The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-09-29
BuIIdozing a Baptist Preacher

- York State. 1t appears that.the Rev. MI
A. Z. Worden, Of Unadilla Forks,
2 Baptist preacher who had ilong been al
active Republican, threw off his part,
allegiance when Gen. Garfield was nom
mated. and not only declared for Han,
& cock and English, but put his declara
tion into verse, ac he had turn tha
way, and sent it forth as follows
AFTER GARFIELD, THE DELUGE
''what fall was there, my countrvmen u--Af,n.
; / SUMMER MADNESS, ACr lsT. e -
Where are thy notices, party grand?
II In prestige and in glory,
That erstwhIle Haunted Ger the land -
= MoYe into song and story I?
| Inc eagle, starved in upper air
+ On carrion nov doth batten,
| content the Jackals meal to share
Ana stoIdly fatten.
Party that boasts LineoIn's name. A..
A Grant, Sumner, Seward
Is Your party ship drills on in shame
ruled by the galley steward,
p Conventions now turned to a mob
| OF demagogues and shriekers s-f
Your only hope chance to rob,
! Your men all o1ice-seekerss a,--E ~
Your spoils are stained with soldiers blood.
You ride on Southern chattels, @ ..
You sink them deeper IN the mud
| Yet claim to fight their battles
| y JUDAS, u ke your silver back
| And buy cemetery
! you've hung yourself and only lack @ - ..
\ decent place to bury.
| 0 honest party come to grief
logical Christian leaders & - p. ''+' ..
You nominate common thief a s- g.
Dy bursted-up seceders
You picket your convention doors
Against the lands defenders .-..
And pack your halls with bar-roon blowers
And colored ticket-venders -.
You deckVo11r bier With s5g,,,a rsr eo,,,,u
As Conkhng, Washburne,L ,Logan, - q.
And Schurz, who through his long nose blows
The party's nournful slogan
The eagle cOndescends to perch
Upon the steed decaying:-
The captain waits the doomed ships Iurch,
And goes down with it, praying.
Adieu, bye-bye, ta-ta FAREWELL
Your form was large and burly-
Excuse as, on account of smell
We bury you thus early. .
We wish to open a new box
10 try a few top layers;
Throw up your hand and count your rocks
While we call on new players.
q Doubtlesssif Mr.. WordeA had penhed
a Bourbon Balladn instead of these
somewhat peppety lines, the RepubEi-
cans of Unadills Forks would have vot-
ed him a modern Pindar. AS it was,
they turned upon and rent him. He was
to preach in a grove in which
he had long been holding Sunday after
noon services, and a feIlow-preacher
obligingly sent him a postal card de-
nOuncing his verses as infamous and ]
warning HIM not come to quarterly '
Meeting" Finally Mr.. Worden got Is
lngry at all this and sent the following J
etter to the Utica O5ssrger, incIosing I
Vithit the postal card aforesaid: t
UNADIILA Forks, \. Y, September 8, 1850.
% the Editor of the Utica Observer:
AS is known to every one trust by this time I c
ave made up nay mind to renounce the Republi- "a
IN party and vote a straight Democratic ticket :
s minister Of the Gospel my reasons should be q
nova to all I consider Mr. Garfield tainted ..
AN to draw it mildly, and Mr.. Hancock hon q
ne hands OF hereditary Olhce-hoIders, grown up =
nder Eenty yerrs Of undisputed despotie rule. c
have expressed my opinion often but never in I,
ne pulpit wrote some simple verses which :
rust embodied in plain language my views For O
his have been threatened in public and private.
have been driven from my regular duties, and D
le mails have been flooded with scurrilous and r.
bscene letters, pictures and postal cards 1 ask .
OW, in all fairness and sincerity If this had oc- u
urred III louisiana would it not be called BULLDOG
Again, would like to ask if this is the Christian
epublcan party which I fought three years for
keep IA power Is this the moral reform used a
shout for in my halcyon patriotic days? If nay :,
erces We're too pungent am sorry, but as they g
ere trathfUl Ev;llnOt recant one word ] never n
ed an office in the gift OF the people, nor ex-
eet or desire it. butI do expect such treatment ID
'on Democrats or RepublIcans as one gentleman q
r Christ al expects from another. inclose you y
postal car. from a brother minister, and ii
OF indecorous in publishing this, as it sent
: any wishing to read it. . Yours, : --F e5s'l q
As Mr. Worden's parishioners stand .
y him to a man, it is not thought in u
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