The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1863-09-30


wept incessantly, and gazing into their
mothers faces, and called upon those who
could make no response, for their blood
was in the pool at their feet And far
beyond this horrible pool, my gaze ex-
tended to houses made desolate, and fam
lilies impoverished. l beheld these wild
ows in their struggle for bread. | could
see them chilled and shivering and crouch
ing, in scant clothing, over wretched en-
bers which impaired no warmth, but
which were all that they could procure.
And l beheld those orphan children,
squalid and wretched, uncared for, and
uneducated, going down into the haunts
OF vice, swept into the vortex OF crime,
for the want of the fathers guiding and
restraining hand. And | cried out, in
the bitterness of my heart, "How long,
oh Lord, how long3 And what shall we
obtain which will repay us for all these
horrible sacrifices"
And the voice answered, "Look TO the
left of the pool which is before thee, and
see what thou beholdest."
And l looked and beheld vast grove
of trees, which were leahess and dead
and on the-branches Of the trees were hud-
died myriads of unclean birds, lazily flap
ping their wings, and wiping what SEEM
TO be blood from their beaks. And un-
derneath was a multitude of men, crvinr,
"Blood blood! more bloodw And the
voice said, "These are the shoddy con-
tractors, and place-holders, and money
getters, and the ungodly among the priest
hood. Listen attentively, that thou
mayest hear"
And | heard in loud and demouiac
shrieks, "Prosecute the war; Down with
the Peace-scoundrels! No compromise
No adjustment! No settlement. The
war must 90 on! Down with the consti-
Iption-'it is league with hellp Ours
ed be the old Union-'it is n covenant
with death! Down with Liberty-cx-
,ept for negroesl Arm the black man!
ire the torch whet the blade! burn cit
es--depopuato vilages-waste planta-
ions-take the bread from famishing
weeping women from the
'oofs that shelter theml Steal books
steal pictures-steal precious plate-God
S asleep there is no hell, neither is
here judgment"
And as I gazed, l cried out, "Merci-
al heavenl are these men, or are they
lewis? Am | on earth? or rather, has
lot the evil been removed which hides the
Unseen from this visible world? am | not
ooking upon fends already damnedw
And the voice said, Listen, yet again,
vhilo the ungodly priests are speaking"
And I listened and heard, "a new COM
nandment give l unto you, that ye hate
me another. Turn your plowshares into
words, and your pruning-hooks into
pears. Thou shalt hate thy neighbors.
10 not unto Others as you would have
hem do unto you. Accused be the
'eace-makers. Christ was the Prince of
Var. Thou shalt lie; thou shalt steal
hou shalt bear false witness against thy
eigbbor; thou shalt kill! Glory to
Ohm Brown! Glory to the new Savior!
Iosannahs to the new Redeemerw
But | could endure the impious bias
homy no more. Turning away, beheld,
lifting about the unclean birds, yet over
be heads of the dcmoniac crowd, phan-
ON figure with long grizzly beard and
rope about his neck.
And the voice said, "The phantom
'hich thou seest is the spirit which be-
cts the idolatry, the blasphemy, the
aud, the rapine and the crime which thou
asst witnessed"
And as looked beheld many famil. .
'r faces, though they seemed disturbed {
nth evil passions, such rs avarice, hatred, ,
ovenge, DC. One whom l saw was di. ,
linulive in stature and appearance, but