Description

The devil, depicted with wings, horns, and a tail, sits on a cotton bale. The text reads, ""The Devil he sat with his claw in his mouth, Regarding with favor the row at the South. There is Davis, quoth he, and yonder is Twiggs, Both capital fellows at running such rigs! There's manikin Stephens, and fat Bobby Toombs; How richly they're earning their infamous dooms! They're hooting and tearing the Stars and the Stripes; Ha! Ha! I shall laugh myself into gripes. Beauregard is a traitor, and so is old Bragg; Just the chaps to fight under my own jolly flag. All that these rascals want is to be let alone, With no interference by Him on the throne. I've been bothered to death ever since I seceded, Because not quite willing to do just as He did; But these thieves, I hope, will have their own way, And go on till they find - there's the Devil to pay. Then hurrah for Secession, let all the fiends sing, Hurrah for Disunion, great Cotton is King!"" No. 1 is printed in the upper right corner of the envelope and the text along the bottom reads, ""Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1861, by Stimson & Co., in the Clerk's Office of the United STates for the Southern district of New-York.""

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Union College

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