The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-06-06
BLACK REPUBLICAN SERMON.

ered Dy one OF the brethren at Black Repnb
lican meeting in Iowa:
any Bree,hering We are told somewhere
FL needn't be particular where-that the
psalmist Of old could play on harp of a 1tou.
sand strings, ah-but, my breethering, in
these days of Citing down stairs from grace
a Samist amt expected to do more than spread
himself on sing le string, ah. Therefore,
my breethering, ah, let us give ourselves no
uneasiness about the nine hundred and nine.
ty nine that We can't handle, ah, but let us
unite in playing upon harp of single
string, spirits of white men made black, ah.'
"My Breethering! As we came stringing
along into this Convention, like pack mules
crossing the Isthmus, thought to myself
that each one of US might have string of his
own to pull, and that may be many of us
might have several strings in his bows, ah. !
hope | hurt no mans feelings by this dis
course, ah. My motto always is to tell the
truth and shame the devil, uh-an institution
OF sin and wickedness who is always roaming
about like roaring lion seeking where he
can Kill somebody, ah. But, my breethering,
now that politics and religion have got so
mixed up that you can't tell one from the
other, think it would be good for us 10 let
go all holds, except one. and 20 our Billy
best upon n harp of single string, spirits of
white men made black, ah.'
'My Breethering! There is n great many
kinds OF strings in this world, ah. First, there
is the latch string hung out, and the latch
string pulled in, ah. Then, there is the fiddle
string, (and very wicked string il is, my
breethering,( and the bag string, and the
pudding string, which some pious souls con-
slider the proof Of the pudding, ah! And then
there is string beans, aud that audacious var
mint, Stringfellow, ah-but, my breethering,
to turn to the discourse, let me impress upon
YOU the popularity of playing upon harp of
single string, spirits of white men made
black, ahr
"My Breethering! suppose you all have
heard of religious society called the Know
Nothngs, ah. Well, my breethcring, although
! say it who shouldn't, I've al,oays been one
of 'em-but, my hearers, now feel to believe
that that string won't do to tie to, ah-for it
is liable to break in two in the middle and let
us fall several ways for Sunday, ah. No, nv
breethering, though Sam, at the outset, gave
promise of Immortality and salvation, vet in
these latter days this "son of the sires,'' he is
seen TO stray of, ah, far beyond the travels of
the prodiga son, and if we don't look Out the
iatted calf will grow TO be o bullock before
he comes back again, ah. Therefore, my
breethering, let us take to our human bosoms
The sweeI-scented form of Samb", that dark
colored emblem of equality, al,-and let us
play upon harp of single string, spirits of
white men made black, ah.'
"Aly Brccthering! We should be ashamed
or afraid to own our color, ah. 1t is n very
wicked thing indeed to turn up the human
snout at the works of natur, ah. Who cares
Tor the color in dog fight! A rose by any
other name would smell rs sweet, ah. What,
then, ii we do fool the foreigners! What, if
we do kiss the niger babies, ah? The
Egyptian mummies, who have been mummied
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