The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-09-30

q The Vision OF Parson Brownlov.

4 The Vision OF Pnrson BrOvvmlOyv.
Twas the mid hour of night The
sanity Brownlow reclined upon a
bed of down. All of human kind
was wrapped in slumber and in
silence, while the ''voices of the
night" formed a medley consisting of
the screams of the night-hawk, tie
chattering of katydids, the chirplng
of crickets, and the buzz and hum OF
busy insect life, to which night and
darkness brings no rest. And above
and hoarser than oil was the bass
gurgle of the surly, slow-moving
Cumberland. Undisturbed by these
sounds. the pious Brownlow slept.
And as he slept, he dreamed.
And this was his vision:
He thought that the settlement of
the difficulties of his beloved country
was labor cast upon his shoulders.
A voice from the tomb of Washing
ton had broken in upon his holy
meditations, and these we're the words
it spake:
''Take up thy staff, O, mighty man
Of God. Take up thy staff and turn
thy footsteps toward thy country's
capital.
''The rulers, and the chief priests,
and the council of the sanEcdrim,
have turned the temple of American
liberty into market, where place
hunters and political bawds most do
congregate.
''For acceptance and endorsement
of My Policy policies are issued
upon the various offices of the coun-
try, even unto enemies of the saints
"Our Eden IS in possession of the
snake, even the copperhead, and the
shining angels of New England dare
not enter therein
'.There is weeping, and wailing,
and gnashing of teeth in that land,
and the voice of their lamentist
ascendeth above the mountain tops,
and woe hangs over the valleys like
unto great cloud.
''Go thou up, and with thy staff
clear the temple of these unholy men.
''And lift thy voice up, calling all
the peoples together.
t'And after much prayer and con-
sultation, do thou the work that is set
before thee, and thy name shall be
called blessed in the land
And straightway he uprose, and
taking his staff in his hand, turned
towards the city of.the Presidents.
And he found the rulers in the high
places of the temple, and gathered
about them were the enemies of the
saints.
Those who were worshippers in the
temples of idolatry, and bow the
knee to the constitution:
Those who followed the Southern
David to the cave of Adullam:
Those who speculated on the mis-
fortunesof the'country in the day of
war, thereby putting money in their
purses:
And the true, the good, and the
loyal among the people stood afar off,
and pltlful was the sound of their
weeping.
And he laid. about him with his
staff, and the false rulers were driven
from the places they had desecrated.
And he called the true, the good
and the loyal of the people about
him.
And he ordered them to construct
gibbets, upon which to hang male
factors by the million.
And then he sent his officers out
among the people of the South, and
had the male people thereof brought
to him in chains, and these he hanged
The women and children of those
people were then scourged from their
homes, and the homes were given to
the blacks.
And the good people of New Eng
land were exceedingly rejoiced there
at
And it became lawful for man to
put away his white wife and take
unto himself wife from the chosen
race.
And many people did this.
Even he who had proved his coun-
try's saviour, put away the wife of
his bosom, the mother of his chill
drcn, and took unto himself q woman
of Africa.
And the woman of Africa was fond
of her cups, and was quarrelsome
when in the wine.
And one day when she had been
partaking of the wine, dispute
arose between them, anu the new wife
seized an implement used in the hew-
ing Of wood.
And raising it above her head,
while many and strange oaths flowed
from her mouth, buried the keen