Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-10-02
Old Brudder Peters Sermon.

more trouble.
Old Brudder Peters Sermon.
"Beware of men that come to you in sleeps
clothing, but within they are ravening wolves"
BELuBBED BRUI RN: | is gwine to do
on dis de present 'casion what nebber
done afore since commenced spoundin
de gospil; is gwine to preach political
sarmint. Is true American Of African
scent, and Is got jest as good a right to
preach politics as brudder Beecher, or
any odder man. De tex says, Beware
of men that come to you in sleeps cloth
in" Now brudderen, de question axes
Itself, what is sleeps clothin? Sleeps
clothin, you all know, is wool, and you
all likewise knows de black man got wool
std of har, on his cranology. So with,
out stretchin the niger MORN politi.:
cioner some time stretches his conscience
we may read de tex in dis wise: Bewer
OBJ de white men da. comes TO you in
wool, dat is comes to you in the guise OBJ
de black man; dat make out dey lub de
black man, dat dey feel like the black
man; but within dey be ravinin wolves
seeking nigger votes. Dey come to us
in sleeps clothin; day call you feller,
citizent-dey is laborin and suffering per-
secution for de sake OBJ de black man,
dey respect deir colored brudderin; dey
lub the sistern-sometime my brudderin,
not wisely but too well. Dey come to
you in sleeps clothin; dey is gwine to
do great things for the black man: dey
is gwine to glib cher black man farm,
and eber oman grand pianner; and larn
all the little nigs to cipher multiplication,
and talk Greek. Dey is gwine to glib
the black franchise and cbil right, and
buros, and pluribus unums, come twice
year and ebery third year jubilo. Be-
war of dem, my brlddern; dey lubs de
black MAJ and woman like de wolf lubs
de sheep, and dat, you know, is for de
sake OBJ de sheep meat. "a.
aDey is rarenin wolves, brudderen seekn
nigger votes. Dey are broken-winded
politicians, my bruddern, dat decent white
men won't. vote for, and dey thinks dcy
can get de votes OBJ de black men, by
pullin wool ober deir eyes. Oats why
dey go in for niger suffrage; when de
lord knows de nigger's done suffered
enough already wild deir foolishness. What
good it gwine to do a niger to vote? 1t
ant gwine to put meal in the barrel,
meat in de pot, taters in de ashes, nor
corn in de hoss trof'. What you know
bout de laws my bruddern9 Which of
you would know tariff from a tarapin,
if yes to meet it by moonlight7 Which
way would you start to go to Congress,
if nybody was fool enuff to elect you
dar! Bruddern, dey sometimes take de
eyeses and de noses in Congress, and
sometimes dcir are moro noses dan eyeses.
Has any OBJ you got sense enuff to tell
how dat mout be? If you don't know
muffin bout de laws, how you gwine to
make de laws, or mend de laws? !
knowed a smart niger once who under.
took to mend his watch. He got it to
peices in less than no time, but artcr he
worked on it awhile, de debbil himself
could not put it togedder OATS bout de
fix you'll get the Government in if you
90 to tinkerin wild it. Better be hoein
corn, to make bread for old oman and de
chlums. You al! knows how TO do Cat,
but YOU don't know how to make laws,
nor mend EN-, and you don't know what
sort of men to choose to do it. You jest
as apt to vote for fool as for King Sole
mon, and You heap aptcr to vote for a
rascal den good man, kase de tex say
its dc ravenin wolf dat comes in sleeps
clothin, and black man can't tell sheep
from wolf OATS what desc mean white
men knows; and dat's de reason dey
wants you to vote. Dey fraid spectacle
white folks won't vote for en-, and dcy
can fool de black man, cause dey don't
know muffin, and.is easy, soft.sawdered.
Dar's chestnuts in de fire my brudderin,
and monkey wants EN- +; he rake EN- out
wid de cats paws; if it burn de cat, it
don't burn de monkey. What de mean
white man care how much de niger
suffer, so dcy get and keep de Offices?
What dey care if dey hundred sassy
fool niggers killed. as dey did at Orleans,
so as dcy can get up helIa. bello again
de "rebels,'' as they call clebber white
men; and get an excuse to hab de handle
OBJ devise turned one more time; and
dey get de rule oh dcir betters? Bewar
OBJ dem, my brudderin. When de mon-
key see chestnuts in de fire and begin to
be mighty perlight to de cat take care OBJ
her paws.
Dey is ravenin wolves my brudderin
seekin whom dey may devour. Dey
show deir lub for the black man for taxin
his cotton three cents pound, while his
chlums is crying for bread his blankets
a dollar par, while he is shibbern; if
you lets EN- fool you wild der soft.saw-
der, you'll be wuss dan poor Esau was,
who sold his birf right for mess of pot.
ash; and he mought knowed &ore he ira.
ded for it, dat t'want fit to eat, but only
to make soap ou:'n. Finally, in conclu-
sion, my bruddern, beware oh men dat
come to you in sleeps clothin, but within
dey is ravenin wolves.