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loose rein to their passions and appetites until all the finer feelings are
lost and only the animal passions are manifested. Such men need to
feel a higher, controlling power, which will constrain them to obey. If
rulers do not exercise a power to terrify the evildoer, he will sink to
the level of the brute. The earth is growing more and more corrupt.
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Many were blinded and grossly deceived in the last election, and
their influence was used to place in authority men who would wink
at evil, men who would witness a flood of woe and misery unmoved,
whose principles are corrupt, who are Southern sympathizers, and
would preserve slavery as it is.
In positions of trust in the Northern army there are men who are
rebels at heart, who value the life of a soldier no more than they would
the life of a dog. They can see them torn, and mangled, and dying, by
thousands, unmoved. The officers of the Southern army are constantly
receiving information in regard to the plans of the Northern army.
Correct information has been given to Northern officers in regard to
the movements and approach of rebels, which has been disregarded
and despised because the informer was black. And by neglecting to
prepare for an attack, the Union forces have been surprised and nearly
cut to pieces, or what is as bad, many of the poor soldiers have been
taken prisoners to suffer worse than death.
If there were union in the Northern army, this Rebellion would soon
cease. Rebels know they have sympathizers all through the Northern
army. The pages of history are growing darker and still darker. Loyal
men, who have had no sympathy with the Rebellion, or with slavery
which has caused it, have been imposed upon. Their influence has
helped place in authority men to whose principles they were opposed.
Everything is preparing for the great day of God. Time will last a
little longer until the inhabitants of the earth have filled up the cup of
their iniquity, and then the wrath of God, which has so long slumbered,
will awake, and this land of light will drink the cup of His unmingled
wrath. The desolating power of God is upon the earth to rend and
destroy. The inhabitants of the earth are appointed to the sword, to
famine, and to pestilence.
Very many men in authority, generals and officers, act in confor-
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mity with instructions communicated by spirits. The spirits of devils,
professing to be dead warriors and skillful generals, communicate with
men in authority and control many of their movements. One general