The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1877-03-30
"A NxGRo WATCH MRErING.


Please take them back tonight.
TFT=5T7- ANxGRO wATCH MEETING.
Tho New York Sun has long account
OF negro watch meeting somewhere in the
South and 1t contains most extraordinary
sermon, from which the following extracts
are made: "' -
III tell you a little allcgoric or speech by
de hgger. Truth and Lie started out for
to trabble. They stopped to drink at dc
ribbcr Of Jordan. Truth was thinking no
evil, but lic'pushcd him, and he fell in and
was drowned. Lie got OUT stole Trutb,.
boots, and meetin' a cullud pusson who uos
rootin round whar he had no business,
entered into him and sot up his habition.-
SO Lie has lowed to dwell along wild cullud
folks ever since. It's my bizness to pint
out desc tings to sense you Of de tricks of
de dcbble. Lie den sowed his seeds among
US cullud folks. lakes you, amt dis fac?
Don't de produce correspond with the
seed tu z E .
No matter how hungry you git., if you
nave faien Che Lords gwine to feed you
Dcre woh Daniel, man who was sot agin
circus shows. De clown cotch him prayin'
out der winder, and put him to starve in
the lions den. De angel one day.
Beelzebub carryin' soup to hi. b. oa- ,a.aef' VINO
along o. mule. He had been to town to
ouy some whiskey. De mule he seed the
angel, and he kicked up and Knocked Eb-
enezer heels over head, and he drant his
whiskey bottle. Bclzcbub he seed de bot
tic and picked up and put in his coat tail
pocket. You sec, he found it, and dat make
- no hoI ID. l.
his wool on his bad, and toted him off list
as he was, wild his'tin bucket Of soup and
Je bottle of whiskey aud he drap: him in
do den. where Daniel was.
, I neber heard dat Dannel got drunk, but
Scripter tells us Noah who was shy of water,
kept bottle of Loosianncr rum under his
dc. casion Of lie brak folks in dis wise -
Noah had one gal child named Cane Amy,
q sassy, dissipated gal who would steal her
daddy's bottle when he wos asleep and drink
his rum. He ketch her one day tipsy and
maxim spectacle of herself Dc ole man
cussed her good fashion till she turned right
black in dc lace. l don't pend much on
dat, case it can't be proved Cane AIMS
head got kinky. No, my 'pinion is colorcd
folks is dc most wonderful production of
nature-dey growcd jis so. I axes who
made dem? when was dey made, and
whar? nobody answers. Desc p'ints can't
be proved by de Bible dars muffin in do
Holy Writ about negroes, and dat circum-
stance shows dey is a nation 'culia to dcrc
own nations, an Is'e nebbcr seed dat one
was not proud of his color. De 'postlc says
TO de 'pistle, Know thysclf.' 'terprets
dat, BE yc seekers after knowledge how
you's so comically made in dc flesh
You nave all eesi .L- hlistars on de svc.
amore tree dat circumstance is a berry in
tercstin' fac in dc bible Derc was a very
small colorcd man named Niger Demos
He kept public house and done his own
cooking. He heard one of dc 'ciples done
borrowed jinney aud was comm in great
glory to preach. Niger Demos thot if he
could only get to sec dat good man de 'lum-
bager he carried in dc small of his back
would cease. Hcarin folks shoutin he
flung down his dish cloff and went out to
see de 'ciple. but by de 'casion of his stumpy
legs he couldn't see muffin. A big sycamore
was GROWN right before his cabin, so he
shined up dar aud looked down at de 'ciple
who went ridin' by and nebber seed Niger
Demos. Poor Niger Demos did cry :
He was so hurted, his tears was so hot dey
blistered de bark wharever dey touched
One of dem tears hit de jinney on her back
and hurt her SO bad she kicked up. Dat
'ciple den looked up and seed Niger Demos
and said Come down poor fellow! I'll
stop at your house and take glass of your
'simmon beer. Niger Demos was proud of
de honor. Sycamores been blistered ever
since. Now, we must bury our heads in
de dirt and pray long and fervently. I
hope my endeavors to give you de true light
to carry you froo de next year will bring
forth fruits without insects. The lord be
wild you all.
LAUGHTER.--Laushter very often shows
the bright side of man. 1t brings out