The Ohio organ, of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, [Ohio]) 1853-1854, 1853-10-28

III the streets OF cities, and plan the mld'
night fire and assassination. will plunge
my victims into prisons and hospitals;
| will steep Them in poverty and degra-
dation to the very lips. will cast forth
their families to want and wintry winds,
and the babe shall perish in its mothers
arms, with its tears frozen to ice.drops
upon her bosom. | will turn the dagger
Of the husband against the heart of his
wife, and her blood shall stain the cradle
Of her children, Stimulated and urged
on by me, the father shall dance in ma
MAC glee over the mangled bodies of his
murdered babes, and laugh to see their
fair locks dabbled in blood Lhenother
shall "forget her sucking chiId," slain by
her hand, and mock at lhetender years
and helplessness Of her own offspring.
On whatsoever heafth.stone my foot
shall be planted, the gladstone fire shall
go out, to be lighted no more forever;
and the roof-tree shall fall, and the voices
Of children be hushed, and all that men
cluster around them, TO make their earth
" homes so much like heaven, shall
vanish like wreath of smoke, and DESC
Iation brood over the ruins. Twill point
the sons knife against the fathers throat,
and his gray hair shall dip with gore.
Where war and vengeance are, | will
rouse their fury to ten-iold rage, and blot
from the soldiers breast the last vestige
OF humanity. The incendiary's torch
shall be my banner; the cracking flames
of burning villages, and the shrek OF
murdered innocence, the music OF my
march
Pestilence shall follow me as shad-
ow; and ] will open unto him the gates
Of million dwellings, which else had
been secure. will spread famine and
disease even in lands OF plenty and health,
and will seal up the eyes Of all my VIC
Tins SO that they shall not see nor know
that their next plunge is into perdition.
\ will sweep whole continents of their
| inhabitants, and give woes and sorrows
and "wounds without cause" to the whole
race of man. Yet, whosoever is wound
ed by me, shall seek me as hid treasures
H to be wounded yet again. will bind
II upon their brows the iron crown of sui.
fering, burning with helifre, that shall
scorch and scar and eat into their brain
and heart and soul; yet shall they fall
down and worship me, and, for my sake,
Il part with houses and lands, and wife and
H children, and hope and heaven.
H Let Jehovah send forth spirits, pure as
the snowflake, to dwell in earthly bo-
dies will seek them out, and kindle in
| their hearts an unquenchable fire that
shall consume them; and the cheTubim
/ shall watch long for their return, at
\ heavens gate; but they shall never again
/ look upon their Father in Heaven. The
student at his'books, the mechanic at his
tolls, the laborer at the plow, will de-
siroy, and none shall stay me. | will
| coil myself in the brain Of the sea cap
tain, and seal up his eyes, or so distort
| them that he shall know neither chart
nor compass, and his vessel and all on
board shall be engulfed, and the bones
Of the mariners whiten the bottom OF the
ocean. l will be the omnipresent curse
of humanity, and under my guidance
the race shall walk forever as in the
shadow OF an eclipse. Eyes they have,
but shall see not, and ears they have,
but shall hear not, the end and the pur-
port of the crooked paths through which
\ will lead them.
Il Twill take the sons Of the kings and
the mighty men, and the captains, and
the great ones of earth, and will mangle
them with horrid wounds, strip them Of
wealth, reputation, life itself, and fill
their last hour with torment. Around
their dying couches I will send serpent
forms, unfolding coil after coil from Out
the darkness, brandishing their torked
tongues to sting them and lick their blood,
as a fierce flame licks up its fuel
Thoughts shall become things, living
things, to mock and curse them. And
some in their agony shall leap into this
burning lake, il hope to escape still
greater torture; and some will hoic
upon the blink, and rejoice when see
|, every nerve shrieking with agony, as
open TO their startled gaze the horrors o.
that pit in which | plunge them forever
/ mYett this is not all. I know that you
J will laugh Gf fiends can laugh), when