Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1861-08-03

A SUBMIss1oNIST.-Once upon q I'M the
Devil watched the Almighty making men
He saw him 60 to q pellueid streamlet thai
danced gracefully over the pebbles and .ge'
from ito channels, pure unauthorized clay
as his material; and as he formed one afte'
another, and stood him up, and 1" breathed In:
to his n~ostrils the breath Of life" he looked
.pprovins'y opeo him and pronounced him
At this, the DEVILS heart swelled with
anger and envy, and malice; and be de:
termined to do something by way Of set-oft
So be went to 4 damp, miasmatic morass and
scooped up from the bottom Of 4 stagnant
Shiny, Rreen-seumed, wiggle.tailed, lizzardly
| pool, and from this material he turned Oh Z
! Rack Repwblica~. Az he contemplated this
creation Of his " prentice hand" there was .
mixture Of eradication and disappointment
visable in bis countenance, though it waa
very evident the first greatly pTedominated
At length looking about him he soliloquized;
" there are . great number Of scraps left, and
Twill make another"
81 think l can do more than that So he
sets himself ind~ustriously to work and soon
got up an .Aboltio~;st. This suits me better"
said be, as with = sheet iron handkerchief he
wiped great drops Of fiery peIspiration from
bis braxen forehead. "But it does not yet
come up to my ideal! l perceive there still
remain some leavines or fag-ends, end q the
charm 10 said to be in the third trial. will
test It," So saying he began picking Up the
rags, first with his right-hand, next with bis
let, and occasionally with the barbed poist
his iyon.wise tail, until be had collected .
bushel basket tull. He then got down to this
job, and after much piecing and splicing, and
trimming, he stood the thing up.
IT, hl~>I R~>~uh1;n~u and AhN1i$sanick
who had been standing quietly by watching
the movements of their Father with much
interest, no sooner saw the third figure stand.
ing erect than their mean nature began to
develop. They both went up to it. The
Black Republican pushed it with rude vio-
lenee; the Abolitionist pulled it, nose; the
Black Republican tripPed at ito heels; the
Abolitionist spat in its face the Black Re.
publican called it a coward, and the Adolf.
ZIONIST, more emboldened than ever, planted
his right foot so firmly about the termination
of its coat tail, that it landed full ten feet of
upon its face.
To all this the thing had made no resist
ance, nor manifested the least resentment
although a number Of the men the Almighty
had created, shouted to it, to knock its per-
" into the middle of next week"-
but held up ito hands imploringly, and hung
its head in the most abject and servile man
ner so that the men went of in disgust.
But the Devil, who had stood by ali the
while, his iron sides almost bursting with
now fairly shrieked with delight,
sprang seven.y-6ve feet into the air, turning
well defined summersaults, aud
by its side raised both hands and
bringing them down fercelv upon its should
ers, shouted ut Is enough l dub thee a Sub
Wherenpon the creature raised
ito head, looked trembling around, partly
arose, aud in 4 STOPPING posture sneaked of.
Written for tie Mssowyi State Journal.