Smyrna times., 1878-12-18
A New Gospel for Infdelity.
SOME THINGS THAI A COLoRED WESTERN FxHoRTFR II As
TO SAY ABOUT COLONEL INGERsoLLs VIEWS

The advent of Colonel Bob Ingersoll in Louis
vile was not unnoticed by Uncle Jim johnson, a |
the Scriptures is both novel and interesting Yester
day he preached Hell and Moses" and tried to |
stem the current of unbeef which Colonel Bob had
started among few of Uncle Jim's hearers The |
cOlOred orator took for his text the passage from Luke
" came to send fire upon the earth"
" You hab all OBJ you heard" said he, " OBJ MasSa |
Bob IngerSOll, who did right smart fer de cullud
people in de rebellion, for which gibs him my felic
IatlOn Dat is one good spot in MaSSa lngersOlls life
But, you it amt gwine to do for to be posed
upon by these here hlucinatons OBJ his de Sacret
forum oh religion. Wese got to let de politics slip
out an reason about de matter like of culchah
We must let our feelins slip around loose an pick up
de pntS OBJ religions which is gift OBJ Jesus himself
belicb dars OBJ you darkes here tonight dats
Deen stlckln up to Massa BObs religion. has my
eye you now. 1 tell you now, as l shakes my
finger at you dat youse sliding down de hill into de
PIT OBJ hell fire. an unless somebody catches you by de
coat-taii youse gone niggers. has you now by de
coattallS holding you from de burning pit; if you
dont belief what Use gwine to say, ler's you Slip
1o4 needn't try to 'suade yourselves in your pride
ana vanity OF spirit dat dere amt no hell. Why
sees de flames circlin and swoopin around you now
like hungry buzzard.
Massa Ingersoll in his lecture on Hell and Moses
complains % DE lack OBJ science in dem days. What
for dey want science den? What did dey all want wild
our vaporaons Electricity and sich 'Ven:ions of de
day? Ob coase we whiles away de time in scentifcs
and sich, an we can't do widOut EN- But dey didn't
have no use for sich instruments way back yonder
i'll de darkness OBJ de past.
Massa Bob says dat cordin to dc Scriptures chile
had to glib up two pigeons fur dc sacrifice an desc
here pigeons went to de three priests an dat each OBJ
de parsons would hab to eat two hundred OBJ de fowls
Now you knows, you vicious niggers, dat as long as
de priests had plenty of culled genmen wait on de
table dat dere was 10 danger OBJ de priests eatn too
much.
He said in his speech at de Op'ra House dat
finite don't hab de permission to commit sin against
| de Infinite. Now dat's nonsense de face OBJ it,
You 90 out in de street an take an cut some
bodyS throNt. If you amt got no particularly about
you jus you try an you'll be rested by dc police
man an 'sented before Massa Judge Duputy. 'Spose
de judge says to you, 'SsmbO, is you gu lty or not
guilty? and suppose you says Use unguilty because
yous Infinite and Use finite Would dc Judge be
| likely to say, Take harp and go your way?
wants now to call your tentiOn to de fCod an de
ark. MaSSa IngersOll, he do old NOer Injustice He
| says he was not married when he was five hundred
years old. Now dat want NOers blame. He couldn't {
| help hlsSef Anyhow, NOer war den what you might
| specify a young feler He want as old as de young
| men OF twenty TO day. De Bible didn't say nufting
| tOXicatin drinks foOlin wild girls an CGrryin'
| on like de sport gemmen do now De fac is bredfen
dat NOer didn't hab &c cilitieS dat we hab Case why
Well he couldn't put notice in de paper eayin' he
| wanted to carry ON wild girl an de steamboats,
warnt den much count, an he couldn't trabel.
MaSsa Bob amt got 10 for nufing, bredren
He has de dacity TO sert dat de count OBJ lie food
lie lie uses tggerS which you all knows is &c biggest
Liars in &c world, to prove dat it rained seven hum
dred feet ebbery day Well spose it did? Don't you
suppose de Almighty knOwed what he was ywine to
do? He had de flood ranged before hand he had
! dc water all 'cumulated hand. OATS whar he
beat de bad felers; and when ebery thing ready
| he let de liquid OOZe out in lump, an it filled de
eartl!. Now den you niggers bclieb in Massa Bob il
you has de 'dacity"-LOuiSrWe Courier JOurRCI.