The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1869-11-17
An Arkansas Sermon.


and when they riz up early in the morn-
ing, behold they was all icd corpusscs, -
My friends and hearers, I will
preach unto you this day-win and
wether. permittin-from the thirty
seventh chapter Of Isaiy, the thirty
seventh verse. can the destroyin
angel smote in the camp Of the Syre-
clans a hundred and four score and
FIVE thousand men ali. And when
they riz up early in the morning, be-
hold they was all ded corpusses. -
And thus it is my dear unconverted
friends and hearers, the destroyin
angel stalks abroad with the meat
axe, ready to send us to the bone
yard before we can sit down to break
fast-ah. And it is. said, my friends,
that roses are red and violets blue-ah,
but it is no use of trying to hume
fuggle around the angel Gabriel
when he toots his horn for you to
tuck your tails and get under dirt-ah.
"And when they riz up early in the
morning, behold they were all ded
corpusses. !" iks
My. wretched brothering and SIS
tering, as | was riding along the
road one day, I seen a man sitting
on the top of his fence, with a big
shot gun in his lap-ah and a swettin
and fannin of hissef with an old
straw hat, and cussin of the Fourth
of July, and the Supreme Court, and
the bird of liberty, and the President
of the United States-ah. And when
I hearn that man a cussin and seen
that big shot gun, thinks [ to myself
in the words Of the text-ah: sand
when they. riz up early in the morn
ing, behold they was all ded corpus
SEES" e8ek8'
And I told Roam to woe, and sez +,
''My ungodly friend, if you swear in
that way you will forever and eter-
nally ruinate your immortal soul-ah =
and sez he, "You go to hell, you
damned old mishappen, misbegotten,
mistake of creation-ah, if you had to
git the grass out of cotton crop
with free niggers, you'd git upon a
stump and cuss yourself out Of your
damned old yaller hide, and go to
hell for your health-ah." And sez,L I,
'My erin friend, it cuts me to the
marrer to see you strugglin in the
bondage Of sin-ah." And sez he,
s'My pumkin faced customer, if you
can cline that tall red oak tree thar,
and see anything in this here miser-
able land but bonding and crab
grass, you can take my old hat for a
hen nest-ah." And seq I, "My hard
swearin friend, I am afraid you will
never register your name in the book
of eternal life-ah." And SEE he, 81
went to town last Monday to regis
ter, and I couldn't get a sight of the
book for the damned greasy niggers
all" SEE ], cob, mistaken human,
[ trimble for your future, for you are
on the road leadin to perdition-ah."
L heaved a deep groan, my hearers,
and sez T.
S"And when they riz up early in the
morning, behold they. was all ded
corpusses."
And seq he, t'Let 'em riz and be
damned to EN- all-ah.'' d,
| "Oh, my stfferin Teller creatur, %
seq I, eff you would but sue for grace
you might jine that heavenly quire,
and be emancipated from sin-ah."
| And he cooked his gun, and seq he,
81 had twenty-six likely 'mancipated
ones Oh my hands wonst, and if you
open your jaw about Emancipation to
me agin, I'll mako buzzard yittles
out of your damned old swive1ed car
cass before hell could cripple a gnat
ali. " xs-G.,,
I began to feel exceedingly jubous,
and the words of the text smote up
on my ear-ah: ".And when they riz
up early in the morning, behold they
was all ded corpusses.'" 9
But my christian hearers, I felt
called upon to try my han one time
more on this objurit man-ah, and SEE
l, MY blasphemous friend, you are
continually and for ever damned-ah,
ifyou don't Immediately. get down
oftner that ar fense-ah," but my un-
conscious. hearers, he stuck that big
I old double barreled shot gun close to
\ my reyerential head-ah, and SEE he
Give henrn that a sequestor was the
next thing to q confscator, and il
that's your business IN this here set
4 Element, you had better begin to
grow mighty dam small and beauti.
fully less-ah.' And my friends and
f hearers, it looked to me as if a drove
of mnles could be trotted. down the
barrels of that ar old gun-ah; and
put spurs to old Roam, and I gallop.
ed through the wilderness for .foul
and twenty hours-ah; and thinks I te
myself, if that or man don't pull VI
soon, he'll surely get to the end o
, his rope-ah." Ts t8st - s@z
II esAnd when they riz up early in The
!, morning, behold they was all dec
> corpusses." ~ .t.
}, And sure enough, my patient hear
: ers,, in three. days that profanatet
man was took by the Freeaman''
, Buro, and tried by Military Com
mission, and hung for the KILN of {
: nigger-ah; and my listenin friend
!. and hearers, when seen him stand
ing ON the great immensely of space
aud a kicken at the 4th district, SEE
: to myself.in the languig Of the in
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