“Thank the Lord, We Do Not Look To Hear From Them.”
December 14, 1867:
FRENZY AT THE WHITE HOUSE!
Marshals Baffled as President Johnson
Receives Contact, in Person,
From a Witchy Coterie of Hex City’s
all-Female Elected Emissaries:
Songbird Yu, Business-woman, late of San Francisco;
“The Night Has Passed,” Navaho Woman Chief (Federally Pardoned for Former Offences);
and Mrs. Sophronia Love (Widow, un-Hexacious),
Representing her Son, Gabriel.
December 20, 1867:
“A SPECIAL CASE”:
New Territorial Declaration and Constitution
Drafted for Hexicas
To Be Entered Into by Mutual Agreement —
Annexation Impossible, President Johnson Admits,
“Since the Territory in Question cannot
be Tracked, or Even Entered,
Without Express Permission from Its Inhabitants.”
Spokeswoman Mrs. Love Maintains “All Hexicans
Consider Themselves U.S. Citizens,”
Even Though some have Sought Refuge from
American Laws or Mores.
“We Embrace All, Refuse None, Hex or No.”
December 25, 1867:
FIRST HEXICAN NOEL!
Christmas Festivities to be Held Throughout the City-State,
Though Attendance of Religious Component is Hardly Mandatory.
Yr. Humble Correspondent, for One, Will be There.