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GENERAL MC CLELLAN'S VISION
In a strategic moment in the Civil War, General George B. McClellan, who
had been called by President Lincoln to take charge of the shattered Union
forces, fell asleep at his desk. He had scarcely been asleep a moment, when
it seemed that he was awake, and the whole room was filled with a radiant
light. Suddenly, out of the light, he heard a voice, and later saw the face
of George Washington, who gave him warning that the Confederate troops were
on their way to take the Capitol.
Because of this, with something akin to supernatural knowledge, General
McClellan was able to pursue Gen. Robert E. Lee, and stop the northern
invasion by the Confederacy at Antietam, September, 1862. This vision was
first reported in the Portland Evening Courier at the time the tide turned
for the Union forces. Since that time, it has been written as a warning to
the America people again and again because of its reference to the last war
which will be fought toward the end of this century...when a great conflict
could arise with the "oppressors of the whole earth" in which our land
could be involved.
In General McClellan's account of this vision, he relates that the voice of
Washington, with penetrating clarity, called out to him: "General
McClellan, do you sleep at your post? Rouse you, or 'ere it can be
prevented, the foe will be in Washington!...You have been betrayed, and had
God not willed it otherwise, 'ere the sun of tomorrow had set, the
Confederate flag would have waved above the Capitol and your own grave. But
note what you see. Your time is short!" In this strange dream state,
General McClellan seemed to see a living map of all the troop positions --
and with a pencil at hand, he began to copy down all that he saw...the
positions of the Confederate troops as they marched toward Washington; the
maneuvers which they planned in the future. After the warning of the
immediate peril which faced the Union, the splendor of Washington became
even greater as he spoke of the days ahead in this, the 20th century, when
other perils could befall our nation.
"General McClellan, while yet in the flesh, I beheld the birth of the
America Republic. It was indeed a hard and bloody one, but God's blessing
was upon the nation, and, therefore, through this, her first great struggle
for existence...He sustained her, and with His mighty hand, He brought her
out triumphantly. "A century has not passed since then, and yet the child
Republic has taken her position of peer with nations whose pages of history
extend for ages into the past. She has, since those dark days, by the
favor of God, greatly prospered. And now, by the very reason of that
prosperity, has she been brought to her second great struggle. "This is by
far the most perilous ordeal she has to endure, passing as she is from
childhood to open maturity, she is called on to accomplish that vast
result, Self-Conquest; to learn that important lesson -- self-control,
self-rule, that in the future will place her in the van of power and
civilization. "It is here that all the nations have hitherto failed, and
she, too -- the Republic of the earth, had not God willed other wise -would
by tomorrow's sunset have been a heap of stones, cast up over the final
grave of human liberty. Bu! t her cries have come up out of the borders
like sweet incense into heaven. She shall be saved! Then, shall peace be
upon her, and prosperity shall fill her with joy. "But her mission will
not be finished, for 'ere another century shall have gone by, THE
OPPRESSORS OF THE WHOLE EARTH, hating and envying her exaltation, shall
join themselves together and raise up their hands against her. "But if she
be found worthy of her calling, they shall be truly discomfited, and then
will be ended her third and last struggle for existence. Henceforth, shall
the Republic go on, increasing in goodness and power until her borders
shall end only in the remotest corners of the earth, and the whole earth
shall, beneath her shadowy wings, become A UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC!"
Upon hearing these words, General McClellan awoke to find the markings and
symbols of the Confederate maneuvers upon his own maps as if his
dream-pencil had actually placed them there. In his account of this strange
precognitive experience, General McClellan wrote: "...Our beloved, glorious
Washington shall rest ...until perhaps the end of the Prophetic Century
approaches, that is to bring the Republic to a third and final struggle
when he may once more ...become a Messenger of Succor and Peace from the
Great Ruler, who has all nations in his keeping..."
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