Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1880 — A Colored Brother’s Philosophy. [ARTICLE]

A Colored Brother’s Philosophy.

Hanner, dat was a pow’ful sarmon we hearn Brudder Wilkerson disco’se i’om de pulpit lad* Sunday. De tex’ was dis “Shall we know each odder dar?” but I’se kinder mixed in my ’pinion ’bout de ’elusion dat he cum ter—dat we would. All I got ter say is dis: I’se been er g trine wid you to Brudder Wilkerson’s meetin’ ’ouse, an’ a payin' as I go, now gwino on fo’ long yealis, an’ I ain’t got ’quainted wid mo’n fo’ or five o’ de congregashun vit, an’ all I got ter say is dat, ’cordin’” ter Brudder Wilkerson’s ideer, if dey’s as long gittin’ ’quainted wid one ’nudder “ober dar ” as dey js in dat ’ar congregashun o’ his’n all I got ter say is, dat dey’d better begin to interdoosin’ one ’nudder w’en dey’re young, or dey won’t “know each odder ober dar.” Hit’ll be “ober dar ” jes’ as ’tis down hyar—de upper crus’ won’t mix wid de common trash, an' turn dar noses up at one ’nudder jes’ de same as dey do in dat meetin’ ’ouse. Es dey don’t know one ’nudder down hyar, dey won’t know one ’nudder “ober dar,” an’ Brudder Wilkerson knowed he wuz a givin’ dat ’ar congregashun “taffy an’ pea-nuts” w’en ho wuz a disco’rin’ f’om de pulpit.