The Placer herald., 1859-01-22
Political Sermon,

a sketch of the remarks made by poiti-
cal Preacher at late Black Republican
convention:
"My Breethering! We are told somewhere
i needn't be particular where-that the
psamist of old could play on harp of a
thousand strings, ah--but, my breethering.
in these days of getting down stairs from
grace, a Samist amt expected to do, ah.-
Therefore my breetheriog, ah, let US give
ourselves no uneasincss about the nine hun
dred and ninety-nne that we cant handle,
ah, but let us unite in playing upon harp
of a single string, spirits of white men made
black, ah
my Breetherng As we came strngina
along into this convention, like pack mules
crossing the desert, 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 to his bow, ah-
| hope | hurt no mans feelings by this dis
course, all. My motto always is to tell tho
truth an shame the devil, an--an institution
of sin and wickedness who is always roam
ing about like a roaring lion seeking some
body, ah. But my breethering now that
politics and religion have got so much mix
cd up that you can't tell one from the other,
| think it would be good for us to let 90 all
holds, except one, and 90 our very best upon
harp of a single string, spirits of white
men made black, all.
my Breethering There is great many
kinds Of strings in this world, ah. First
there is the latch string hung out, and the
latch string pulled in alb. Then there ia
the fiddle string (and very wicked string
it is my breethering) which some pious folks
consider the proof of the pudding, ah. But,
my brethering, to the discourse, let me i'm
press upon you the propriety of playing
upon the harp of a single string spirits Of
white men made black, ah.
"My Ereelhering. | suppose you all have
heard Of religious society called the Know
Nothngs, ah Well, my lreetheripg, al
though say it, who shouldn't, I've always
been one Of them-but my hearers, now
feel to believe that that string wont do to
tie to, all. For it is liable to break in two in
the middle and let us fall, several ways for
Sunday, ah. No, my breetherng though
Sam, at the onset gave promise of immor-
ta.ity and salvation yet in these latter days
the sons of the sires' is seen to stray off, ah,
far beyond the travels of the prodgal son,
and if we don't look out the fatted calf will
be grown to be a bullock Letore he comes
back again, ali. Therefore, my breethering,
let us take to our human bosoms the sweet
scented form of Sambo, the dark colored
emblem of equality, ab, and let us play upon
a harp of a single string, spirits of white
men made black, ah.
"Breethering! We shouldn't be ashamed
or afraid of our own color ah. 1t is a very
wicked thing indeed to turn up the human
snout at the work of nature, alb. Who cares
for color in dog fght9 A rose by any
other name would smell as sweet, ah. What,
then, if we do fool the foreiguers9 What if
we do kiss the nigger babies, ah2 The Egyp-
tian mummies who have been mummied these
thousand years, are none the worse or the
wiser now, for anything that they did while
in the flesh, ah. 1t will be the same with
us, my breethering, in the lapse of a few
centuries, ah. When Gabriel shall blow his
trumpet, ah-when the moon shall turn into
blood, and when the sky shall be rolled back
as scroll, and nature shall be done up in
rag, ah, then the kissing of few little inno-
cent niggers, and the running away of a few
buck ones, will come back as a sweet smell
ling SAVIOR, and give us lick forward toward
Jordan, ah.
"My Breethering. There is another string
which we have all been pulling at for these
many years, ah, but which in the language
of one of our great guns, we must now let
slide, ah. | mean, my breethering, that
piece of tow twist called Temperance, all.
Liquor, my breethering, has color as well as
twang, ah. We can't run nggers through
on the under-g ground railroad unless we also
say to liquor, let it run, ah, Spirits of white
men made black-sprits Of liquor made
Free" Them must de our sentiments, ah,
We cannot oppose the laws Of government
and aid the insurrection in Kansas, unless
we set the example at home of splitting upon
our Maine Liquor Law. We must be con
sstent. alb. | confess that have been q
great Temperance man, and that have been
pulling the Temperance string for many
years, ah, going around like thief in the
night and prying into the affairs of my neigh
bors, and every now and then jerking them
up with a round turn for violating the whis-
key laws, ah--but, my breethering, have
found that the business don't pay, ah, and
for the balance of my days I'm going to
play on a harp Of single string, niggerisH
triumphant forever, ah,'