The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-11-29

NAsBy.-The "Lait pastor" Of the church Of
the Moo Dispensahun" tells us that he deemed
it proper in view of the great calamity, the
elections to hold special service IN bis church,
aud that he preached sermon on that occasion.
After setting forth that the sad result was ga
chastism sent ONO us for our sins in permitting
pigoers to run about free, and allowin skools to
come in and unfit EN- for their normal and
skriptural condishen," he continued:
My brethren, 60 to ESQ. McGavitt's and get
the township Bible and search till you find tbs
Yer tex
And no man putteth new wine into old bot
Ties else the new wine doth bust tiie oiu oo'-
ties, and the wine is spilled:
NV brethren witch is the bottles? The DIM
ocrisey. nv coarse and the most of EN- may be
considered old ones We hev actld as bottles,
carrying about foods, not precisely wine, but
the modern substitute therefor, from our earli-
est infancy WITCH is new wine? The Ablish-
nists wich follered johnson, Nv coarse. New
wine is frothy-so wuz they. New wine fixes
so did they. New wine hez strength for a
minit-so he'd they. New wine is unreliable
SO wuz they. AT Philadelphia, the putin NV
this new wine into old bottles wuz accomplish
ed-at that accursed place, anshent Dimocrisy
witch believes in Ham and Hagar, met and fell
onto the mex NV Seward and Doolittle, witch in
vented Ablishinism, and we mingled our teers
cradle old bottle NV Dimocrisy, and notWltn-
standn we hoped it with Federal patronage !.
busted, and great wuz the bust thereoi, ahu
the fragments NV the bottle wuz prone onso the
earth, and the now wine is runnln rounu per-
miscus. So wuz the Skripter fulfilled.
And my brethren, while 700 are at the squire's
huntin up that tex, keep on till 700 find anoth-
er, to wit;
"No man also seweth piece NV old cloth
onto new garment, else the new pieces that
filleth it up taketh it away from the old and the
rent is made worse"
My hearers Dem ,crisy went to Philadelphy
in a SCOT of gray, witch it he'd bin a wearin for
five years 1t was trooly old and ther wuz
greevious rents in it, made mostly by bayonets
and SIGH. oh, why wuznt we content to wear
it? Why wuz we not satisfied with it? Agin
wuz the skripturs fulfilled. We patched up
the Confedrit gray with Federal blue; we put
onto the back, Seward; onto the knees, Ran
dali; onto the shoulders, Cowan; and onto the
seat, johnson; and they wuz stitched together
with Postoffces. But it didn't hold. The
skripters wuz fulflled-the old cloth wuz rot
ten, and one by one patches fell Oft, somewhat
dirtied, and takin with EN- a part Nv .ne olu,
is busted at the elbows, our pants frayed round
the bottom out at the knees, and from behind,
the flag NV distress waveth drearily in the cold
wind.
stick to our integrity. Wat WIZ the yoose nv
our assomin what we did not hev? Wat wuz
the sence NV our askin our people to vote for
Kernels for Congris' wich he'd, doorin the war,
drafted their sons? Wat wuz the yoose NV
talking constitoosional amendments to men
who spozed that Internal Improvements and a
Nashnul Bank wuz still the ishoo? Wat wuz
the yoose NV letting go our holt ON niger
equalite, witch is the right bower, left bower
and ace NV the Democrisy, its tower Nv
strength, its anker and cheefest trust, and
witch is easy of comprehension and eminently
adaDted to the Democratic intelleck, and tal1in
I'D questions WITCH will all be settled ten years
afore they begin t0comprehend EN-? In breef,
wat wuz the sense, my brethren, in putin new
wine in old bottles, NV patchin old cloth with
new Let us be warned and never repeet the
fatle error"