The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-04-29

and Getty9Oufgn anu hlCnmouu hu aW-
ful possibility.
On a clear morning Of week before last
we took a carriage, and wound up to the
TOP of Lookout Mountain, Up, up, upl
WE went out on the rocks and saw into
FIVE states of the Union, scenes 30 stu
pendous and overwhelming you invol-
UNFAIRLY take off your hat in the pres
enCe of the grandest prospect on the
continent. Yonder is Missionary Ridge.
the beach against which the red pillows
of Federal and Confederate courage surg
ed and broke-forty thousand on one
side, sixty five thousand en- the other
Yonder are the Blue mountains OF North
and South Carolina With utmost
stretch of eye, yonder see Kentucky and
Virginia. Here at the foot are Chatta'
nooga and Chickamauga, the pronuncla,
ton of which proper names will thrill
the ages with thoughts of valor and dcs-
peration and agony. Turn round on the
tip top rock of Lookout Mountain and
see earthworks to the north and south
and east and west. There is the beauti'
full Tennessee river curvlng and colllng
all through the plain in letter 5 after 3,
as if that letter, written on all the scene,
might stand for "ehame," that brothers
should 90 into such massacre of each
other while God and the nations look on.
had stood on Mount Washington and
on the Sierra Nevadas and on the Alps,
but l never saw so far as that morning
from the top of Lookout Mountain. Why
sirs saw seventeen years into the past,
aud up the sides of the mountain Oh
which | stood rolled the smoke of Gen.
Hooker's storming party, while the very
foundations of eternal rock shook with
the cannonade. Yea, the four years OF
internecine strife came back, the events
without chronological order and l look
ed in one direction and l saw the Navy
Yard at Norfolk on fire, and Sumter, and
Chambersburg, and Columbia, and Rich
mond all on fire; and l saw Ellsworth
and Baker, and Lyon, and Bishop Pope,
and Stonewall Jackson fall; and | saw
hundreds of grave trenches finally cut
into two great gashes across the lane, The
one for the dead men Of the North and
the other for the dead men of the
South. And my ear as we'll as
my eye was qucRened standing on
Lookout Mountain. And l heard the
tramp, tramp of enlisted armies, and the
explosion of mines and powder bolts,
and the crash of fort fCation walls and
the mortar batteries aud the "swamp
angel" and the grOan of dying hosts
fallen across the pulseless heart of other
dying hosts. And l look still further, till
| saw on the banks of the Penobscot, t,and
Hudson, and OHIO and Oregon, and
Roanoke, and the Yaz)o, and the Ala
bama, widowhood and orphanage and
childlessness; some in exhaustion of
grief and others stark mad And | said
Enough of the past have seen from
Lookout Mountain Oh, God give ME
glimpse of the future" And that
morning it was revealed to me,and saw
another prospect from Lookout Noun
tain-great populations moving South
and moving North, and | noticed that
their footsteps obliterated the hoof'
marks of the war charger, and l saw the
Augel of the Lord of hosts stand in the
National Cemeteries, trumpet in hand,
as much as to say, Il will wake these
soldiers from their long encampment at
the right time" And l looked and |
saw such snowy harvests of cotton and
such golden harvests of corn covering all
the land as we have not yet dreamed Of
And | saw that all the earth works were
down, and all the gun carriages down.
and the rivers wound through the val
leys, their letter s. seeming no more s.
for shame, but S. for salvation. And
when / found that all our weapons ol
war had been turned into agriculture
implements | was alarmed and cried
is this safe?" Then standing on the
tip top rock of Lookout Mountain | was
so near heaven | heard two voices which
somehow slipped the gate, and they
sang, Nation shall not lift up sword
against nation, neither shall they learn
war any more" And l recognized the
two voices. They were the voices of two
Christian soldier who fell at Shiloh, the
one Federal, the other confederate