The Opelousas courier., 1890-06-28

It had got stalled in a snow bank.
Yes, and this damnable traffic that
knocks thousands off the track to hell
every year; after a while the pure
s~now-white ballots are going to fall on
the track and stop it still.
[ can take the Bible, listen. to me,
and put the Democratic and Repub~
lican parties both in hell. You say
I'm "a Democrat, look at my nose. You
are a demijohn-lcrat.
If the Democrats put out an indie
cent white man, and the Republicans
a decent niger, I'll vote for the mig
ger. Oh, you say, ''Let's preserve
the white mans party, if We have to
keep liquor to do it." Have I got to
do some swallowing? you've got
to swallow whiskey or the niger
Well, pin your nigger's ears behind
his head, grease him we'll, and down
he'll 60, Opening his mouth wlde).
| was born in the South, I Vas
raised in the South, [ would die for
the South, but I'm a better friend to
God and pobriety than my political
party. l notice some of you old red
nosed fellows don't clap your hands.
You say, I'm mighty sorry he said
that about the Democratic party. The
Democratic party saved the country.
If that's salvation. let's pray for dam
nation. l hope old Mecklenburg
county, with her glorious history, will
say next year, Il want a lick at this
traf1c;r'm going to wipe it out. trap
plause)." -,
Mr.. Jones asked all who would
pledge themselves to do all they could
toward this end to rise, and it seemed
as if the whole congregation arose.
Talk about this country being priest
ridden. The devil rides you preach
ers. He pats you on the back, if you
don't preach against it.
Show me a preacher that reads his
sermons, and I'll show you a preacher
with a dead church. | mean, praeti-
cally dead.
Mr.. Jones told of a mule hitched to
a cannon that wrs to be fired off
When the fuse got to ~sputting the old
mule got dubious" of the thing and
began turning around and around, and
the fellows there all went up trees. |
believe in leading your cannon and
running them all up a tree, and then
Smelling the woods.
If every man would vote like he
prayed. he would redeem the coun-
try.
[ never was tangled up with a set
of preachers like you, here, that just
sit here and tough it out. Why don't
you get out and 60 to work?
Mr.. Jones told of a doctor who
tried to. coax a mule to 60 ahead for a
boy, who had ~dismounted from his
buggy and was beating him. After
vain coaxing, the doctor got mad and
threw acid ON the mule, which moved
him like a fash. When the boy reali-
yes the state of affairs, he said, "Doc,
what does that stuff cost?' "Not
much. ""Well, pour some on me, I've
got to catch that mule" Sometimes
the churches get ahead of you preach
ers.
The longer | live, the more I'm
persuaded of this fact. this world is to
be saved by r~eviVals.
If you members of the church had
told God the truth when you joined
the church, and stuck to it, you'd
have had this town by now. There is
hardly a sinner but who has been
hindered by some old church mem
bers.
If didn't live any better'n you do.
wouldn't talk about other folks any
how.
There's q heap OF difference in men.
If Sam Jones would 60 out on the
street and get drunk tonight it would
be telegraphed all over the country;
if some of you old fellows would 60
out and get drunk, nobody would NO.
tice it. There's a heap of difference
between a gentleman and a vaga-
bond.
If I could get drunk and nobody
would notice it, I'd say, "ain't I low
down. and I'd leave town. Some Of
you ought to leave tomorrow.
I'm sorry for a man that is better
than his wife. It's hard for a man 20
be pious, with a little old foolish, fin
icky wife. just call him an old
bachelor, and don't let on that he )
married at all.
If you could go out on lonely isle
and find one man that Christ did not
shed his blood for, | believe he would
come down ON Calyalry and suffer
again for that one.