The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-07-19

/ From The Toledo Blade.
CoNFEDRrT x ROADS, (wich is in
the Stait nv Kentucky } July 6, '66.
| L preached last Sabbath, or rather
tried to, from the parable NV the Prodi-
gal Son. We he'd a splendid congrega-
shun. notice a revival nv the work
in this part NV the Dimocratic vineyard
which reely cheers me. The demon
strashun our friends made in Memphis,
the cantn nv Grinnell by Rosso, and
the call for a convenshun in Phiiadel-
ph1a, all all hev conspired to comfort
the souls Nv the Dimocrisy and encour-
age me to renewed effort. 1t Is bring
ing forth fruit. Only one day last week
five Northern men were sent whirlin
| out NV this section-they busted in the
night to escape hangin, leavin their
goods as prey for the righteous-six
niggers hev bin killed and one BurOw
| officer shot, Trooly there is every
thing to encourage us. r.l =t
The house wuz full. The weather
wuz hot, and the pleasant incense nv
mingled whisky, tobacco and snuff
wich ariz wuz grateful to me. The sun
shone in on Deekin Pogram's face ez
he gently slept, and when the sun hits
him square kin alluz tell where he
sets, even eff 1t is dark. He drinks ap-
| ple-jack instead Nv corn whisky, and
chRWs fine cut tobacker instead NV
plug. and consistently when in the pull
I pit l kin distinguish the pecoolar aroma
NV his breath from those around him.
"My brethren" sed I, sich NV yoo ez
.hev, Bibles in yoor houses, kin get
/ somebody to read yoo the parable to
| wich.I shell call yoor attention. A man
wunst upon time had sons, ez many
men hev since, and wun NV EN- was a
tough one. Heleft his home aud went
into far countries, maxim the old man
shel out his share Nv the estate, and he
lived high, jist, my brethren, ez yoor
boys do or did when they went to Moo
Orleans, in the days when yoo he'd a
nigger or two wich 700 Good sell to sup
/ ply em with money. He played draw
poker and faro, he drank fancy drinks
| and boarded at big hotels, and he fol-
| lowed after strange women wich it bust
la man quicker nor any one small sin
1 the devil hez yet invented, ez yoor pas
| tor kin testify. Wv coarse his pile give
out, and he got down, my friends, did
| this ingenious youth, to rags and
wretchedness, and ended in being an
| overseer NV kline. What did he do?
He ariz and went to his father, and the
old man saw him afar off and went out
to meet, and fell on to his neck, and
| give him a order for SCOT Nv clothes
and a pair NV boots, and put ring
onto his finger, and made feast, kill
lin for the purpose the fatted cali Wich
he had saved for another occasion.
My friends You kin find in the skrip-
ter suthin applicable to every occasion
and this parable fits the present time
like ready-made coat. The South is
the prodigal son. We went out from
our fathers house, on an expedition
which heznt proved altogether sue
cess. We spent our share NV the estate
| and little more. We run through with
our means and hev cum down to rags,
and dirt, and filth, and hunger. We
are, and hev bin some time, chawin
husks. We run out after them twin
harlots, Slavery and State Rights, and
they've cleaned us out. Our pockets
are empty. No more doth the pleasant
half dollar Jingle in sweet unison agini
It's fellowsl our wallets is barren NV
postal currency, and the grocery keep
! ers mourn and refuse to be comforted
becoz we are not. We hev got TO the
husk stage of our woe, aud wood be
tendin hogs eff the armies which past
through these countries he'd left us any.
! We hey KUN 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 Governments, fui-
fiji the skripter2 Why don't it see us
| afar off and run 10 meet us? Why
don't it put onto usa purple robe ?-I
where's the ring for our finger, and the
shoes for our feet and where's the fat
ted calf he ought to kill My brethren,
| them Ablishnists issworse than infid-
dles-while they preach the gospel they
won't practice it. For my part I-.n
At this point sargent belonginEto
that internal Burow, Who wuz in the
awdience with enough NV soldiers to
make opposin Nv him unpleasant, sed
he he'd bin sort Nv an ex horter in his
day, and desired to say word in ex-
PLANTATION Nv that parable, ez applic-
able TO the present time, and seq he,
"ef am interrupted, remember
blong to the church military, wich is
just now the church triumphant" And
cocktn his musket he proceeded very
much uninterrupted.
1.-THE prodigal son." seq he, 'Ewus re-
cetved by the old man with consider
able dOinst but my worthy friends he
went out decently. He didn't, ez soon
ez he withdrawed from the house, turn
around and make war unto the old
gentlemen-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. Heweut away
but yet a peacedbLe good-for-nothin.
Secondly he come back Nv his own ak
| kord. The old man didn't go after linn
and fight for four years at cost NV half
his substance to subdue him and bring
| him back, but when he he'd run through
his pile and squandered his share NV
the estate and got hungry he came back
like a whipped dog.
My friends, let me draw small par.
allel between these cases.
Inc proo1gal son went Out-SO did
the South-thus fairly the cases is
| alike.
The Prodigal didn't steal nothin. The
Contederacy took everything it Good lay
its hands on. ~ 80
The PrOdigal spent only what wuz
his 70 spend. The Confederacy spent
not only all it stole, but all it Good bor-
rer, when it knowd Its promises TO pay
wnzent wuEth the mizable paper they
wuz printed onto.
The Prodigal when he did come back,
come ez penitent ez the consciousness
make him. The COnfederaoy wuz
whipped back, but it still swears
hettY oaths that it wuz right all the
time. =
The Prodigal didn't demand veal pot
pies and purple robes, and sich, hut
begged to be a servant unto the more
sensible brethren wich stayed. The
South comes back demdndin Office, nv
witch the fatted calf and rings and pur-
pie robes is typical, and considerably
more share in the Government than It
he'd before it kicked over the traces
and went out like the lost tribes nv
Israel. nii
Spozn the Bible prodigal had stopped
ms PARENT and remarked to him thus:
II am Wtllin to come back on conCli-
ions. Yoo must pay my debts-you
| must give mean ekalshare nv the farm
with the other boys-yoo must treat me
in all respecks just eZ il hadn't gone
out, Iand-this is eSsential-yoo must
take with me all the sharpers who ru-
ined me, all the gamblers and thieves
with whomI fell in while wuz away,