Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-10-03
A WonderfuI Ylnion.

a WOnuertuA VlAtODs
What have to relate, is true. That which
have seen, have SEEN Let all the people
read what is here written, and ponder the
wonderful things which have witnessed in
vision. For much of that which | have seen
in IA vision, will be seen in the reality by all, I,
in the funess ofthe evil time which is coming
and which now is For u voice hath said,
that which thou seest, write"
My son---our first born-the object of our
dearest love and most allectiohate care--whom
we had reared in the ways Of virtue. and
educated with the view to mn honored life,
was among the dead at Gettysburg 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 bat
a few months ago in the glow OF health and
the enthusiasm of hope. We had brought
him back, mangled corpse with ghastly
wound on his fair brow-hardly to be recognis
ed now, even by the loving mother who had
borne him, aud who bewailed him with uH.
ceasing lamentation.
Dead And my house was filled with the
sad faces of neighbors and friends, who had
khcwn and loved our boy, and who came now
to condole with US ia the hour of overwhelm
ing sorrow.
ne WIS uuTltus anu returned 10 n nome
which was saddened forever, to that familiar
room, where, in the years that were past my
boy had so often, from infancy to manhood
sat on my knee, or by my side. How dark
IL seemed How dolorous2 And sleep had
ied from me. My eyes, which had refus-
ed to weep, seemed as if they were scared
and blessed slumber came not
All through the dreary hours-hours which
nf thaf uInl, inhN 1 aA
and wetched, and knew not repose That
long night wore away at last; aud day of
fasting succeeded; and the dolorous night
came again,
As | looked out of the window to the n orth,
great light, neither Of the sun, nor the
moon, nor stars, but brighter and Gle arer than
mid day, illumined whAt' seemed a vast plain,
upon which the minutest object might be dis
cerned with n clearness which was wonderful
And as | looked beheld the coming of q
great host, marching to the sorrowful sound
of a muiiled drum. AS they came nearer,
and gded past remarked that there was no
sound of footsteps where they trod Then |
| knew they were apecters, the shadows OF the
countless dead fallen in battle. Their gar.
menis were soiled ana torn. And observed
with a shudder which thrilled horribly through
me, that the death wound was upon every
form, and that each chastly face was the face
of corpse. Great God Here was an arm
shot AWAY and there cash, ON the forehead;
again, an eye.ball burst with shot and yet
again temple crushed as by blow Of O
gun-barre And as the specter-host glded
| by, heard voice. saying "Weary, indeed,
wilt thou be gazing for days and days must
elapse, marching at this forced march which
thou beholdest, ere this vast army of the dead
can pass.
| turned away in horror, and prayed that
| might be spared spectacle which seemed
to freeze the very blood in my veins But
now knew, as had not known before, what
multitude had fallen in battle
When looked again, the vision had chang.
ed and 10 in place Of those grizzly shadows
| beheld great pool of blood. It was Sc
large that ships might ride on its crimson
pillows. And, congregated by the hundred
thousand, all round the wide circumference
Of its margin, were women, pallid and fearful
each clad in robes of somber bleckness, arc
having little children by the hands, who wep
necessarily, and gazed into their mothers
faces, and called upon those who could make
no response, for their blood was in the pool al
their feet. And far beyond this horrible pool
my gaze extended to houses made desolate
and families impoverished, / beheld these
widows in their struggle for bread, II could
see them chilled and shiverng and crouchinG
in scant clothing over wretched embers which
impaired no warmth, but which were all tha
they could procure. And beheld these orphRr
children, squalid and wretohed uneareC
for, aud uneducated, going down into th,
haunts Of vice, swept into the vortex of crime
for the want Of the fathers guiding and re
IsNs tvs, hap An / iaA Ia, Ak, "a
: terness Of my heart "How long, oh Lord
how long2 And what shall we obtain whicl
viii repay us for all these horrible sacrifices 2
And the voice said "Look to the left o
| the pool which is before thee, and see wha
thou beholdest"
And l looked, and beheld avast grove 0
= trees which were leaAess and dead; and on tn
branches Of the trees were hudded myriad
Of unclean birds, lazily Tapping their wings
aud wiping what seemed TO le blood from
/ their beaks And underneRthswas a multi
tude OF men crying "Bloodl Blood NOR
blood. And the voice said "These are III
; shoddy contractors, and place holders, an
4 money-getteFs, and the uugodly among III
priesthood. Listen attentiyely, that tho
mayest hear
= Aud heard in loud and demonia
ahrieks "Proseeute the warl Down with IN
Peace-seoundrels No compromises No at
, ustment No settlement The war must z
o ou Down with the Constitutional ia
4 league with hell Cursed be the old Union
y it is a covenant with deathl Down with Lii
9 erty--exeept for The negroesl Arm the blac
:. manl-6re the torohl--whet the blade Bur
q cities-depopulate vllages-waste plantation
" take the bread from iamishing children
!, drive weeping women from the roofs thst she