Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1867-12-19
Ts,alple of The g1usss.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
By S. TEAKLE WALLIS.

By S. TEAKLE WALLIS.
Tobreskfastone morning the Devil came dow
/ By demons and vassals attended;
A headache had darkened his brow with afrowl
From his orgy last night, or the weight of h
crown,
But his presence internal was splendid.
In robe of red fame was Diavolo drest,
Without smutch of cinder to soil it;
Blue blazes enveloped his throat and his chest
Whilethe tail, tied with ribbons as blue as tn
| vest,
Complsted his Msjesty's toilet.
No masquerade devil of earthcould begin,
With his counterfeit horns and his mock tail
To look like his model Original Sin,
As of lava and lightning and bitters and gin
he sat and compounded a cocktail.
But to give, in all conscience, the Devil his due
He seemed sorrowful rather than irate;
And his Majesty moped all the deje,.ner through
With a twitch, now and then, of the ribbons of
blue,
And the look of penitept pirate.
Then smile, such as follows some capital Joke
Of a Dickens Hood OF a Jerrold,
Sweet, playful and tender, all suddenly broke
Ger the face of Sathanas. as turning he spoke,
"Go. imp' bring the file of the Reraldr'
The paper was brought, and Old Nick ran his
eve
In default of debates in the Senate
Over crimes, there were plenty, of terrible dye,
Over letter and telegram, slander and lie,
And the blatherskite leaders of Bennett.
There were frauds in high places, officialdeceit;
There were sins, we'll not name them, ofladies:
There were Mexican murders, and murders in
Crete
By the thousand, all manner of villainies sweet
To the Herald subscribers in Hades.
But the numberless horrors of every degree
Did not wholly dispel his detection;
"The HeralGs bore, I'm weary" said he;
Then, uprising, he added, "yhat's this Ten
nessee,
BY jingo! here's Brownloy's eleptioll
"Ho, varlet! FIJI up till the besker Fups DER !"
Cried the Devil, growing joyous and frisky;
A white-hot ferruginous goblet he bore,
And the liquid was yitriol straight, " which he
swore
Was less huttful than taagle-foot whisky.
"Fill.up! Jet rs drink" said the Father of Lies,
"To the mortal whose claims are most weigh
typ
and Light diaholic shope ont of his eyes
That made the thermnmeter instantly hse
To fully five thousand and eighty.
Il have knights Of the gafter and Knights OF the
lance,
Who shall surely hereafter for sin burn;
have writers of history. ethics, romance,
In England, America, Germany, France,
And gay little poet in swinbOrne
"Reformers, who go in for infinite smash,
The widows and orphans oppressoi:
D. DIS BY the dozen, whose titles are trash
To be written with two little DIS and dash,
And many Father ConfessQr.
sand besides. all the hyrocFites," chuck!ed the
Dell,
"Who serve me with Ares and Cre,lo,
have tyrants that murder, commanders tia.
steal,
Dabomey, Mauravien, Butler, O'Niell,
Thad. Stevens, Joe Holt, Escobedo.
"But the man OF all others the most to my mind,
The dearest terrestrial creature,
Is the blasphemlng priest and the tyrant .com-
bined,
Who mocks at his Maker and curses his kind.
In the garb of Methodist preacher.
'Aad so long as of Darkness I'm absolute Prince,
From hispraise there shall be no deduction,
Whose acts most exquisite malice evince,
And whose government furnishes excellent hints
Opportunely for Hsll's reconstruction"
Then the Fiend, with a laughter no languageean
tell,
Drained his cup, and abasing his crown low,
Cried, "Aip. hip, hurrah" and aboisterous yell
Went round till the nethermost confines ofHell
Re-echoed, ''Three cheers for old BroYnlow."