Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1869-04-22
&Iiseellaneuas Attitles,
A FIDDLE IN THE BELLY.

A minister, connected with the Freed
mans Bureau, in South Carolina, writes
home to religious paper in Boston, about
the wonderful aptitude of the negroes for
conversion, and gives an instance of q me-
gro woman who Experienced divine grace"
and was thrown into such ecstacy that he
had to ask her if she ''could not be little
less violent!" to which she replied, 'sGorra
mighty, massa, feel as if [ had fiddle in
my belly!" And this is seriously paraded
ir = religious paper as an evidence of the
susceptibility Of the negro to the influences
Of divine grace" Instead of being ashamed
of such brutal language in connexion with
so sacred matter, the minister boasts OF
it, and parades it abroad, as q feather in
his cap, to have filled wench so full Of
religion that she though hit she chad fiddle
in her belly" The wench's sensation is
perfectly well understood by the psyche
Psychologist, as mere animal excitement
which has no more to do with religion, than
the nervous excitement springing from mar
cotic or alcoholic drinks. But, alas, what
horrid wretches are these missionaries to
the South" Not content with spelling
our civilization, by Africanizing it, they
have even degraded holy religion to vul.
gar emotion that fiddles in old wenches BEL
lies. If the mercy of God were not long
suffering he would blast all these profane
and abominable scoundrels with his eternal
wrath. Miserable sinners, who shame the
earth with their presence! .a.-.- .....,-.>
Another account is given of a negro at a
camp meeting whose imagination was so
wrought upon, ''under the influence of con-
verting grace, that he actually thought he
saw Jesus, and springing up caught hold Of
the limb of tree, exclaiming, "Bres de
lor"" I have. caught Jesus, Use got him BY
de tail"
Such things are too horrible to relate,
but they are actual occurrences, which show
to whst depths of delusion and blasphemy
the negro-worshipping clergy have descend.
ed. The genuine negro is as incapable of
comprehending the sublime and beautiful
religion of Christ, as he is understanding
the philosophy of Newton, or Locke
Whoever has witnessed a negro camp-meet-
ing, or prayer-meeting, will find no difficult
ty in believing this. It is enough to make
the impossible gods of Africa laugh TO be-
hold their grimmaces, contortions, and
their ground and lofty tumbling. There
is no instance on record of negro profess
sing Christianity, who did not, if taken
from the influence of the whites, and left
entirely to his own race, relapse into fetish
ism, or some other horrid form of African
devilism. The pure blooded negroes of
Hayti, whom the French supposed they had
christianized, all relapsed, after being left
to themselves. The negroes Of the South,
in proportion as they are left to their own
race-habits are rapidly going the same way.
They have all been started on the high road
to Africa, Intellectually, religiously, and
politically. And yet the mountebank min
isters of the North, who had gone down
there to help on the good work, are delight
ed with the religious progress of set of
savages, who imagine they ''hold Jesus by
the TAIL" or think they have fddles IN their
6elkes! Horrid o, horrid !-Northern
Paper.