Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1866-12-07
Nasty.
Mr.. NAsBY BREACHES A SERMON.
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WulNu 10 III NNt i0lhll Wv htulNtkYsl :
November l6. 1866.
When the news NV the result NV llnoy
election reached the Corners there wuz h
feelin NV oneasness witch wuz trooly aHeciin,
but when the crushin intelligence arove that
Hoffman WAS beaten in Moo York there wuz
ptostration wich wuz only ekelled when the
intelligence Of Lees surrender reached us.
1t wuz deemed proper in view NV the great
calamity, that services shood be held in the
church, and at : 2. NJ, witch with us mite be
sed to mean post mottem, we slowly aud sad
ly fled in, the only smilin countenance in site
bein that NV niger at the door, who wuz
to wunst belted over the head for lookin
happy.
give out the hymn,
'Broai is the road which leads to death
And it wuz sung with techin pathos. After
the weepin he'd subsidized, and got my feel
ms Gained down so ez TO permit me to speek,
commenst explainin to EN- the causes Nv
the result.
1t wuz, | sed, Christening sent onto us
for our sins, stripin becoz we had exhibited
our horn in our pride; that glory 10 n the pos
session NV the post ilices the collectorships
the assessOrships, and SIGH we he'd become
vain-g glorious and pufed-up, and careless in
performance NV dooues. Their wuz niggers
Ia Kentucky agoin about free, and impiously
settin at naught the DEGREES Nv Providence
witch condemned EN- TO be servants Nv their
brethren; and heer / digressed to elucy date
pint. ] he'd seen stricters in Boston pa
per onto the common practice NV amalgama-
shen in the South, wich paper held up the
practs to the condemnation NV pious men.
My BRETHREN sed |, "them Boston Ablish-
nists hev no clear understandin NV the skrip-
ter. When Ham wuz Gust by Noar, wat wuz
that ouss "He shall be a servant unto
his brethren" Not unto strangers-not
unto the Philistine or the Girgeshite, or the
Milerite, but unto his brethren How Good
he be servant unto his brethren, except thro
Anna gama.hen Onless we amalgamated
with EN-, how wood the male nggers be our
brethren: On my brethren, we wuz obliged
TO do it, and to the credit NV the Southern
people be it sed that they never shrunk from
the performance of dooty. The percent NV
5 eller niggers in this State attests how faith
/ full Kentucky hez bin.
But to resoom. We hev sinned in permit.
tin skools TO Gene in and unfit EN- for their
normal and skuptural condishen, but these
is not all. My brethren go to Esq. McGav.
tits and get the township Bible and search
Till you find this yer tex;
And NO man puttth new wine into ole
hotties, else the new wine doth burst the
bottles, and the wine is spilled
My brethren, wich is the bottles The
Dimocrsy Nv course, and the most Nv en-
may be considered old ones. WITCH ia new
wine; The abhshinists witch follered John
son, NV course. New wine is frothy-so WI
they. New wine fzzss--so did they. New
wine hez strength tor a minit-so bed they
New wine is unreliable--so wuz lhey, A
Philadelphy, the putin NV this new wine in
to old bottles wuz accompli shed--at that &C
cursed place, anshent Dmocrisy w,ch beleev
in Ham and Haqar, met and fell into the nel
nv Seward and Doohtae, witch invented A b
lisninism, and we mingled our teers toge the
the new wine wuz put into the venerabl,
old bottle Nv Dimocrisy and notwithstandii
we hoped it with Federal patronage it bust
ed, and great wuz the bust thereof; and tn,
fragments Nv the bottles wuz prone onto tn,
earth, and the new wine is runnin round per
uliseus GO "uA the skriPtes fulfilled.
And my brethren while 700 are at th
Squire's huntin up that tex, keep on till 20,
find another to-wit:
mo man also sewith piece Nv new clotl
into old gatment, else the new piece tina
fleth it up taketh it away from the old, au,
the rent is made worse"
My hearers, Dimocrisy went to Philsdelph,
in a 500: Of gray, witch it he'd bin a wearin 70
FIVE years. 1t wuz trooly old and Their WI
grevious rents in it, made mostly by beyonet
and SIGH. Oh why want we content Il
wear ii Why wuz we not satisfied with it
Agin wuz the skripters fulfilled. We patch
ed up the coniedut gray with Federal blue
we put onto the back, Seward onto tn
knees, Randall onto the shoulders, Cowau
and onto the seat, Johnson, and they WI
! stitched with Post Ofiiss. But it didn't hold
The skripters wuz fulfled--the old clot
wuz rotten, and one by oao the patches fel
off, somewhat dirted, and takin with EN-
part Nv the old, and the rents is bigger thai
= before. Our coat is busted at the elbows
our pants is frsyed round the bottoms, out a
the knees, and from behind the flag Nv dis
tress waveth drearily in the cold wind
My brethren, we will succeed when W
stick to our integrity. Wat wuz the yoos
nv our asso0min what we did not hey? Wa
5 wuz the sence NV our askin our people t
vote for Kernels for Congris, wieh he'd, door
= in the war, drafted their sons; Wat WI
the yoos9 NV takin Constitooshnel Amend
! men;s to men who spozed that Internal I'm
provements and National Bank wuz su
the isho d.? Wat wuz the yoose Nv lettin G
our holt on niger equality, witch is the RICH
bower, left bower and ace NV the Dimocrisy
} its tower OF strength, its anker and cheeies
, trust, and witch is easy NV comprehension
: aud eminently adapted to the Dimociatic in
telleck, and taking up questions wich will al
be settled 10 years afore they begin to com
prehend EN-; In breef, wat wuz the sense
, my brethren, in putin new wine into oil
bottles-uv patchin old cloth with new. lie
| us be warned and never repeet the fstle er
ror.
PETROLEUM V. Massey, NJ. p.
(Which is Postmaster.)