Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1867-10-18
Politics in the Pulpit-Old Rrudder Pete's
Sermon on Wolves i'm Sleeps Clothing.

! Politics In the Pulpit-OId krudGer Pete's
| Sermon on Wolves in Sleeps Clothing.
"Beware of men dat come to you in sleeps cloth
ing, but within are raving wolves"
BELUBBED BRuDDERlN is gwine to dc
on dis de present 'cason what nebber done
! afore. since commenced spoundin' dc gos-
Nil ''~e gwine to preach political sarmint.
t is free American Of African scent, and
I'se cot list as good hit to preach politics
as brudder Beechel,, or any Or "iah. ~
tex say, "Bewar Of men dat cuH:..e to w.. -
sleeps clothin" Now bredderin, de ques-
ton axes itself, what is sleeps clothin.-
Sleeps clothin, you all know, is ,oool and
you all know likewise, de black man got
wool std of har, on his criniology. So wild
out stretchin de fgger morn politicoiner
sometimes stretches his conscience, we may
read de tex in dis wise: Bewar Of de white
men dat comes to you in acool, dat is, comes
to you in de guise oh black man; dat make
out dey lub de black man; dat dey feel like
de black man: but within they are raven
wolves, seekin niger votes. Dey come to
US in sleeps clothing; dey call you fellow
citizen; dey is laborin and suferin persecu
ton for de sake oh de black man; dey re-
spect diar colored bredderin; dey lub diar
colored sistern. Dey come to us in sleeps
clothin dey is gwine to do great things for
de black man dey is gwine to glib cherry
black man farm. and cherry woman grand
pianner; and larn all de little nigs to cipher
multiplication and talk Greek; Dey is gwine
to glib de black man franchises, cibil rites,
and buros. and pluribus unums, and deoil
knows what; make crismus come twice q
year, and cherry third year jubilo. Bewar
OBJ dem, my bredderin dey lubs de black
man and de black woman like de wolf lubs
de sheep, and dat, you know, is for de sake
OBJ de sheep meat.
Dey is ravenin wolves, my bruddern, seek
in niggers votes. Dey are broken winded
politicianers, my bruddern, dat decent white
men won't vote for, and dey thinks dey can
get the votes OBJ de black men, by pulin
wool over der eyes. OATS why dey 60 in
for niger suffrage; when the Lord knows
de nigger's done sufferin enough already wild
.diar foolishness. What good it gwine to do
niger to vote It amt gwine to put meal
in the barrel, meat in de pot, taters in the
ashes, nor corn in the boss troll. Which of
you would know tarifiI from tarripin, if
yes to meet it by moonlight? Which way
would you start to 60 to Congress, if any
body was fool enough to elect you dar ?
Bruddern, dey sometimes take de eyeses and
noses in Congress; and sometimes diar are
more noses dan eye.es Has any OBJ you got
sense enuff to tell how dat mout be ? Ii you
don't know muffin bout laws, or mend de
laws? | knowed smart niger once VIII
undertook to mend his watch. He got it to
pieces in less dan no time; bat arter he
worked it awhile, de dcbbil himself couldn't
put it to geddcr OATS bout de FIX you'll
get the government in il you so 70 tinserin
wild it, Better be holm corn, to make bread
for ole oman and de chiluns. You all knows
how to do dat, but you don't know how to
make laws, nor mend EN-, and you don't
know what sort of men to chose to do it
You Just as apt to to vote for fool as King
Solomon, and you heap apter to vote for a
rascal dan good man, ksse de tex says it's
de rayenn WOLF dat comes in sheep clothn
and de black man can't tell sheep fro1n wolf.
OATS what desc mean white men knows;
and OATS de reason dey want you 10 vote
Dey fraid spectacle white folks won't vote
for 'em, and dey think dey can fool de black
man, cause dey don't know muffin, and is
easy soft-sawdered Oars chestnuts in de
fire, my breddern, and monkey wants 'em
he rake 'em out wild de cats paws; if it
burn de cat, it don't de monkey. What do
mean white men care how much de niger
suffer, 50 dey get and keep the Offices. What
dey care if hundred sassy, fool niggers get
kill, as did at Orleans, so as dey can get up
a hellabello again de rebels, as dey call cleb-
er white men and get an excuse to have
de handle of de wise turned one more time,
and dey get de rule oh diar betters. Beware
os dem my n1gruddern. When de monkeys
see ,hestnuts in de fire and begin to be
mighty perlite to de cat, let de cat take care
Oh her paws.
Dey is ravin wolves, my belubbed, seekin
whom dey may devour. Dey show der Tub
for de black man for taxin his cotton three
cents pound, while his chilums is cryin for
bread, his blankets a dollor a par, while &c &c
Is snii.atoerin wiaa cold. Bewar Oh ta.vul, be-
dubbed brudderin if you lets dem fool you
wild diar soft-sawder, you'll be wus dan poor
Esau, who sold his birthright fur mess of
potash and he mought oh knowed fore he
trade for it, dat twant fit to eat, but only
to make soup out'n. Finally, in conclusion
my brudderin. bewar oh men dat comes to
you in sleeps clothin, but widin dey is ra-
venin wolves.
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