60. LX.
HAS A CLASS MEETING, AND DEPRECATES NEGROKILLING.
Church uv the Noo Dispensashun, }
July the 30th, 1864.
Our class meetins hev bin sumwat neglectid uv
lait. Sumhow, it is in our Church ez it is in the
hetrodox—we air hot and cold alternitly. Last
Sundy we hed a preshus seezn.
Brother Siples spoak. He confest that he wuz
a week mortal. He hed his ups and downs, bad.
It wuz ruff on him. Wenever Grant and Sherman
hed a success, his faith faled him; and sumtimes
he hed difficulty in cumin to time even wen
Lee whipt Grant. But he hed resently paid $2
per gallon for whisky, and that stird him. With
wun hand upon his 2 often empty jug, and tother
pinted to heven, he hed sworn eternal hostility to
them ez hed razed these prices, wich is Ablishnists.
If convenyent, he askt the brethring to
pray for him.
Brother Hopp riz. He hed his ups and downs
also—rayther more downs than ups. His sole
wuz full wen Forrist killed the niggers; but, alas!
wo wuz on him wen Sherman flaxt em at Atlanta.
Now the skize is brite. Lee holds out bully, and
tother day 4,000 niggers wuz kild at Petersburg.
At this pint I interruptid Brother Hopp. The
killin uv niggers is no coz uv rejoisin. Wat a
destrucshen uv property! 4,000 niggers at $1,500
per nigger, is $6,000,000! This sum uv munny,
even at the present Ablishn prices, wood prodoose
60,000,000 nips! Wood, O, wood that I
wuz condemd 2 consoom em all! Ef them niggers
hed bin white men, I woodent hev keered.
Wy? Bekoz, white soljers is all Ablishnists.
Do n't shake yer hed, Brother Gamp; it 's so.
Yoor own son, even, backslid. He it wuz who
writ hum, a sayin that if he cum back and found
that ole hipocrit, Nasby, a eetin chickings about
yoor house, he 'd plump a ounce ball into him.
Hipocrit! Chickings! Sich baseniss confirms me
in my beleef in the doctrin uv totle depravity. I
am no obtroosiv gest at the tables uv my flock.
Troo, I ete; but wood eny uv em say that chickings
wuz a equivalent for my improvin conversashen?
Ez for the paltry munny I borrer, I alluz
giv my note, wich settles them transactions.
2 resoom. Every nigger killed inflaims our
brethrin powrful. Immagin, my brethrin, a Suthern
artilrist a bringin uv his peece to bare upon
the advansin enemy. He sees they are niggers,
and his hart sinks. Neerer and neerer they cum.
Seezin a glass, he vews em, and, horrer! in the
front rank, “clothd in soots uv bloo,” he beholds
his indivijjle niggers! Neerer! neerer!
Fain wood he spare em, for them very niggers
may be the uncles uv a half dozen uv his children,
(wich is patriarkle,) to say nuthin uv the
munny he hez inwestid in em. But no! The
order is given! “Fire!” He pulls the fatal
string, and ez he beholds his own property a
bleedin on the plain, he swoons away. My jentle
frends, I make no dout that haff the cases reportid
in the Suthrin papers ez sun-stroak, wuz frum this
coz.
Uther brethrin giv their experence in. The
feelin is improvin sence the draft, and I hev faith
that ef our groseries kin hold up till September
5, under the credit system, and too menny don't
run 2 Canady, we will be able to whale eny Provo
Marshell's forse they kin send agin us.
Petroleum V. Nasby,
Paster uv sed Church, in charge.
