ÒSon of the Republic, the
end of a century cometh; look and learn.Ó At this, the dark, shadowy angel placed
a trumpet to his mouth, and blew three
distinct blasts; and taking water from the ocean, sprinkled it out upon Europe, Asia, and
Africa. Then my eyes looked upon a fearful scene. From each of these coun-tries arose thick, black clouds, that were soon joined
into one. And throughout this mass gleamed a dark-red light, by
which I saw hordes of armed men, who, moving
with the cloud, mar-ched by land, and sailed by
sea, to America, which country was presently
enveloped in the volume of the cloud.
And I dimly saw these vast armies
devastate the whole country, and pillage and burn
the villages, towns, and cities that I had beheld springing up.