this clipping is from a DOTHAN ENTERPRISE editorial which was reprinted in the July 12, 1890 EUFAULA DAILY TIMES :

Such SEARCHING EYES to see OUR MANIFOLD SINS;

so much SURPLUS PIETY lying around loose,

to DEPLORE OUR DEPRAVITY;

so much HOLY WRATH to condemn OUR GENERAL CUSSEDNESS.

what SWEET BUT DETERMINED SERENITY THE PUBLIC VIRTUE SLEEPS,

erstwhile, oblivious to THE MISDEEDS AND MALEFACTIONS OF THE REST OF THE WORLD

and can be awakened only by a SOUL HARROWING account of

"DOTHAN'S DEVILTRY;"

in a PAROXYSM OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, the public with countenance frescoed with

DROPS OF LIQUID GRIEF, and a bosom TORN TO PIECES BY LOVELY EMOTIONS,

admonishes us for our LOST AND DAMNED CONDITION,

and having thus filled THE FULL MEASURE OF DUTY falls to sleep again.

Oh what a lovely exhibition of MISSIONARY GENEROSITY!

What a spectacle of MANUFACTURED GRIEF

and OH MY COUNTRYMEN,

what an abundance of IMPROVISED PIETY.