The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-10-23

And the voice said: :"Listen yet again,
while the ungodly priests are speaking"
And | listened, aud heard: "a new com
mandment give | unto you, that We hate
one another. Turn your plowShares
into swords, and your pruning hooks in.
to spears. Thou shalt hate thy neigh.
bors. Do not unto others as you would
have them do unto you. Accused be
the peace. makers Christ was the Prince
of War. Thou shalt lie thou shalt
steal thou shalt bear false witness
against thy neighbor; thou shalt kill |
Glory to John Brown Glory to the
new Savior Hozannahs to the new
Redeemer "
But could endure the impious bias.
phemy no more. Turning away, | be.
held, litting about beneath the unclean
birds, yet over the beads of the demo.
MAC crowd, a phantom figure, with a
long, grizzly beard and rope about his
neck.
And the voice said: THE phantom
which thou seest is the spirit which be.
gets the idolatry, the blasphemy, the
fraud, the rapine and the crime which
thou hast witnessed"
And as looked, l beheld many fa.
! :"..iliar faces, though they seemed dis.
turSed VIII. evil passions, such as ava.
rice, hatred, revenge. &c. One whom
| saw was diminutive in stature a@d ap'
pearauce, but he held a big book G2der
his arm. and on the cover of the book
was inscribed, $1,000 per aunum." Av.
arice was his passion, and he had bar.
tered his soul for gold. And l beheld
an elderly man, with marked features
and lineaments, and iron>gray hair, and
a look which betokened intellectual
power, who, with strong speech, was
, ggoadin@ the frantic multitude to vet
greater excesSes. He had bartered his
soul at the shrine of Ambition. And
yet another, younger in appearance,
with a beard prematurely white, who
he'd sold himself for naught aud who
pursued the grizzly phantom, grasping
and clutching at what was at last Shad.
owy and unreal. Aud many beheld,
who looked sad, and gave sigus of re-
morse, and who seemed anxions to escape
from lhe damned beings who surrounded
them.
And the voice said: "Look now to
the right, and see that which is to
b. seen."
And | looked, and 10 |! great assem-.
blage of men, many Of whom had scrolls
in their hands, and many were bearing
banners. Of the scrolls, some were in.
Scribed in golden letters: "rhe Consti!
tution;" Others, "Christ's Sermon on the
Mount )" others, "The Golden Rule y
On the banners | read, constitutional
Liberty" "The Union as our fathers
made it," blessed are the Peace. max.
ers;" "Compromise- agree with thine
adversary while thou art in the way with
him" | observed that the eyes of the
assemblages were turned toward heaven
aud, looking up, l saw against the sky
bright cross, bearing the inscription
which greeted the eyes of the first Chris
tian Emperor of Rome: by this sig
shalt thou conquer" And | thought
beheld the heavens opening, and the spir
s it descending like dove. The shade
, of departed statesman end patriots all,
OF murdered martyrs were hoverinI
> in the air. There were Washington
and Webster and Clay, and Jackson
! and Douglas ; and as they gazed upo
p the left, their countenances evinced sor
row and indignation. There, too, wer
! the twelve innocent men slain by tn
monster Mcneil, and Mumford, who wa
| hanged by Butler, The beast, and Boil
}, meyer, with the sad smile upon his face
n which he wore when dying, And
looked again to the left, and | saw tha
as often as any one sought to get oat q
: the Internal circle, its denizens yelled al
! ter him with bitter imprecations O
=, . Traitor" "Dlsloyal," aud similar epi
= thets, or rush after with swords, or drov
! him back with bayonets. Yet many es
=, :, capped, with great joy at their deliver
h anee, and met with glad welcome frol
the rapidly increasing hosts on th
= right
y And from the left they incessantl
- called and begged for deserters from tt
4 right. But few responded, and the
- only when promised an enormous prize
y And these crawled on their bellies thr
\ mire and flth, from one assemblage
- - the other. And I noticed that The
y faces instantly became black, their fe
4 cloVen, and their tongues forked al
- fiery.
And the voice said: "What thou b
- holdest at the North is but o counte
! part of what | might show thee at ii
=, South. There marches q spectre no!
- ~ and there curdleth pool of blood; al
~ ~ demons are there cruing for carnage al
4 4 for vengeance; and there, too, is gre
II host like unto that which thou seest
~ -, the right, begging for Union, for Peac
" for Compromise, for Constitution. b
a. a. look again, aud thou wilt see the ter
" BILE judgments which are in store fol
people who violate the commands of I
10 Almightyp
'e' And l beheld brazen sky, and gil
ing sun, and vegetation parched W
We drouth, and springs whose fountains b
ID; failed, channels rocky and dry. AuC
IRE saw great multitudes of men, won
lily and children burrying with parch
lat tongues and feeble footsteps to the gr
- lakes and rivers, to appease the demar
pn, Of thirst.
J" l looked again, and beheld anotl