The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-10-23
From the Logan Gazette.
From the Logan Gazette.
A DREAM THAT WAS NOT A
DREAM.--WAR AND PEACE.
A WONDERFUL VISION.

| people reau what Is here written, ana
ponder the wonderful things which 1
have Witnessed in vision. For much
of that which have seen ina vision,
will be seen in the reality by all, in the
fullness of til evil time which is com,
ing, aud which now is. For a voice
hath said, that which thou seest,
write |" ...
My son-our 6rst born-the object
OF our dearest love and most affections
ate care-whom we had reared in the
ways of virtue, and educated with the
view to an 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 man
hood; to the home which he had left but
a few months ago in the glow of health
and the enthusiasm of hope. We bad
brought him back mangled corse, with
ghaStly wound on his fair brow-hard.
ly to be recognized now, even by the
loving neither who had borne him, and
who scwailed him with unceasing lamen'
tation.
Dead! And my house was filled
with the sad faces Of neighbors and
friends, who had known aud loved our
boy, and who came now to condole
with US in the hour of overwhelming
sorrow.
He was buried. And l returned to
a homo 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 dolorous
And sleep had fed from me- My
eyes. which had refused to weep, seemed
as if they were sered, and blessed slum>
Der came not.
All through the dreary hours-hours
which seemed ages!- that awful night
| waited and watched, and knew not re.
pose. That long night wore away al
last, and day of fasting succeeded it /;
aud the dolorous dismal night came
ag,se;,n
AS looked out of the window to the
North, great light, neither Of the sun,
nor moon, nor stars, but brighter and
clearer than midday, Illuminated what
seemed q vast plain. upon which the
minutest object might readily be discern
ed with clearness which was wonder
full.
And as l looked, I beheld the coming
Of a great host, marchiug TO the sorrow
full sound of mutfled drum. As they
came nearer, and glided past, remark
ed that there was no sound of footsteps
where they trod. Then l knew the!
we're spectres, the shadows of the count
less dead, fallen in battle. Their gar
ments were soiled and torn, And | OBJ
served, with q shudder which thrilled
horribly through me, that the death
wound was upon every form, and tina
each ghastly face was the face of corse
Great God Here was an arm sho
away, and there was cash on the fore
head; again, an eyeball bursteG with
shot; and yet again temple crushed a
g by blow of a gun barrel. And as tn
r spectre>host gllded by, heard voice
saying; "Weary, indeed, wilt thou b
gazing for days and days must elapse
2 marching at this forced march whc
thou beholdest, ere this vast army Of tn
, dead can pass.' turned away in hoi
ror, and prayed that l might be spare
: a spectacle which seemed to freeze tn
1 very blood in my veins. But now
know, as I had not known befor,
, what multitude Of beings had fallen
:, bat le.
When looked again, the vision ha
changed, and 10 in place of thos
,, grizzly shadows, l beheld great poo
!, of blood. 1t was so large that ship
might ride on its crimson billows An
I. congregated, by the hundred thousanc
y all around the wide circumference Of i
= margin, women, pallid aud fearful eac
clad in robes of somhre blackness, an
having little children by the hands. wh
wept necessarily. and gazing into the
' mothers faces, called upon those WI
could make no response, for their bloc
was in the pool at their feet. And fl
= beyond this horrible pool, my gaze e!
. tended to houses made desolate or
y families impoverished. I beheld the
o widows in their struggle for bread.
N could see them chilled and shivering, or
k crouching, in scant clothing, over wretc
- ed embers, which impaired no warmt
" but which were all that they could pr
cure. And beheld those orphan ch
:. dren, squallid and wretched, uncared {
Of and uneducated, going down into t
" haunts Of vice, swept into the vortex
L. crime, for the wants Of the fathers gui
lie ing and restraining hand. And cri
ss out in the bitterness Of nv aieart, "Hc
IS long. oh Lord Lord, now long2 And VII
n SS1nail we obtain which will repay us
ut all ,,aacse horrible sacrifices 7"
Ii. And the voice answered, "Look
. the left of the pool which is before th
and see what thou beholdest."
And l looked, and beheld vast gre
N. Of trees, which were leaaeSs and det
90 and on the branches of the trees VI
h huddled myriads Of unclean birds, laz
he Tapping their wings and wiping wi
NO seemed to be blood from their beaks
oo o And underneath was multitude # M
Tet. T crying Blood blood more blood
" And the voice said: "These are
.tv shoddy contractors, and place hold,
N. and the ungodly among the prirstho
nd Listen atteutively, that thou may
hearu