Eaton Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1843-1856, 1856-05-22

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Forward to the noble strife
Shout aloud the echoes waking
Songs with joy and gladaess rife.
The Black Republican Psganini, or the Man
that Played Upon the Harp Of a Single
String.
ca sketch Of the remarks made at the late
Black Republican Know Nothing Convention.
at Iowa City, byone of the Reverend delegates
-as furnished the State Gaseue for publication.
The Gazette supposes the Orator to have been
a Hard Shell Baptist.)
My breetheting ! We are told o where
IL needn't be particular where that the
psalnist ofold could play on q harp OF A thou.
SAM strings, ah-but my bteetherinE, in these
days OF Citing down stairs from grace, q Sam
ist amt expected to do more than spread him
sell on a SINGLE string, ali. Therefore, my
sbreethering, ah, let us give ourselves no unea-
siness about the nine hundred and ninety.
nine strings that we can't handle, oh, but let
US unite in playing upon a karp of a single
.string, spirits Of White men made black, all.
My breethering As we came s~tringinp
along into this convention, like pack mules
crossing the lsthmus, | thought OF myself that
each one Of US, might have a string Of our
own to pull, and that maybe many of us might
have several strings to our bows, oh. hone
burt no mans feelings by this discourse, alb.
My motto always is 10 tell the truth and shame
The devilSah-an Institution of sin and wick.
edness who is always roaming about like a
roaring lion seeking whom he may kill some
body, ah. But my breelhering, now that mol
itics aud religion have got so mixed IN that
you can't tell one from the other, | think il
would be good for us 10 let go all holds, ex-
cept the main one, and 60 our Billy best upon
q herp Of a single string, spirits Of Ohiic men
made black, all.
My breetheringl There are a great many
kind Of strings in this world, ah. First there
is the latch string hung out and the latch string
pulled in, ali. Then there is the fiddle string,
,(snd a wicked string it IS my breeiheren,) and
the bag string, and the pudding string, which
some pious souls consider the proof of the
pudding, alb. And thea there is string-beans,
and that audacious varment, Stringfellow, all
but, my breetheiing, TO return to my dis
course, let Inc impress HPon you the populari-
ty Of playing upon a harp of a single string,
spirits Of tohite men made black, ah.
My breethering! l suppose you have all
heard of a religious society called Know Moth
ing, ali. Well my breethering, although say
1t who shouldn't, I've been one of 'em-but
my hearers, | now feel to believe that string
won't do TO tie to, ah-for it is liable TO break
in two in the middle and let AS fall several
ways for Sunday, ah. No, my breethering,
though Sam at the outset gave promise Of i'm
mortality and salvation, yet in these latter
days this son OF the sires, he is seen to stray
oil far beyond the travels Of the pTodigal son,
and ii we don't look out the fatted calf will
grow 10 be a bullcok before he comes back, oh.
Therefore, my breethering, let as take 10 ouI
human boSoms the swee scented form OF SAM.
DO, that dark emblem Of political equality, ali |
end letus play upon a harp of a single string
spirits Of tohite men made black, ali.
My breethering! We shouldn't be ashamed
OF afraic OF our own color, ah. II is a very
wicked thing indeed to tuin up the human
cnout at the works Of nature, ali. Who cares
for color in a dog fight 7 A rose by any other
name would smell as sweet, ah. What il we
do kiss the niger babies, ali The Egyp-
tiaa mummies. who have been mummied these ]
thousand years. are none the wiser now for
anything they did while in the flesh, ah.--
When Gabriel shall blow his ,rumphet, ah-
when the moon shall turn TO b ood, ah-when
the sky shall be rolled back as a scroll, and
NJ ture shall be done up in a rag, ah, then
the kissing OF a few innocent little niggers and
the roaming away of o few big. buck ones will
SAVIOR, and give alick forward towards Jordan
ah i,
My Breethering ! There lis another string |.
which we have all pulled at for 10 !-these
many years, alb, but which in the language of
one OF our great guns, we must now s'let
Slide" ALL mean my breethereng, that the
pious piece of two-twist called Temperance.
my breetheriug, has color as well as !
ah. We must be consistent, ah. We y
can't run niggers through on The underground
railroad, unless we also say to liquor, "let it
ali. Spirits Of white men made black, i
spirits Of liquor made free-them must be our
sentiments, ah. We can't oppose the law of
government and aid the instruction in Kansas
set the example at home Of splitting
upon our Maine liquor law. We must be con.
ah. | confess that | have been o great A
Temperance man, and that I have been pulling l
the temperance string for 10! these many years, hi
al, going around like q thief inthe night and al
prying into affairs Of my neighbors, ald now te
Ind then jerking them up with a round turn n
Tor violating the wbiskey laws, ah-but, my e,
have found that this business don't VI
pay, alb, ond for the balance of my days Pm 4
iofng to play on a harp ofa single string, mig Il
'erism triumphant forever, al. TO
I've
IVA maiden was seen dropping in sorrow lth
eslde The wasted column OF an ancient do
main whose inhabitants had long since min
He'd with the dust. Ia
"a Youthful traveller passed and said:
'tMsiden, what sorrow swslls thy alabaster
,asom p"
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