The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-10-17
MISCELLANY.
Genesis. Chapter I.

l. In the beginning, John c. Breckenridge
created the Southern Confederacy.
2. And the Government was without form
and void. And confusion reigned in the Ma
ton; and the spirit of treason fell upon the
South.
8. And Old Buck let them go and they did
4. And Old Buck saw their plans, and he
said they were good. And Old Buck divided
the South from the North.
8. And Old Buck called the South Confed-
crate States, and the North he called Black
Republicans, Abolitionists, and negro stealers.
And the negro election of JEFF Davis was the
first curse.
8. And jeff said let there be system in the
midst of this people, and let it divide the peo-
pie from the people,
z. And JEFF made a system and divided the
people which were under the system, from the
people which were above the system. And so
1t was.
g. And JEFF called the system Government,
and the negro and the master were the second
curse.
o. And JEFF said let the people under the
system be gathered together in one place, and
let thieves appear, and it was so.
TO- And JEFF called the people soldiers, and
the gathering together of the soldiers called
he armies. And JEFF thought it was good.
fruit: perjury, theft and murder among the
people. And it was so.
II. And the treason brought forth perjury,
murder, theft, aud all manner of villany, the
fruit thereof, and whose seed was in itself after
its kind, and Jeffthought it was good.
b. And the negro and the system were the
third curse.
a. And JEFF said, let there be rich men in
the system, to divide the people of the North
and let them be to fill vacancies in office, and
the Congressman in the United States, and let
them be for Knights of the Golden Circle, and
for editors of Democratic newspapers.
rs. And let them divide the people of the
North, aud support the people of the South.
And 1t was so. $a
10. And JEFF made two creeping things, the
greater to rule England and the lesser to rule
France, and he made Knights of the Golden
Circle also.
H. And JEFF sent three creeping things to
Europe, TO represent the Confederate States,
lS. And to rule over England and to rule
over France, andto divide them from the North,
and JEFF thought it was good.
10. And the negro and the Knights Of the
Golden Circle were the fourth curse.
20. And JEFF said, let the system bring forth
abundantly every principle, of vice and folly,
and every means of opposition under Heaven.
81. And JEFF created great liars, and ac-
knowledged every sort of yillany, which
brought forth fruit after its own kind and JEFF
thought 1t was good.
% And JEFF blessed them, saying, be vigil
liant, spread false doctrine in the North, and
(. lies in the South, and it was so.
%. And the negro and Jed's Orlers were
the fifth curse.
a. And JEFF said, let the system bring forth
after its kind, liars, thieves, murderers, and
creeping things, and it was so.
%. And JEFF made perjurers after his own
kind, and things that creep after their kind,
and JEFF thought it was good.
26. And jeff said, let us make Congress in
our own image after our likeness, and let them
have dominion over the people and over the
army. and over the creeping things that crawl
to Europe.
"a. And JEFF created a Congress in his own
image, in the image of jeff created he IL,
thieves and liars created he them.
rs. And JEFF blessed them, saying unto them,
be faithful and multiply, and fill the South with
Traitors and divide the North and have do
minion over the army, and over the creeping
things.
20. And JEFF said, Behold have given you
every vice and every folly upon earth, and the
privilege to do all manner OF wickednsss, and
10 you 1t shall be for meet.
80. And to every beast of the Congress and
TO every fowl of the army. and to the creeping
things that are gone to Europe, have given
every vice and folly for meet, and it was so.
81. And JEFF saw everything that he had
made, and behold, he thought it was very good
And the negro and the creeping things were
the sixth curse. Ff
80. Thus the Government and the army were
furnished, and all the hosts of them were made
guilty ofperjury.
SO. Behold JEFF ended his work which he
had made, and he rested from his labors, and
from all his work which he had made
"a. And the negro and the Southern Con-
federacy were the seventh curse.-lN n. II. Tel
egraph.