Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1862-03-07

you may choose to term it. was the most
God.like being could be conceived Of Like
weak. dazzled bird, I sat gazing at the
heavenly vision. From the sweet and ST.
lent repose Of Mount Vernon. our Wash.
ington had risen to once more encircle
and raise up with his saving arm, our fall
len, bleeding country. AS I continued
looking, an expression of sublime benig.
nifty came gently upon his visage, and, for
the last time, | heard that slow and sol.
emn voice saying to me something like
this:
Gen. Mcclellan. while yet in the flesh
I beheld the birth of the American Re.
public. 1t was. indeed, hard and
bloody one, but Gods blessing was upon
the nation, and, therefore, through this
her great struggle for existence. be sus.
tanned her, and with his mighty hand
brought her out triumphantly. A centu-
ry has not passed since then, and yet the
child Republic has taken her position
peer with nations whose page of history
extends for ages into the past She has,
since those dark days, by the favor Of
God, greatly prospered, And now, by
very reason of this prosperity has she heen
bro't to her second great struggle. This
is by far the most perilous ordeal she has
to endure. Passing as she is from hild-
hood to opening maturity, she is called on
to accomplish that vast result, self.eon-
quest, to learn that important lesson, self
control, self-rule that in the future will
place her in the van of power and civiliz-
alton. 1t is here that all nations have
, hitherto failed and she, too, the Repuh-
lie of the earth, had not God willed 9TH
erwise, would by to-morrow's sunset, have
been u broken heap of stones cast up over
; the final grave of human liberty.
But her cries have come up out of her
borders like sweet incense unto heaven,
and she will be saved. Thus shall peace,
once more, come upon her, and prosperity
2 fill her with joy. But her mission will
not then be yet finished for, ere another
, century shall have gone by. the oppressors
of the whole earth, hating and envying
, her exaltation, shall join themselves to-
, gether and raise up their hands against
, her. But if she still be found worthy of
| her high calling, they shall surely be dis
, comfted, and then will be ended her
= third and last great struggle for existence !
S Thenceforth shall the Republic 60 on,
/ increasing in goodness and power, until
e her borders shall end only in the remotest
+ corners of the earth, and the whole earth
= shall beneath her shadowing wings, become
!. a Universal Republic. Let her in her
prosperity, however, remember the Lord
: her God; her trust be always in Him,
and she shall never be confounded.
: The heavenly visitant ceased speaking.
1 and as | still continued gazing upon him.
/ drew near to me, and raised and spread
o out his hands above me. No sound now
/ passed his lips, but l felt strange inAu.
e ence coming over me. reclined my head
forward to receive the blessing and bap-
: tism of Washington. The following in.
}, slant a peal of thunder rolled in upon my
j. ears, and | awoke. The vision had
e departed and was again sitting in my
e apartment, with everything exactly as it
: was before | fell asleep, with one except.
ion.
y The map on which had dreamed
h had been marking was literally covered
o with network of pencil marks, signs,
e and figures. Irose to my feet, and rubbed
l. my eyes. and took turn or two about the
d room to convince myself that was really
d awake. Iagain seated myself but the
s. pencilings were as plain as ever, and I
y had before me as complete map and
repository of information as though had
:, spent years in gathering and recording its
u details. My mind now became ceufused
y with the strange and numberless ideas
y and thoughts that crowded themselves
e into it. and involuntarily sank down on
y my knees to seek wisdom and guidance
% from on high. As ! arose refreshed in
'. spirit. that same solemn voice seemed 70
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