Freeman's champion., 1858-02-04
Another Psalm from the Harp Of a
Thousand Strings.

~G,NlY bELUVED DRETHERlNu lalh@n
unlarnt preacner,i of,whom you've no
doubt heern before, and now appear
TO expound the yScriptuys and pint
out the narrow way which leads from
q vain world to the streets Of the Je-
roosalum, and MY text which Ishall
choose for the occasion is in the leds
of the Bible, somewhere between the
second Chronikills and the last chap-
ter of Timothy Titus, and when you
find it you willfhd itih these. words
+ "And they shall gnaw file and
flee unto the mountains Of Hespidam,
whar the lion roareth and the wang |
doodle mourneth for its first bofn,"
Now, my brethering, ss ! have be- |
fore told you,o am &n uneddicated
man, and know nothing about grain
mar talk and college hilalooting; but
Pm a plain unlarnt preacher Of the
Gospil what's been foreordAined, and
called TO expound the Scriptufsiin a
dyin' world, and prepare a perverse
generation for the day Of wrath, "lor
they shall gnaw a lille and flee unto
the mountains Of Hespidam, whar
the lionjroarsth and thewang-doodle
mourneth for its first born" Wy. ~ :,
My beluved brethering, my text
says "they shall gnaw,a file, ,"u,lt
don't say they may but they shall -
And now,there's MORN one kind of
file, There's the hand saw file, rat
tail file, single file, double tile and
profile; but the kind of file spoken
Of here isn't one of them kind neither;
because it's figure of speech, my
bretheriug, and means goin' italone,
an getting yukcred: "lor they shall
gnaw u file and flee unto the noun
tains of Hespidam, whar the lion
: roarcth and wapg-doodle mourneth
for it's first born"
= And now, there be some here with
fine close Oh thar backs, brass rings
on thar fingers, and lard on thar har,
what goes it while they're young
d and thar be brothers here what as long
as thar constitutions and forty cent
, whisky last, goes it blind and thar
7; be sisters here what, when they get
. sixteen years old, cut thar tiller ropes
r and goes with a rush; but l say, my
. brethering, take care you don't find
t when Gapriel blows his last trump,
It that you've all went j, alone and got
r yukered "for they shall gnaw file
Q and flee unto the mountains of Hes
n pidam, whar the lion roareth and the
e wang-doodle mourneth It's first born
Y And, my brethering, there's more
d dams besides Hespidam, Thar,
o Rotterdam, Haddam, Amsterdam
d milldam and don't are-a-dam--th,
'e last Of which, my dear bretheting, i
is the worst of all, and remin s me 0
, circumstance | once knew in lllinoy
2 Thar was a man what built him a mil
3 on the East Fork Of Augur creek
a and it was good mill and ground
8 sight Of grain, but the man wha
IS built it was a miserable sinner, an
z never giy anything to the church
'S and my brethering ono night ,tha
70 come a dreadful storm Of wind an
10 rain, and the fountains of the grea
II deep was broken up, and the water
Il rushed down and swept that man
l3 milldam into kingdom come, and !
"A and behold in tho morning when h
10 got up, he found he wos not worth
i6 dam. Now, nay young brethrinl
II When storms Of temptation oyertak
Is ye; take care ye don't fall from grac
10 and, become like that mill-notwbrt
30 q dam "for they shall gnaw Fl
81 and fee unto the mountains Of He'
- pidam, wh&r the lion roareth and ii
53 wang-doodle mourneth for its fir
54 born" H a....r.y ',. Al !
55 Whar tho Wang-doodle mournet
5G for its first born. This part of IL
81 text, my brethering, is another fgg'
58 Of speech, and isn't to be taken az
50 says. 1t doosn't mean the rhowlin
60 wilderness whar John, tho hard she
81 Baptist was fed on locusts an
81 wild asses, but IL means, my brett
50 oring, the City of New Yorleans, IL
, mother Of HarlUts and hardlots-
ne whar corn is worth six bits bush
~ one day and nary red the next /; VIII
IL niggets are as thick as black bugs
leS a spoiled bacon ham, and gambler
W thieves and pickpockets go slsittir
wv about the streets like woosles in
'as -, barn yard-whar they have crea
'he colored horses, gilded carriages, ma
- Bile sAloonsowith brandy and sdg
~ in 'em---whar honest men are scare
'h- than hen'stoeth, aud strange won,
rlN onc6 took in your beluved preach
~. M and bamboozlad2him opt vi TWO hu
'1Y Fdrel and, ,twe4tytseven dollarsip 4