To appreciate this sermon the 29th chapter of Genesis should be read if the reader is not familiar with the same. Footnote 4: II Samuel xviii, 9, 10. Footnote 5: Genesis, Chapter 32, Ver. 24, 25. Footnote 6: Scipio Jones. Footnote 7: Dr. John P. Durbin, one of the most eloquent of American orators, was able to speak to a child with such beauty of expression and propriety of enunciation that a company of educated ladies and gentlemen were entranced. Conversation was suspended and regret felt when the doctor turned from the delighted child to the rest of the company. In an earlier period, when enfeebled voice compelled him to suspend public efforts, he had gone from cabin to cabin among the negroes on the plantations of Kentucky, conversing with them on religion, and claimed that by this process he acquired his marvelously simple style. Extemporaneous Oratory, Buckley, p. 94. Footnote 8: Samuel i, 19. Footnote 9: II Samuel vi, 16. Footnote 10: Exodus xxii, 18. Footnote 11: See Little Billy’s Pumpkin. Footnote 12: See Mars Pinckney’s ’Simmons. Footnote 13: A negro superstition. Footnote 14: Told the negroes he was a major in the war of 1812. He was a teamster. Footnote 15: Suspenders. Footnote 16: Job vii, 7. Footnote 17: A story of the late Senator Vance Versified. Footnote 18: “The legislature of Alabama donated to Miss Sanson a section of the unappropriated public lands of the state as a testimonial of the high appreciation of her services by the people of Alabama, and directed the Governor of the State to provide and present her with a gold medal, inscribed with suitable devices commemorative of her conduct.” Footnote 19: Genesis xxxvi, 24. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES 1. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling. 2. Anachronistic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings retained as printed. 3. Footnotes have been re-indexed using numbers and collected together at the end of the last chapter. 4. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_. 5. Enclosed bold font in =equals=. End of Project Gutenberg's Ole Mars an' Ole Miss, by Edmund K. Goldsborough