The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1862-05-01

now passed his lips, and now IfeH n
strange influence coming over me. I in
clined my head forward TO receive tho
blessing, the baptism Of the spirit of
Washington.
The following instant peal of thun.
der rolled in upon my ears, and I awoke.
The Vision had departed, and 7 was
again sitting in my apartment, with ev.
erything exactly as it was when I fell
asleep, with one exception. @
"The map on which I had dreamed
had been marking, ,cas HNeraUg cor.
cred toith met,oork Of pencil marks.
sigps and figures. at o'
rose to my feet, and rubbed NV
eyes, and took turn or two around
the room to convince myself that was
really awake / again seated mvself
but the pencilings were as plain ns ever
and had before me as complete man
and repository ofiniormation. as tbonob
had spent years in gathering and re
cording its details.
"My mind now became confused with
the strange and numberless ideas and
thoughts that crowded themselves int
il, and l involuntarily sank down upon
my knees to seek wisdom and guidance
from on high. As arose refreshed in
spirit, that same solemn voice seemed
to say to mo, from an Infinite distance.
" YoWr time is shorN Tarry nott'
"ln an instance thought came olear
and active. Fastening our couriers
with orders to have executed certain
maneuvers at certain points, (guidinp
myself by that now, in my eyes. un-
earthly map.) I threw myself into tho
saddle, and long ere daylight was gal
looping like the tempest from post to
post, and camp to camp, and had the
happiness to divert the enemy from his
object, which, my friend, assure Won
would have proved entirely successful
by reason of the last piece of treachery,
had not Heaven interposed.
"Ihat mapi looked upon BY no hu.
man eye, save my own, and therefore.
treachery can do US no harm. | have
on it every whit of information that T
need information that the enemv would
give millions to keep from us. The
fate of the war is settled
"Tho rebellion truly seems very for.
midable but it is only struggling in the
patti. of an avalanche. The mighty. tor.
pling mass of National power and ret.
ribution will, until the proper moment
comes, now and then let slip down upon
its victim, forerunners of its approach.
And when the proper moment does come
1t Will sweep down upon, and forever
annihilate disunion with thunder that
shall rcverberate through the world for
ages upon ages TO come. 4+
"Sir, there shall be no more Bull Run
affairs.
Good has stretched forth his arm,
and the American Union is saved And
our beloved, glorious Washington shall
again rest quietly, sweetly in his tomb,
until the end of the prophetic century
approaches, that is to bring the Repub-
lie to her third and final struggle, when
he may, once more laying aside the cere.
ments of Mount Vernon, come meg
senger of succor and peace, from the
Great Ruler, who has all the nations of
the earth in his keeping.
But that future is too vast for our
comprehension; but are we the child
rem of the present
"When peace shall have again folded
her bright wings, and settled upon our
land, that strange, unearthly, wonder
ful map, marked while the spirit eyes
of Washington looked on, shall be pre-
served among American archives, as a
precious reminder to the American Ma
ton, of what, in the Second Great StruS-
gle for existence, they owed to God and
the Glorious Spirit of Washington.
"Verily the ways of God are above
the understanding Of fmau."