, 1866-03-03

At this pint in the discourse old man IN
The back part uv the house ariK and inter-
1uWed me. lie sed lie bed word to say on
that subjcck which must be sed. and IF In
tcrru1ted lin till he rut through he'd punch
my he'd, whereupon let him 70 on.
- Trooly,'' sez hc. 81 the wages Of sin Is dcth.
! hey allnx bin Dimecsat. The old Dimoc-
racy hez becn In the service u hlo for thirty
years, and the assortment ov deth 1t hez re-
ccived Tor wages is trooly surpri6in'. Never
did party commence better. JA1ou was
honiet man, who Knew that righteousnIs WIZ
the ,tasAen's bs:st holt. But be died. and
host nv tuppenny politicians. with his great
namc fur capital, Jumped into LIS old clothes
nm undertook. TO run the party. Ef the
l)imocracr coold bey elected a houtst man
about every fourth or fifth term. they mite
Lev ground along for longer period, but
nllas aazsou was the laft Of that style we
he'd, and SO many dlshonist cusses WIZ then
in the Capital that lis ghost coo1ent watch
the half uE them.
t'T1e fust instailment Of deth We received
VILE Elcn Harrison beet us. The old polly
tishins in our party didn't mind 1t, fur, SEE
they, The treasury woodent hev bin wath
mulch to us ennylow alter the sncldn it has
cspcrianccd for Il ycars-it needs years Nv
resi- We elected Poke, and here It wuL that
Sin got complete hold nv us. Ansheut COM
pacts 1nade with the dcFii wuz altuz Tlrten Ia
1lud. We made contract with Calhoonlsm,
and that WAS ritten In tlud wlcl wux sned ID
Mexico. Here We sold ourselves out, boots
md brisches. to The cotton Democracy, and
don't our history ever since prove the 1ruolh
ur the 1eIt, The wages Nv Elm Ii deth.s o..
my trends. in wat less inaaailments, aud how
regularly hez these wages bin pade u.s.
''0ur men nv character cotNlnenst leayiu
rs. Sllas Write kicked out aud wood hev-
gone over agin us, he'd he not fortunately died
1uo soui,, and skorcs u< others followed soon.
T1Iings went on until Feetse wu1 elscted~ The
Devil (which is cottonl whom We wux servin.
brought kausas into tho ring, and wat scat
term cnsnod.
"Aein, the men Ut character got out, and
gradually but sloorly the work nv deth went
on. BookanDon WIZ elecfd, but WIZ OF no
yoosc TO us. At@er Peerse he'd rnn the ma.
cline four yecrt, wat wux their lef1s Exc
ausers. Anuther sittIn follered, ard the ole
down to s Fallspdiguu. The Devil to
which We he'd sold ourselves wood not let
7ls of with tllih, however. The Wases
nv sin is dcth,f and VIC he'd not rcsecyen full
pay e yet He instit.ated sontl Car1Iuy to
rebel, he indoosed The other Democratic States
10 f0lcr, lie forced the Northern Democrisy
TO support ctn. and so on. That nuz the final
Ftroko, Dickinson, and CaSs, aud Dix, and
Todd, md Logan. all left Us, and wun BY wun
The gxaa1y nv Northern stars disappeared
from the Democratic flrmament, leaving Moo
tisTsey alone, and last fall, my brethri,,. she
Eot in gloom.
''Oh, how troo is 1t. We served sin faith
fully. aud where are We? Ne vent to wnr
1or slavery, and slavery Is dead. We at for
Gon(edcraey, and the Confederacy Is dead.
We tit for State Rites, and State Rites is dead.
"kcu1ucky went heavy into the sin bizucss,
and wl1ar Is Kentucky. We sent our 1nen to
the Conttderit army. and nonc ur Gu cum
back ctptin the skulkers. who comprise all
nv that class which We wood 1lev bin glad to
1p killed. Linkiu w1u,ed to her lis Tree our
ui@tcrs and be compensated for en-. We held
TN ~ the sin uv nissers, and DOW they are
taken from us with nary compensate. In
hhort. Whatever ur good the Derfl promised
Us In polyux has resulted In evil hiy nisEcrs
l. gone. LILY rlantashcn here bez led alternate
~ both armies o. they carorted backerd and
1orrcds through the stait. ms horses and barns
WIZ burnt, md all hev 10 show for my
properly Ii Confedrit mummy, which is a very
dead article w death. know not what the
venerable old sucker in tue pulpit VIE a go
lug 10 say, hut ef he kin look over this section
u1 the heritage, and can't preach 4 elokcn:
sermon on that text, be ain't much on the
preach. I'm dun.''
Nv course, after ebulltion Of this kind
couldn't 20 on. die1nist the awtience With
Il lcnedickshun, hopin to cit en- together
when eich prcjudiced men ain't present.
PETHoIEuM =. NAsBT,
Init Pnstor uv the Church Of the Moo Dis
{lcukaahun.