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They found Brother Mason's son David in bed sick, but he got up and took Dylks in his arms and called him his Savior, and everybody got down on their knees and prayed, and their faces was shinun' beautiful, and Dylks he walks round David Mason, and rubs his hands over him, and says, 'I bind the devil for a thousand years, and he hugged David, and said, 'The work is done. And he wouldn't stay to preach there, but told 'em they must come back with him to the Temple here in Leatherwood.
The backwoods, as Leatherwood was then, was not the right starting point for a world-wide imposture. Then again, as I said, Dylks was timid. He was not ready to shed blood for his lie, neither other people's nor his own; and when it came to fighting for his doctrine, he was afraid; he wanted to run. And, in fact, he did run, first and last.
But you must blame your husband, partly. Good night, ma'am; good Why, look here, Squire Braile!" he arrested himself in offering his hand. "How about the obscurity of the scene where Joe Smith founded his superstition, which bids fair to live right along with the other false religions? Was Leatherwood, Ohio, a narrower stage than Manchester, New York?
Then he joked his wife. "Mother, will you let us stay by the fire here it's a little chilly outdoors, and those young frogs do take the heart of you with their peeping if we don't mind your bothering round? Mr. Mandeville wants to hear all about our Leatherwood God." "He'll hear more about him than he wants to if he listens to all you tell, Matthew," Mrs. Braile retorted.
Governor Bamberger, former Governor Heber M. Wells, Congressman E. O. Leatherwood and Mayor C. Clarence Neslen joined the women in congratulatory addresses. Mrs. Richards, Mrs. Hannah Lapish and Mrs. Lydia Alder, veteran suffragists, told of the early struggles and Mrs.
Lieutenant Leatherwood finally ordered him to put up his pistol or he would put him under arrest. He then subsided, but was grouty all the balance of the day. That evening we came to a school house in the woods, and concluded to stay there all night.
As the son ate, the girl busied herself at the mother's pillow, while the father talked and ruminated by intervals, a text, a word of cheer to the wasted mother, incidents of old days, memories of early revivals. In 1828, he had hailed Dylkes, the "Leatherwood God," as the real Messiah.
They say they have the sheriff with them and they want him for shooting a man on Leatherwood Creek, day before yesterday." "It's all a lie," burst out old Judd. "They want to kill him." "Of course and I was going to take him up to the county jail right away for safe-keeping."
The guards struggled with her, and a man stooped over Dylks and voided a mouthful of tobacco juice in his face; another lashed him on the head with a switch of leatherwood: all in a squalid travesty of the supreme tragedy of the race. As if a consciousness of the semblance touched the gospel-read actors in the drama, they shrank in turn from what they had done, and lost themselves in the crowd.
Its tone of despondency, almost of misanthropy, so unnatural to Patrick Henry, is perhaps a token of that sickness of body which had made the soul sick too, and had then driven the writer into the wilderness, and still kept him there: LEATHERWOOD, 15th Feby., 1780. DEAR SIR, I return you many thanks for your favor by Mr. Sanders.
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