The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-12-05
Q The weird Sisters, and JEFF DaViS's

Vision.
isd Prince JoHE VAN buren, certainly was
guilty of lapais hngue, when he called
the rebel States /" ,cagoard sisters" No
doubt the old fellow had in his mind the
witches, the "Oeird sisters, who held their
q internal orgies around the caldron, In
which they mingled "a charm of pow
erful trouble for the poor victim Of un-
e. rhallowed ambition and treason;
itaaTo tade and traflc with Macbeth
II. Il In riddles and Affairs o. death,
And, distilled by magic siightH,
Rased such artificial sprii0s.
aa As BY the strength Of their illusion
Drew him on 20 his confusion"
Let US enter for moment the dark
cave of treason, where JEFF. DAVIS, the
usurper, of Richmond, like another
MACBETH, consults these haggard minis
ters of death, and seems like his Scot
fish prototype to
"spurn fate and hear,
SIls hopes 'boyo wisdom, grace, and fear"
Davis, too, sees the blood of his muir
dered countrymen around him, whose
shadowy spectres rise, in their CORY
shrouds, a
aAud plead like angels, trumpet tongued against
The eeep damnetion OF their taking OF
As he looks around upon the instru-
ments of incarnation, mournful voice
cries in his ear
Sleep no more
Davis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Richmond
Shall sleep no more, DAVIS shall sleep no morei"
For did not he stab his country in her
sleep like cold FLOODED assassin9 Yes;
and thus as be gazes
Lamentings are heard in tie air strange screams Of
death
And prophecyng with accents terrible
OF dire combustion and confused events,
New Matched to the woeiul time. The obscure bird
Camors the llyelong night the earth
Il fevcrish and doth shake"
And now the "weird sisters" chant
heir unearthly song:
Ground about the caldron 60,
In the poisoned entrails throw
Toad, that under coolest stone,
Days and nights, hast thirty one
SHELTERED venom, sleeping got,
Boil thou first in the Charmed pot.
Ellet of fenny snake
in the caldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt and toe Of frog
Wool of bat and tongue Of dog,
Adder's fork, ana blind Worms sting,
Lizards leg, and owlct's wing,
For charm ~ peireJiu trouble
Like a hellbrom boil aud bubble
Double double, tOt aud trohbiel
Fire, burn, and cadron, bubble ]"
And now on either side of the usurper
appear two mighty hosts. The one on his
left, is an army of phantoms the ghosts
OF the scventy-fve thousand "blood
bothered" soldiers of the rebellion, who
were slain before Richmond, who now
rise
With twenty mortal murders ia their heads
To push him from bis STOOL" l.H
Appalled, at the horrid spectacle he
turns his eyes away to the right, where,
10 appears flag of beauty, which,
Oscars his eyeballs," with its glory and
another living, breathing army, who
come on in shouting battalions, until
their steel-clad line lengthens, until
il appears as though it would stretch
out TO the crack of DOOM" The con
science -smitten murderer and traitor
exclaims
' Ay, now, soc, rs true
The genius OF the Uniou smiles upon me,
And points al them Tor hers ~
His long cherished dream of royalty
vanishes, and again he cries;
Upon my bead wear a Ruthless crown
Aud hold a barren sceptre 10 my grippe,
Thence 20 be wrcnehed by unlineal hand,
No son OF mine succeeding !"
And even while he speaks these des-
pairing words, the weird sisters vanish.