The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1882-01-28
DEACON SAVEALL'S SPEECH.

district 10 consider the question whethe
a new school house SHOULD he huilt or no,
He takes the opportunity of giving hi
ideas upon Il variety Of suhjec:S, iuclud
ing the minister.
My friends, we air here tonight to Sc
, if the deestrict will vote to build new
skool house or not. We air here at n
small expense of time, trouble. and ker
ryseen. | didn't expect to say nothin
when | kun in here, but I've been a
thinkin' as I've been a-settin' that
ought to raise my voice agin the Who'll,
purceedin, ii is such an extravagant
waste of public money taxed out Of pri
vate indervidooals. | shall vote agin it
and do all | can to kill it. The trouble
is, folks want too much in these days
and them folks what have little or nothin
'rept young ones are always ready tc
vote to spend other folks money to edi-
cate EN-. There wasn't much money
spent TO edicate me. and I've been a
deekin in our meetin' for nigh forty year.
I've worn the same coat and the same
trousers. to say notilin' Of waistcoat and
boots, every Sabbath day durin' full half
| that long period. Amt | pattern for
the deestrict in matters of ekonomy ?
! What wouid have bekum of me and
Betsey Ann if I hadn't a done 500
don't purtend to be a judge of VIM
mems goods and fixin's. but I've OBJ
sarved that she don't spend much of nv
money on dresses and bunnits. She
knows my sentiments too well on them
pints, and don't waste her time a-gaddin'
| round to see the fashuns and such. She's
stay-at-home woman and workin
woman, she is, and. if | do say it, she's
pattern Just as much as am. Why.
1t e Ell Almost tux our breth away one
Sunday mornin when we seed our min
ister's wife a-kummin inter the meetin'
house with new bunnit on. all kuvered
up with flowers and .etherS. Sumbodv
sed twas an Easter, or Webster. I've
forgot which, for we don't keep them
pagin DAYS like the 'Pisropals and Ro-
mans. We know better We rei'ice in
the lite while they walk on in darkness:
but as was a-sayin'. me and Betsey Ann
was drediully distrest over it.. And when
WE got hum, seq she to me. seq she:-
hat an example to our young folks.
\ GU oughter to go light over there. Jer-
emiah, and labor with EN- about it,
The next mornin went over to the
parsonage, and kerried sum speckled
apples that VIC wuz gon' to throw away:
for alwuz takes sumthin' with me when
goes to see the minister's family-it's
sakred dooty. tackled Mr.. Nicodemus
about it. He said that the bunnit wuz
a present from sumbody who wuz here
last summer. | suppose it wuz sum of
them city folks who wuz a-doin' nothin,
and spcndin' their money at the tavern
" Summerin," | believe they call it.
Anyhow I felt an inward call to labor
with the minister spell longer, and to
tell him in plain words that he musp't
allow any of his family to indulge in ex-
travagance, whether it costs him any
thing OF not. We pay him four hundred !
dollars year, when we can raise it
that's what he WIZ called on-and I've |
often laid awake nights thinkin' that he |
must be a-layin' up money, and it 5 |
wrong for ministers to do that; the Scrip |
tiers is all agin it.
He has wife. seven children, and an |
old uncle on his hands, to be sure. but |
then we only charge him fifty dollars a
year for the use Of the parsonage, and
there amt many folks that gets their
rent as cheap as that. We use it to pay
the insurance, and keep the house in re-
pair Pertatoes and brown bread are
cheap; that's our Twin mainly. and
what good enuf for us is good enuf for
anybody. And then, agin, I don't see
why the minister should be obleeged to
entertain the whole tribe of Gadites. and
half the tribe of Manassar, and spend
our money in feedin' 'em.
Why. it's wus than flock of Esvp
tian locusts to see the folks that 90 a.
trampin' in and out of our parsonage in
the course of a year. We don't hev any
We did hev a man and wo-
man lite down on us onst, but they didn't
stay long. She sed that her mother was
a third cousin to my wite's great aunt,
but we never seed 'em afore they came
a-drivin into our door yard. was a.
splittin' kindlings, and Betsey Ann she
was Settin' milk pans out to dry in the
sun, when we heerd sumbody cry out:
why, how do you do. Cousin Jeremiah
How do you do, Cousin Betseyo" We
thot sumthin' queer was a kummin', and
when that air woman jumped out of the
wagin, and told the man who druv the
team to take out the trunks and band
boxes, | riz right up and told 'em we
had no foundations for kumpany, and
they better go on to the tavern. My
punkins. how that female did splutter.
They had traps enuf with them to stay
a munth; but it was rite in haydn time,
and they didn't find the atmosfear con-
genial, so they left in a hurry, and we've
never seed EN- since.
Well as was sayin'' wrastled and
with Mr.. Nicodemus. and
t. Id him that folks was a-talkin' about
him and Mis- Nicodemus havin' too much
kumpany. He looked rather cut up, and
sed that the Scripters taught us to en-
terrain strangers and to show hospertal-
lty. | surmised that he had heerd sum
thin about the strangers who had lit on
as. and how we got rid of EN-; and | |
made up my mind that if he was goin'
to to put me down in that way, Id tell |
Mr.. Starvemout. when he kums round |
for my subscription of ten dollars for
next Year, that | should cut it down one
house for nuthin. and | amt a-goin to
have the minister spend any of my money |
i'll dom il nuther.
These ere ministers have got to be |
kept down, or they'll get high minded.
They are the servants of the people. and |
for one think they oughter be reminded |
of it from time to time. Human natur'
is very frail, even in the best on us. and |
although our Mr.. Nicodemus is most al |
ways subducd sort of man, we
mustn't let him get too independent.
P'r'aps sumbody may think that I'm |
Sayin' too much about the minister and |