Year: 1860

NuemeeNOb bORetneTJ ana one OF the lawyers open
ed his mouth aud spako unto them, saying Men
and brethren, list ye not of the tdngs come from
afar! and know ye not that this foretelletb the
destruction of our country1 Lift up your eyes and
look abroad upon the land behold, the land of
the cane and the cotton, yea land flowing with
rico and molasses and now shall this land for
which our fathers went forth to battle, become a
separate nationH o, ye wise and learned think
on these things, and whatsoever seemeth to you
meet, that do you.


8. And they counsled together how they might
save this their country that was in jeopardy; and
some said, if we take unto these Southernors gold
and silver, wine and meat yea even the goodly
things of the land, and 20 unto them with smooth
words of peace, peradventure they will hear u.s.
But others answering, said Not so least 5y SO do
ing, we be reckoned among the workers ofiniquity.
But the first would not hearken unto them, so
these hold their peace.


a. So the doctors and the lawyers, yea even the
priests also, arose and got themselves down to the
city OF Cincinnati ard when they had entered in
to the city, they proclaimed great feast, and com
manded that divers meats, and costly wines, and
all manner ol fruits, yea even the fat of the land
should be brought for the feast of comprom-
Use.


| s. Now there were some standing by who be-
gan to be pricked in their own conseiences be-
cause of this outlay Of the gold and the silver and
one said, Why is ali this waste of money! But
others answering, said, what is that to theeP know
ye not that we take of the peoples money? This
they said because they carried the bag, and took
no thought of the poor.


.. Then they soht out into all the country of
the South, to bid those that should sit down with
them to the compromise. And they went not in
to the highways and hedges to seek out the poor
aud the manned and tho blind; but the legislators,
and the great men and the rich, ana those who
sit in the uppormost seats in the synagogue, they
bid to the FEAST And when they were come up
into the city, the Northerners went forth to meet
them with charOts and horsemen, and they put
them up in high places, and brought into them
their gold and silver and commanded tbs land
lords and the servants that these should fare
sumptuously every day. Now the Southerners did
expend of their money not one whit. .-H .s


7. And when the foast day was fully come
they all gathered themselves together with one ac-
cord, and sat down to meat. And the fatted calf
which was killed was brought, and yet more YES
sells of wine, and they did all eat drink and were
merry. And after they had tarried long at the
wine, they rose up and went into large upper
room, and when they were set, they arose one af-
ter another, and made long speeches; and they
reasoned together Of peace, and liberty and the
Union. And they said one to another Go, to, let
US build a tower whose top may reach unto heav-
en-, and let US make US name, least we bo scat
tered abroad from the face of the earth. ..


8, And they had wine for stone and soft-soap,
had they for MORTAR wherewith to build this tower
which should be called Union.


0, Now these people were all of enc language,
and of one speech, but it camo to pass while they
were yet speaking, that the wine did confound
their language, that they could not understand
one another's speech; and the confusion waxed
great, insomuch that the people without, began to
say among themselves, Are not these men filed
with new wine2


TO- So from this day, the tower which the leg
isiators sought to build, shall no more be called
Union, but Babel o, tell it not in Gath publish
it not in the streets OF Askelon, of the things
which we're done by this people in the city of Gin
cinnati.


IL. Now when the people Of tho land heard all
of these things the legislators had done, and how
they had wasted the gold and the silver of the
peoples treasury, they were all amazed. and said
one to another, We never saw it on this fashion,
And some marveled, saying, Are these tho judg-
es. and the ministers, and the first men, whom we
send to make our laws, and who preach righte.
business to the nation? Verify if these be not true
mon, Who then can we trus,2


II. And some were very wroth, and cried say
ing, And if you will take of the peoples mCnoy
to make feast for the workers of iniquity, and
eat and drink and make yourselves drunken, give
somewhat of the gold and the silver of the ire asu-
ry, unto the poor and distressed and afflicted,
whom your fellow jewellers did persecute and
drive from out the land But they would not
give one whit.


l3. o, ye generation Of vipers how long will
God suff er you'll Know ye not that except you re-
pent in dust and ashes that forty years shall not
pass, until this American Nineveh shall Be des-
troyed Men and brethren if there be any ini-
quity in that which hath been done in our land,
think on these things.


ii, Now the rest Of the acts Of the legislators,
and the people, and all that they did, are they not
written in the book of the chronicles Of History.


FRANCES WILLIAMS.