The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-08-29
THE DAILY DISPATCH.
Written for the Dispatch /
SATAN In UNSEL.
An ALLEGoRY, BY aL.IScoSSu.

An ALLEGoRY, BY "L'INcoSYu.'
"La'oia'e Ogni speran=a soi che nitrate,
l J@ s DANTE ALIeHERI.
i 81 have used similisudesv-HosEA.
Once upon a time, far back in the remote
past, Satan, the g Prince of the Power of the
Air called council in Pandemoninm. Lu.
cifer himself was seated upon a throne OF
| splendor, wearing upon his brows a diadem
of living fire, while, from the gems with which
it was encrusted, flashed intolerable radiance
Myriads upon myriads of fallen spirits. rank
upon rank of Principalities and Powers, and
of those angels which kept not their first
estate thronged to the hall Of audience. ST.
lent they sat in that flTimitable hall, which
sulphureous flames lighted up, while the lurid
smoke hung like a canopy over the scene.
4 Then up rose Satan, born to rule, who
"dwelt like star, apart. matchless in evil
| as in power, and thus spake:
Princes and Potentates. who do my bid
| ding and who best serve me when most We
thwart the Almighty listen! Yeknow that
| we have tried our subtlest wiles upon the
race of men. But so hedged in are they by
| holy Influences, and watched over by good
| angels sent from above, that we can scarcely
| destroy single soul. Therefore most noble
chiefs, have called you together, to take
| counsel of your wisdom how we may best
ruin mankind while they dwell upon the earth
and most surely afterwards bring themto this
| pit OF woe. Speak ye, each his mind, and to
| him who shall give wisest counsel and offer
| strongest means to effect this, our royal pur-
pose, will give the dominion of the earth,
and seat at my right hand forever.
Thus spake the fiend and hell, to its inmost
centre, resounded with applause
Then up rose MoLoCH, horrid king. be-
smeared with blood of human sacrifice" and
spake: Oh chief of many throned powers.
that led the embattled seraphim to war; /
claim the offered prize. l am the spirit of
cruelty. l hardened the heart of the first
murderer. Give me dominion over the earth.
| will sharpen the assassin's knife: | will
bring the rack, the wheel, the fire of perse-
cution, upon man. l will change man into
pirate and robber, and bid millions to rot in
dungeons and in chains. | will bring war
upon the earth, and amid the smoke of burn
ing cities, will teach men to rend each other
like wild beasts, till continents shall reek
with midnight massacre. | will call men to-
gether by hundreds and thousands, to cash
each other with horrid wounds, and will make
them deviiish engines, that in a second shall
blow whole squadrons into the air. Then
Shall they come. oh master, shrieking from
the red battlefield, to people thy dark domi-
Mons.
Scarcely, mid applause had the fierce Mo
ioNh OhoCu opCCCil, HGcL DEElAII arose
the fairest seeming, but withal, the subtlest
of the fallen petentates. Graceful in form
and movement, ard of most persuasive as
pect,-elOquent in speech;
ITO make the worse appear
Ihe better reason; and perpleX and dash
Maturest counsels; for his thoughts were low
To vice industrious, but to noble deeds
humorous and siothtui-yet, he pleased the ear"
And thus he spake: Let me, the spirit of
Dlscord, rule the Earth, fer without me, war
could never be. will spread all false re-
ports, and set every man against his neigh
Dor, and darken the counsels of the nations,
till anarchy and confusion. and hatred shall
arise and fill tho Whole earth. l viii point
me tongue of the slanderer as serpent's
tooth, and set his heart on fire of he'll Twill
be the author of all evil counsels and false
witnessings, and fraud and secret malignity !;
till even good men, prosecuted and torn shall
doubt and deny that Jehovah reigns, and die
blaspheming, TO come and dwell forever with
the damned. Let the dominion of the Earth
be mine, 0 Master, and thy realms shall be
peopled with the souls of men.
Then MAMmoN arose,
'HThe meanest and least erect
Of all the spirits that fell from heaven"
who would not heed the glories o er his head
but on the golden pavements at his feet for
ever gazed.
'.Listen unto me, o Satan for thou knowest
my power upon the souls Of men. Give me
dominion over them and he'll shall never be
empty. l will make men lunatics and fools
and send them through polar SHOWS and tor
rid burnlngs, at the risk of life and happi-
ness, TO dig in the holes and corners of the
earth mid savage beasts and men more saw
| age for a few handsful of yellow dust So
| intent shall they be, sitting and grasping the
| paltry ore, that they shall forget the starry
| crowns that heaven offers them and fever
| and famine shall come and sweep them like
| chaff from a threshing floor, to the great
| burning. And even before their corpses are
| fairly stiffened, their companions shall gather
| like yultures, to fight and cash each other for
the gold which the dead have left | too
| will sharpen the assassin knife, and helm ON
| the rObber and the burglar. All ties. howev.
er strong or holy, viii break, and teach men
| to come and worship me, though the path to
| my altar shall be over bleeding hearts nohlo
| aspirations, and all else that gives charm to
| the life of man. AT my command. shall that
| glorious race, who We're created '.erect to look
upon the stars blot the divine signet of high
intelligence from their brows, and fetter and
confine their mighty spirits, till they become
dwarfs, that they may do my bidding [ viii
| whisper in the ear of the young maiden. in
the pride of her beauty, and straightway shall
she forget her phghted vows to the youth who
| loves her and leave him heart broken to die !:
| and though sickened with disgust she shall
| go to the altar, and wed the gray haired
wretch who hath heaped up gold. Nay, men
shall bow down and do him reverence, and
| call him wise, and good and great, though
every piece of gold he owns is stained with
| blood, or wrung from the hand of want BY
cruelty and oppression. The possessor of
| gold shall himself become infatuated, and at
midnight shall steal from his bed, on tip toe,
and looking cautiously around in fear of rob
berry, shall open his iron chest, and count over
| each gittering coin, and hing it to his heart
and worship it. So shall he live curse to
his fellows and to himself and when the DEATH
angel comes, he shall clutch the yellow dross
in his skinny hands, and die, and come with
all my votaries, and make his bed in hell.
Thus spake Mammon, and as he paused
Satan "grinned horribly CHASTITY smile"
| upon his servant.
Then up rose the fierce APoLLYoH, the De-
stroyer, and spake thus:
| @ thou Arch ruler of the damned, listen
unto me The volcano, the avalanche, the
earthquake, the pestilence and famine are
| mine. Be it mine to rule the Earth. | viii
| pour down boiling lava from the mountain
| tops, burning up the fruits of the earth. and
overwhelming the thronged cities. with all
! their wealth and people in the twinkling of
an eye. | win hurl the avalanche from the
glaciers crest, upon the slumbering village.
| | will dry up the springs, and send hail and