The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-07-29
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the Staff ov Kentucky, July 8, 1885. !
preached last HahAaah, oR rather tree to,
from the parable Of the Prodigal Son. We
had : splendid congregashun. I scsce rst
uival of the Democratc vineyard wic6 rally
cheers me. The demonstrating our friends
made in Memphis, the canin of Gnnnen BY
Rosso, and the call for Johneun convenshun
fort the souls Nv the Democracy and encour
age en- to renewed effort Only hast week
FIVE northern men were sent whirlin out Nv
this section--they busted IN the night to e..
cape hanging, leaving their goods as q prey
for the righteous six niggers hey bin killed
and one Buro officer shot. Trooiy there is
everything to encourage as.
The house wuz full. The weather WIZ hot,
and the pleasant incense ov mingled whisky,
tobacco and snuff wich aris wus grateful to
me. The sun shone in on Dekin Pogram's
him square / kim allus tell wher he sets, even
if it is dark. He drinks apple jack instead
: of corn whisky, and chsws 6ne cut tobaeker
instead uvplus, and consistently when in the
pulpit can distinguish the pecooliar aroma
Nv he breath from those around Him.
"My brethren, sed /, esich Nv 700 ez hev
Bibles in yoor houses, kin get somebody to
read 700 the parable 10 which shell call yoor
attenshun. A man wunst upon time he'd
sons ez many men hsv since, and one ov EN-
wuz tough one. He left his home and went
into far countries, making the old man shell
out his share Nv the estate, and he lived high,
list, my brethren, ez yoor boys do, or rather
did when they went to Moo Orleans, in the,
days when 700 he'd q niger or two wich 700
Good sell to supply EN- with. money. He
played draw poker and faro, he drank fancy
drinks aud boarded at big hotels, and he fol-
Tered after strange women, wich II bust man
quicker nor any one small sin the devil has
yet invented ezsyeor pastor can testify sUv
course, his pile give out and he got down, my
friends. did this ingenious yooth, to rags and
wretchedness. and ended by being an over
seer Nv swine. Wha, did be do? He ariz
and went TO his father, and the old man saS
him altar of and Went ont TO meet him, and
q SCOT Nv clothes and pair Of boots, and
pu, a ring onto ibis finger, and made feast
killing for the purpose the fatted calf which
he had saved for another pacasipH.
Ny friends you KIN Gnd' 10 the skrip,er
suthin applicable to every occasion. and this
parable fits the present time like y ready made
coat. The South is the Prodigal Son. We
went out from our fathers house, on expe
ditou wlch hazdt proved altogether sue
cess We spent our share Nv The estate, and
little more We ran through with our
means, and hev come down to rags, and dirt,
and filth, and hunger. We are. and hev bin
oh. bue of.
ter them twin harlots, Slavery and State
Rights and they ve cleaned us out. Our
pockets are empty. No more doth the pleas
ant half dollar jingle 10 sweet unison agin its
fellows our wallets is barren nv postal cur
rencv, and the grocery keepers mourn and
refuse 10 De coIniortea, Decoz We are not.
We hev got to the husk stage nv our woe, and
wood be tending hogs Of the armies vieh
past through these countries he'd left us any.
We hev cum back. In rags and dirt we hev
wended our way to Washington. and ask TO
be taken back. Now why don't our Father,
the Government fulfill the skripter Why
DON'T 1t see US aiar off and run out 10 meet
US? Why dom it put onto us . purple robe
where's the ring for our finger, and the
shoes for our feet? and where's, the fatted
calf he ought to kill My brethren, them
Abishnsts is worse than inhiddles-whle
y
II. For my part, l.
At this point sargent belonging to that
internal Buro who wus in the audience with
enough ov soldiers to make opposn Nv him
unpleasant sed he he'd bin q sort ov exhorter
in his day, and desired to say a word in ex-
PLANTATION nv that parable, ez applicable to
the present time, and seq he ssef | am inter
rupted, remember that belong to the church
military, which is Just now the church trium-
phant.n And cockn his musket he proceed
ed very mach uninterrupted.
.'The prodigal son. seq he .wuz received
by the old man with considerable doins, but
my worthy friends, he went out decently.
He didn't ez soun ez he withdrawed from the
house, turn round and make war onto the old
gentleman he didn't burn his house and
barns, tear up his garden, burn his fences and
knock down the balance Nv the children.
Not any He went away peaceably, a mis-
guided good for nothing, but yet pesceably
good-ior nothing. Secondly he come back
Nv his own akkord. The old man didn't 90
after m and fght for four years al a cost uv
halt his Substance TO s,ibdue him and bring
him back, hut when he had run through bis
pile aud sauaidered his share Nv the estate,
and got hungry he comes back like whip
ped dog
Aly friends. let me draw small parallel
between these cases. $50
The pfodigal son went out-so did tbs
South thus fairly the eases is alike.
he prodigal didn't steal nothin. The
Conieieracy took ever thing it Good lay its
hands on.
The prodigal spent only what wuz his to
spend The Confederacy spent moi only all
il Good borrer, when il knowed IFS promises
TO pay we2eui worth the mizable paper they
wuz printed onto.
ka ylio,, baf Il, Il lar
ez penitent ez the consciousness that he he'd
made tool Wv hisself Good make him. The
Confedeiacy wing whipped paek, but i SILL
s*ears hefty oaths thst II xuz right all TIE
time
The prodgal didn't demand veal. pot pies
and purple robes and sIch, but begged to be .
servant 10 the more sensible bre .hren wich
STAYED. The South comes back demandin
office Nv wieh the iatted calf and rings and
purple robes is typical, and considerably more
share in the goyetnmenl then II had before !
kicked over the traces and Went out like the
lost tribes Nv Israel
Spoze the Bible prodigal had stopped his
parent and remarked to him thus Il am
willin to come back on conditions. You
must pay my debts-you must give me an
ekal share al the farm with the other boys
you must trea, me in all respects jest as Ell ]
hadn't gone out, and-this is essenual-you
must take with me all the sharpers, who ruin
ed me, all the gamblers and thieves, with
whom fell in while | wuz away, and make
them head men on the place, and abuv all,
hey with me the two harlots, which wuz the
prime NV my ruin, and they must have eleven
Of the best rooms in the house, and must be
lrea,ee e. your daughters Toavoid displease
in the others, I'll dress them in di6eren'
clothes, but here they must stay. Otherwise,
I'll go out again
Probabl the old gentlemen would hey be-
come indignant, and wood hev remarked &c
him to go and never let him see his sudacious
face agin. or rather, he wood hev strangled
the harlots, scattered the blacklegs, aud
choked the young sprout into submission.
Shem's me. am anxious to kill that fatted
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