American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1856-11-15

give it out to you line by line, and then
you will take care to finish one line
clear up before mixing it with the next
and so get the full sense of each line !:
"INe Lord mW come andhe wiU not'--
here they all struck in, following the
deacon, as nigh as they could, and hav-
ing finished that Inc, the deacon read
the next: ~ '.'" ~
"Krep silent but speak out." IL
and at it they wcnt,ogain.
Jabcz Bigclow got in such a snicker
at the 'old varshun,' he could not hold
in, and told the Deacon that ar Hmm
was just suited to that ar Sarmint of
his'n; it was cut, off in chunks, and no
sense in it. You are aigger and a
Nllnoreite" said the deacon. Il thank
you for your p5ous charity in putting
me in such honest company, said Ja.
bcz, and out he went; and prettyhieh
all-the meeting followed; but the dca.
con is true grit when hc gets his dandcr
lighted; he aint to be blufTd ofl'by any
such kind of movement so he rolled up
his eyes and thanked God for bestow-
ing on him sthc remarkable power of
casting out devils" Amen" says
he, and gathering up his saddle bags,
struck off for the next appointment.
Now, Mr.. Moderator, this is all I
have to say on that part Of my speech
relating to religious politics, or turn
ing the pulpit into a party platform.
My next pintis KANSAS. Where is
Kansas? Here it is right west of Mis-
souri-now look at this map, and re-
member what we we're told to believe
when we were all little boys at school:
"IYestward Tie star Of empire holds its eay.',
Now, by this rulo---and it is as true
as natur-eyery State has a natural
right to people the State west of it
just the same kind of folks you find
cast you will find due west, and any
attempt to alter this is sure to bring up
border rufiins'-and by this rule (from
East to West we find so.
The old Bay State and all dorm cast
swept away west--peoplcd New York,
and SO with Old Pennsylvania, and to-
gethcr they pcopled Ohio, Illinois, In
diana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, and
so onall the way Wcst--thero you take
stake farther South, and you find old
Virginny peopled kentucky, and Ken
lucky peopled Missouri, and Missouri
will people Kansas, and SO on: and
just so farther South. North & South
Carolina and Georgia went on and pco-
pied the States west Of them. This is
natur', and not mite Of politics in the
matter. Each people holding on to
their own climateand produce and kind
of labor.
The good old patriots who mado the
Constitution saw all this, and knew ex-
actly all about it. They knew it was
unwise and unjust to make any law or
rule that went against the natural run
of things, nor any Compromise line
and say, here niger can come and
here he can't come. They knew he
was best of where the climate was best
for him, and they knew if he ran away
from that climate he would only 90
from the frying pan into the ire
so they made it Constitutional Law
out of humanity, too, to bring him back
where he was best off. Now, Just to
show how far wise and right that was
and is--in the South there is not Poor
House or Prison for tho black race.
Every owner takes care of his own
Poor Niggor" and if known to
abuse or be otherwise than kind and
humane to him, or to put him in prison
or to send him to apoor lpuso to be sup
ported by the public, that white man
would be better off to be nigger him
self. Now look North, and see the
condition Of the free njggcrs-black
and white---thc poor-houscs and asy-
lums are filled with the old, i1firm and
sale,and the prisons crammed with bad
ones. A poor old niger, who left his
goofmastcr in free State by the adj
vice of some rascally abolitionists, soon
found himself in q Uery poor Poor
House, and all he said was" if / was
South [ would be "a poor old mtgger;
but hero they call me "a damnd old
nsgger.' But to come back to Kansas,
about which all this hubub is made, ,and
more ink than blood shed. When folks
get in scuflle and the police interfere,
the FIST inquiry is, 'wbo begun it?'--
My own notion is (and | being down
Easter am a little ashamed to admit it)
that our folks began this trouble, and
LII tell you how. You see, according
to natur the sun rises down cast here
considerable earlier than it does in
Missouri in fact, our folks arc all up,
and tho cows MIXED and driven to pas
turc, and have eat their breakfast, long
before it is daylight in Kansas. As