, 1864-02-21
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ut laienaneoleAnes-
.-HVery midi T"
I We soon blcame soclable. In speaking OF
some dcserters, who had gone to Canada, he
1 said there Hns quite dispute III some Settle-
mcute, and lie asked me hoE 1t WINS, for he
thought Knew, ss rs cnnuda q Slave State,
end his preaching, he said hodi not compare
himself 10 eaint Paal, because Saint Paul un-
| derstood English Grammar, and he did not
| Some people are likely to think that make
up these and other things have written
about the ignorance here, hut aesure tlien
they n1e true. Let ono 1.-Two here only short
time and he will sec they nrc 60.
~"nTwon,dn': do for this country. The 1lv-
er's what's the matter with rs, and nothin's
SO good for tlls as blue nass, Pears like he
notes, ! reckon"
c.nnot say how this wn5, but In the
elcrt reports wo Eayc Of bis Sermons taeJ
In lis proper l.laee."
"Tllt don't mount to ahuclss," said the
preacher. at sGiE3,uhez, IFS. now onto two
year, l.hd ointment to preach In old
JoEceboro, for the fust time, and as there Is
q power q lawyers, marchants aud sie!l
ard Eays !, / m,,st show 'e1n what q sarn,on
is, :rd will. and if for nothin' more than to
do honor TO old Union County, and picked
out my tex, nlrly Monday morning, not
intcndin' to do lick o work all the week,
and I didn't, fol, every mornin' went
q big sink hole, end I said, this rock is
the cheer, and tbca trees Is the hwycrs, ai1d
I took my tex, and then preached. some
times enc WY, sometimes 'totker, TIL got
the lust pa1t as wanted IL, and said, You're
III right, I'll preach yon. and so went on
CT and preached ZEN together, andI thought
had ZEN ns they orter be. I thought lad
the best SERMON as ever Was preached, and I
don't know but llad; b4t, you sec, when I
got into the school house, which was chock
in md I'd Praed d. md i'd n ,to 9at the ni@e hin
had 1t, things got kinder tangled, and / made
tLc 5lfth part come aforc the second pari, and
told part of an antidote I'd told nforc, and
they WIS beeinuin' to laugh, when, seeing
away, md preached as I'd alters preached,
|.Wlcn felt free, and ne7cr wa5 SO happy in
my life, and when got through they was SO
solemn you could heard pin drap. Bnt
don't want to interrupt you with no long
e!oEics. Go on lbout the preacher"
cuough-nobody found any fault with him,
but In preaching he got into difficulty. More
then Ibis, ho was poor and had no influential
Kin folks to help lin, so that only the poor
est people cured much about him; and IN all
Lis preaching there were only Two or three
airuid TO have it known To show yo1 what
kind Of doctrine he preached, will say, in
the first sermon Of which the book gives an
account, he said: That the Lords spirit was
L. VI him, tnat he had been annoiuteQ to
preach 10 poor folks, Eo that 1le conld cure
those whose hearts were broken, that he
might preach liberty to the captives, to cure
sore eyes, and set at liberty anybody that was
hurt.'s
preacher, "a preachln' liberty to the cap
lives, which means slaTes-Wc Ind them
Kind down In Alabam, md every ono Oh 'em
wus IN Abolislioner-a blaek-hcarted Abo-
lishioner-bnt they soon got enough on it;
limits the way they all talk. Only think Of
man n calling himself o preacher, and q
sayin' he's auiuted to preach sicl stuff, Whcu
the Bible says, "cussed be Canaan, which
s!avc6 nllcIs. What did you say his name
wass May be hcaru Of him down in Ala
bam."
"I hardly think you ever heard Of him, II
you id you seen, to think little enough oi
lin"
But what become Of him 81
"Well, he preached this kind Of doctrine
two or three yelrE, and good many got to
going to hear him, and he kept doctoringg,
too, and going to see whoever sent 1or him ;
but It was tho sermons which made the dis
wonlln't let him preach in the meeting
Eouses, I'M at last, as be was camping oat
one night, they got hold Of him They had
Kind Of trial right away, md, though the
Law Was on his side, they took off his clothes
and spit on him, and whipped him, and then
fastened him up TO tree Till he died"
"Earyed him right, sarved him right" said
the preacher. "All sfch ortcr swing. They've
done wus nor that down South; they burnt
lem; yes, they burnt 'em. It kinder seems to
me hceTn of this very feller afore come
away. Vast Woods, or Larkins, or Hen.
shaw? Ono or t'other, reckon"
ayes, you must have heard of him. It
would be singular If you had not. His name
was Jesus Christ"
The prcache1 started up rcd with rage; hs
seized his hat, and, departing, said:
| 81 don't want to have noshin' to do will
| you. don't want to have nothin' to do witt
uou. don't want to have nothin' to do will
you." n. 9. IL