47. XLVII.
RECOMMENDS UNANIMITY.
Church uv the Noo Dispensashun, }
February the 19th, 1864.
In my boyhood's daze, wen life wuz all a
dreme, my buddin genius wuz bein dewelupt a
a loggin with oxen. Wun team I hed, wich got
insain wun day, and insted uv pullin at the log,
ez well-regelatid oxen do, they histid theirselves
around, facin each other, and pulled until wun
hed dislokatid his neck, and the other I kild with
a stun in a fit uv richus rage, and they fed the
ravens uv the valley, wich is figgerativ for the
children uv the nigger farmer my father borrerd
em uv. And here let me say, that, for ginooine,
syentific borrerin, the old man wuz ekaled by
few, and serpast by nun. He borrerd a hoss uv
a dokter, in colera time, wich wuz brillyant; but
his shay doover wuz borrerin a new overkote uv
a reddy-made clothing man, whose naim wuz Solomons.
His last grate feet wuz borrerin a hoss,
lait wun nite, for wich he wuz sent 2 the penitenshary,
bekoz he omitted hevin any conversashen
with the owner aforehand. These okkerd in Noo
Gersy, and the owner uv the property wuz a di
rekter in the Kamden & Amboy, wich is the only
okashuns wher steelin is punisht in that Stait.
But 2 resoom:
The parable uv the oxen applize 2 the Dimokrasy
with grate force. Like them, we hev faced
about, and air pullin aginst eech uther. Ez neer
ez I kin estimait it, the Dimekratik boddy pollytik
contanes eight distink elemence, to-wit:
1. Them ez would nominait Micklellan on a war
platform.
2. Them ez would nominait Micklellan on a
peese platform.
3. Them as wood nominait Vallandigum on a
peese platform.
4. Them ez wood nominait Vallandigum on a
war platform.
5. Them ez wood favor the war ef slaivry cood
be let alone.
6. Them ez air oppozd to the war in enny
shape.
7. Them ez is in Canady, in consekens uv
drafts.
8. The betwixt and betweeners, who air ashamd
uv our party, and aint sootable for any uther.
They air with Dimokrasy ez the Michigander is
with his itch—wood like 2 git rid uv it, but can't.
These classis is pullin and haulin agin eech
uther, and instid uv makin hed agin the common
inemy, we air frittrin away our strength and time,
a settlin among ourselves as 2 wat we bleeve.
This is loonacy unekeld. Troo, we hev been unfortnit
in our political speculashens. We made
divers and sundry ishoos, and hev bin beat on all
uv em. We prophside concernin the strength uv
the Sowth, the wuthlesnis uv paper munny, the
immigrashen uv niggers, gineral rooin, et settry;
but, alas! they awl faild. It wuz up-hill biznis
yellin “Nigger!” “Nigger!” wen ther wuz no nigger;
it wuz hoomiliatin 2 talk 2 hours a convinsin
peeple uv the wuthlesnis uv guvment munny, and
then see a Dimekrat sell a hoss, and rite under
yer nose refoose to taik any thing but greenbax
for pay. It wuz desprit hard work 2 talk uv
ginral ruin, wen every body hed a pockitful uv
munny, wich munny wood pay dets.
These failyoors shood teech us wisdum. We
shood decide fust upon what to bleeve, and then
we must all bleeve it, and go to work to inockelate
the peeple. It maiks nary diffrense to me wat
creed we adopt; ez a Dimekrat, I kin go eny wun
uv the 8. Wat we want is votes; and wat diffrense
duz it maik whether we git em by goin
strate or by weevin a trifle. Ther air menny
rodes to the post-orifises, but ef we divide up and
skatter our forsis over all uv em, we shel be beet
in detale. We hev evry reeson to be encuridgd.
Davis is strengthnin his armies, and wun victry
won by him will lay Ablishnism cold. Let us
present a solid front to the foe, and go in to win.
Petroleum V. Nasby,
Paster uv sed Church, in charge.
