The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-07-26
MIR. Nasty Preaches-The "PrOdiga
Sun''-An interruption.
CoNFEDRIT X ROADS, witch }
Is in the Stait NV Kentucky,) :

ed in the night to escape hangin, leavin their
goods as prey for the rghteous-six niggers
hev bin killed and one Burow officer shot. TIoo-
ly there is everything to encourage us.
The house wuz full. The wether wuz hot and
the pleasant incense of mingled whiskey, tobac-
co and snuff witch ariz wuz grateful to me- The
sun shone in on Deekin Pegram's face as he
gently slept, and when the sun hits him square
kin alluz tell where he sets, even eff it's dark
He drinks apple-jack instead Nv corn whiskey,
and chaws fine cut tobacker instead NV plug,
and consistently when in the pulpit kin distn-
guish the pecooliar aroma NV his breath from
| those around him.
my BRETHREN" red I, SIGH Nv YOU ez have
Bibles in yoor houses kin get somebody to read
700 the parable to witch 1 shell call yoor atten,
ton. man wunst upon time he'd sons ez
meny men hev since, and wun NV EN- wuz
tough one. He left his home and went into far
countries, maxim the old man shell out his share
Nv the estate, and he lived high, jst, my breth
rem, ez yoor boys do rather did, when they
went to Moo Orleans, in the days when 700 he'd
a Niger or two which 700 Good sell to supply
EN- with money. He played draw poker and
faro, he drank fancy drinks and boarded at big
hotels, and he folered after strange women,
which, bust a man quicker nor emmy one small
sin the devil hez yet invented ez yoor pastor
kin testify Wv coors his pile give out and he
got down, my friends. did this ingenuos yooth
to rags and wretchedness and ended by being
au overseer NV swine. What did he d.? He
ariz and went TO his father, and tine old man saw
him afar off and went out to meet him, and fell
into his neck, and Civ him an order tor a suit NV
clothes and pair boots, and put a ring onto
his finger, and made feast, KILN it for the fat
ted calf witch he had saved for another occasion.
My friends You kin fndain skrlpter suthin APP
placable to every occasion, and this parable fits
the present time like ready made coat The
South Is the Prodgal Sun. We went out from
our fathers house, expedition which heznt
proved altogether a success. We spent our
share Nv the estate, and little more. We run
IA rough with our means and hev come down to
rags and dirt, and filth and hunger. We are and
hev bin for some time, chawin husks. We run
out after them twin harlots, Slavery and State
Rights, and they've cleaned US out. Our pock-
cts are empty. No more dose the pleasant half
dollar jingle in sweet unison agin it's fellows
our wallets is barren NV postal currency, and
the grocery keepers NOUN and refuse to be
comtorted bek0z we are not We hev got to
the husk stage NV our woe. and wood be tendin
hogs if the armies wich passed through these
countries he'd left us any. We hev kun back
In rags and dirt we hev wendell our way to
Washington and ask to be taken back. Now
why don't our Father the Cove rnment, fulfill
the skripter? Why don't it see us afar off and
run out to meet ue? Why dom it ut onto us g
robe!-Where's the ring for our finger aud the
shoes for feet? and where is the fatted cali
he ought to xiii? My brethren them Ablishnists
is worse than Unbelievable they preach the
gospel they won't practice it, For my pari
/"
At this point sargent belonging to that infer.
nal Bnrow, who was in the audience with
enough NV soldiers to make opposin Nv him un|
pleasant, sed he had been a sort Nv an exhorter
in his day, and desired TO say a word in expa
nation Nv that parable ez aplacable to the pres
ent time, and seq he, "ef am interrupted, re.
member that belong to the church military,
witch is, just now, the church triumphant" And
cooking his musket he proceeded very much
uninterrupted.
"The prodigal sum-" sez he, "wuz recei we'd
by the old man with considerable 6oins but my
wothy friends he went out decently. lie didn't
ez coon ez he wlthdrawed from the house, turn
around 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 of the children. Not any. He wen
away peaceably, a misguided good ,for moth in
but yet a peaceabie good,ror nothin. Secondly,
he came back ofhis own akkord. The old man
didn't go after him and fight for four years at
cost Nv half his substance to subdue him and
bring him back, but when he had run through
his pile and squandered his share of the estate
and got hungry, he came back like a whipped
dog.
My friends, let me draw a small parallel be-
tween these cases.
The prodigall son went out--so did the south
thus fairly the cases are alike.
The Prodigal didn't steal nothing The Con-
federacy took everything it could lay its hands
on.
| The Prodigal spent only what wuz his 20
spend. The Confederacy spent not only all it
stole, bat all 1t could borrer when ii knuwed
its promises to pay wuzent wutth the mizabie
paper they wuz printed onto.
The Prodigal when he did come back come
ez penitent ez the consciousness that he he'd
made fool Nv hisself Good make him. The
Confederacy wuz whipped back, but it still
swears hefty oaths that it wuz right all the
time.
Inc Prodig8l didn't demand veal pot-pies and
purple robes, and SIGH, but begged 10 be
trvant, unto the more sensible brethren witch
stayed. The South comes back demandp office
Nv witch the fattcd calf and rings aud purpe
robes is typical, and considerable more sbairs
in the government than it had before it kicked
over the traces and went out ike the lost tribes
Nv Israel
Spoz the Bible prodigal he'd stopped his pa
rent and remarked TO him thus: 81 am wilIin
to come back on conditions Yoo must nav nv
debts--yoo must give me an ekal share Nv the
farm with the other bOys-yoo must treat me in
ali respecks just ez eff 1 hadn't gone out, and---
this is essent ial-yoo must take with me all the
! sharpers who ruined me, all the gamblers and
thefes with whom l fell in while l wuz away
and make them hed>men on the place and above
/ all, hev with me the two barlots which WIZ
the prime cause NV my ruin, and they must bev
eleven of The best rooms in the house, and must
be treated ez your daughters. to avoid displeas.
ID The others III dress EN- in different clothes
but here they must stay Otherwise PJl 90 out
again"
Probably the old gentleman God hev become
indignant and wood hev remarked to him to 90
and not let him see his audacious face again, or
rather, he would hev strangled the harlots, scat
tered the blacklegs, and choked the young sprout
into submission. Them's me- am anxious TO
kill that fattened calf, and am also anxious to
put on yoor robes and shoes But alas the calf