Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-09-22

wreck of all fond hopes forevermore.
Bring me the professed follower of Christ,
and | will blight and wither every de /
votional feeling of the heart. | will
corrupt the ministers of religion, and
defile the purity of the church. Bring
me the patronage of the city, and of the
courts of justice-let the magistrates of
the State and the Union become my pat
rons-let the law makers themselves
meet at my table and participate in vio
lation of law, and the name of law shall
become kissing and a by-word in the
streets. Bring me, above all, the moral
respectable man, if possible, bring the
moderate temperance man, though he may
not drink, yet his presence will counte-
nance the pretexts under which our
business must be masked. Bring him
to our stores, oyster saloons, eating
houses and hotels, and the more timid
of our victims will then enter without
alarm.
Yours faithfully. RUMsELLER.
REPLY.
My DEAR BROTHER [ address you
by this endearing appellation. because
of the congeniality of our spirits, and of
the great work we are both engaged in
the work of destruction. | most cor
daily accept your proposals. For five
thousand years sought in vain for
man SO fully after my own heart, to do
my work among men. | even ransaek-
ed the lowest depths of hell for devil
who could and would do for me the whole
work of destruction. But little success
attended their efforts My minions
always made some mistake, or too soon
showed the cloven foot. sent out the
demon Murder, and he slew few thous-
ands. most generally the helpless and
innocent. Men turned away with loath-
ing from him, and his mission was COM
paratively failure. | babe my servant
Lust 60 forth. He led innocent youths
and beautiful maidens in chains-de-
stroying virtue, wrecking happiness,
blasting characters, and caused untime-
ly deaths and dishonored graves. But
even then many of his victims escaped
through the power of God, my enemy.
| sent Avarice, and in his golden chain
some were bound, but men learned to
hate him for his meanness. and compar-
atively few fell by him. The twin
brothers Pestilence and War went forth,
and Famine stole behind them; but
these three indiseriminately slew the old
and young, men, women and children !;
the good as we'll as the bad. and heaven
received as many accessions as hell. In
sadness my Satanic heart mourned over
the probable loss of my crown and king
dom, as | contemplated the tremendous
strides which the Gospel of Jesus is
making in saving men from my clutches.
But when | received your kind letter, |
shouted till the welkin of hell echoed
the shot, Eureka! Eureka l''-"I have
found it. | have found it, Yes, my
dear friend, | could have embraced you
thousand times, and | have given or
ders to reserve for you place nearest
my person, the most honorable seat in
my kingdom In you are combined all
the qualifications of just such friend
and partner as | have long wished for
and in your business are all the ele.
ments of success. Now, shall any throne
be forever established. Only carry out
your designs and you shall have money
though it be wrung from the broker
hearts of helpless women, and from the
mouths of innocent perishing children
Though you fill the jails, work-houses
and poor houses. though you crowd the
insane asylums, though you make mur
der, incest and arson to abound, ane
erect scaffolds and gallows in every vii
lage town and city, you shall have mon
ey. | will also harden your heart 81
that your conscience will never trouble
you. You shall look upon blood, anc
even shed it, without shame or anguish
You shall think yourself gentleman
though men and women. your victims
shall call you demon. You shall be de
void of the fear of God, the horrors o
the grave, and the solemnities Of eterni
ty, and when you come to me your work
shall produce you a reward forever. al
[ claim is the souls of the victims
Yours to the very last,
DIABoLUs.