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


will 1 mix with their business, their
pleasures and their daily habits SO fat
Ter and delude their stupid senser, that
thew shall pronounce me a 'fgood cfea.
ture n nay,.'a creature OF God ~ At.
their wedding feasts | will be the source
of iov, and at the funeral gathering, the
solace Of their sorrow. The rank grass
shall grow over those slain by highland,
and the mourners shall forget it, and fall
in their turn. The father shall commend
me TO his son, and reeling TO his grave,
shall leave him as an inheritance, a iond-
ness for me and the son shall follow in
the footsteps Of his father, down to per-
dilion. The physician shall invoke my
aid in sickness, and in all circles | will
plant myself securely, and make myself
companion and a familiar, and men
shall never be SO merry as in the pre-
sence OF their deadliest foe. g SO rtu
Poetry shall lend me her rose-garland,
and music her charm and the spirit OF
melody shall speak from myriad harps 10
sound my praises, and witch the world
with the idle dream that | am the in
spirer of mirth and the soul Of happiness
and all good fellowship; and if there be
one OF all that glorious race, for whom
yon planets, from their golden urns pour
down their silent, everlasting cataract OF
light, who excels his fellows, | will lure
him with song and visions Of beauty, and
strew his path with rose leaves, till at
last he shall walk needless into my tolls
And once my slave, though thousand
should weave their hea t-strings around
him, and weep tears of blood, he shall,
in all his pride and beauty, sink deeper
and deeper, and in tribulation and an
guish unuiterable, dig his own pathway
down TO hell. / will be at the feasts of
all the great and the wise of earth, where
rank and fashion reign supreme-where
forms not less beautiful than those Of
heaven, move to celestial harmOnies, and
where wit and mirth and wine go round
and glasses sparkle on the board, | will
lap their senses in Elysium, and they
shall feel richer, wiser, stronger and more
witty than before. But at the last, | will
hurl them down, one by one, from their
fancied elevation; and they shall drag
out wrctched existence in the hunger
dens and vilest purlieus of the earth,
and sneak to dishonored graves, rejoicing
to hide from the whitening scorn OF their
species, and 10 give their souls to eternal
punishment in fires less fierce than those
in which have tortured them on earth.
Nay, the kings and governments of the
earth shall pass laws Tor my protection,
and that of my emissaries, as we walk
the earth, decimating its inhabitants and
tumbling them into hell. Give me then,
o Satan, the dominion of the earth, and
thou shalt behold, through ages,
g"Hell's every wave break on living shore,
Heaped with the damned like pebbles.
He ceased. One unearthly yell of ap-
plause arose, amid the stamping OF count
less feet and the clashing Of adamantine
shields. The Arch Enemy stepped from
histh.one, and leading the horrid spectre
to seat at his right hand, thus spake:
"Terribe being! if thou canst indeed
do these things, thou art henceforth my
Vicegerent upon the earth. Go forth
and my realms shall be crowded with the
souls OF men, thick as autumn leaves or
sands upon the shore. But tell US by
what name to call thee"
And the fiend answered "ALcoHoLW
So saying, he spread his broad, bat-like
wings, and hell grew lighter as he van
ished. E aagu.Hla
How hath he fulfilled his mission?
For thousand years hath his fiery breath
SrnOte the wide earth with crime and death,
And furnished men, as daintest food,
For the red flesh-worm's sllmy brood.