The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-01-05

Broken threads in life abound,
Ia each station they are found;
But faiths kind and friendly hand
Help US to adjust the strand,
That when life's last tide shall ebb, i
There shall be perfect web.
Old Brudder Petc's Sermon ON Wolves
9: sseoT'e C.Ss.:.1.
BELUBBED BRUDDKRM: is gwine
to do on dis de present 'casion what
I nebber done afore, since 1 COM
menced spoundin' de Gospel-I'se
gwine to preach a political sarmint.
is free Am erican of African scent,
and Use got jist as good right to
preach politics as Brudder Beecher,
or any oder man. De tex say, s.Be-
war OF men dat come to you in
aheep's clothin'." Now, .bredderin,
de question axes itself, what is sleeps
clothin'P Sleeps clothin', you all
know, is soool; and you all know,
likewise, de black man got WOOL Std
of har, on his crinology. So, widout
stretchin de figger morn q politi.
--cianer sometimes stretches his con-,
science. we may read de tex in dis
wise: Bewar of the white men dat
comes to you in acool- dat is, comes
to you in de guise of black man; dat
make out dey lub de black man; dat
dey feel like de black man; but with
in they are raven wolves, seekin
nigger votes. Dey come to us in
sleeps clothing; dey call you fellow
citizen; dey is laborin and suferin
persecution for de sake oh de black
man; dey respect dier colored bred
derin; dey lub dier 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
ebery black man o farm, and ebery
woman grand pianner, and larn all
de little nigs to cipher multiplication
and talk Greek. Dey is gwine to
glb de black man franchises and cibil
rites, and buros, and pluribus unums,
and debil knows what; make Girls
mus come twice year, and ebery
third year jubilo. Bewar Of dem,
my bredderin; dey lubs de black man
and de black woman like de wolf lnbs
de sheep, and dat, you know, is for
de sake OBJ de sheep meat.
Dey ravenin wolves, my bruddern,
seekin nigger's votes. They are
predetermined politiciapers, my
bruddern, dat decent white men
won't vote for, and dey thinks they
can get the votes OBJ de black men, by
pullin wool over der eyes. OATS
why dey 60 in for nigger suffrage;
when, de Lord knows, de nigger's
done sufferin enough already wild
dier foolishness. What good it
gwine to do niger to. vote? 1t
amt gwine to put meal in the barrel,
meat in the pot, taters in the ashes,
nor corn in the hoss-troff. What you
know bout tho law, my bruddern?
Which of you would know tariff
from tarripin, if yes to meet it by
moonlight? Which way would you
start to go Congress, if anybody was
fool enough to elect you dar? Brud-
dern, dey sometimes take de eyeses
and noses in Congress, and some
times dier are more noses dan eyeses.
Has any OBJ you got senses enough to
tell how dat mout be? If you don't
know nothin bout de laws, how you
gwine to make de laws, or mend de
laws? I knowed q smart niger
once, who undertook to mend his
watch. He got it to pieces in less
than no time; but arter he worked it
awhile, de debbil himself couldn't
put it togedder. OATS about de fix
you'll get the Government in, if you
60 to tinkerin 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 'em,
and you don't know what sort of men
to choose to do it. You just as apt
to vote for fool as King Solomon,
and you heap apter to vote for o
rascal dan good man, kase de tex
says it's de ravenin wolf dat comes in
sheep clothin; and de black man
can't tell sheep from wolf.
OATS what desc mean white men
knows; and dat's de reason dey want
yeu to vote. Dey fraid spectacle
white folks won't vote for 'em, and
dey think dey can fool de black man,
cause they don't know muffin, and is
easy soft sowdered. Oars chesnuts
In de fire, my bruddern, and monkey
wants 'em; he rake 'em out wild de
cats paws; If it burn de cat, II don't
de monkey. What do mean white men
care how much de nigger suffer, so