Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1866-08-16
Thad. Stevens Dream.

In the land of dreams l wandered full half
an hour or more:
l had q frightful vision, l thought the dead
had all arisen
To await the dread decision, on Caanan's
happy shore;
To await the Judge who rules Supreme on
Caanan's happy shore,
Who rules forevermOre.
While Gabriel the trumpet sounded many
a heart with horror bounded,
As thoughts of sins committed on old Co
umbia's shore,
Came fearfully a gushing and with dreadful
horror rushing
For the angels were all blushing behind the
entrance door.
Blushing for the sins Of freemen behind the
entrance door,
Blushing there and nothing more.
Although much irritated with great sus-
pcnse | awaited
The coming Of one that I ne'er was taught
to adore,
For niggers were my God, and for them I
would deGraud
The poor soldiers who have trod from At
lanta to the shore,
Trod from far Atlanta to the Atlantic shore,
THIS ia do and nothing more.
Presently the Judge was ready, and with
step both firm and steady,
He walked across that never to be forgotten
floor;
And he summoned me before him and 1
llnelt down to adore him
With all the marked decorum, used in the
sanity days Of yore,
Il, !, I1,c
in days of yore,
This / done and nothing more.
l pleaded all in vain, but the black and
deadly stain
Of the niger blocked my entrance more and
more:
For he told me to go with Sumner, Wade
& Co..
To a region far below and to knock loudly
at the door
Knock loudly for old Satan at Hades accur-
And there remain forovermOre.
Then I pondered DER my fate and thought
Of my native State.
While the sweat adown my brow did freely
I could net then repent so away to HI I
went,
While sweet negro scent brought me head
long to the door,
Brought me headlong to that fearful prison
door. Tmore.
Where I should remain forever
I had not long to wait soon hinges began to
CRATE,
And the al made his appearance at the
He welcomed me with pride and asked me
And said he would me guide to a cell on
the first floor,
To a cell on the first floor just opposite the
Where I should remain forever
asked to see the place that might see a
familiar face.
And for awhile was afraid my claim he
would ignore,
But he repr esecd his rising ire and he grant
ed my desire,
And his form I dii admire in the garment:
which he wore,
In garments black as Afric sons which The
old ID wore,
I admired this and nothing more
He led me around each cell and sickening
damning smell,
Emanated through the grating of each door
1t seemed like burning shoddy at the cell o
every body,
And Ionged for glass of toddy at every
dungeon door,
Longed for a glass to cool my frame at every
dungeon door,
For this lorged and nothing more
So now to your dungeon traitor and he
ordered a black waiter
| To conduct me to my quarters and no more
favors to implore,
| Get We out, why do you tarry, soon a wenci
III let you marry,
Here devils, lmps. come, carry this traitor
to yon door,
This traitor you must carry and lock The
entrance door,
To be opened nevermore.
His imps they quickly caught me, and witt
hurried steps they brought me
To a dungeon deeper, darker than the cell.
on my native shore,
Where those who would not fight were de
prived of life and light,
For I always thought it right that thei
blood should freely pour,
For the Union and the Freedman their blool
should freely pour,
Ihls L thought anG nothing more
Quickly from the darkness springing, as they
stood around me singing,
'' We are coming, we are coming three hun
dred thousand more,"
made one fearful leap into the darkness
deep.
And awoke from troubled sleep,
To find myself lying on my chamber floor
| Lying with the sweat from off me pouring
upon my chamber floor,
This is all and nothing moro.