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New Flag Design for CSA?

Tom Martin's 20 Apr post (White Cross/Magruder) referring to Vicki Betts' website prompts the following, which the keen eye (and sense of humor) of Miss Vicki rescued from oblivion:

SAVANNAH [GA] REPUBLICAN, May 6, 1863, p. 1, c. 3

The Flag and Seal at Last.—A correspondent of the Richmond Examiner proposes to relieve the Congressional Committee on a Confederate Flag and Seal. He suggests the following, which we approve of till the close of the war, at least. It is intelligible enough and simple:

Design—Man paddling his own canoe.

Motto—"D—n England and France."