The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1864-02-05
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Local and Miscellaneous.
Mr. Nasty Preaches---- Subject, Tn,
'ProdygaI suns at . ..

| nalk sum remarks THIS mornln DaSeC
upon the bootiful parable NV th,
prodygal sun. wood reed 2 voc
the passij, but the Bible ! hev is the
only wun in the township, and len
it yisterdy 2 Square Gavitt, who sec
sws rim witnesses on almanacs wood
ent do in boss cases and he hasen
brung it back. The skripter sez, il
substance
Their wuz certin man who he'd
suns. The yungest he'd q taist fei
that branch nv agricultoaral pcrsooti
known ez so' in wild oats, so he ask
the old man fer his sheer NV ehc es
TAFT. He got it, turnd it into green
bax, and went or He commenst liv
in high-bordin at big hotels, and
ieepin trottin hosses, and playin bill
yards, and sich. In about a year hC
run thro his pile, and wuz ded broak
Then his credit playd out, and he
Iwuz in tite plais fer his daily bred
The ice struck him that he he'd bet
ter put fer hum, wich he did. The
old man saw him cumin, and he
run out and met him, and Civ him
new cote, and order fer a paro NV
shoes, and kid n fat cafr, and he'd
-four doins. The oldest boy obgect-
cd 2 these sayin, "Lo l hev servd
thee these menny yeres, and thou
never madest no splurge over me, but
when this thy son, who hez fooled
away his pile, returns you kill calves
and SIGH" Then the old man retorts
sayin, ,"My sun who wuz lost is found,
the sheep who went astray is cum
back, let us be merry"
My brethren, this parable applize
ez well to the present time ez though
it wuz maid fer it. Uncle Samyuel
is the old man, the suthern wing Nv
the Dimocratic party is the prodigy
gal, and the Ablishnists is the oldest
son. The south got tired and went
Off on its own hook. 1t hez, ] mail,
no doubt, spent the heit NV its sub.
stance, and will shortly conclude to
cum home. Now the CRATE qwestion
NV the hour is how shel he be reseev-
ed. Ny trends, the Dimocratic rool
il to foller the skripter wen yoo kin
maik pint by so doin. In this per-
tikeler case Godlinis is game, halleloo-
gy, ther4, let us be Cody. Let I'm
Gle Samyoeel see the repentant prod
dygcl afar orf-let him go out to seek
him, ur send Fernandy Wood, and
when hc hez found him let him fall.
not upon his neck, but at his feet
let him PIT onto him the perple robe
wich is royalty, and upon his hand a
ring, wich is dominion, wich is q
improvement upon skripter.
But the Ablishnist, who is the ell
der sun, steps up and scz "Nary. He
wuz q doin well and he vented out
frum us, takin awl that wuz his own,
and sech ez he Good steel, all NV witch
he hcz spent upon sech harlots e2
Afrikin slaivry, Stait rites, and suth
ern independence, wich last two men
shund is whited -sepuikers. / sent my
sons Grant and Rosycrance and Ben
butler after him, but To- wen lie wuz
strong and wigserus he did despite
fully use them. Now that he is week
from hunger, let him brindle. Ef we
talk him,to our buzms, let him cum on
his neez, let him cast off the harlots
that hev sedoost him, that ther may
be no moar trubble in all the land"
My brethren, we must talk him back
ez the old man did in the bible. Why
do you ask Becoz he wuz alluz the
old mans pet, and he'd things his
own way. We wuz his trends and
shared with him the steelins, but
sence he went out the Ablishn broth
er and his trends hev controld things
and ware air we? Exc ansers no
wharf, We okepy low plasis in the
sinagog, and the doggry keepers &c
mournin about the streets and refuse
2 be comforted becoz ther cash is not,
and eff we talk back the prodygel
shorn NV his strength, NV what avail
is he to us? He must cum back e7
strong ez ever, he must bring his
harlots with him--he must ROOL!
Then shel we hev Post Orfises, and
then shel we agin live on the fat NV
the land, dodgin the cuss NV laber
Brethrin let us be dillygent in this
CRATE work, instant in seesn and out
NV seesn.
. A collecslun wuz takin up fer the
perpus NV sendin mishunary Q Mas.
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