Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1863-09-30
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from the Logan (0hio,) Gazette.
WON DERFUL VISION

nave seen, ! nave seen Nlu llldJ W NulCO
! know, know. Let all the people read
\ what is here written, and ponder the
wonderful things have seen in a vision,
For much Of that which have seen 10
vision, will be seen in the reality by all in
the fulness Of the evil time which is com
ing and which now is. For voice hath
said, "that which thou seest, write -
My sOn-our tiTst-born-the object of
our dearest love and most afIectionate care
whom we had reared in the ways of
Tlrmc, and educated with the view to an
l1onored life, was among the dead at Get
tysburg We brought him home to that
dear hearth by which he had grown from
Infancy to young manhood TO the home
which he had left but few months ago in
the glow OF health and the enthusiasm of
hope. We had brought him back, a
.mangled corpse, with ghastly wound
on his fair brow-hardy to be recognized
now, even by the loving mother who had
borne him, and who bewaled him with
unceasing lamentation.
Dead And my house was filled with
the sad faces ofneighbors and friends, who
had known and loved our boy, and who
came now to condole with us in the hour
of overwhelming sorrow.
He was buried And returned to a
l!ome which was saddened forever, to that
Familiar room, where, in the years that
w ere passed, my boy had SO often, from
juiancy to manhood sat on my knee. or
by my side How dark it seemed How
dOlorouS.
And sleep had fled from me. My eyes,
which had refused to weep, seemed as if
they were sered, and blessed slumber
came not
All through the dreary hours-hours
which seemed ages of that awful night
waited and watched, and knew not re-
pose. That long night wore away a. last
and day OF fasting succeeded and the
dolorous night came again.
As ! looked out of the window 10 the
North, great light, neither of the sun,
nor moon, nor stars, but brighter & clearer
than midday, illuminated what seemed a
vast plain, upor which the minutest OBJ
iect might be discerued with a cleurness
which was wonderful
And as looked, beheld The coming
ot great host, marching to the sorrow
iul sound of mutiled drum. As they
came nearer, and glided past. | remarked
that there was no soInd OF footsteps where
they trod. Then knew they were spec
Ires-the shadows of the countless dead,
fallen in battle. Their garments were
soled and torn. And observed, with
shudder which thrilled horribly through
me, that the death-wound was upon every
form, and that each ghas;ly face was the
face Of corpse. Great God here was an
arm shot away, and there cash on the
forehead again, and an eye-ball burst
with shot and yet again, temple
crushed as by blow of a gun-barrel. And
.as the spcctre-Eost gided by, heard a
voice, saying: Weary, indeed, wilt thou
be gazing for days and days must elapse
marching at this forced march which thou
behcldest, ere this vast army of the dead
can pass" | turned away in horror and
prayed that | might be spared a spectacle
which seemed 10 freeze the very blood in
my veins. But now knew, as had not
known before, what a multitude had fall
len in battle.
When looked again, the vision had
changed and 10 in the place Of those
grizzly shadows, beheld a great pool of
blood II was so large that ships might
ride on its crimson pillows. And congre-
gated by the hundred thousand all around
the wide circumference Of its margin, were
women, pa!hd and fearful, each clad in
robes Of sombre blackness, and having
little children by the hands, who wept in
Cessantly, and gazing into their mothers
faces, and called upon those who could
make no response, for their blood was in
the pool at their feet. And far beyond
this horrible pool, my gaze extended to
houses made desolate, and families im-
poverished | beheld these widows in
their struggle for bread. could see them
chilled aud shiyering and crouching in
scant clothing over wretched embers
which impaired no warmth, but which
were all that they could procure. And /
beheld those orphan children, squalid and
wretched, uncared for, and uneducaied,
going down into The haunts Of vice, swept
into the vortex of crime, for the want of
the fathers guiding and restraining hand.
And l cried out in the bitterness of my
heart " How long, oh Lord, how long ?
And what shall we obtain whicL will re-
pay US for all these horrible sacrifices ."
And the voice answered " Look TO the
left of the pool which is before thee. and
see Wnal inOu penoluesL.
And looked, and beheld vast g,ova
of trees, which were leafless and dead =
and on the branches OF the trees were
huddled myriads Of unclean birds lazily
Alpping their wings. and wiping what
seemed to be blood from their 6eaks. And
underneath was a multitude of men, cry
ing, blood blood more blood !" And
the voice said These are the shoddy-
contractors, place-holders, money-getie iers,
and the ungodly among the priesthood.
Listen attentively. that thou msy'st hear"
And heard in loud and demoniac
shrieks Prosecute the war Down with
the Peacemakers No compromise No
adjustment No settlement The war
must 60 on Down with the ConstitItion--
II II Is league with hell Cursed be the old
uhion- II is covenantwith death Down
WIN Liberty except for negroes Arm
s1e black man fire the torch whet the
i Dlaae Burn eities-depopulate villages
waste plantations-take the bread from
9Iamlshlng ohildreu-driye weeping women
'rom the roofs that shelter lieml Steal