10 are paid—i. e., “ six months after the day of j udgment”*—we may expect the Emperor Jefferson I. to take the Emperor Soulouque as his model, and surround his throne by a court of nobles, all like himself and his Empress Varina, of the Norman race, and. invested with titles, not borrowed from the old world, but still, not the less appropriate. He can make Floyd (for obvious reasons), Prince of Spoliation; Benjamin (on account of his brilliant effort at the Houmas land swindle), Duke of Honmas; Slidell, his Minister to France (who, from his proficiency at cards, is known at New Orleans as “Sly-dealand who, as “the Thurlow Weed of the South,arranged the Plaquemine election frauds), le Marquis de Faro el le Comte de Plaquemine ; Meminger (from the direction his financial schemes have taken) Earl of Salt River and Viscount of Papier Mache; and Yancey, (who was convicted for killing his uncle, but subsequently pardoned), Baron of Homicide. The self-created “Knights of the Golden Circle” (whose very style is a standing satire upon a government which has no gold, though it owes, and will soon repudiate an immense funded debt, and has out a great deal of paper), can be invested with a honafide order of knighthood by the appropriate name of “Knights of the Paper Circled1 And finally, he can do further all that may be in his power to make the rebellion reputable by organizing a “ Legion of Secession,” having two grand divisions : one for military merit, with a jet cross relieved by a gilt chain and hand-cuffs, emblematic of the divine right of negro slavery, for the maintenance and extension of which this war is waged, suspended by a black ribbon, as its badge ; and the other for civil merit—(for example, as a reward for those who, by exhibiting mulattoes and quadroons among their stock of slaves, show that they have taken an interest in improving the condition of the degraded African race,)—with a yellow bronze medal bearing a motto and an appropriate number suspended by a mauve ribbon as its distinction. Such an exhibition of “ high life below stairs” is all that is wanted to make what is now called “The Southern Confederacy” complete. * Rebel Treasury Notes payable “ six months after the independence of the Confederate States shall have been recognized by the United States,” are spoken of privately in the So’Uh as notes payable “ six months after the day of judgment.’ f This phrase comes from “ Russell’s Diary.”
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