The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1862-07-04
THE CURSE OF CowARDioE.

THE CURSE VI CoWAkiuCL.
rrxr--"Curss ye Meros- ourse ,e bitterly"
Beloved brethren and sisters, you
are assembled to-day to discharge
the most important duties Of your
lives. The Yankees 10 'chsriots Of
fire. are cavorting and charging like
the beast with seven heads and ten
horns spoken of by st. john
brother M'Nsiry, make that blood,
hound Of yours quit his indecency
or III expel him from .he church,
even as Judas was cast out of the
synagogue. The uncircumcised
sons OF the philistines ore riding over
the holy soil Of the South in chsri-
ots Of fire, even ss the chariots Of
lijah and Aminidab, and my soul.
wsxeth 'fearfully and wonderfully
mad Oh, brethren, let us do as
King David, the sweet psalmist Of
Israel did, when he atose and went
after his sling. (Stop, my brother.
don't DO in such hurry to leave; ]
didn't mean a gin syin9, but the
sliug OF the spirits Of just men made
lperiect', which will send a rock into
the temples OF Abraham Lincoln y
Brethren. let us see il we can't per
forate into the meaning OF my text
oh! Curse ye Meroz. My tex,
suggests two points-the cooard;ee
Of a cuss, and the cuss of cor Irdice.
Firstly, then, there is always COW
ardice in q low ornery cuss. A cuss
is always full OF cowardice as on
publishing house is Of piety, whiol
you know, my brethren, is an 'ex
clusively religious concern, and pub
lishes among other excellent books
my great work on prophecy, called
Armagedaon. Price one dallsr anc
fifty cents--ah!
Secondly. The cuss D ofco'oardice
Who. my brethren and sisters, Is q
cuss of cowzrdice?. A cuss OF COW
ardice is one who bellows like g
bull OF Bsshan,' in time Of safety
and then runs like a 'ia,.ed calf il
! time Of danger. There's Isham G
) Harris, who issued a proclamation
lew days ago, talking about de
Tending the ssnctity OF our hom0
and wives and daughters, and dy
ing in the last dltch.' Yes, he ca
vortcd nightly. and shouted as h
. 'smcli the battle afsr off,' but to'ds,
: he remaineta like q disconsolas
Whangdoodle on the dark noun,
aims of Hepsidsm, roarirg for he
Z first born, and will not be comforte,
because they arc not Instead q
: staying to fight that son OF Belal
Andy Johnson, hs is packing up hi
duds for q grand skedaddie. M
brethren, he is a cuss, and 'cuss q
coo1rdice.'
Then there is Gideon Pillow, VIII
has undertaken IA contract for dig
sing that last ditch Of which 20
have heard 80 much. ! am afrai
the feather will fly' whenever tha
% case is opened. and that Pillow wi
give us the slip. The sword Of til
J. Lord isn't the sword OF GideoI
,f Pillow, go I shall not bolster him u
Of any longer. Gideon is 'cuss, IN
r. e brothers, and 'cuss of cO,o 1rdice.
a There is Wash. Barrow, who ht
l. been handling millions OF dollar
D. and staying costly at home, viii
:. 'lewd follows OF the baser sort 4
.e the fighting. believe that tn
lie Barro,o belongs to the herd Of swir
spoken OF in the Testament,
g wbom-tha deSil taek ,RQasessio9,;, i,
:, " ms bacon moro than to save Il
q Son'hl II he does, he ought to
!. ,. WeH smoked. lie, too, is q Gus,
X and 'cuss of cowardics.'
+" Then there is the Vigilance Con
y :. mittee OF Nashville. Vigilant abo,
u what III like to knowl As .vipilar
. as cat to steal cream,'I guess, 9
, the apostle Falstsf says in his GO
;. y mon to Prince Hal. Why don
y they shoulder their mu,kets. and o
. ou, to fight the Yankees, instead g z
o running off poor mechanics VIII
have no frlends2 My friends, the
are all "cusaes," and "cusses {
9 cowsrdice."
: My brethern and sisters: III lei
you who are not cusses OF co wardic.
> Myself, the author Of Armageddon
and Dr.. M'Ferrin, author of the Cor
iederAte Primer, and DR.. Summers
author OF the Confederate ALMANAC
: and Brother Houston, who Ia get
ting up q Confederate Bible. w,
are not "cusSes Of co1ardics." No
sir .ee.
My brethern, just get the Alma
nae aud look for the Contederat,
ECLIPSE OF the SUM-" and then ge
down Brother Macs Primer and
read that heavenly little story aboul
the "Smart Dixie Boy" and then
buy q copy OF my Armageddon fol
vi, so, and you will fight like-(En
ter messenger, wildly exclaiminp
Fort Donelson's taken, and the
Yankee gunboats are in slightly
Oh, Lord, my brethren!-Oh, Lordl
let's skedaddle.
The discourse was here broken
short, but the pious author assures
ns that 1t will bs published in full
| in his next edition of Armaoaldop