The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-02-21

told that the prodegal changed the close to
which he he'd on when he got his potion and
went. He returned in his rags, which when
! he looked onto EN-, as he did menny time
| in his trubbels, they reminded him OF home.
No dout when he cum to hisself and saw
how his close he'd faded, and how Pc sneWs
he'd got hoais into EN-, and h19 sfQck1ns
bed'nt been darned sense he left md pary.
butten sowed on, to witch when bel ~
all this it fetched his hart, and he 6ed will
90 to NV farther. Gents, if we want new
close, and big pheest, and a riRg Of shure
enuf gold, to which shall be q sign unto us
that we shall never leave the family emmy
moare, let us rize up and go back in our
union rags 1t won't do to hault and dodge
by the way, and then present ourselves to
our PARENT in secesh close. Stitch CARDS is
never tolerated on the plantashun, and never
aloud in the house.
So mulch for the ole man and the prode-
Gal, but, gents, what is the Oldest son tryin
to do Is he glad to cea his yunger broth
er, pore Teller, which got his potion, and fell
among the hogs, and then after while, to
which when he had suffered horribel, riz up
and started back home? Gents, / behave he
is. But he eyes the ole man clostly as he
falls upon the neck of the prodegal, and
kisses him. Maybe he didn't hear the rag
ged brother when he tole his PARENT how sor-
! ~ he was fur what he had dun. Maybe he's
littel proud He's he'd everything to his
self for menny year, and bein ritch in these
| worlds goods, maybe he's not as quick to
| pheel even for brother as he should be-
| Maybe so. But the prodegal's littel proud
| too. his blud is as good as the Oldest bruth-
| ers, and brave hart beets under his rags
| He's dun rong, monstously, awfully rong,
and he means and tells the ole man so, and
| promises in futer to be a good son. But the
ole mans not quite reddy to trust him.. He's
not shure but he's fallen into the ways of the
| gentiles, for he sees some strange close onto
| him, with sum of the saim close he wore
away. He hisitates, and tells him to strip
! off the strange close, and then he shall hev
! an invite into the house. And then the prod
egal hisitates. to which he should not hev
| dun but should hev took EN- off immejitly,
| whites in fact he ort to hev left EN- behind
| him with the hogs. And jest here, gents the
oldest bruther objeks, and SEE the prodegal
mustn't cum in and be his equal twell he
agrees to put hisself on level with the freed
servants. The prodegal lifts hisself up in
| his rags and tells the Oldest bruther that his
| bud fur'ids it. That the freed servants ar
not fit, which his Oldest bruther ort to Zoe it,
TO sheer in all the privileges ov the family.
! That he's reddy, and more'n reddy to treet
the freed servants with jestis, and he will do
! this under the eye of the ole man as long as
he lives, but he can't equalize hisself unto
EN- in governin the family. The ole man re-
Dukes the oldest brother. He seq to him,
son, all that hev is thine. After am gone
you will govern, which if you will assoshi-
ait your yunger bruther with you, the estait
will be well manidged Ihev governed with
as mulch mercy as jestis. See that you do
so too. Eff you foce your prodegal bruthel
to level with the freed servants. you will
sink your oan blood, fur you are twin bruth-
ers, and never should hev parted fur mo-
ment; to which my son, sed he, if you foce
your bruther to this, the family government
will be injured, and the freed servants and
the family that hev RACED up. will fall out
and phite. And as furthe strange close youl
yunger bruther, the prodegal, has ON, theyr
an abominashun in my site, and I'm deter
mined not to receive him into the house twel
he talks en- off, and moren that, efhe looks
bak and means after the hogs, to which hi
fell among when he got his potion and wan
dered off, will let him stay onto the plan
tashun, but will keep him out ov the house
forever. But eff so be he will do what is rite
and act as he sed he would when l first me-
him, will lead him into the house with my
oan hand and Twill maik peece betwene YOU
bruther and yourself
What viii be the end of the parallel it il
not for me to say, but I'm jubus ov it. Tn
afcard it won't turn out well.
Gents, the unfortenit kolored man hev beer
the cause ov all our trubbles. think we've
he'd enuf ov him. We've he'd him fur brek
fus. fur dinner. and fur supper So fur as
am koncerned l wish all the kolered peope
wer in paradize. And yit, gents, they a
better than the ambishus white men as hey
been usin EN- TO git offs, to whirchI will say
these ambishus white men ar no better in ont
sexton than anuther. Pore onsofstigaiteG
.lescendent of Afric's golden sans. He's in
liosent, gents, oy all the bud that hev beer
split on his account. 1t wer the Afrigar
Witch broak up the government, and it a
he AFRICAN that keeps it broak up. / ce
10 renidy in the futer. Pandoria's box he
cen opened by sum one, and no man seem
0 be abel to shet it. All we ken do is. jes
5 We ar dom up here in Racket Holler, lool
providence fur his mercy and stan by An
ly johnson. Ell the lord ar not mersifu
INTO us as a peopel accordin to the multi
Jude ov our Gins, | ken cea no hope to whitcl
when think oy our condishun, we ar har
nung and breaze shaken over an awful hell
standin on slippery rox while fry billers rol
,eneath our Onhallowed pheet Excus
eelin, gents. Eff emmy thing could onhing
me- and kause me to neglec my bizness, t
which when do my tobaker sumtimes git
out ov case, it is when feel Serious about gu
distracted, ruint, god fursaken country.
Okashunally, gents, stray Sentenel find
It's way to Racket Hollcr Ole Clump is nit
fond ov it, because he SEE it digs Holde
sum times. l tole him he was a monstou
rem to Holden twell Holden got his pardo
iur him. which ever sense he had been hi
,nemy. That sum peopel seemed to kons
Ter gratitude kean sense of favors to cum
md sum men wer so meme they couldn bal
be under oblegathuns to anuther, BIT
aited them as he'd dun EN- favors. He sc
othin but batted his eyes and KEEP SPELL
t the hard words in the Sentenel. And
ID moarn that, eff it hadn't hev. been fl
toiden sum peopel as struts nifty big +,
lese presents, would hev had tite nee
ankisher with nothin to stan on He grul
ID, batted his eyes, and KEEP spellin at tt
eatenel
Gents, eff so be, and it meats your appr
ell, advice our ole fren Mister Peli to open
;hule, to which shall tcech the truth, Il
oal truth, and nothin but the truth judi
frum his paper he's a graduate in tina
ollidge. Eff the advertiser of the schu
lould be expensive, I'll bare my sheer c