The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1862-02-13
MI5CELHANK.
The sntnplaster Confederacy

The shtnplaster Confederacy.
We have now on exhibition at our Of
flee simon-pure Confederate ten-ce,t
shinplaster issued by the Bank of Ten
nessee, which reads as follows:
"The Bank of Tennessee Will pay TEN
CENTS to bearer
Nashville, Dec. j, 1851
Tt is signed "For the President" by
string of Notwithstanding characters,
apparently cross between Sancrit letters
and Egyptian hieroglyphics, which, as
near as we can interpret them, spell III
lery. Probably the clerk was heartily
ashamed of the ?icayune business at
which he was employed, and was resolved
not to be known in the matter. This
sorry looking attempt at money making,
which throws the sea-sheil currency of
the Africans and the soap currency of the
Mexicans entirely in the shade, has for
its yisnette train of cars-the same, we
suppose, that Buckner stole from the Lou
isviile and Nashville railroad-and at the
upper corners, fdc-Sinli2eS ofthe Old Span
ISL bit with the crown, pillars and inscrip-
ton "His2ani8 ct Ind. Rex, that is,
king of Spain and India" What
motto and emblem for this selfstyled Re-
public The paper of the bill is of the
same quality used by tallow- chambers IN
their candle boxes. We think the bills,
on the whole, very appropriately gotten
up and embellished 1t is as fimsy, mean
and dirty as the Confederacy itself, and
quite as worthless. Its very smell and
touch suggest bankruptcy, reputation,
and Owt-at-elb0,oaess. Still, we, think we
could suggest some Improvements for the
next issue. We Ike originality along
with appropriateness. The designer has
the whole book of natural history to choose
from and all the mythology, and the mi
nor embellishments may be taken from
alligators, Eumenides with their snaky
heads, pelicans, harpies, rattlesnakes, buz-
yards, Tantalus, Ixion, the Titan labor of
piling rocks to reach the skies, burning
rage, paleness, and DEATH" the attendant
ministers around the throne of Pluto
The motto on the right might read "The
way we get our rights" and that on the
left,
If so very soon we're done for
We wonder what we were begun for.
The bill might also read: "The Bank
of Tennessee will neUer pay the bearer"
as every one knows that not one Of this
wretched spawn of bankruptcy will be re
deemed. The Pillars of.Hercules are ap-
propriate as legend to this bill, if read
Alright, to show that it requires God-like
powers to sunder continent as the straits
of Gibralter now flow between Abyla and
Calpe.
There is volume of eloquence in this
insignificant scrap of paper, akin to that
which speaks so touchingly and forcibly
from the rags and squalid wretchedness
of a prodigal, whose vice and riotous ca
reer have plunged him into the depths of
misery and want. What comment does
it offer upon all the lofty vauntings we
were wont to hear from the DeBows and
Keitts, and Wigfalls and Memmingers, on
the inexhaustible wealth of the Cotton
States, which we were insultingly told
were TO wave their sceptre triumphantly
over the PROSTATE form Of all countries
that raised nothing but grain, meat and
tobacco, Cotton, the pitiless tyrant, was
to put his heel on the head Of the pros
trate world, and all were to do him rever-
ence. And here, on a little strip of pa
per, we read the shameful refutation of
the prophecy. Itspeaks in thunder tones
of the falsehood Of the Southern leaders,
who have precipitated their people into a
vortex of want, bankruptcy, and shame.
Every glimpse which we obtain of the
Southern Confederacy proves its terrible
failure, and,
"-like sail unfurled
Shows all its rents and patches to the world"
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