January 31, 1893
Remarks at Parkville, Michigan
EGW
GCDB January 31, 1893, Art. A, par. 1
“There is not a person in this house who has even dreamed of the trouble that is coming upon this land. People are making sport of the secession ordinance of South Carolina, but I have just been shown that a large number of States are going to join that State, and there will be a most terrible war. In this vision I have seen large armies of both sides gathered on the field of battle. I heard the booming of the cannon, and saw the dead and dying on every hand. Then I saw them rushing up engaged in hand-to-hand fighting [bayoneting one another]. Then I saw the field after the battle, all covered with the dead and dying. Then I was carried to prison, and saw the suffering of those in want, who were wasting away. Then I was taken to the homes of those who had lost husbands, sons, or brothers in the war. I saw there distress and anguish.”GCDB January 31, 1893, Art. A, par. 2
GCDB January 31, 1893, Art. A, par. 3
“There are those in this house who will lose sons in that war.”GCDB January 31, 1893, Art. A, par. 4