Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-20
PROPHECY
FIND IS RECALLED
Sulzer impeachment ReviVes
Tale of the "Vaticenia At
lantica" Iron Chest.

for diluvial agencies over in Jersey
exhumed an old iron chest in which
were found "Vatlcinia Atlantica, oil
THE Atlantic Prophecies" on july
IS 1868. AS the secretary of the so
ciety gravely reported, the prophecies
were believed to relate to the inn
parchment of Andrew Johnson, Presi-
dent of the United States. At the
time of this discovery Sulzer was
only five months old.
The prophet in the case broke into
Latin verse to warn George Wash
ington of the distress that was bound
to fall upon the land, and of the ter
rible wretch. a monster worse than
Nero an enemy to his friends and a
friend to the country's destroyers.
When five years later Andrew
johnson was placed on trial for usur-
patton of the law. corrupt use of the
veto power, interference t elections
and high crimes and misdemeanors,
the grandson of the prophet pub
lished his report and declared TO the
members of the Hudson County Pa
archaeological and Archaeological So
cietv that the old gentleman very
likely had President Johnson in mind.
II is now difficult to see what George
Washington could be expected to do
unless rise from the dead and save
his country all over again.
The remarkable report of the dis
covery of the prophecies is now on
file in the Public Library. All the
time the solemn scientists were wait
ing for some one on whom to fasten
the prophetic verses the central fig
+ ure in the greatest impeachment case
+ since Johnson's trial and acquittal
was kicking up his heels and MAX
ing mud pies in practically their back
ward,
In no wise can this venerable pro-
phet be said to have had the case of
Sulzer in his provision. The seer, so
10 speak, took himself seriously or
else it is unlikely that he would have
written his warning in the dead
tongue. But THE Atlantic Pro-
phecies' now come again into the
light in view of the momentous
events at Albany.
The title page of the scientific re-
VATICINIA ATLANTICA.
Atlantic Prophecies.
EXhumed
On the eastern shore of New Jersey
Hudson County y Archaeological fae and
Archaeological Society,
Believed to refer to the Impeachment
of Andrew johnson.
President Of the United States
Published
With the biologists report by Maxi
millianus Ortelinus.
Secretary of the said society
The secretary in question dedicated
the prophecies to Thaddeus Stevens,
member of Congress. Here is the
prophecy translated into English,
dated Philadelphia, March 4, 1887, and
signed by Maximilianus Ortelinus:
TO GEORGE WASHINGTON.
Great distress will befall the land
thou freedest from tyrants,
For a terrific wretch, a monster worse
than Nero,
Enemy to his friends and friend to the
countrys destroyers.
Raving mad from the use of alcohol
freely INDUCED in,
Once shall govern this folk, who bred
to the trade of a tailor.
Stitching according to art coats, pants
and various garments,
Seemingly born to destroy the great
est country the world saw,
Treason attempts and by traitors up
held claim absolute power
Wondrousi Themis the Just descends
from high in the heavens,
Clad in the garb of a man, an old
one, feebly advancing.
j
and fatherly guiding,
Does what the tailor did not, regain
the scattered fragments.
Then the dawn of freedom arose to
manacled bondsmen,
After the fury of war you see the
blessings that peace brings;
Judas swept overheard and with him
the incredulous Thomas. $50.
It's matter of public school
knowledge that Johnson was a tailor.
and when he got in trouble the severe
minds of the thinking biologists did
not hesitate to give him the benefit
of the prophecy; but Willard Fill
more. thirteenth President of United
States, was also a tailor in his early
life, and the son of a farmer at that.
Reinhart Felsenman, geologist,
made this report to the society Of the
discovery of highly important papers
buried in the ground
ION the western edge of that we'll
known range of trap rock slIirting the
triassic sandstone of eastern New
Jersey between the majestic rivers
Hudson and Haekensack at a point
crossed by a line drawn from the Ho-
boken ferry depot to Snake Hill
stands an old raw building said to
have been used as the headquarters
of General George Washington at the
time of the Revolutionary War. That
place, commanding a splendid view
over three rivers, the Hudson, Hack
ensack and PassaiC, before they
empty their mighty waters into New
York bay, seems to your honorable
body to be of high geological import
ance besides its historical associa-
tions, for there the Hudson glacier
reached its lower limit. advancing in
southwestern direction, smoothing
all the trap rock ridges and bikes on
its way.
while close to General Washing
toms old headquarters, digging down
to a smoother rock covered with de-
tritus, but the existence of which
seemedy plainly indicated by the
lanky and weakly growth of tree
thereupon, whereas the surrounding
vegetation grew quiet luXuriously, we
have been fortunate enough to make
the discovery which l will briefly
state the result
after having sunk our pit to q
depth of four feet little iron chest
was found nearly destroyed by oxyda-
ton containing some old books, with
several letters and dispatches. mostly
iuegible, on which only the sealing
wax had remained entire. The first
book taken from the iron chest was
Cornelii Taciti Annales,' where the
first twelve chapters of the first book
& were marked with red ink.
sour learned secretary translated
from them many of the items therein
contained. rumors of nefarious plots
executed for the destruction of EN-
( peror Augustus: the accession oil
Tiberius, the first atrocity of hi!
reign, the murder of posthumu'
Agrippa, the rapid degeneration o.
consuls, senators and knights will
the state of abject servitude
Tiberius's fear of Germanicus, WHIT
was master of SO many legions anC
who was wonderfully in favor will