The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1863-10-15

their wings, and wiping what seemed to be
was a multitude of men crying BLOOD
blood more blood !" And the voices said:
These are the shoddy contractors, and
place holders, and money getters, and un-
godly among the priesthood Listen at
tentively, that thou mayest hear"
And [ heard in a loud and demonisc
shrek. Prosecute the war! Down with
the Peace scoundrels. No compromise
No adjustment. No settlement The
war must go on. Down with the Consti-
tution---it is q league with hell! Cursed
be the old UniOn----it is covenant with
death Down with liberty, except for
negroes Arm the black man. fire the
torch whet the blade Burn cities de-
populate villages. waste plantations take
the bread from famshing children drive
weeping women from the roofs that shelter
them Steal books Steal pictures Steal
precious plate. God is asleep. there is
no He'll, neither is there ajudgment.'
And as gazcd, | cried out: "Meciful
heaven are these men, or are they devils!
Am | on earth or rather, has not the
evil been removed which hides the unseen
from this visible world am l not looking
unon friends already damned ?"
And the voice said: Listen, yet
again. while the ungodly priests are speak
ing" And | listcnd, and heard; "A new
commandment give | unto you, that yc
hate one another. Turn your plow-shares
into swords. and your pruning hooks into
spears. Thou shalt hate thy neighbors.
Do not unto others as you would have them
do unto you. Accurscl 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 a. Glory to John Brown
Glory to the new savior. Hosannahs to
The new Rcicomcr. -
But could endure the impious bias
rhemy no more. Turning away, behcld
fitting about. beneath the unclean birds,
yet over the heads Of the dcmon;ac crowd,
i phantom figure with long grizzly beard
and :, rope about hi neck.
And the voice said: The phantom
which thou ,eest is the spirit which begets
the idolatry the blasphcmy, the fraud, the
rapine, and the crime which thou hast
Witnessed
And as | lonkoi, beheld many familiar
face, though they seemed disturbed evil
passions, such as ayarice, hetrcd, revenge,
&c. One whom ] saw was di,ninati in
stature AMI appearance, but he held big
book under his arm. and on the cover of
thc book wax inscribed $4,000 per annnm
Itvaricc wa, his passion, and he had bar
tered his soul for gold And | beheld an
elderly man, with marked features and
lineamen,s. and iron gray hair, and look
which bctokenc1 ia,clcc.u,l power, who
with strong speech was goading the fran
tic multitude to yet greater excesscs. lie
had bartered his soul at the shrine Of Am
bition. And Yet another, young in ap-
pearance, with beard Irematurcly white,
who hal sold himself for naught, and who
pursued the grizzly phantom, grasring and
clutching at what was AZ last shaiowy and
unreal. And many beheld who looked
sad, and gave signs Of armorse, and who
seemed anxious TO escape from the damned
beings who surrounded them.
And the voice said: Look now to the
right, and see that which is to be seen"
And looked and lol great asscmblage
OF mes, many Of whom had scrolls in their
hands, and many were bearing banners
vi thc scrolls, some were in golden letters:
- he Constitution; others, "Christs Ser
mon on the Mount" Others, The Golden
Rule" On the banners | read, "Constitu-
tonal Liberty" "Thc Union as our faith
ers made il" Blessed, are the Peace ma
kers;" "Compromsc-agree with thine ad-
versary while thou art in the way with
him | observed that the eyes of the as
scmblagc were turned toward heaven, and
looking up | saw against the sky bright
cross, bearing the inscription which greet
cd the eyes of the first Christian emperor
Of Rome: by THIS SIGN SHALT THOU
CoSoUER" And thought bcheld the
heavens opening, and the spirit descend
ing like doke. The shades Of departed
statesmen and patriots, and of murdered
martyrs where lowering in the air. There
were Washington, and Webster, and Clay,
and Douglas; aud as they gazcd upon the
left, their countenances cylnced sorrow
and Indignation. There, too, were the
twelve innocent men slain by the monster
Mcneil and Mumford, who was hanged by
Rutlct the beast, and Bollmeyer, with that