The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1867-06-29
Nasty breaches - Sermon on
Universal Brotherhood.
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than pIgs. Pigs don't express thcr pccoolyarl-
tics. Mule comes nearer. Their l. sich a method
in their obstinacy--ich Il wiIliul cussidnls that |
RELY hcy made up my mind that | dom under
stand EN- at all. They cuddle up to ~ ~ kind
cz a blO0min maiden does u her first adored. and
they fling Us Just cz natIGl ez that same guileleSS
maiden docs when number two hcaves in site.
They behave we. for 4 season, apercntly for no
other purpose than 10 enjoy our discontinue
when they finally throw US. ! hcv bin q gittin Il
s~uspishcn thro me that they amt half as stoopid
ez they look. and that, after all, we are not fur
from the trOoth when we say in our resolooshens
that they are the ckals Nv the whites. Why
sh0Odeu't they he? All why indeed? Why
shoodcn't the yooth wich is now croSsin the street,
witch hes Deckin POgram's feechers cz like ~ a
PHOTOGRAPH, hev eZ much sense rs the DeekIn? |
hev eggsamined into the pedigree NV that Niger,
and | find that his mother he'd the hawtieSt and
best blood of Virginny coursin toomulchusly thro
her veins-and that stock the Pogram mix Good
en't materially dcprcciatc in one @enerashcn.
he'd the niggers NV the y Roads very hand
somcly in tow up TO Yesterday. | he'd EN- at
tendin services last Sunday Mt the meetin house,
and by private arrangement he'd I'm seated mis-
cellancously among the awjcnce. Deekin pugram
had a wench, witch weighed ut least $50 pounds
avcrdupoise, atween him and his wife, while four
other niggers ornamental his pew. Bascom with
alacrity consented To three, and Elder Gayitt pro-
yided seats for four. 1t wuz Il pleasant site
White and black was altcrnatid like the spots on
a Observation-Disclosures and whites wuz spread
out together like the fat and lean in pork, and cz
| seed it [ Good hardly restlane my cmoshuns.
There before me was the regcnerashun Nv the
Democratic party-thcre wuZ wat wuZ 10 bring
US out NV the valley and s'adder NV death into
witch we he'd fallen, up on the high ground NV
Ofishel life. | precched that memrablc day from
two texts, 10 wit . Wv one blood did he make
all the nashcns NV the earth,' and : . All We are
brethren and L GRATED a moyin discourse. /
demonstrated with great tervor the loOncv NV the
idea that the Almighty wood take the trouble to
create two or more races when one would du cz
wcll-wich is alluz well received in this region.
All men form their idea Of the Deity somewhat
from themselves, and | never knowd Il Contedrit
Cross Reader to make two things when one wood
anser. | retuted the theory advanced by some
writers that there wuz more than one head to the
race, by quotin the texts witch treated NV the
crcashen NV Adam and Eve, and demolished the
Ham doctrine ut site. Ef,'' scd /, Eoer did
cuss Ham and condemn Canaan to be Il servant
unto his brethren, how do we know that our col
orcd brethren and sistren rs the descendants NV
Ham and Canaan? lt may be as for all we
know? Is it his color? Is not black lest ez
convenient u color ez white ?"
More So" murmurcd Mrs. Pogram half
asleep, - more so-it don't show dirt"
" is it his shape? Oh, my brethren, | Amt a
handsome man, nor wood | exactly anscr for Il
model for Apoler. Eff beauty, or comlincss, or
shape, or style, is to decide the pint, may the
Lord help us! Is it his smell Ny brethren,
the New York World asserts that the niger
haint no smell, and eff nc hez, why shoodcnt Inc
hey? Standin under the common flag NV our
country, with his hand upon that magma charta,
the Deklarashen, and his bcamin eye turned ex-
ultinly toward our nashncl emblem, the Eagle,
shall not our Afrikin brother be allowed to smell
iist ez he chooses? Eff smell must be uniform
then let our Government establish Il Burow NV
Perfoomery to-wunst. Besides, | take high reli-
gious grounds i'll this matter. Ef ne hez a natu-
,-l .I.r thA I n~i ..r-. e. . H. ~
i'll the face NV the Lord by CONDEMN it. Judge
not lest we he judged. The Udor NV the colorcd
gentlemen or lady is the work NV the Lord-thc
odor NV yoor unwashed feet is yoor own-wich
slIood stand the highest?
My brethren and sistcrn, | acknowledge that
| hcv not long held these views. | hey showed
the common ~prejudis, and hev contemmcd our
trends NV color; | hcv despitciuily used 'em-I
hev gone for 'em and banged EN- like old boots.
But it WIZ becoz | didn't know en-. | didn't
sec the kernel of meat under the rough she'll
recognize the glitrin diamond in the Glory
coal. My eyes hcv bin opened. Like Saul of
larsus, | see Il lite. Sence the passage NV the Mill
tary bill | hcv diskivcrcd many things too tcius
too menshun. | hcv mostly found out all these
things scnce that occurrence. But let us accept
the situashcn and bless tie Lord that cf VIC wuz
rcsistid, it hez RESULTED in dcyelopin exccllcncics
where we didn't expect to find EN-"
There wuz an eilcctin scene after service wuz
over. Deckin Pogrmn, Capt. McPcltter and
Gavitt shook hands with 'em with Il degree
NV ~corfpIity / didn't expect. Trooly them are
great men. They dcyelopc 81 degree Nv adapta-
bility to circumstances witch | didn't look for. |
really blccve ifId q told en- that it wood hev a
good cilcck to kiss the Niger babies all around,
that they'd Il done it. But | spared en- this.
There is such a thing ez laying it on too thick.
But all this WIZ spilled the next day. There
wuz an extraordinarily heavy mail that day.
In addition to the paper Pollock. the Illinois store
takes, there wuz eight others, and to my
they wK all directed 10 ~niggcrs. - Wat
is this thot | to myself. Hcv the Ablishnists
men, and are they Il goin to food this country
with their incendiary rcadin? Ez Il Federal Off
Its my dooty to look into the mattcr!" Jist
my dclirious joy at findin that they wuz
Democratic papers from Moo York and Ohio,
/" Thank Heaven" scd /, Our people hcv
awakened n senseuv the necessity NV dom suthin,'
md | handed the papers out 10 EN- with impress
i've words, exhoctin NV EN- to read EN-, ez they
wuz trooth, and nothin but the rrootl.
L ruthcr think they read EN-, for from that
time out they avoided me, Ell though [ he'd the
plague. Ell wuz aSoin' down the street and one
w I'm WIZ a comm up he'd cross the street, and
the pccoolyer expression NV his countcnance indi-
catid that it wuzn't my majcStick presence which
him. They he'd loathin depicted ON their
,laSSick fecchers. Unable to endOor this | Scczed
one NV en- and asked why l wuz treated thus?
Debility, he pulled out nv his pockit one NV
Ihelh cunefu Nofthern paper, ana Oltiill lt pm
It'd, Indignantly, to n editorial article. 1t wuz
pcrfooscly headed in this wise :
Shel niggerS cote?-Shcl tLe prowd Caucashen
be rcdoost TO a ekality with the disgustin Alrikin?
is this Il white mans government or not-
imeril:y for white men
Sed this Ethiopian, with his fingers on this
leadin, " Pears like ez eff dab wuzn't jist dat
good feelin towards us colored men on de part OBJ
lie Dimoc'sy oh the Norf, dat dab ought TO he.
Pears like as dough up dab wha de niggah amt
got no vote, dat dcy don't intend he shell lnb 1t.
Pears like, eff Dimoc'sy's one ting all ober de
country, dar's a cussid site Oh humbug a gcin
IN down hcah ="
Wat Good | say? Wat Good | do? There it
in black and white. and from papers whose
Dimocri>y could not he questioned. | wuz dumb
oundid. The Niger stalked hawtily and proudly