The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1863-10-15
From the Logan Gazette.
A WONDERFUL VISION.


what is here written, and ponder the won
derful things which l have witnessed in
vision. For much of that which L have
seen in 4 vision, will be seen IN the reality
by all, in the fullness of the evil time which
j. coming and which now Is. For voice
hath said. "that which thou seest, write
NV son-our first born-the object OF
our dearest love and most abeetionate care
Whom we have reared in the ways OF
virtue, and educated with the view to an
honored 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 that home
which he had left but few months ago IN
the glow Of health and the enthusiasm of
hope. We had brought him back, man.
gled corpse, with ghastly wound on his
fair brow, hardly to be recognized now,
even by the loving mother who had borne
him, and who bewailed him with unceas-
ing lamentstion.
Dead And my house was filed with
the sad faces of neighbors and friends,
who had known and loved our boy, and
who came now to condole witt, Us in the
hour of overwhelming sorrow.
He was buried And | returned to q
home which was saddened forever, to that
familiar room, where, in the years that
we're past, my boy had 50 often, from in
fancy to manhood, sat on nv knee, or by
my side How dark 1t seemed How
d0lorous.
And sleep had fed from me- Ny eyes,
which had refused to weep, seemed as if
they were sered. and blessed slumber came
not.
All through The dresry hoUrs--hours
which seemed ases--of that awful night, /
waited and watched. and knew not rrpose.
That long ght wore away at last and
day Of fasting succeeded; and the dolorouS
night como again.
As / lookci out through the window to
The North, great lgh.. neither Of the
san. nor moon, ner stars, but brighter and
clearer than mid day, Illuminated what
seemed vast plain, upon which the minu-
test object might be liscerne.i with clear
nes which was wonderful
And as | looked, ! bellcid tic coming
OF a great host, marching t. the so-rows,,l
sound of mufcd drum. As they came
nearer, and clided past, remarked that
there was no sound Of footsteps where they
treal Then | knew they were spccterS,
the shadows of the countless dead fallen in
battle. Their garments were soilci and
torn. And | observed, with a shuider
which thrilled horribly through M, that
The death-wound was upon every form, and
that cac;l CHASTITY face WIS the face of a
coryse Great God, Here was an arm
sii1. away; and there a cash on the fore
mend; again, an eyeball burst with shot;
and yet again temple crushed as by n
blow ofa gun barrel And ~ tt specter
glided by, heard a voice saying Weary
indel, wilt thou be gazing; fox DAYS and
days must clapsc, marching at this forced
march which thou beholdcst, ere this vast
army Of the dead can pass l turned
away IN horror, and prayed that / might
he spared spectacle which seemed to
freeze the very blood in my veins. But
now knew, as | had not known before
vLa: I multitude Lad fallen in battle.
When | looked again, the vision lad
changed; and 10 in place Of those grizzly
shadows, | beheld great pool of blood.
It vas so large that ships might ride on its
crimson billows. And congregatcd by the
hundred thous; nd, all around the wide
circumference of its margin, where women
pal.id and fearful, each clad in robes of
sombre blackness, and having little chill
dren by the hands, who wcpt necessarily,
and gazing into their mothers faces. and
c;.lled upon those who could make no re-
IL
their feet Far beyond this horrible pool.
my gaze extended to houses made desc
olate. and families impoverished. | be-
held these widows in their struggle for
bread. ! could see them chilled and sbiv-
ering and crouching in scant clothing over
wretched embers which impaired no
warmth, but which were all that they
could procure. And | beheld those or
phan children, squalid and wretched, un-
cared for, and uneducated, going down in
to the hauDts of vice, swept into the vortex
OF crime, for the want of the fathers guild
Ing and restraining hand. And | cried
out In the bitterness of my heart: "How
long, oh Lord, how long? And what shall
we obtain which will repay us for all these
horrible sacrifices ?"
And the voice answered.: "Look ~ ,,,o
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