American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1866-12-19
pott,es else the new wine doth bust ii
bottles, aud the wine il spilled


bottles, else the new wine dotl, bnst i,
bottles, aud the wine i, spilled
NY brethren, wich is the BOTTLES p
me pimoerlssy NV course, and the most
od en- may be considered old ones
We new actld as bottles, CARVING about
Hoods, not precisely wine, but the mod.
ern substitute therefor, from our earl;as,
infancy Wich is new wlpeS The
Abllshnlsts wich follered johnson nv
coarse New wine is frothy-so vuz
they. New wine fzzes-so did tbev
New wine hez strength for a minit-so
he'd they New wine is unreliable-so
wuz they AT Philadelphia. the putin
uV this new wine into old hotties wuz
accomplishment that accused place
anshent ID mocrisy wich believes in Ham
and Hagar, met and fell onto the neck
Nv Seward and Doolittle, wich invented
Ablishnism, and we mingled our teers
together--the new wine wuz put into
the venerable old bottle NV Dimocrisv
and notwithstaudin we hooped 1t with
Federal patronage it busted and great
wuz the bust thereof and the fragments
NV me bottle wuz prone onto the earth,
ana the new wine is runnin round per-
miscus. So wuz the Skripter fulfilled. .
And now my brethren, while VOC arc
at the squire's huntin up that tex ; keep
on till yoo find another, to wit: -
No man alsD putteth piece NV old cloth
onto new garment, else the new piece that
filleth it up taketh away from the old and
the rent is made worse
My hearers, Dimocrisy went to PhiIa>
delphy IN suit NV gray, wich it he'd
bin wearin for five years, 1t was troo.
ly old and ther wuz greevious rents in it,
made mostly by bayonets and sich. Oh
why wuzn. we content to wear it? Why
wuz we not satisfied with it? Agin wuz
the skripters fulfilled. We patched up
the Ctnfedrit, gray with Federal blue :
we put onto the back, Seward; onto the
knees, Randall onto the the shoulders,
Cowan; and onto tho seat, johnson, and
they wuz stitched together with Post of.
fees But it didn't hold. The skrip-
ters wuz fulfilled the old cloth wuz rot
ten, aud one by one the patches fell off,
somewhat dirticd, and takin with en- a
part Nv the old, and the rent is bigger
than aiore. Our coat is busted at the
elbows, our pants is frayed round the
bottoms, out at the knees, and from be-
hind the iag NV distress waveth dreari,y
in the cold wino
My brethron, we will succeed when wo
stick TO our integrity. Wat wuz the
use of our assoomin what we did not hey?
Wat wuz the sence uv our askiu our
pc ople to vote for Kernels for CoDgris,
wlch he'd. duolin the war drafted their
sons? Wat wuz the yoose NV taking
consttOOshnel amendments 10 men who
spozcd that Internal improvements ana
Nashnel Bank wIz still the ishoo? Wat
wuz he yoose nv lettin 80 our holt on
nIgger equality, wich Is the right bower,
left bower, and ace Nv the Dlmocrisy. its
tower uy strength, its anker and checfest
trust, and wch is easy NV comprehen-
s,ua and emiueutly adapted to the Dim
ocratic intcllock, and taking up questions
wich will all be settled ten years afore
they begin to comprehend emf In
brcef, wat wuz he sense, my brethren
palphl old cloth wIth new. Let US be
warned aud never repeet the latle err
ror.
The congrega,hen dispersed somewhat
sadly, but ez they gathered at BasconI's
to discuss the sermon, wuz gratifed at
obseryin visible, improvement it their
temper. Bascom hssell bussled around
lively; Deekin Pogram remal ked, that
probably it wuz unskriptural to put new
wine into old tubs, but ez he didn't hev
an ijee that the prohlbiShen extended
to new whisky he'd rcsk It, bust or no
bust, and he pizened hissolf very much
in the old style and Elder Slathags and
Kernel NJ Pelter so far recovered their
spirits oz to hang the nigger mentioned
in the beginning ez ookin leased IT
the church. The Corners is rapidly
gettin itself agin.
PETROLEUM V. Massey, p. N.
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