« eop?eupon this Continent cannot, will not long endure the existing state of aflairs, but will assert in the majesty of their power, their rights, which will ensue in a mighty con- Jlict, and will finally result in the downfall of both parties, and a goat:rn- MENT OF a TOTALLY DiFFEEENT NATURE wlll he foundcd upoH the ruins thereof. vn Should this little pamphlet meet with success, the writer may be in- duced to elaborate his views as suggested in the latter sentence above written, founded entirely upon the predictions contained in the following, or twelfth chapter of Daniel ; and which is but a continuation and comple- tion of that which is herein considered, JAMES A. CLEMENT. Selma, Alabama, April 7, 1869. CONTENTS. DEDICATION Page iii. PEEFACE V. BIPORTANT PRELIMINAEIES— Great Political commotions throughout the world — How can they be ac- counted for — God governs nations as well as individuals — Prophecies of a two- fold a.ppUcation — As great probability of the United States being subject of prophecy as Persia and Grecia — The writer alone responsible for these views. Phase I — 5th Verse. Tlie Origin and Character of the two great parties in the Contest introduced under their respective symbols — the Democratic Party typified by the King of the South — Federal Party under the "prince" or King of the North — Puritans — South and North Virginia Colonies — New England springs from the South Colony — Confederate and Consolidated governments early developed — John Adams — Thomas Jefferson. Phase II — 6th Veese. Abruptness in the verse — Parties in hostile array— Attempt at a Union — Mis- soiu'i Compromise — All fruitless — Though it is an important epoch in the his- tory of the government — History confirms the prophecy— Draper — Benton. Phase III — 7th, 9th Veeses. Andrew Jackson— Great excitement — National Bank — Protective Tariffs — Nullification. Phase IV— 10th Veese. The Federals being foiled hitherto in their eflbrts to obtain the government, plant themselves now upon "the moral wrong" of slavery — South loses by ignor- ing this Central idea, and resting the cause on the grounds of "necessity" and "expediency." Hence arises anti-slavery and abolition societies — assume form and notoriety, resulting in the election of A. Lincoln, President, wliich resulted from the Missouri measure — Methodist Episcopal Church — Petitions to Con- gress. Phase V— 11th, 12th Verses. The late Civil or Secession War of 1861, '65. Phase VI — 13th, 27th Verse. Eeorganization and enlargement of the Northern Army — Overthrow of the Confederate States government — Negro Emancipation — Deceitful actings with the Southern States — Hon. Thaddeus Stevens — A. Lincoln — Heavy taxation — U. S. Grant — Comes in f)eaceably — A. Johnson reduced to a cj'pher — Loyal leaguers — ^Military rule — Carpet-baggers — Scalawags, &c. Phase VII— 28th, 39th Verses. Doings of the Radical party continued — Assumes control of the Executive and Judicial Departments of the Government— State and Federal— Bondholders — President Johnson's Message — Destriiction of the Federal Constitution — Ne- gro Equality — Chief Justice Taney — Miscegenation — Abomination of Desola- tion — Oppression of the South — Becomes Infidel and Atheistic — Chief Justice Taney— Divides the South into Five Military Districts — Our view thus presented, makes the prophecy a unit, and therefore reasonable — An objection answered. Phase Vin — 40th, 45th Verses. Final conflict between the South and the North — The North comes against the South with great power — Overruns the country — Three States escape out of his hands — Negroes at his steps — Troubled by tidings out of the East and North — England— France— Spain — Becomes furious — Eemoves his seat of gov- ernment — Minnesota — St. Louis — Meets his downfall. EEFLECTIONS— God's Word ia true — Be not disquieted — Wait and see the Salvation of the Lord — Both parties brought to naught — God works His own way — We should pray aright — God will answer prayer — Not desii-ed that Slavery, nor the South- ern Confederacy should be restored — Humility and Suffering before exaltation- Extracts from Father Ryan. THE I>ROP*HECY DANIEL XI., 5-45, APPLIED TO THE POLITICAL CONTESTS IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. "Then Jeremiah said imto Zedekiah, if I declare it unto thee, wilt thou not surely put me to death ? and if I give thee counsel, wUt thou not hearken unto mo?" — Jeremiah xxxviii., 15. " Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth ? " IMPORTANT PRELIMINARIES. Great Political commotions throughout the world— How can they he accounted for— God governs Nations as ivell as individuals— Prophecies of a two-fold application— As great prohabiUty of the United States being subject of prophecy, as Persia and Grecia—The ioriter alone responsible for these views. We are living in critical and eventful times, the ultimate issues of which none can tell. The whole world is in com- motion—north, south, east and west ; Europe, Asia, Africa, America and Oceanica. Wherever the mind turns, wars and rumors of wars, political commotions of the most ominous and momentous character are discerned. The signs in the political world every where indicate the pres- ence of a hidden but surging volcano beneath, whose erup- tions are continually anticipated, and may be at any moment reahzed. Who can tell ? Why ? Boio can these things be accounted for ? Will natural causes solve the problem? But when natural causes ignore the God of nature, they then become puerile and futile. "The fool" alone "hath said in his heart, there is no God." But greater is the fool who hath uttered it witli his lips, "With such skeptics we have no time to lose in controversy. God hath proclaimed that he made the heavens and the earth. He hath said, " all souls are mine ;" *' the earth and the fullness thereof," and " the cat- tle upon a thousand hills " are his also. " In Him we live and move, and have our being." By him, " kings are in authority." The kingdoms of the world are his. " By Him kings reign." Concerning kingdoms, he declares that he "plucks up, pulls down and destroys — builds and plants," according to his own good pleasure, and no man should dare say, lohy or ivliat doest Thou ? In His own Word, he has revealed who and what he is ; what man is, what he is to be, to do ; what nations, kings- doms are — to be, to do ; in all of which he constantly as- serts and keeps prominently in view his own divine prerog- atives, and His will to maintain them. In all the throes and convulsions, or palmy days of the various kingdoms and governments of the earth, he has never relinquished or compromited his right to govern the world ; but for purposes of his own good pleasure, he has permitted them to shape their course, whilst he, in the meantime, has "at sundry times and in divers manners spoken unto us by the prophets " — looking down the long vista of ages, and un- folded the rise and fall of empires, kingdoms, nations and peoples. Everything regarding nations calculated to affect in any way the progress of God's great salvation, purchased by His Son, he has declared by his prophets. Persia and Grecia have not escaped the notice of his All-Seeing eye, nor the inspiration of the prophetic pen. If, then, the convulsions of the smaller nations of the earth were of sufficient importance to attract the notice of the Great All-Seeing, how much more would the convul- sions of so great a country as the United States, extending from sea to sea, and from the frigid to the torrid zone ? A series of convulsions have shaken it from centre to cir- cumference, extending over a space of nearly an hundred years, increasing in magnitude and importance at each sue- cessive throe ; affecting not only ber own people, but the world, politically, commercially, morally and religiously. Can it then be presumed for a moment that God, whilst giving in his word a panoramic view of his own workings among the nations, would fail to discover to the children of men in after ages, the events fraught with such momentous consequences as have transpired — that are now transpiring — and that will transpire upon this continent ? The infidel may sneer, the incredulous may ridicule and laugh, but " Deep in unfathomable mines Of never-failing skill, He treasures up his bright designs, And works his sovereign will . Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain ; God is his own interpreter. And he will make it plain." Men too frequently read with inattention ; fail to com- pare scripture with scripture, and with history, and thereby miss the true intent of the prophecies and declarations of the word of God. In reading or studying the prophets, the fact must not be overlooked or lightly thought of, that many of the prophecies have a dual or hvo-fold application. The one having reference to a near, the other to a more re- mote occurrence. Such is the view held and set forth by the ablest ecclesiastical authorities. As for example : Dr. Adam Clarke, following Calmet, Lowth, Newton, Vitringa, Michaelis and Houbigant, says " the same prophecies have frequently a double meaniiig, and refer to different events, the one near, the other remote. * * * The prophets having then several events in their eye, their expressions may be partly applicable to one, and partly to another ; and it is not always easy to make the transitions. * * * What has not been fulfilled in the first, we must apply to the second ; and what has been already fulfilled may often he considered as typical of lohat still remains to be accom- plished.'' " Almost all the prophecies of the old Testament^ whatever view they may have to nearer events, are ulti- mately to be referred to the New, where only we are to look for their full completion." Likewise Mr. Watson : " Many of the descriptions of the prophets," says he, "had a two-fold character; bearing often an immediate reference to present circumstances, and yet being in their nature predictions of futute occurrences. It is this dmible character of prophecy which occasions those unexpected transitions and sudden interchanges of circumstances so observable in the prophetic books. Hence, different predictions are sometimes blended and mixed together ; temporal and spiritual deliverances are foretold in one prophecy ; and greater and smaller events are combined in one point of view. Hence, likewise one chain of connected design runs through the whole scheme of prophecy, and a continuation of events successively ful- filling, and successively branching out into new predictions, continued to confirm the faith and to keep alive the expec- tations of the Jews ;" and we may very appropriately add, " the expectations " of mankind in general. Dr. Home, agreeing with the foregoing, also adds : " It is evident that many prophecies must he tahen in a double sense in order to understand their full import ; and as this two-fold application of them was adopted by our Lord and his Apostles, it is a full authority for us to consider and apply them in a similar way." Again, Mr. Watson says : " The double sense of the scrip- ture prophecies, far from originating in any doubt or un- certainty as to the fulfillment of them in either sense, springs from a foreknowledge of their accomplishment in both — whence the prediction is purposely so framed as to include both events, which so far from being contrary to each other, are tijjncal the one of the other, and are thus connected together by a mutual dependency or relation. * * * For who but the Being that is infinite in knowl- edge and in counsel could so construct predictions as to give them a two-fold application to events distant from, and, to human foresight, unconnected with each other? What power less than divine could so frame them as to make the accomplishment of them, in one instance, a sol- emn pledge and absurance of their completion in another instance of still higher and more universal importance ?" We have been thus particular in giving authorities for the double meaning of prophecy because it has been claimed that the prophecy now under consideration finds its fulfill- ment in the kingdoms of Persia and Grecia ; and hence, we are to look for nothing farther. But we ask the reader seriously to re-read and inwardly digest, the foiegoing ex- tracts on the double sense of prophecy ; and we suspect you will be incHned to say with us, that while we may, without detriment to our opinion on the prophecy now under con- sideration, admit its primary or near application to the con- vulsions of those kingdoms under Ptolemy Lagus, Seluecus, Nicator, Antiochus Epiphanus, (fee, yet we are satisfied the prophecies remotely apply to the events of the present day on this continent. If the reader will trouble himself, for his own edification, to examine the whole of this prophecy, extending from Dan- iel XI., fifth verse, to the close of chapter twelfth, with Matthew XXIV., he will find coincidences satisfactory that they refer to the last times spoken of elsewhere in the Word of God. But when an analysis of the prophecy is pre- sented it will appear more visible, and assumes an impor- tance of the most wonderful and momentous character ; and should cause politicians of all parties to halt in their mad career and ask themselves, What do we ? Shall we fight against God ? We wish here to state frankly, and desire it to be dis- tinctly understood, that we ask not the church to which we have the honor to belong, as one of her ministers — we ask not any man, or set of men, to endorse the opinions or views we may set forth upon this prophecy. They are merely the opinions — so far as we know — of no one but ourself, and for them we alone are responsible. All we ask is, a careful consideration of such opinions as may be ad- vanced in their application and verification of the prophecy now to be brought under review, and should this small efi'ort contribute in any degree to alleviate one pang of sor- row amid ten thousand wounded, bleeding hearts, we shall feel amply rewarded for our labor. " So mote it be. Amen." Phase I — Verse fifth. The Origin and Character of the two great parties in the Contest intro- duced under their respective symbols — The Democratic party typified by the King of the South — J'ederal party under the "prince" and king of the North — Puritans — South and North Virginia Colonies — New Eng- land springs from the South Colony — Confederated and Consolidated Governments early developed — John Adams — Thomas Jetferson. Verse 5—" And the King of the South shall be strong, and one of his princes ; and he shall be strong above him, and have dominiou ; his dominion shall be a great dominiou." By way of .preface, it is necessary here to remark that in this verse we have a statement made of the parties in the contest ; and from the manner in which the characters are introduced, they must be understood according to the sym- bolic meaning of the prophetic writings. "Kings" and "princes" convey the idea of bodies politic ; and in the case before us, refer to the two great antagonis- tic parties rising and contending against each other upon this continent. In the " King of the South," we find, at this period, the Republican or Democratic party — a party entertaining and holding forth a confederated government. In the " prince who was strong above him," and in " the King of the North," we find the Federal party, small in the beginning, but developing itself ultimately in the Bl^ck Republican party, and holding forth a Consolidated govern- ment , This verse, then, gives an epitome of the characters of the parties, and may be thus analyzed : " The King of the South," or Democratic party, appearing first upon the scene of action, refers to the principles of Democracy having first obtained upon this continent, and upon which was ulti- mately founded the Confederated government of "the Thir- teen Colonies," and " the United States of America." The principles and the occasion upon which this party or gov- ernment was formed, must be sought in the far past ; and in so doing, we will clearly see cropping out the germs of the two parties. And first : " When Hooper, who had gone into exile in the latter years of Henry YIII,, was appointed Bishop of Gloucester, he, for a time, refused to be consecrated in the •vestments which the law required ; and Ms refusal marks the era lohen the Furitans first existed as a separate jMrty." "The precious sparks of liberty had been kindled and was preserved by the Puritans alone." — Bancroft's His., vol. 1, pp. 280, 291. Referring to Hooper, Rev. Alex. Campbell remarks : " This great man's stern and unbending integrity was the first occasion, rather than an actual cause of our own glorious Revolution. He was, indeed, the grand pro- totype of that noble race of mighty men, the patriarchs of civil liberty, the original fathers of the illustrious sister- hood of American Republics. * * * Such was the man who, with the immortal Rogers, of Smithfield memory, roasted in the fire of Papal cruelty, gave the first grand impulse to the cause of liberty, civil and religious. At their smouldering embers was lit the torch of American hb- erty. From their altar, was borne across the seas the sa- cred fire that has warmed and illuminated the New World, and given to us our free and liberal institutions." — Debate tDith Rice, p. 768. " The Puritans brought with them and established in the New World important principles of civil liberty, which it would be unjust here to pass unnoticed. Before they ef- fected a landing at Plymouth, they embodied their princi- ples in a brief, simple, but comprehensive compact, which was to form the basis of their future government. In this instrument we have exhibited a perfect equality of rights and principles. [The negro is not here included, as he was not then thought of.] In the cabin of the Mayflower, the Pilgrims met together as equals and as freemen, and in the name of God whom they worshipped, subscribed the first charter of liberty established in the New World, declaring 8 themselves the source of all the laws that were to be exer- ' cised over them, and prbmising to the same due subjection and obedience. Here was laid the foundation of American liberty." " A band of Puritans, dissenters from the estab- lished Church of England, persecuted for their religious opinions, and seeking in a foreign land that liberty of con- science which their own country denied them, became the first colonists of New England. — Willsoris His., pp. 158, 159, 179. In order, however, to understand more fully this subject, and see its applicability to the prophecy under considera- tion, a little insight into the early settlement of this con- tinent is to be had. Antedating the period of the arrival of the Puritan Fathers in 1620, we find about the year 1606 there were two Colonial companies formed in England un- der grant of King James, destined for Virginia ; the one called First or South Colony, the other, Second or North Colony of Virginia. The former, or South Colony, founded Jamestown, Virginia, 1607 ; the other in 1608 effected a set- tlement in Maine, but it soon came to naught. Another attempt was made by Captain John Smith, who gave the nan^e of New England to all the region around Massachu- setts Bay. But nothing of importance was ever done un- til 1617, when the North Virginia company negotiated with the First or South Viiginia Colony for an extensive coun- try in the northern part of the continent, and it was not until after " unremitted efforts a patent was at length ob- tained from government, under seal of the Virginia com- pany, and they now resolved to put their plan in execution without delay." The landing of the pilgrims from the Mayflower, December 23, 1620, when and where was laid the foundation of a town to which they gave the name of New Plymouth, was the first result. From these facts there are three things to be remarked. First, while it may be doubtless true that the principles and sentiments of religious and civil liberty were entertained by the Puritans anterior to their landing in this country — jet, SecowMy, it is also true that " Virginia was the first state in the world, composed of separate boroughs, diffused over an extensive surface, where the government was or- ganized on the principle of universal suffrage." And it was upon Virginia soil that was first " established the su- premacy of the popular branch, the freedom of trade, the independence of religious societies, the security from for- eign taxation, and the universal elective franchise." And it was in Virginia that was first established " the system of representative government and trial by jury as an acknowl- edged xigliir—Bancrofes His., pp. 231, 158. And Thirdhj, it is very perceptible that the settlements in the New Eng- land States grew up and out of the South Virginia Colony. Here, then, was the seed sown, which afterward germi- nated, grew and ultimately bore the fruits of American liberty. But it was not long after the settlement of New England before persecutions of a sore character for reli- gious and political sentiments sprang up and developed themselves within its borders, insomuch that many of the colonists were forced into exile, and constrained to seek an asylum elsewhere from their enemies and persecutors, whilst many others were consigned to prisons and death. To this spirit of persecution the State of Ehode Island is indebted for its existence. And it may appear strange, yet no stranger than true, that while these Puritans had fled from mother country and sought an asyhim in the New World on account of hberty of conscience, they should, so soon after their arrival here, show a disposition and acts akin to those from which they had sought a refuge. They had a leaning in many respects for the monarchy of the Old World. The reader of the history of this country needs no proof of this. Now it is from these two compa- nies may be dated and reckoned the existence of the two parties anterior to, and at the commencement of the Revo- lution of 1776. The one known as the Whig or Republi- can party, springing from the South Virginia Colony — who contended for Republican principles ; and the Tory or Fed- eral party, springing from the North Virginia or Plymouth 10 •■ Colony — who held on to the monarchical principles of the British Crown. Not that we would have jotm understand that this was the universal or popular feeling of the New England States, but that these States were more under such influences and sentiments than the South Virginia Colony, and that American liberty had more to dread from that source than any other. Hence at an early day sprang up and grew the two great antagonistic doctrines of a confed- erated and a consolidated or central government. The latter was mostly entertained in the New England States, or the North, while the former, or a confederated government was maintained in and by the Southern States. Now that the reader may be satisfied of such distinct parties, we refer him to the following excerpts taken from undoubted sources : " The National Republicans of the present day [1830] were the Federalists of '98, who be- came the Federal Republicans during the war of 1812, and were manufactured into National Republicans somewhere about the year 1825. As a party (by whatever name dis- tinguished) they have always been animated by the same principles, and have kept steadily in view a common ob- ject, the consolidation of the government," " a consummation devoutly to be wished" by them, and "one and indivisible." The Democrats, anti-Federalists, &c., " wanted no union of the States, or disliked the proposed form of union," and strenuously opposed every tendency to a centralized gov- ernment." — Hon. Mr. Hayne's Sjxech in Congress, 1830. "A Northern Confederacy has been the object for a number of years." " This project of separation was formed shortly after the adoption of the Federal constitution. Whether it was ventured before the public earlier than 1796, I know not. But of its promulgation in that year, there is the most indubitable evidence," as may be seen by reference to the Pelliam papers published in Hartford, Connecticut. " It is eighteen years since this dangerous project was pro- mulgated. From that period to the present, [1814] it has not been one hour out of view." — Olive Brancli, pp. 269, 270, 9. So great was the excitement, and so nigh did it 11 come rending tlie government at the time, that the author of the " OKve Branch " said, " The national vessel is on rocks and quicksand, and in danger of shipwreck." Here then, we have " the King of the South," who shall be strong ; or in other words, a party favoring a confede- racy of States — a Democracy of the people, who " shall be strong," a mighty people — "and one of his princes" — another political party, which sprang up in or out of the other — and holding to a consolidated or monarchical gov- ernment. Then, by way of prolepsis, or anticipation, it is stated in the text, " he shall be strong above him ; and have dominion ; his dominion shall be a great dominion," as prototyped in the administration of President Adams from 1797 to 1800, but which finds its complete fulfillment at this day in the Eadical party now in power in this coun- try. For do not the lladicals of to-day hold to a consoli- dated government as they did then? Are they not at- tempting a one man's power now, as they did in the days of John Adams ? And are they not " strong above " the other party ? even over a large country, and doing according to their will ? Thus much for the mere statement and incifyiency of the contest, which very soon became sharp and lowering, so much so as to force from the pen of Jefferson, with the in- tensest solicitude, the following statement and interrogato- ries to Colonel Burr, of June 16, 1797. He says : " If a prospect could be once opened upon us of the penetration of truth into the Eastern States, * * * we might still hope for salvation, and that it would come as of old, from the East. But will that region ever awake to the true state of things ? Can the middle, southern and western States hold on till they awake ? These are painful and doubtful questions, and if you can give me a comfortable solution of them, it will relieve a mind devoted to the preservation of our Ptepublican government in the true form and spirit in which it was established, but almost oppressed with ap- prehensions that fraud will at length effect what force could not, and that what with currents and counter currents, we 12 shall, in the end, be driven back to the land from which we launched twenty years ago." Was this prophetic of these times ? Phase II. — Verse sixth. Abruptness in tlie verwe — Parties in hostile array — Attempt at a Union — Missouri Compromise — All fruitless — Though it is an important epoch in the history of the Government — History confirms the Prophecy — Draper — Benton. Verse 6: "And in the end of years they shall join themselves together : for the King's daughter of the South shall come to the King of the North to make an agreement : but she shall not retain the power of the arm ; neither shall lie stand, nor his arm : hut she shall be given up, and they that brought her, and he that Ijegat her, [or whom she brought forth] and he that strengthened her in these times." The mind of the attentive reader is somewhat astonished at the rather abrupt commencement of this verse, and for which we cannot acconnt unless it be for the fact of the singular freak or change in the bodies politic that was about to be introduced by the prophet. For in all the history of the government from its commencement down to the pres- ent there is nothing like it. Down to the war of 1812-15, the two parties already spoken of were in almost deadly array against each other, but now, " in the end of years," or about A. D. 1820, these two parties " shall join them- selves together," but as they are so antipodal in their po- litical creeds, they could not in sincerity — such an attempt at union was, or would be, as fruitless as the attempt to unite the iron and the clay in Nebuchadnezzar's image. Such was the attempt in the Missouri Compromise, when "the king's daughter," another body politic — "of the South," which was the conservative or compromise party, originating in the South, sought " to make an agreement," or rights, with the Northern party. But " she ," the com- promise party, " shall not retain the power of the arm ;" that is, she nor her posterity shall prosper or reign in the kingdom or nation. In other words, that party will be- 13 come extinct, "shall be given up," togetlier with those that brought or sustained it. Not even a Clay nor a Web- ster, with all their matchless, profound and inimitable elo- quence, nor all their able and worthy coadjutors, could sur- vive only for a season the mighty influences brought to bear upon the cause they espoused, and so ably defended. The contest at this psriod was of vast moment, and of the most vital importance, so much so, that it came well nigh rending the government. It shook the country from one end to the other, and at the time was the all-absorbing topic ; and forms an epoch in the government from which date events that have transpired of the most tragical and upheaving character. For to this act of the Federal legis- lation may be traced renewed and more hostile efforts against the institutions of the South, and Southern rights, resulting in the state of aflairs we now realize and endure. How appropriately does history record — undesignedly it may be — the fulfillment of prophecy, may be seen in the following extracts : " The Missouri question stands forth as a promirmit landmarh in the view of American history. It presents itself so suddenly, so ahruptly, as to excite surprise. When Louisiana was admitted into the Union in 1812, there was no objection on account of slavery ; when Mis- sissippi was admitted in 1817, the only reluctance to the measure was the size of her territory, and that was reme- died by the separation of what became the State of Ala- bama from her. Alabama in its turn was admitted without question, in 1819. In like manner formerly Vermont, Ken- tucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana, had been received with- out any question as to their free or slave condition." — Dra- per's Civil War in America, p. 352. " The [Missouri] re- striction came from the North — the comproonise from the South. [Having been introduced before Congress by Hon. Mr. Barbour, of Virginia, and this, as before stated, is the king's daughter of the South.] The restriction raised the storm— the compromise allayed it. All this may be seen in the debates on the subject."— 5enfow's Abridgement, &c., 14 vol. vi., p. 333. Yes, allayed it for the time being, only to be revived and urged with the greater energy and determi-* nation by the anti-slavery and abolition paity, as we shall see in the Fourth Phase of the Contest. Phase III. — Seventh to ninth verses. Andrew Jackson — Great excitement — National Bank— Protective Tariffs — Niallification, Vcrac 7 : " But out of a branch of her roots shall one stand up in his OBtate, which shall come with an army, and nhall enter into the fortress of the king of the North, and shall deal against them, and shall prevail" : Verse 8 : " And shall also carry captives into Egypt their gods, with their princes, and with their precious vessels of silver and of gold ; and he shall continue more years than the king of the North." Verse 9 : "So the king of the aouth shall come into his Idngdom, and shall return into his own land." In this phase of the contest, we have tliree very impor- tant matters brought to our view ; and as they are all fa- milial to the present generation, it may be unnecessary to elaborate them. The only point essential to our purpose is to show the chain of connection in the great exciting causes of the contest, as being subjects of prophecy. These are, the national bank, protective tariffs, and nullifi- cation. If you will but consider these three things, you wil find they came in rapid succession, and are so intimately interwoven each with the other, that the excitement and agitation throughout the country was so rapidly increasing that it came well nigh resulting in civil war ; and which it would in all probability have done, had it not been for the unbending and determined will of him who was at the helm of State. But let us analyze the text. When it is said " out of a branch of her roots," it means that a hrancli from the same root from which she — that is, the king's daughter of the South — sprang, " shall one stand up in his estate," be confirmed in his office. Now we have already seen that this daughter of the king of the South was symbolic of the Missouri compromise measure, and 15 came from the Sontliern Democracy. In the text now un- der consideration, we have a persooi from the same root or origin with her presented to our view. This person was An- drew Jackson, of the Democratic school, elected to the Presidency in 1828, and re-elected in 1832. The National bank system had run through a long series of years, and was at first designed for the benefit of the whole country, but had now become monopolized for the special aggrandizement of a few, and made the basis for speculations upon a large scale. Hence, when the subject of its re-charter was before Congress at this period, it ex- cited the most stirring debates and finally passed both Houses of Congress, but when it came to the President for his signature, contrary to the highest aspirations and ex- pectations of its friends and advocates, he returned it with his veto. Then it was that the moneyed aristocracy of the North, with Webster and Clay leading in the van, sent up their loud bugle blasts of war rockets of the greatest dis- tress, and threatened in no measured terms to make Jack- son and the Democracy of the nation tremble — and every day in the week was devoted by politicians in telling of their distresses — memorials poured into Congress — and rev- olution was not only thought of, but seriously contemplated. But the direst vengeance the opposing party could inflict on him was a resolution of censure, offered and advocated by Hon. Henry Clay, March 33, 1831, which passed and was placed upon the journals of Congress ; but this was afterward expunged from the record by a resolution of Col. Thomas Benton, March 16, 1837. The Tariif, at its beginning in 1816, was a Southern mea- sure, and opposed by the North. But as the Southern la- bor system was different from that of the North, the tariff began to work adversely to the first expectations of the different parties, which caused each to change his position. Clay and Webster became its friends and advocates, while Calhoun changed his base upon the question, and became its most violent enemy and opposer. With the greatest talents in the nation arrayed for and against it, the excite- IG ment rose to its highest pitch. In 1828 it became strongly sectional, and Jackson and Calhoun were elected to the Presidency and Vice Presidency of the nation, which was considered as a triumph of the South over the North ; of the slave over the free States, and as a repudiation of the poHcy of a protective tariff — and the re-election of Jack- son in 1832 was considered a reaffirmation of that repudia- tion. Now to these two systems — the National Bank and the Protective Tariff — do the seventh and eigUli, verses apply. By the election of Jackson to the Presidency by such an overivhelming majority of the popular vote, he may be said very appropriately to "come with an army" — with a great number, or vast multitudes of people ; " and shall enter into the fortress " — the place of security or defence (and such were the bank and tariff) "of the king of the North" ■ — of the Northern party — " and shall deal," act or contend " against them, and shall prevail " — shall come out best in the contest. Did not Jackson do this ? And by his " carrying as captives into Egypt their gods, with their princes, and with their precious vessels of silver and gold," we are to understand that the great men who advocated these measures were so overcome in the conflict that they may be said to be captives, so bound and fettered that they could not help themselves or partv ; and the car- rying away of the precious vessels of silver and gold, an- swers very appropriately to the removal of the deposits of the national bank. Now while these things were upon the tapis, a movement, called by some a " sedition," grew out of the aforesaid tariff in the State of South Carolina, to which the Presi- dent had to turn his utmost attention. All eyes were upon the movement, and scarcely anything but nnlUJication was thought or spoken of. So far had the matter progressed that the chivalric South Carolina through her legislature determined to resist the enforcement of the tariff act within her borders to the last extremity. Arrangements were being made by the Federal Government to enforce the act 17 and coerce the State into submission, when the President recommended Congress to remove all just causes for com- . plaint : upon which Mr. Claj, February 25, 1833, introduced (and which was passed) the compromise tariff act. There- upon South Carolina receded from her position and com- parative quiet was again restored. And it was for this *' the king of the South had to come into his kingdom and return into his own land." He being a Southern man, and of the Democratic school, which is naturally of itself Southern, you see how well, with the facts above stated, the prophecy agrees with history. All these things being so intimately blended together, very naturally and of ne- cessity come within the same phase of the contest. " Let him that readeth understand." Phase IV. — Tenth verse. The Federals being foiled hitherto in their efforts to obtain the govern- ment, plant themselves now upon the moral vvTong of Slavery — South loses by ignoring this central idea and resting the cause on the grounds of necessity and expediency — Hence arises Anti-Slavery and Abolition Societies — Assume form and notoriety, resulting in the Election of A. Lincoln, President, which resulted from the Missouri measure — Metho- dist E. Church— Petitions to Congress. Verse 10 : "But his Bons shaUbe stirred up, and ehall assemble amiiltitude of great forces : and one shall certainly come, and overflow, and pass through : then shall he retui-n, and be stirred iip, even to his fortress." Having been thwarted in their efforts to obtain the reigns of government through a moneyed aristocracy growing out of the National Banking System and a Protective Tariff — nothing daunted — changing somewhat his base of action, he fell back upon the subject (Slavery) as involved in the Missouri compromise measure, and rested or planted his action on the moral ivrong of that institution. Here he gained an advantage over the South. This latter had de- fended the institution on the grounds of expediency and ne- essity, without taking the true scriptural grounds that the IS negro was made by the Almighty to be subservient to the white man. Had the South not overlooked and given " the go bye " as much as it did to this great fundamental idea, and given less thought to that of necessity and expediency, it would have secured an advantage that never could have been overturned. But the North, seizing on this great cen- tral idea, which had been almost entirely ignored by the South, lost no time, but with renewed energy made capital of it to the great detriment of the South. So, accordingly, we have here now a resumption of the contest commenced in verse the sixth. There we found the Missouri compromise, occasioned and founded on the slave- ry and abolition question ; but now instead of quieting the country, and making the two parties friendly, it only gave the Northern party occasion to renew their efforts and ap- ply themselves with greater vehemence to obtain their pur- poses and get control of the government. Then " The in- troduction of the Missouri dispute banded the South to- gether ; [but] it agitated to their profoundest depths the population of the North. They accepted the projDosed Constitution of Missouri which prohibited the emancipa- tion of slaves and forbade the immigration of freedmen, as a cartel of defiance. As in the dissolving views depicted by a magic lantern on the wall, the Federalist party disap- peared, and out of the ruinous confusion its anti-slavery succes- sor began sloivly to take on form and emergey — Draper^s Civil War, p. 359. It was then anti-slavery and abolition societies were in- creased all over the North, and the subject agitated in every possible way to inflame and prejudice the minds of the people against this institution peculiar to the South. Through these societies the various religious denominations became so embittered against the South on account of anti-slavery sentiments that the entire North was carried away with the whirlwind of excitement — they were bitterly stirred up — so that churches which had been a unit, and fraternized with each other throughout the country, now 19 refused affiliation and divided under the pressure brought to bear upon them. The Methodist E. Church stands as an example of the power of this anti-slaverj and abolition movement. The most numerous and powerful of christian organizations in the land, this church exhibits to the world how far good people can be carried away under the tide of party feeling and outside pressure. So great was the feeling in this church upon this subject, that in 1844 it was rent asunder and one of her bishops virtually deposed, and a member of the Baltimore Annual Conference suspended from the ministry, because of their accidental connection with slave- ry, and which resulted in the division of the church and the organization of the Methodist E. Church, South, in 1846. And it may be safely stated that this church action was no insignificant cause that paved the way for the Secession of the Southern States from the Federal Union. For party spirit after this division of the church ran higher than ever before, both in Church and State — and impelled in its on- ward course by a blind infatuation, became more and more intolerant and exacting in its demands ; and becoming in- toxicated with the subject, plunged headlong into the de- termination to effect its purposes regardless of conse- quences. Does not every person know full well of the political warfare for years past in Congress, and throughout the en- tire length and breadth of the country upon the slavery question ? How " the sons," the people of the North, anti- Southrons were " stirred-up," instigated by inflaming pas- sions ; and how they " assembled a multitude a great forces," and did " certainly come, and overflow and passed through " the whole country ? And how they returned to their own land, with determined will, and stirred themselves up, " even to the fortress," the capitol of the Nation ; sur- feiting Congress with anti-slavery and abolition petitions and discussions, the latter attaining their acme in the Kan- sas and Nebraska struggle ; leaving no stone unturned in the moral, political or religious world. Time would fail to 20 tell of their doings in this respect. Suffice it to say, that moral, political and religious teachers, so-called, were all employed in furtherance of their designs, until they culmi- nated in the election of their party and sectional candidate, Abraham Lincoln, for the chief magistracy of the nation. Phase V. — Verses eleventh and twelfth. The late Civil or Secession War of 1861-1865. Verse 11 : "And the king of the Sonth shall be moved mth choler, and shall come forth and fight with liim, even with the king of the North : and he shall set forth a great multitude , but the multitude shall be given into his hand." Vei'se 12 : " And when he hath taken away the multitude, his heart shaU be lifted up ; and he shall cast down many ten thousands ; but he shah not be strengthened by it." Up to this period, though party feelings ran high, and were of the most bitter kind, yet there was no fighting — no blood shed. There were loars of words, criminations and recriminations, but no conflict of arms. But now the scene changes. " The King of the South," the Democracy as a people or body,- found its only true representatives, as in the early days of the government, south of Mason and Dixon's line — filled with true Virginia blood — " was moved with choler " — at the designs of the now successful Radical Abolition party, and " came forth and fought with him," for the defence of constitutional rights and liberty. The Prophet says first, that the king of the South shall come forth and fight with the king of the North ; secondly, that the king of the North " shall set forth a great multi- tude," a great army to fight against the king of the South ; thirdly, this great army of the king of the North " shall be given into the haod" of the king of the South ; fourthly, that when this occurred " the heart of the king of the South shall he lifted up, and that he shall cast down, or kill many ten thousands." But fifthly, though he shall cast down or kill so many thousands, he shall not be strengthened by it^; his successes at a conflict of arms will not profit him any- thing — will do him no good. These are the points in the 21 prophecy, uttered by the prophet ages in the past^ and were they not literally fulfilled in the case of the South, or in the late Secession War ? Let us look at it again in its application, and then say whether it was a fulfillment of this prophecy ? First, did not the South come and fight against the king of the North ? Was not the first gun fired at Fort Sumpter a signal to arms, to artns ? Secondly, did not the Northern or Radical party come against the South with a great multitude — a great army ? Were they not numbered by tens of thou- sands ? History and the facts in the case say so. Thirdly, was not this great multitude given into the hands of the king of the South ? Were not thousands upon thousands of the Northern army slain in battle ? And were not thou- sands upon thousands of them taken prisoners ? And were not the remainder put to flight ; yea, to a disgraceful stam- pede ? It was then thought by many that the war was over, such were the great successes of Southern prowess. History and the facts in the case attest the truth of these things. They are in accordance with the prophecy. Fourthly, as in the prophecy, so here in the fulfillment of the same, the heart of the king of the South shall he lifted ■up. The joy of the Southern army and of the Southern people, from the highest to the lowest, men, women and children, was unbounded. Praises great and loud re- sounded from the Potomac to the Rio Grande. " The Bon- nie Blue Flag " was raised higher than Haman ; yea, ex- alted to the skies, and shouts of triumph and glory rent the air, and made to fear and quail the hearts of all our foes. Did not Daniel tell of these things ? But Fifthly, was not the South successful in nearly every battle, great and small, for about two years of the^war ? Are not hun- dreds of thousands of Northern men buried in Southern soil, killed in battle ? And yet, what did it all amount to ? Was the South any stronger by it ? Did it decide the questions at issue, and close the war ? The prophet says, " He shall not be strengthened by it." As the prophecy, so the fulfillment. So the history and facts in the case at- 22 test ; the South was not strengthened by it. Wlio can but staud in awe, and wonder at the precision of the prophetic pen ! None but Omniscience could foretell the stirring events of those awful days. Phase VI. — Verses thirteen to tiventy-seven. Reorganization and enlargement of the Northern Army — Overthrow of the Confederate States Government— Negro Emancipation — Deceitful actings with the Southern States — Hon. Thaddeus Stevens— A. Lin- coln — Heavy taxation — U. S. Grant — Comes in peaceably — A. Johnson reduced to a cypher — Loyal Leagues — Military rule — Carpet-Baggers — Scalawags, &c. Verse 13 : "For the king of the North shall return, and set forth a muUitude greater than the former, and shall certainly come after certain years with a great army aud with much riches." Verse 14 : " Aud in those times there shaU many stand ujd against the king of the South : also the robbers of thy people shall exalt themselves to establish the vision ; but they shall fall." Verse 15 : "So the kiug of the North shall come, and cast up a mount, and take the most fenced cities : and the arms of the South shall not withstand, neither his chosen people, neither shaU there be any strength to withstand." Verso 16 : "But he that comoth against him shall do according to his will, and none shall staud before him : And he shaU staud in the glorious laud, which by his hand shall be consumed." Verso 17 : "He shall also sot his face to enter with the strength of his whole kingdom, and upright ones with him : thus shaU he do ; aud he shall give him the daughter of women, corrupting her : but she shall not stand on his side, neither be for him." Verse 18 : " After this shaU he tiurn his face unto the isles, and shall take many : but a prince for his own behalf shall cause the reproach offered by him to cease ; without his own reproach he shall cause it to turn upon him." Verse 19 : " Then ho shall turn his face toward the fort of his own land : but he shall stumble and fall, and not be found." Verse 20 : "Then shall stand iip in his estate a raiser of taxes in the glory of the kingdom : but withui few days he shaU be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battle." Verse 21 : "And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honor of the kingdom : but he shah come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by liatterios." Verse 22 : "And with the arms of a flood sliall they be overflown from before him, and shall bo broken ; yea, also the princ-o of the covenaut." Verse 23 : "i\rid after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully : foir he shall come up, and shall become stroug with a small people." Verso 24 : " He sliall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the prov- ince ; aud he shall do that which his fathers have not done, uor his fatnor's farther, lie shall scatter amoug them the prey, and spoil, and riches : yea, aud he shall forecast his devices agaiust the strougholds, even for a time." Verso 25 : "And he shaU stu- up his power and his courage agaiust the king of the South with a great army ; aud the kiug of the South shall be stirred up to battle with a very great and" mighty army ; but he shaU not staud : for they ehaU forecast devices against him." Verse 26 : "Yea, they that feed of the portion of his meat shah destroy him, and liis army shall overflow : and mauy shall fall down slain." Verse 27 : "Aud both these kiug's hearts shall be to do mischief, aud they 23 / shall speak lies at ono table ; b..t it aliall uot prosper ; for yet the end shall be at the time appointed." Tlie scene here changes again, and we now have the suc- cesses and conduct of the king of the North, or Eadical party, pointed out and portrayed. After he had been rout- ed and put to a very dishonorable stampede, he returns to the conflict with an army greater than the former, and with much or great riches. Exactly as are justified by the facts in the case. The Northern army was reorganized and re- inforced by hundreds of thousands, and bounties, lands and moneys without stint were offered and held out to en- gage the services of ojSieers and soldiers. Verse 11 : "And in those days many shall stand up against the king of the South ;" that is, the party in power having now increased their army so much, shall be in greed activity, and conquer- ing as they go forward in their march. Just as was attest- ed by the facts in the case. Great activity was displayed by the Northern army, and very few victories were ever gained by Southern arms after this great multiplication of the army of the North. " Also the robbers of thy people shall exalt themselves to estabhsh the vision ;" that is, "the robbers," or as the margin reads, " the children of robbers" are those from among the South, who deserted the South- ern army, and those loJio were of the South, that turned themselves over to the enemy for gain, for office and for pre- ferment ; and who may be known in this day as tories, or as noio denominated, scalaivags. But their doom is here pro- nounced or foretold by the prophet, when he says " they shall fall," they may for a time succeed — they will run their race, but will come to a disgraceful end. Verse 15 : We have next a series of acts of this North- ern army set forth. As for example : he " shall come and cast up a mount," as he did at Vicksburg, Petersburg, Eichmond, and other places : " and take the most fenced cities," or cities of munitions, as he did at New Orleans, Vicksburg, Memphis, Selma, Mobile, Chattanooga, Macon, Augusta, Savannah, Charleston, Eichmond, &c,, and as a 3 24 natural sequence, " the arms of the South shall not with- stand ;" the soldiers of the South, howsoever brave, being too few to fight with the mighty army brought against them, will be overcome. " Neither his chosen people," the generals and officers of the South, from the pagacious and immortal Lee, down to the humblest corporal, shall have no strength of army to withstand the forces brought against them. Does not every person know these things to be so ? Then as the prophecy, so the facts point to a fulfill- ment of the same. Verse 16 : " But he that cometh against him shall do according to his will, and none shall stand before him." The events as they occurred justify these prophetic decla- rations. The Radical Republican party as represented by the army, did, as he came against the South, whatsoever he would. Freed the negroes ; stole property ; plundered houses ; sacked cities ; murdered men and women ; de- floured females ; in a word, there was nothing in the cata- logue of crimes and misdemeanors against the acknowledged laws of civilization and religion of which he was not a per- petrator — a gnilhf parfy. And what else could be expected, having the military power, than that "none shall be able to stand before him ?" The Southern army had to give back and finally yield to his greatly superior numbers. Another step or two. " And he shall stand in the glorious land which by his hand shall be consumed." Maintaining his position in the "glorious land," the South, Ijy an active mil- itary force — the land shall be consumed ; reduced to a state of poverty, oppression, degradation and cruelty hitherto unknown or unheard of in the annals of the world. No longer prosperity reigns within her borders. No bleating folds or herds, and almost literally, no waiving fields of corn, or fleecy, snowy fields of cotton adorn her lands ; be- cause " by his hand " " the glorious land " " shall be or is consumed," laid waste and made desolate. Is not this the case in all this once fair but now dreary Southern country ? Verse 17 : " Besides all these things — not content with 25 what he has done abeacly — with devastations and deprada- tions he has committed, he " sets his face to enter with the strength of his whole kingdom." Face, in scripture, when apphed to man, often signifies anger, justice-, severity. To enter signifies to take possession. To set the face, implies determination. In the present case, it means the king of the North determined to possess the land of the South with the greatest severity, and to rule the people with an iron rod, using for its accomplishment the combined " strength of his whole kingdom." And further, to aid him in this matter, and to facilitate his ambitious and nefarious de- signs, he would bring his " upright ones with him ;" that is, he would establish, as the margin reads, equal conditions. And still further, to aid him in the nefarious work, he would " give the daughter of women corrupting her ; but she shall not stand on his side, neither be for him." The daughter of ivomeii, is symbolical of States, or body politic ; and these States he attempts to corrupt ; to turn aside from her virtue, honor and integrity : but she will not or shall not stand, that is, be firm and active on his side ; yea, " neither be for him," notwithstanding all his efforts at corruption. Does it require a philosopher's ken to see its application and fulfillment on this continent ? Has not the Radical Republican party now in power determined to possess this Southern country with the strength of his whole kingdom ? Does not the Congress, so-called, of the United States re- present the strength of the party ? of the Idngdom ? of the nation ? And is not severity toward the South written and sealed upon every act of theirs in regard to this mat- ter ? And is not this severity seen and read of all men, as being of the most determined character ? " He that hath ears to hear let him hear." And how apropos the proph- ecy to that other act of establishing equal conditions ; mak- ing the negro the equal of the white man. Commencing with Mr. Lincoln's enunciation of his emancipation procla- mation and consummated by the enactment of the Civil rights and other bills, thus attempting professedly to make 26 the stupid, lazy, ignorant native of another region — an ex- otic properly — the equal of Caucasian blood, while tlie true secret lies in using him only as a party tool in the acquisi- tion and retention of power and the treasury. And to fur- ther his purposes throngh this ignorant, pliant tool, he en- deavors to corrupt, to bribe, to cheat into his plans the States which so nobly contended against such odds to main- tain their rights. With great suavity he approached at first the South ; do this and all will be right. But each succeeding act has only drawn the chain the tighter, until lie has well nigh succeeded in corrupting her. But she has at last waked up to a sense of her danger, and the South as such, is not on his side, neither for him. For the carpet- bag and scalawag governments, so-called, now acting and playing their parts south of Mason's and Dixon's line, are not the real governments of those States, never was, never will be. They are all unconstitutional, therefore nail and void — and such before long they will be so declared. The South is not, cannot be in favor of such pretended legisla- tion, without compromitting her high native integrity, and that will be, never ! Eeconstruction, therefore, must be sought, and can only be obtained upon a more honorable basis than that now proposed. Verses 18 and 19 : "After this," or during the reign of this party, " shall he turn his face unto the isles, and shall take many." Mes or islands with the Hebrews did not mean the same as with us : that is, lands surrounded with water, but simply countries at a distance, or such as had a line of sea cost; or the region which is by the sea- side. Thus Tyre, PS it was anciently, is called the isle, in Isaiah XXIII, 2, 6, though seated only near the sea ; and the Tyriaus are called " the inhabitants of the isle." The Hebrews looked upon the isles as places of merchandize, to which men went to traflSc and fetch riches ; hence it comes that an island in their notion, is akin to mart-town, a rich, trading, populous city, a place where riches are brought, which will be found clear, from Ezekiel XXVII. 27 So that idands became symbolically to signify riches, reve- nues, waj^s of trading and the like. Hence in Isaiah, twen- ty-third chapter, third verse, it is said of Tyre, " The har- vest of the river is her revenue ; and she is a mart of na- tions." If, now, we accept this symbolical meaning of the term " isles," how applicable it will be to the case now under consideration. Take the map and let the eye glance upon the sea-coast clasping in its embrace the glorious sunny South, east and west, commencing with Virginia and taking North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, in the survey, and you have a country empliatically by the sea-side ; the like of which is no where else to be seen upon this globe — a coast and country embracing the most important mart-towns, and capable of more revenues, riches and trade than any other country in the world. All this country with its revenues, riches, &c., the dominant party has taken, usurped and ap- propriated for its own aggrandizement and power. We here reiterate, think 3'ou that such a country as this pass- ing in panoramic review before the Great All-Seeing, des- tined to produce results of the most momentous character, not only at home, but abroad, would fail to inspire the prophetic pen in regard to its political convulsions ? "But a prince," a chief; principal man of the party; a councellor ; a congrsssman, if you please, " for his own behalf," ox for hiiii "shall cause the reproach," or his re- proach, to cease ; "without his own reproach he shall cause it to turn upon him ; " that is, to turn upon himself. The reproach here spoken of embraces every thing ; every act of usurpation ; every act of depredation ; every act of op- pression attempted upon, and offered the South, whether they had the sanction of law or right or not. But here are FOUR things affirmed of this prince, this counsellor or leader of the Radical Bepublican party. First, that he shall cause this reproacli offered by him to cease. Secondly, that he shall cause the reproach to turn upon himself. Thirdly, 28 that he shall make an attempt to enforce the same reproach upon the people of his own land. And Fourthly, he shall stumble and fall, and not be found ; that is, he shall lose caste even among his own people, in the council of the na- tion, and die. Now can we find a clear fulfillment of this part of the prophecy in the history of any man ; any counsellor ; any congressman of the Radical party ? I pause for a reply. MethiDks, ye that are posted in the politics of the past, have his name already upon your tongue's end, and ready to exclaim : " The Hon. Thaddeus Stevens." Has he not been the head and front, the leader, the counsellor, the 'prince of that party for years in the past, more than any any other man ? Has he not been engaged all that time, and has it not been his highest ambition, prominent in all his life, to abolish slavery and enforce universal suffrage, at any and all hazards, and to bring the South in utter sub- jection to the will of his party .'' Has he not led his party from one step to another, and caused it, nolens volens, to com- mit deeds of blackest and foulest reproach upon the most chivalric people beneath the sun ? But according to the ancient maxims, " Truth is mighty and will prevail," and "Truth crushed to earth will rise again ;" and as is fre- quently the case in the Providence of God, the Almighty causes him who would inflict a punishment to become in his hands the instrument of deliverance therefrom. So here, in the case before us ; he makes this man to cause the reproach which he offered the South to " cease." For whilst he would endeavor to make the world believe the South to blame, he so acts in the drama as to relieve it of all blame and all reproach, and thereby brings — uninten- tionally, it is true — the reproach he offered to others upon himself, by declaring the legislation which had resulted therefrom, through his influence, as unconstitutional, and therefore null and void. Oh ! what a reproach he offered others in endeavoring to fasten upon them a status in the nation, and laws he knew were unconstitutional, and how 29 signally a retributive justice overtakes him., But, in the meantime, he turns his face to the fort of is own land, with a desire to fasten upon his own people-fche people of the North — the same universal suffrage : BiJ just at this time, " he stumbled and fell ;" that is, he losjcaste and in- fluence at home, and especially in the halls of Congress, where he has so long had almost universal swi,y, and where his ipse dixit amounted almost to an " it i done," and finally, he is not found — he dies, he passes amy " to that bourne from whence no traveler ever retuirfe," and into the presence of that God, who has written encircling his brow in living characters of fire, "Justice is tjfe habitation of my throne." Was not this prophecy fulfilled ? Verse 20 : " Then," not as an immediate successor of the foregoing personage, for the prophets frequentb intermix the events of which they speak, disregarding the exact order of their occurrence- but sometime during the reign of the dominant party, " shall stand up in his estate — or olice — a raiser of taxes in the glory of his kingdom ;" or one shall be in such a prominent office in the authority of the su- preme administration of the government, that he shall cause an exactor of taxes to pass over the land. Is not this fulfilled in the enormous taxations put upon the peo- ple by Congress ? Were ever a people since the beginning of the world so down-trodden and burdened with revenue duties as are the people upon this continent ? Can you even think of anything that we eat, wear, smell or u^e in any way, but has an exactor of taxes after you for it? Look at your tables — your tea, cofi'ee, sugar, meats, dainties ; look at your wardrobes ; look at ladies' toilet tables ; yea, visit even the sick-chamber, and even there the hand of the exactor is stretched out, requiring the duty on the medicine necessary to save life, even before it can be administered or taken. Go where you will, and when you may, the stamp act, worse a thousand fold than that imposed by Great Britain upon the infant colonies of this continent, meets you at every turn, at every step. The whole country groans 30 '^ beneath tlie)Oi:^(l<.rons load imposed upon it. No wonder it comes witin the purview of prophetic ken. But it is stated of this man, this "raiser of taxes," he through whm these enormous revenues or duties have been imposd upon the people, " within few days," in a short time, le " shall be destroyed," dispossessed of his office ; or hi office taken away from him ; and this shall be done " nither in anger," not in a passion or fit of dis- pleasure, " lor in battle " ; not in time of war, but in times of comparaiVe peace. How well all this may, and does apply to thf /ate Hon. Abraham Lincoln, late President of the United(States, who found it necessary to meet the enor- mous andoefarious expenses of the government to cause these unbard of taxes to be imposed upon the people, we may weDleave to every intelligent and thinking mind. For does heviot sit well for the picture ? and was he not dispos- sessed the most contemptible and hateful character that God per- mits to breathe the breath of life. " Am I therefore be- come your enemy, because I tell you the truth ?" And " if I declare it unto thee, wilt thou not surely put me to death ? and if I give thee counsel, wilt thou not hearken unto me?" Verse 31 : But further : to facilitate his ends and pur- poses, he invokes the ridUtary power of the government. " And arms," that is, the military, " shall stand," be actively engaged " on his part," in his behalf. Has not this been verified to an iota ? Need we detain you to itemize on a point like this ? one with which every man, woman and child, is as familiar as with household words ? A subject, too, that attracts the eye whithersoever it turns, in almost every village and hamlet, town and city, in the land ; wounding and causing to bleed at every throb, the heart of every true patiiot. No, no. We need not detain you on such a heart-rending subject, such as the prophet, centu- ries in the past, looking down the vista of ages, saw as clear as the noon-day sun ; even a vast, mighty military omnipotent, standing active upon the necks of oppressed heroism and virtue. "And they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength." As the tabernacle or temple among the Jews was the " Sanc- tuary of Strength," the holy or consecrated place from which went forth the laws of God for their government, so in the case before us, reference is had to the legislative 43 halls of the Eederal capitol. [We do not design any irrev- erence in this allusion or application.] Have they not basely polluted this " Sanctuary of Strength ? " The place once honored and revered, has become a pandemonium in the estimation of the countiy. The place from which once emanated wise and wholesome laws, founded upon consti- tutional principles, has now become the theatre of unjust, degrading and unprincipled enactments, because, forsooth, potver and might are possessed by the ruling class ; enough to cause the angels to weep and mourn, and the blush of shame, if possible, to come o'er the spirits of our country's departed worth. Let any one look but for a moment at the acts and doings of Congress for the last few years up to this time, and say, " Have they not, in deed and in truth, polluted this Sanctuary of Strength?" But again, they "shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate." That is, they shall cause to cease the time-honored custom of the daily or oft communings and intercourse of representatives from the various States of the Union, by refusing representation in Congress of those States called " Rebel ; " as well as some whom they have expelled from other States, because they were not of that class calculated to subserve their evil designs. Thus they have taken it awa}^, and in its stead have " placed," set up or established, " the abomination of desolation "■ — -or "of the desolator " or the abomination that astonishetli. That is, they have established the doc- trine of negro suffrage — of negro representatives ; in which they have endeavored to make the negro equal to a white man. Not that they have any peculi;ir love or affection for the negro, but only as it is to their interest as a party to secure his vote, to help them to power and profit. Do not the facts in the case bear out the prophecy ? For we ask, is there any greater abomination on the earth than this attempt of the Radical Republican party to make a black skin, fiat nose, woolly head, thick lips, thick skull, ignorant, degraded, barbarous African, equal to the Caucasian blood ? u And can any one point to any fact that has so desolated any land as this same effort at universal suffrage ? Not all the war from the firing of the first gun at Fort Sumpter, to the surrender of the immortal and renowned General Robert E. Lee, had so desolating an effect upon this once fair land of ours, as this effort at negro equality. The entire coun- try, from the Potomac to the Rio Grande, has been made almost a barren waste. Thousands upon thousands of acres of fertile lands that yielded good returns to the husbandman's toil, now lie waste. The cattle upon a thousand hills are no more to be seen ; large stocks of cattle have dwindled down to naught, and scarcely a vestige of former greatness and plenty now remains. Well may it be styled " the deso- Iato7\" or equally well may it be said it is "/Ae abomination that astonishethy For the whole civilized world stands and stares in astonishment at this thing, asking : Hoio can it, or loherefore can it be ? Is any good to the common country to result therefrom ? or is it for any vital or heartfelt inter- est for these creatures that such' an act is done ? Well may it indeed astonish mankiinl. [As this point is mentioned in the twelfth chapter, we will just drop a word here by way of suggestion to the thoughtful, which is that this abomina- tion as we have interpreted it, has about in effect run its race ; its days are numbered, and a change is now to be ef- fected. The negro has voted for National Executive officers for the last time. Chapter twelfth, 11th verse, says : "From the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days." Now if you will refer back to our remarks upon the first two points in this text, and if we are correct therein, and then make your data from the time of the surrender of General Joseph E. Johnston some time in the last week of April, 1865, and add or count therefrom to about the first week of November, 1868, about the time of the Presidential elec- tion, you will have twelve hundred and ninety days. From that time the decline of the party may be reckoned, and 45 the end of these things determined. Under the present administration will be the downfall of the party now in power, and with its downfall the present policy of the gov- ernment ceases.] To show that we are not alone in classing this doctrine of negro equality of the Eadical party as an " abomination that maketh desolate," or that astonisheth the whole world? permit us to quote from the " opinion of the court," as de- livered by Chief Justice Taney, in the Dred Scott case, in 1856. He says, " they (the negroes) had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior or- der, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations ; and so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect ; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his b&nefit. He was bought and sold and treated as an ordinary article of merchandize and traffic, whenever a profit could be made by it. This opin- ion was at that time fixed and universal in the civilized por- tion of the white race. It was regarded as an axiom in morals as well as in politics, which no one thought of dis- puting, or supposed to be open to dispute ; and men in every grade and position in society daily and habitually acted upon it in their private pursuits, as well as in matters of public concern, without doubting for a moment the cor- rectness of their opinion." And to illustrate this view of the subject, the Chief Justice cites the laws of Maryland and Massachusetts of 1717 and 1705, and says : "They show that a perpetual and impassable barrier Avas intended to be erected between the white race and the one which they had reduced to slavery, and governed as subjects with absolute and despotic power, and which they tJien looked upon as far beloiv them in the scale of created beings, that in- termarriages between white persons and negroes or mulat- toes ivere regarded as unnatural and immoral, and punished as crimes, not only in the parties, but in the person who joined them in marriage. And no distinction in this re- 46 spect was made between the free negro or mulatto and the slave, but ilds stigma, of the deepest degradation, ivas fixed upon the whole race. In the face, then, of the opinion of the civilized world, the early legislation on the continent, and the declaration of independence, to attempt to legis- late, to enforce the negro into an equal status with the white man, may be very properly called an " abomination," and a desolaior and a degradation to the white man. But to return to the doings of this party while in power. Verse 32 : " Such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries." Those that turn against, and to overthrow and to destroy the Constitution of the country as it was, are those who do wickedly against it, and these characters the ruling power cxmses to disser)d)le, to act the hypocrite ; pretend one thing, whilst they are entirely diiferent. " But the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits. And they that understand among the people shall instruct many : yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil many days. Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help : but many shall cleave to them with flat- teries. And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end : because it is yet for a time appoint- ed."— Verses 32 to 35. Here we have the character of the opposite party set forth, together with the persecuting hand of the tyrant in power. The prophecy describes these points so clearly, and the events of the last few years so fully illustrate them as facts of history, that no man can doubt of their being a fulfillment of the prophecy. The man who maintains his integrity in these trying times is represented as one who knows his God ; has correct principles and dares maintain them. One that is strong and does exyploits, is he who, when others yield to the tyrant's demands and surrender their consciences to his impositions, bravely keeps his ground, resists the temptations, and makes the tyrant himself 47 ashamed of his attempt upon him. Such may well be termed doing exploits ; for to choose suffering rather than sin, is indeed a great exploit. So having learned them- selves, and having understanding of the arts, wiles and stratagems of the enemy, they are calculated to instruct the people. Yet persecutions shall attend them. Many have been slain by ilie sword — murdered — (shall we mention by way of illustration the cases of Mrs. Surratt, and Wirtz of Fort Anderson memory ? ) many others ruin- ed by the flame attached to their houses ; many in virtual captivity by congressional disfranchisement ; others exiled from their country and homes, and property of all kinds despoiled and taken by a ruthless foe, insomuch tha,t scarcely a vestige of the country's former greatness and splendor is to be recognized bv the most sagacious of its inhabitants ; and scarcely " one stone is left upon another," of the once fair temple of our Liberty. But it is declared that " when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help." During these great trying and devastating times — times trying to men's souls, " a lit- tle help," a ray of light, a flickering hope of a change for the better, shall be afforded them by the election of Gen. Grant to the office of the chief magistracy of the Nation. And are not all eyes now turned to him as the only hope of the country ? The one party is all expectant with hope, whilst the other has its many fears and misgivings that he will not aid, abet, and further their depredating schemes upon the people and government. And if General Grant could but realize his situation just at this juncture, he has it within his pov/er to immortalize himself by leading the whole country from a worse bondage than the Israelites in Egypt, to a land of peace, quiet and plenty. But in order to this he will have to rise above the unconstitutional legislation of Congress and assert his prerogatives as guar- anteed him as President in the original Constitution of the country. But to return. As it has ever been, so in this case. In the palmy days of the Confederacy, every man 48 was a strong Southern raan. But when the last flickering rays of its ouce bright sun shed its departing glory upon the political horizon, and Federal blue bestud the Southern sky, "Confederate gra}^" was quickly laid aside by many, and thousands who once loudly proclaimed the song of the "Bonnie Blue Fhig," now became all of a sudden the strongest Union men. So now, there is a little hope, a small ray of Hght that a different dispensation is about to be in- augurated ; many of these same strong ones are siding and courting fav^or with that which seemeth to be just ahead ; which is apprehended will be inaugurated by the present incumbent of the presidential chair. Tliey are with the party supposed to be in power, and where they will find the greatest self-aggrandizement. The Lord pity such misera- ble temporizers. Now in this transition state, or when it is neither light nor darkness, some of those men of under standivg already spoken of, shall fall by these flatteries, as many eminent men, such as governors, judges, law3^ers, ministers, and civilians of all classes have done ; have made shipwreck of their faith in the ultimate success of pure democratic principles as opposed to the party now in power. But all this, if properly viewed, will tend " to purge and to make white," or pure and more steadfast those who will be faithful to the great principles which have been, and are now contend- ed for as just and right. And such will be the case until " the time of the end ;" until the time comes for the change to take place, " because it is yet for a time appointed." A change will come ; affairs of the present aspect cannot last ; but will and must last, until the race of the present party in power is run, which is to a time appointed in the great economy of God's providence, and when that time arrives all the powers in hell and earth combined cannot prevent the downfall of the infuriated foe. For when the fury of God Almighty shall come up in his face, and when his jealousy and the fire of his wrath shall be kindled, " Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land ; " 49 and he "will call for a sword against him throughout his mountains," when " every man's sword shall be against his brother," and God "will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon tlie mamj people that are with him, an over- flowing rain, and great hail-stones, fire, and brimstone ;" and will magnify himself, and sanctify himself, and be known in the eyes of many nations, that he is the Lord." Ezekiel XXXVill. But until that time " the king of the North shall do ac- cording to his will ; " nothing can stop him in his onward course. Congress will make its oton ivill the law of the land. In illustration of this point, we call your careful at- tention, once more, to an extract from President Johnson's message of December 3, 1867, in which he fully character- izes the Kadical party, in reference to this identical point. He says : " To dictate what alterations shall be made in the Constitutions of the several States ; to control the elec- tions in the several States — legislators and State officers, members of Congress and electors of President and Yice President, by arbitrarily declaring who shall vote, and who shall be excluded from that privilege ; to dissolve State Legislatures or prevent them from assembling ; to dismiss judges and other civil functionaries of the State, and ap- point others without regard to State law ; to organize and operate all the political machinery of the States, to regu- late the whole administration of their domestic and local affairs according to the mere will of strange and irresp)onsihle agents, sent among them for that purpose — these are pow- ers not granted to the Federal government or to any one of its branches." Thus Congress makes its own will the supreme law of the land. But again : " He shall exalt himself, and magnify him- self above every god," above every other department of the government, judicial and executive. Por the term god symbolically means princes, magistrates and judges. Above these, Congress exalts and magnifies itself, and makes them subsidiary to its own purposes and ends. But not content 50 with subsidizing the rulers, magistrates and chief men of the nation to advance their diaboHcal intentions and thirst after power and gain, th'ey go a step forward and impeach the Almighty Creator himself, and " speak marvellous things against the God of gods." This they have done. When they could find no guarantee in God's Word for their conduct in oppressing a wide extent of the country's do- main ; and when they could find no warrantee for creating for the negro a new status in society and in the govern- ment, they have contemptuously ignored the divinity of the Bible, and the existence of God himself, and one conse- quence thereof is, infidelity is rife and rampant at the North. And thus are they fast filling up the cup of their iniquity by rushing headlong in the course of all defiance of God and man, of heaven and earth, and strange as it may appear, j^et nevertheless 'tis true, tbey " shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished : for that that is deter- mined shall be done." For having the full power of the government at their control, they will prosper, and naught can stay their hand until the accomplishment of their greatest acts of tyranny and oppression. For God has de- termined certain thiogs to be done, and until that time they shall prosper, when he (God) will make even the wrath of man to praise him. ^- Verse 37 : Onward still to depths of deeper degredation, •V and to acts of greater prof anation, he ventures and plunges until he drinketh iniquity, as the ox driuketh the water. For it is written : " Neither shall he regard the God of his ^-7 fathers ;" the fathers of our country, in and during the war of the revolution of 1776, looked to and confided in tlie God of heaven for redress from British tyranny and oppression, and after the war was over, they always regarded the re- 's^, y suits of that war as a special providence of heaven ; but this God of our fathers the present party now ignores, and no longer regards ; no longer esteems ; no longer holds in respect, affection or reverence ; no longer considers Him as the author of their being, supporter or dtfender, individ- f 51 ually or collectively as a nation. Again : he shall not re- gard " the desire of tvomen ; " not content with his attacks upon the stronger portion of the community, he invades the rights and privileges of the tender and helpless sex. Here let our tread be light and wary, and thoughts suggest themselves, we dare not utter. A word to the wise is suffi- cient. A certain commentator has said : " His not regard- ing the desire of ivomen, may bespeak either his barbarous cruelty ; he shall spare no age or sex, no, not the tenderest ones ; or, his unnatural lusts, or, in general, of every thing which men of honor have a concern for ; or, it might be ac- complished IN SOMETHING WE MEET NOT WITH IN HISTOEY." Upon this latter point let us direct your attention for a moment. In the beginning God made man, male and fe- male, equal in status and rights. After the transgression, God, among other things, said to the woman, " thy desire shall he to thy husba7id" Here the internal, private and innate instincts of the woman was to he to her husband ; her equal, hone of her hone, and flesh of her flesh. This is the regular and natural course of God's providence and in- tentions. But here comes up a party in power that essays to contravene this order of the Almighty, by attempting to introduce a neiv or unheard of custom amongst the people, by disregarding this desire of loomen, and fastening upon us miscegenation with a people — so-called — almost dissimi- lar in every respect. We are not to be understood as here endorsing the doctrine of "Ariel," that the negro has no soul. Nay, we are not prepared for that. But we are in earnest when we ask, where did he come from ? Was he a separate creation from man, at the beginning ? Or did he spring from either of the sons of Noah ? We are well aware the orthodox doctrine is, that he sprang from Ham. But of this, where is the proof ? The onus prohandi of this position lies with those who maintain it. Will they give it ? If they attempt it, will they be so kind as to proVe by history, by the Bible, or in any other way, that the inhabi- tants of Western or Middle Africa are the regular and le- V' n \n 52 gitimate projsemy of Ham ? And while they are figuring out that problem, we give this axiom in morals, science and religion, that "like begets like," to reconcile with their theory ; and answer the question fairly and squarely. How, according to this axiom, which we think, will not be doubted as to its truth, liow, the woolly head, black skin, thick lip, flat nose and thick skull African can be produced from Caucasian blood ? To say it is climatic, the veriest tyro in science would laugh at you ; to say it is the effect of the curse upon Ham, the tyro or novice in divinity would ask you the chapter and verse of its record ; for no curse was put upon Ham. And to say that he sprang from any one of Noah's three sons, would be to place the descend- ants of all his sons in the unenviable position of hav- ing all or some of their children being born Back, with a woolly head, thick lips, flat nose, .♦^"' vVv* ^ ^hT'- \. ;* n'5 ^°-;^. <^^ iV^. 69.'^'% ".TO^- ^^^-V -J