foreigner from a
foreign State usurp the functions of the
Presidency? If Thaddeus doesn't "know
Tennessee," lie shouldn't "know" Andrew
Johnson for lie is a citizen of Tennessee.
What monstrosities the. unsanctified radi
cals are exhibiting!— Louisville Journal.
THE BLACK TROOPS IN THE ARMY.
FACTS FOR HISTORY. —The nonsense of.
the radical press —that the rebellion could
not have been suppressed but for the aid
of the negro —is summarily d sposed of, by
the annual repcrt of the Secretary of \Y ar
as follows:
Total of troops called for from April,
1861, to May, 1865 2,759,046
Total of troops obtained 2.606,553
Total of colored troops enlisted dnr
ing tbe 178.975
Greatest number of colored troops in
service, July 15, 1865 123,15g
We arc obliged to Mr. Stanton for these j
facts, which it is presumed, don't lie. It
must have gone against the grain to print
them : but truth, like murder, will out. —
As the World observes :
From this statement, we sec that if all
the negroes in the United States army had
the misfortune to be only Y'ankees or Irish
men, their presence or absence from the
ranks would scarcely have made an appre
ciable difference in the gigantic sum total
of the national army. As negroes, ot
course, tbe case is different —one negro ac
cording to the Tribune being the equal, for
military purposes, of twenty white men !
It is noticeable, also, that tne heaviest force
of negroes ever at one time in the array, ia
reported for July 15, 18G5, three months
after the fighting was all over.
rote of Washington City, upon the
subject of negro suffrage was 35 for and
6,639 against—nearly two hundred to *ne
against. The vote in favor was heretofore
incorrectly stated to be 75. Tho Mayor of
Georgetown has proclaimed an election
also.
A young lady having asked a gen
tleraan why he didn't secure some fond
one's company in his voyage across the
ocean of life, replied that he would do so,
were he certain that said ccean would be
Pacific.
fg" "Mamma," said a lad of six. "If a
man is a Mister, is a woman a Mistery ?"
We rather guess she is, sonny
SOLILOQUY OF A LOAFER-
Let's see, where am I f This is—coal
I'm lying on. Was coming up street —
met a wheelbarrow --was drunk, comin
tother way —the wheelbarrow fell over me,
or I over the wheelbarrow, and one of us
fell into the cellar—don't know which now
—guess it must ha' been me. 1m a nice
young man ; yes I am —tight! tore '•
drunk ! Well, I can't help it—'taint my
fault—wonder whose fault 'tis?wis it
Jones'fault? No. Is it my wife's fault ?
♦♦ ell, it ain't. It is the wheelbarrow's
fault ? No. It's whisky's fault. Who is
whisky ? Has he a large family ? All poor,
I reckon. 1 think 1 won't own him any
more. I'll cut his acquaintance. I've had
that notion for about ten years, and always
hate to do it foUfear of hurting his feelings,
I'll do it now. I think liquor is is injurin'
me —it's spoiling my temper.
Sometimes I get mad when I'm drunk
and abuse Bets and the boys ; it used to
be Lizzie and the children —that's some
time ago. I'd come home o' evenin's an'
she put her arms around my neck an' kiss
me, an' call me her dear William. When
1 comes home now, she takes the pipe out
of her month an' the hair out of her eyes,
an' says somethin'like : —"Bill, you drunk
en brute, shut the door after you : we're
cold enough, bavin' no fire, 'thout letting
the snow blow in that way." Yes, she's
Bets, an' I'm Bill, now. I" ain't a good
Bill, nnther; think I'm a counterfeit; —
won't pass—a tavern without goin' in an'
gettin' drunk. Don't know what bank
I'm on, Last Saturday I was on the river
bank—drunk.
I stay out pretty late ; no, sometimes
I'm out all night ; fact is, I'm out preity
much all over—out of friends, out of poek
et, out at the elbows and knees, and always
outrageously dirty—so Bets says ; but then
she's no judge, for she's never clean her
self, I wonder why she doesn't wear good
clothes ; may be she hasn't got 'em ;
whose fault's that ?—isn't mine—must be
whisky's,
Sometimes I'm in, however ; I'm intox
icated now : and in somebody's coal cellaF.
There's one principle I have got —I won't J
get in debt: I never could do it. There,
one of my coat tails is gone, got tore off, —
I expect, when I fell in here. I'll have to
get a new suit soon. A fellow told me
'tother day that I'd make a good sign for
a paper mill. If he wasn't so big I'd kick
him. I've had this shirt on for nine days,
and I'm afriid it won't come off without
tenrin. People ought to respect me
niore'u they do, for I'm in holey orders.—
T hain't a dandy, through ray clothes are
pretty near Greasieatf stylo. I guess T tore
this window shutter in mv pants t'other
night, when I sat, down on tho wax in Ben
Rngg's shop ; I'll have to get it mended.or
—l'll catch cold. T ain't very stout. As
the boys say, I'm fat as a match and
healthy as tbe small-pox. My best bat is
standing guard for a window pane that
went out t'other morning at the invitation
of a brick-bat. It's getting cold down
here—wonder if I ain't able to climb. If
I had a drink I could think better. Let's
see ; 1 ain't got three cents ; if I was in a
tavern I could sponge one. Whenever
anybody treats and says, "come fellars," I
always think mv name's "fellars," and I've
got too good manners to refuse. Well, I
must leave this, or they'll arrest me for an
attempt at burglary. I ain't come to that
yet. Anyhow, it was the wheelbarrow
that did the harm —not me.
TIIADDEUS STEVENS. —Mr. Thaddeus
Stevens completely outdid himsilf in his
Congressional harangne on Monday last.
A more brutal exhibition never disgraced
the House of Representatives—and that is
saying a great deal. After assailing, with
his usual ribaldry, the sentiment that "this
is not a white man's government," and
boldly announcing that "without the right
of negro suffrage in the late slave State the
slave had far better have been left in bond
age," he concluded with the following sen
tence :
"Sir, this doctrine of a white man's gov
ernment is as atrocious as the infamous
sentiments which damned the late Chief
Justice to everlasting infamy, and I fear to
everlasting fire also."
The hero of "the buckshot war" has not
improved since the time he advised an hon
est legislator to " throw tonsciense to the
dei'il and stand by his party?' His inde
cent assault upon a good and great man
dead, is highly characteristic of one who
jumped from the back window of the Sen
ate Chamber to escape the indignation of
the living. — Phtla. Age.
TEnMS, 52,00 3?E3£l
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THADDEUS STEVENS vs. ROGER B.
TANEY
——.—. .}• b'f ti
MESSRS. EDITORS : In the House of
• : -•
Representatives, on Monday, the HOB.
ThAdeus Stevens,'of Pennsylvania, used
this language :
"Sir, this doctrine of white man's gov
ernment is as atrocious as the instyp|oU9
sentiment that damned the late Chiefjus
tice to everlasting fame; and. I fear/ to
everlasting tire." • j
Shame! Shame ! —that the sacred ashe9
of the ablest expounder of American juris
prudence should thus be scattered broad
cast over the land with a blast of "damns -
tion" and 'everlasting fire" by a.Represen
tative in Congress from the Keystone
State of our Union.
One would think that the cold, clafliray
cloak of remorse would rest suffocating Up
on the man w ho thus stoops into the grave
of Roger P. Taney and with ruthless hands
drag- bis honored grey hairs afresh before
the but late tearful eyes and bleeding hearts
of his family and friends, to say nothing of
the millions in this land of free thought
and opinion who bowed in reverence to
his legal shrine, and are jealous of his fame
and memory. .
Was it not true that the Constitution
recognized only white mew as framers and
components of our Government ? and were
not negroes held under that instrument as
slaves? and. being slaves, could, and did
they have the rights of citizens of the Uni
ted States in *he sense that their masters
and other white men are citizens ? Jf they
could, why was it necessary to go to war,
waste the lives of more than a mjiuon
white men and some blacks, and devastate
nearly one half of our great eountry,.and
entail a debt of nearly three billions ol
money, in order to determine the stotus of
the unfortunate and miserable black race?
And why, after it was settled in this man
ner, was it also necessary to make a formal
amendment of the Constitution to, the eff
ect, as proclaimed by Secretary Seward on
the 18th inst., that no more slavery will be
allowed in the land?
For shame! again we say, it w- to the
American Statesmen of lofty intellect - that
he should plant his hoofs roughly in the
green SQJ of the grave of the lamented Ta
nev, and blow a blast of '"damnation and
everlasting lire" over his earthly fame and
eternal existence, but for no other reason
than that lie, being a just, honest, consci
entious, and constitutional Chief Justice,
administered the law as it was then, and
not as it now is. The law as it must he
administered, otherwise we wotild soon
have anarchy. But when the law re chan
ged then the decision of the judge must
conform thereto. So thought the illus
trious Tatem, and so should every honest
lawyer, judge and patriot teach the Ameri
can Republic—that they, when a greater
than Stevens calls men to judgment, may
hear, not words of "damnation and ever
lasting fire," but the cheering commenda
tion, "well done, thou good and faithful
servant, enter into the joy of thy re9t."
CHURCH ETTIQUETTK. —It is fashiona
ble with some people to go late to, church,
long after the services have begun, to th
edification of the curious in the congrega
tion, and the annoyance of the minister. —
A cotemporary saj s it has lately been deci
ded, 011 high authority, that the following
rules are observed,
"Let the lady advance beyond
the door of the pew she wishes to enter,
halt, about face, and salute. The pew
must then be vacated by such gentlemen as
are in it, by a flank movement. The squad
should rise simultaneously when the lady
presents herself, and face by the right flank
then deploy into the aisle, the head man
facing the lady an J the rest walking to his
side, right and rear, the direction ot the
line being changed by a right counter
march, and forming again into line, yp and
down the aisle,still laced by the right flank.
The lady, when she sees that the coast is
clear, completes her salute, and advances
to her position in the pew. The gentle
men break off by files from the.* rear and
resumes their places. Great care should
be taken, of course, by other parties, not
to enter the aisle when this evolution is in
progress, until it is completed." **
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has set aside ground at Fort
Pillow for a negro monument. The white
heroes who fell on a hundred Southern bat
tle-fields may perhaps be thought of here
after, when each "colored bra ve" has se
cured a memorial stone.
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