Middletown transcript., 1868-02-01
@riainal Artitle,s.
Fur tie Mddlctown Transcript.
Signs OF the Times.

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The "white horse" and his ghostly
rider seemed satiated with the glut of san
culinary carnage. Youth, middle age, and
advanced life. together with dying steeds,
shivered helms and broken trumpets, Law
studding the plains before him, strown by
the blood-red hand of war, while the wall
of great national heart moaned ominously
in every land. s a,s7
Joy crouched close in solitary places, a
mere shadow of her former self, yelling
her glance of triumph before the severe
gaze Of the Destroying Angel, whose foot
prints were behcld in every domicil. HUI
manity awoke from her dormant slumber,
and, with glad light, lifted the sombrc
scene by her glorious presence, as with
outstretched wings and wide extended
arms she strove to clasp in fratcrnal en-
brace the separated sections. Party feel
ing ignored, trampled under foot by the
ponderous engine Of civil strife, arose from
her lair, and throwing about for expedients
upheld the dusky African as the laugh of
fanaticism, and prejudice joined, conjurcd
sentiment, sweeping back to oblivion the
new awakening of nations life. The
".cloud with silver lining" dilhmed by
the dark mist of misbegotten zeal, vanished
from sight, and riding the dark steeds of
Bigotry and Ignorance, Anarchy is seen
in the distance, stirring the fires of civil
discord and insurrection.,sd ... -..F .e..
A deluded, ungrateful, crafty race, who
the Great Muster, from some inscrutable
cause, saw fit to stamp with Distinctive
ness, was sought out to be elevated not
only to equal position, but to assume inf
mite superiority over the tools who forced
him to power. l f III. .i5..
That magnanimity which should have
characterized the laurel-crowned victor, la
den by the spoils Of conquest and flushed
with triumph, was veritably fulfilled, as
prognosticated by southern sympathisers,
TO the regret of those who disbelieved their
theory, in torturing vanquished foe, and
heaping insults on the heads of brave If
conquered people. .ls t..-.t . -.
The crisp-skulled cotton picker elevated
to judicial ermine, and the chivalrous mas
ter, pale with anger, in mental attitude
awaiting the beck Of his ebon lord Erins
wrongs pale in the strong light of this new
servility. 1t stirs the blood of the most
imbecile of Gods creation, nerving the
strong right arm of every man not imbued
with internal sentimental fanaticism, to
strike down the advocate who dares defy
Deity, and assume Gods prerogatiyes,
%. lr,.,,r like lighning-fre, t.rst b. ....
To speed one bolt Of vengeance, and expire!
The slumbering mine licth now beneath
the soil where fragrant magnolias bloom,
and beauty unconsciously slumbcrs in
land laden, by the pestilential breath of
revolt and debauch. Misguided zealots
thunder out their anathemas amid bursts
of applause in the nations forum, unmind-
full of the grave Judgment of mighty
people. stimulated to display rhetoric by
political hirclings who arc sapping the life
blood of those who placed them in power.
Apcing the manners of the shattered
wreck whose jaundiced mind tenants a
more diseased body, aud groping darkly
to follow the lead Of an eastern exponent
of radicalism, whose foolishuess ontangled
him in meshes of supposed love, but con-
sort few the track on incompatability of
temperament. ..5i.e ...
The gloamings of the mist part asunder.
In the distance, Juggernaut's chariot guild
ed by their ebon god passes the watch fires
of fear, and the welkin already rings with
universal woe at the distant sound Of as
sassination and incendiaryism. more hellish
than staK ted St. Domingo's Isle. e..
Georges Point, Nd. r .-.e=s ...