Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1844-11-12
From an English Paper.

A VISION OF THE FUTURE.
az had dream which was not all dream"
Musing on men and things | fell asleep;
And strange images and stranger thoughts
Arise unsou2ht, shine for time then flee
Leaving the mind in intricate confusion,
SO il fell out, that Of the forms that thronced
The presence chamber of my soul, but these
My memory can retain.
brave, bold man
Stood in ST. Stephens, mid his stern cLmpeers;
And in tide OF burning eloquence
Proclaimed the peoples wrongs. The mass outside
Waited their strongest and their last appeal
To those who made the nations laws, and gave
The acts that made the rich man richer still,
And took the bread from out the poor man s mouth
Almost alone their champion stoot-alone
To grapple with the hydra-hea form
MoEopoly-the giant who had sucked
The blood and fated upon tamished millions
HIS was no stripping task, no towards part:
Before him men OF substance and of wealth,
Fresh from the table, redolent of wine,
Were ranged, and laughed and Knocked at all he
sad
Still he stood firm and Numbered in their ears
The last--sole warning Of the mass he served
"a change came DER the spirit of my dream"
vast assemblagc listened to the tale
OF all their wrongs, with flashing eyes, and hands
Firm clench'd, with lips ccmprest and white with
rage;
Want was in their faces, and their haggard forms
Told of starvation and starvation's pang.
They heard how their petitions with conte npt
Had been received. They heard how years had
passed,
And he, who should do something, had done
nought.
The muttered curse and darkened brow revealed
How dark and deadly were their silent thoughts
They passed away, and all was stil-as still
AS the last hour before the tempest bursts.
Then in the darkness of the ght arose
The cry of mans surprize and woman's wall
And chdhoods bitter shrieks from blazing homes;
And darkness, wondering, fled before the glare
OF burning cornsiacks, and of kndled barns
The terrible illumination gowed
Night after night through all the land, and still
Increased, and spread with more resistless force
Men qnaked tor none were safe; and statesmen
wore
The look of men perplexed, and shook with fear.
Anarchy prevailed, and the civil power
Grew poweress, and nerveless, and expiredl
And bands of men made desperate by their
wrongs
Hardened by staring famine in the face
For long, long monlhs-Ina1 with excess of rare
Drunken with engeance-thirstng still for more;
Plundered in day hght-ruins made at night
Horror WAS every where, for in the land
The fearful reign OF terror had begun
"a change came Ger the sp rit of my dream"
Upon the howllng waste OF waters rose
A form that spoke, and hushed them all to sleep;
Upon million crushed AMI PROSTATE slaves
The sun of freedom rose respIendantly;
Upon the great highway OF nations poured
Airesh myrldds of commerce laden prows,
Upon disconnected nation, rife
With all the horrors of internal war,
Broke forth the beams of peace for one, aye more;
A whole united natoa's powcr.u voice
Had said-"Let trade DER all the world be free!"
NJ lream was done: it had no further change;
For when that voice that hundred through the
world
Fell on my ears woke - and only heard
Echoed from every shore-"Let trade be free.