Henry A. White
October Eighteenth
I address you on this occasion with a profound admiration for the great consideration which caused you to honor me by your votes with a seat in the Senate of Georgy. For two momentus and inspirin’ weeks the Legislature has been in solemn session, one of whom I am proud to be which. For several days we were engaged as scouts, making a sorter reconysance to see whether Georgy were a State or a Injin territory, whether we were in the old Un-ion or out of it, whether me and my folks and you and your folks were somebody or no body, and lastly, but by no means leastly, whether our poor innocent children, born durin’ the war, were all illegal and had to be born over agin or not. This last pint are much unsettled, but our women are advised to be calm and serene.
“Bill Arp”
(To His Constituents)
October Nineteenth
Float out, oh flag, from Freedom’s burnished lance.
Float out, oh flag, in Red and White and Blue!
The Union’s colors and the hues of France
Commingled on the view!
James Barron Hope
Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown, 1781
Burning of the “Peggy Stewart” at Annapolis, 1774