, 1877-02-24
What is to Become Of the Republic

The following extracts OF prophecies con-
cerning the United States. made fourteen
years ago, and sent to reporter of the Louis
vile Cowiey-JOuyNGl, by Mr.. Ray, in 1863,
will not prove uninteresting to our readers
at the present time:
To the Editor Of tie LOtisrEls Courier My
attention having been called TO the prophecy
of the late DR. Baldwin, TO the effect that
another war will occur in America very soon,
l was induced TO hunt mp and look over some
cid manuscripts / wrote in 1862 and 1868,
as an exposition of certain prophecies which
thought referred 20 our American conflict,
al the time existing. | have two manuscripts
one written in 1852. and the other in Feb.
1868. They were laid aside years ago, to be
tested, and proven true or false, by the events
of the future.
The following passages, numbered and in
eluded within quotation marks, are taken
verbatim from the original manuscripts:
First Memphis is TO be the burial place
for Western soldiers
That has been fulfilled. There Is at Mem
phis national cemetery, where the Western
Union dead, gathered from the Mississippi
Valley, have been inferred
Secoud-' The Presidential chair is to be
vacated by Mr. Lincoln He
will some morning be suddenly cut off, whether
by violence, disease, or otherwise, Is not in
timated. The occurrence Of the event only
can explain the manner of his removal from
bis position Of trust aud responsibility
Mr. Lincoln was shot in the night, but
"a ,4r1, h.
o'clock
Third-'The South is 10 be brought to the
verge Of ruin, and to be saved by a special
inerposition Of Providence, independent of
military. Just when abolitionism
has, in fancy, is triumph complete. God in
terposes as the delivervr of the South, and
saves them by his own agency
Fourth-'A civil war is to rage in the
North, in which the abolitiunists are to suf-
fer a bloody discontinue; the abolition clergy
coming IN for their share of the 'bloody bap-
tism.' Many abolitionis's are TO be slain,
while those who are So fortunate as TO escape
from the country are 10 be wanderers III for
eign lands
Fifth - Washington City is to be the
theatre Of bloody drama. Among the vic
Tins of its bloody violence women and chIl-
dren are to be numbered.
Six'h-'AbJli, ionists who escape The perils
that beset them, and remain in the country,
are to renounce their heresy, turn 10 God for
mercy, be forgiven, and henceforth bring
forth the fruits of repentance
Seventh--The reconstruction of the 'nIoD.
To be Effected by compromise between the
South and the conservatives of the North.
< II must be confessed that at the
present writing there is little prospect of
compromise, OF union. But ali things are
possible with God The union is
TO be effected not by military power, but by a
positive interposition of Providence, turning
the hearts of now beligerent sections to peace
and union
Eighth-.The whole people then uniting
in the election of President
Nirth-'The Surviving people of both Sec
tious, chastened by the trials and perils
through which they will have passed, will
be fit suhj-cs for religions influences The
days of political and abolition preaching will
be ended, and II season Of more than ordinary
religious interest will epsue.'
The writer makes no pretensions 10 the
: gift of prophecy but his attention being
attracted during the war TO certain prcphe-
cieS of the Old Testament, which seemed to
refer TO Our American conflict, he wrote eI-
positions thereon for his own entertainment.
The extracts therefrom quoted above, are the
briefest possible outline Of those exposltions.
Some of the predictions, 1t is seen, hare teen
tilJ6Ilei, and the sigus are Omnions of the full
Il ilmeut of others. Whether the uuaccom-
pli-hed predictions will be fulfilled OF not,
the future must determine.