40. XL.
RECOMMENDS UNANIMITY.
Church uv the Noo Dispensashun, }
February the 19th, 1864.
[1]
In my boyhood's days, wen life wuz all a dream, my buddin
genius wuz bein develupt a loggin with oxen. Wun team I
hed, wich got insane wun day, and instid uv pullin at the log,
ez well-regulatid oxen do, they histid theirselves around, facin
each other, and pulled until wun hed dislokatid his neck, and
the other I killed with a stun in a fit uv richus rage, and they
fed the ravens uv the valley, wich is figgerativ for the childern
uv the nigger farmer my father borrerd em uv. And here let
me say, that, for ginooine, scientific borrerin, the old man wuz
ekaled by few, and serpast by none. He borrerd a hoss uv a
doctor, in cholera time, wich wuz brillyant; but his shaydoover
wuz borrerin a new overkote uv a reddy-made clothing
man, whose name wuz Solomons. His last grate feat wuz borrerin
a hoss, late wun nite, for wich he wuz sent to the penitenshary,
bekoz he omitted hevin any conversashen with the
owner aforehand. These okkurd in Noo Gersy, and the owner
uv the property wuz a direkter in the Camden & Amboy, wich
is the only okashuns wher steelin is punisht in that state.
But to resoom:
The parable uv the oxen applies to the Dimokrasy with
great force. Like them, we hev faced about, and are pullin
aginst each other. Ez near ez I kin estimate it, the Dimekratik
body pollytik contanes eight distinct elements, to-wit:
1. Them ez would nominate Micklellan on a war platform.
2. Them ez would nominate Micklellan on a peace platform.
3. Them ez wood nominate Vallandigum on a peace platform.
4. Them ez wood nominate Vallandigum on a war platform.
5. Them ez wood favor the war of slavery cood be let alone.
6. Them ez air opposed to the war in any shape. 7. Them ez
is in Canady, in consekens uv drafts. 8. The betwixt and
betweeners, who are ashamd uv our party, and aint sootable
for any other. They are with Dimokrasy ez the Michigander
is with his itch — wood like to git rid uv it, but can't.
These classes is pullin and haulin agin each other, and instid
uv makin hed agin the common enemy, we air frittrin away
our strength and time, a settlin among ourselves as to wat we
bleeve. This is loonacy unekald. 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
money, the immigrashen uv niggers, gineral rooin, et settry;
but, alas! they all faild. It wuz up-hill biznis yellin “Nigger!”
“Nigger!” wen there wuz no nigger; it wuz hoomiliatin to
talk two hours a convincin peeple uv the wuthlesnis uv guvment
munny, and then see a Dimekrat sell a hoss, and rite
under yer nose refuse to take anything but greenbax for pay.
It wuz desprit hard work to talk uv ginral rooin, wen every
body hed a pocketful uv money, wich money wood pay dets.
These failures shood teech us wisdom. We shood decide
fust upon what to bleeve, and then we must all bleeve it, and
go to work to inockelate the people. It makes nary difference
to me wat creed we adopt; ez a Dimekrat, I kin go eny wun
uv the eight. Wat we want is votes; and wat difference duz
it make whether we git em by goin strate or by wobblin a
trifle. Ther air many rodes to the post-orifises, but ef we
divide up and skatter our forces over all uv em, we shel be
beat in detale. We hev evry reason to be encouridgd. 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.
