The Union flag. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1865-187?, 1865-10-20
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riners whiten the bottom of the ocean.
| will be the omniprcsent curse Of hui
manity, and under my guidance tho
race shall walk forever rs in tho sha.
dow of an eclipse. Eyes they have,
but shall not SEQ; and ears they have,
but shall hear not, the end and tho
purport of the crooked paths through
which I will lead them. -aa 19.'gi'.T
| | will take tho sons Of tho kings
and the mighty mon, and the captains,
and the great ones of the earth, and
will mangle them with horrid wounds,
strip them of wealth, reputation, life
itself, and fill their last hour with tor
ment. Around their dying couohes 1
will send serpentforms, unfolding coil
after coil from utthe darkness, brand.
ishing their forked tongues to sting
them and lick their blood, as fiereo
fame licks up its fuel. Thoughts shall
become things, living things, to mock
and curse them, And some in their
agony shall leap into this burning lake,
in hope to escape still greater torture;
and some will hold upon the brink,
and rejoice when / sec every nerYo
shrinking in agony, as 1 open to their
startled gaze the horrors Of that pit
in which / plunge them forever roo
,a Yet this is notall ! know that you
will laugh, (if fiends can laugh when
l tell you that will so manage thas
mankind shall all along think me their
friend! Though it is my mission to
torture and destroy tho whole race Of
Adam, yet so will l mix with their
business, their pleasures and their
daily habits; so fatter and deludo
their stupid senses, that they shall
pronounce me q "good creature" nay
y " creature of God!" At their wed.
ding feasts l will be the source of joy,
and at the funeral gathering the solace
Of their sorrow. The rank grass shall
grow over those slain by my hand,
and the mourners shall forget it, and
fall In their turn. The father shall
commend me to his son, and reeling to,
his grave, shall leave him as an inheri.
tance, q fondnoss for me; and the son
shall follow in the footsteps of his faith
or, down to perdition. The physician
sball invoke my aid in sickness, and
in all circles l will plant myself Sc
curely, and make myself companion
and familiar, and men shall never be
SO merry as in the presence of their
deadliest foe.
Poetry shall lend mo her rose-gar-
land, and music ber, charm; and tho
spirit of melody shall speak from my
Rad harps to sound my praises, and
which the world with the idle dream
that am the inspirer Of mirtb and
the soul Of happiness and all good fol-
lowship-and if there DO ono of all
that glorious race, for whom yon
planets, from their golden urns pour
down their silent, everlasting cata.
racts of light, who excels his fellows, I
will lure him with song and visions of
beauty, and strew his path with rose.
leaves till at last he shall walk heed
less into my tolls. And, once my
slave, though a thousand should weave
their heart strings around him, and
weep tears of blood, he shall in all his
pride and beauty, sink deeper, and in
tribulation and anguish unutterable,
dig Lis own pathway down to hell |
will be at the feasls of all tho great
and wise Of carth, where rank and
fashion reign supreme-where forms
not less beautiful than those of hea-
ven, move to celestial hRrmones, and
where wit and mirth and wine 20
rouud, and glasses sparkle on tho
board, | will lap their senses in Ely
stun, and they shall feel richer, wiser,
stronger and more witty than before.
But ut tho last, | will hurl them down,
ono by one, from their fancied elova-
ton and they shall drag out wreuch-
ei existence in the hungcr-dens and
vilest purlicus Of the earth, and sneak
to dshonored graves, rejoicing to
hdo from the withoring scorn Of their
species, and to give their souls TO eter-
nal punishment in fires less ferco
than those in which l have tortured
them on earth. Nay, tho kings and
governments Of the earth shall pass
laws for my protection, and that of my
emissares, as we walk the earth, do.
its inhabitants and tumb-
ling them into hell. Give mo then, o
Satan, tho dominion Of the earth, and
thou shalt behold, through ages,
nHels every wave break on q living shore,
IIcaped with the damned like pebbles"
He ceased Ono unoarthly yell Of
applause arose, amid the stamping Of
countless feet and the cashiDg of ada.
shields. The Arch Enemy
stepped from his throne, and leading
tho horrid spectre TO scat at his right
hand, thus spako:
Terrible being if thou canst in.
deed do these things, thou art hence
forth my Vicegorent upon tho earth.
Go forth and my realms shall DO
crowded with tho souls Of men, thick
as autumn leaves or sands upon tho
shore. But tell US by what namo to
call thee