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The HarD OF one String.

Many Of our readers have doubtless OBJ.
served a ridiculous burlesque sermon BAN
died about by the Fusion press, alleged TO
have been preached by Hard Shell Bap-
tist at Brandon. Miss. (although the au-
thor has since been compelled to public.
ly acknowledge that the thing was en-
tirely ficticious and lalse.) The pretended
text taken on thnt occasion is some W ha I
modified BY somebody who has concluded
to get up a different sort Of discourse.
with much more appropriate satire than
the former. We find it in the Iowa
State Gazette. the editor Of which prefaces
il with the following remarks;
The BLACK REPUBLICAN, PAeANINi; On
THE MAN THAT PLAYED UPON HARP OF a
SINGLE STRING.-In these modern days,
preachers and politicians. of a certain
stripe. have become as thick toge ther as
pickpockets-in fact, political meeting,
composed of the Fusion fanatics, is no
longer considered complete without a
liberal sprinkling Of the cloth, and it is
seldom that one is allowed to proceed TO
business until some sanctifed brother
shall roll his eyes heavenward and put up
a politico- religious petition suited TO the
emergency Of the case, and ss an Offset TO
the heathenism and hypocrisy which may
Immediately follow. Preachers. too. are
sometimes found mingling pretty freely
in the discussions. which take place at
those political nssemblages: and otherwise
manifesting zeal in pot house matters
which goes to show that we live in on
age of progress. such as it is. At the re.
cent Black Republican State Convention,
the cloth (minus the sack) were present
in goodly force. and taking off their Goa Is
and rolling up their sleeves. it is said
that they pitched in with q looseness
known only to the shoulder strikers and
short-boys of the Five Points. ard by
their new born zeal for free negroes,
gained for themselves high praise among
the unanointed outsiders. A sketch of
the remarks made BY one Of them has
been forwarded to ny for publication. Ii
is as follows:
My breethering! We nre told some.
where-I needn't be particular where
that the psalmist of old could play on a
harp of thou sand strings, ah--bus, my
breelhering in these days OF Citing down
stairs from grace. Samist amt expected
to do more than spread himself OIL sing.
lie string. ah. Therefore, my breeihering.
ah. let us give ourselves no uneasiness
about the nine hundred and ninety -nine
that we can't handle. oh. but let us unite
in playing upon harp Of single string,
spirits Of white men made black. ah.'
My Breethering! As we came string
ing along into this Convention. like pack,
mules crossing the Is.hmus. ihoughs to
myself that each one of us might have q
string of his own to pull. and tsat may
many Of US might have several strings in
his bows, ah. I hope l hurt no mans
feelings BY this discourse. ah. My motto
always is to tell the truth and shame the
devil, ah--an institution Of sin and wick
eeness who. is always roa ming about like
a roaring lion seeking where he can kill
some body. ah. But. my breethering. now
that politics and religion have got SO
mixed up that you can't tell one from the
other. think il would be good for us to
let 90 all holds. except oae. and 60 our
Billy best upon harp ofa single string,
spirits of white men black. sh.'
MY Breethering! There is great
many kinds OF strings in this world. ah!
First. there is a latch string hung out,
and the latch string pulled in, ah. Then,
there is the fiddle string, lsnd very
wicked string it is. my breethering.) and
the bag string, and the pudding string.
which some pious souls consider the proof
of the pudding, ah! And then there is
string beans, and that audscious varmint.
sh-but. my breethering, TO
return to the dicourse, let aae impress
upon you the popularity of playing upon
= harp Of q single string. spirits of white
men made black. ah?
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