Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-08-03

shall bc my banner flames of burning villages
and the shrek Of murdered innocence, the lnu
sic Of my march!
Pestilcnce shall follow me as shadow an
will open unto lin the gates of a milliol
dwellings, which else had been secure. will
spread famine and disease even in lands of plen
ty and health, and will seal up the eyes of al
my victims, so that they shall not SEQ Or know
that their next plunge is into perdition. will
sweep whole continents of their inhabitants
and give woes and sorrows and wounds withou
cause to the whole race of man. Yet, whose
ever is wounded by me, shall seek me as hit
treasures to be wounded yet again. will binc
upon their brows the iron crown of suffering
burning with hell-fre, that shall scorcll, and
scar, and eat into their brain and heart and
and soul, yet shall they fall down and worship
me, and, for my sake, part with houses and
lands, and wife and children, and hope and
heaven.
Let jehovah send forth spirits, pure Us the
snowflake, to dwell in earthly bodies; | will
seek them out, and kindle in their hearts an un-
qucnchable fire that shall consume them; and
the cherubim 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 merchant at his tolls, the laborcr
at the plow, will destroy, and none shall stay
me. will coil myself in the brain of the sea-
captain, 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 engul(ed,
and the bones of the mariners wht.n the bot
tom Of the ocean, will be the omnipresent
curse of humanity, and under my guidance the
race shall walk forever as the shadow of an
eclipse. Eyes they have, but shall see not, and
ears they have, but shall hear not, the end and
the purporl Of the crooked paths through which
| will lead them.
81 will take the sons of the kings and the
mighty men, and tho captains, and the great
ones Of ccrth, and will uinglo them with horrd
wounds, strip taem of wealth. reputation, life
itself, and fill their last hour with torment
Around their dying couches will send serpent
forms, unfolding coil after coil from out the
darkness, brandis'ling their forked 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, in hope to escape still greater and some
will | hold upon the brink, and rejoice when
see every nerve shrieking with agony, as open
to their startled gaze the horrors of that pit in
which plunge them forever
Yet this is not all. know that you will
laugh, (if fends can laugh when | tell you
that will so manage that mankind shall all
along think Inc their friend. Though it is nay
mission to torture and destroy the whole race of
Adam, yet 80 will | mix with their business,
their pleasures and their daily habits fatter
and deludc their senses, that they shall pro-
nounce inc good creature nay, creature
of God!' At their wedding feasts | will be the
source of joy, and at the funeral gathering, the
solace of their sorrow. The rank grass shall
grow over those slain by my hand, and mourn
srs shall forget it, and fall in their turn The
father shall commend mo to his son, and reeling
to his grave, shall leave him rs an Inheritance,
a fondness for me and the son shall follow in
the footsteps of his father down to perdition.
The physician shall invoke my aid in sickness,
and in all circles will plant myself secursy,
and make myself a companion and a familiar,
and men shall never be so merry as in the pres
cnce of their deadliest foe.
" Poetry shall lend me her rose-garland, and
music her charm; and the spirit of melody shall
speak from myriad harps to sound my praises,
and witch the world with the idle dream that
am the inspirer of mirth and the soul of happi
ness and all good fellowship-and if there be
one OF all that glorious race, for whom yon pla-
nets. from their golden urns pour down their 81
lent, everlasting cataract of light, who excels
his fellows, | will lure him with song and Wis
ions OF beauty, and strew his path with rose
leaves, till at last he shall walk Needless into
my tolls. And, once my slave, though a thou
sand should weave their hcartstrings around
him, and weep tears of blood, he shall, in
his pride and beauty, sink deeper and deeper in
tribulaton and anguish unutterabe, and dig
his own pathway down to hell. will bo at tn 9
Casts of all the great and wise OF earth, where
rank and fashion reign uprcmc-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 sha feel richer, wiser, stronger and more
witty than before. But ut the last, will hurl
them down, one by one, from their fancied ele-
vation; and they shall drag out a wretched ex-
ist.nee in the hunger-dens aad vilest purlieus of
the earth, and sneak to dishonored graves, re-
rejoicing to hide from the withering scorn Of
their species, and to 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 for my protection, and that Of my EN-
issaries, as we walk the earth, decimating ts
inhabitants and tumbling them into hell. Give
me, then, oh Satan the dominion of the earth
and thou shalt behold, through ages,
"'IIell's every break on living Shore
Ieaped with the damned like pebbes.'"
lie ceased. One unearthly yell Of applause
arose, amid the stamping Of countless feet and
the clushing OF adamantine shields The Arch
Enemy stepped from his throne, and leading the
horrid spectre to scat at his right hand, thu
Ispake:
Terrible being if thou canst indeed d.
these things, thou art henceiorth my Vicegeren
upon earth. Go forth and my realms shall b,
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