The Texas Republican. [volume] (Marshall, Tex.) 1849-1869, 1861-05-11

credit to the newspaper reports that he
sleeps with a body guard in his bed.
room, and sometimes leaves the White
House to sleep elsewhere, from terror
about nocturnal attack by jeff Davis,
or some adventurous party Of Southern
rebels. They are merely the rrai- semJia.
tte, without the. evidence that they are
literally true. But we can gather enough
IRON his conversations with various com
mlttccs, reported ON their authority, that
he is badly scared at the effects Of his
own acts. and so confused as to lose his
memory, one day, of what he said the day
before. We Gull a few specimens Of the
| vulgaritics and incohcrencies which the
late events have drawn forth from the
porturbcd head Of tie Northern Confed.
cracy.
On Che Goth ult., a committee went
down from Baltimore to Washington. to
| represent TO the President the mpossi.
I bility Of carrying troops through Balti-
more to Washington, without sanguin-
airy struggle, and insisting upon the ne.
cessiiy Of arrcsting tho effort, The com
mitteo was not composed Of secos ION
lists, and in it were Mr.. Kennedy, I :.
Senator, and MIR s. Morrison Harris. a
representative to Congress from one of
the Baltimore districts. and very zeal
Gus Union man
To their approximations, Mr. Lincoln is
reported to have answered in the follow
ing refined style
My God what ! ON to do | had better
go out and hang myself on the first tree ] come
to. than give up'thc power OF the Federal Gov
ernment in this way. ! don't want to go through
your town, or near it, il can help 1t, but we
must have the troops here 10 relieve ourseye-
on IRE dcH tie Tie ai' d, a mp"
MIR Seward, who was Present on the
occasion. appeared 20 show something
Of the alarm of Mr. Lincoln In answer
to Mr. llarriss continued asseverativn
that Northern troops could not come
through Maryland, Mr. Seward took Mr.
II 10 the window, and showing him the
heights Of Arlington asked him:
II he did not know that, ON the top Of that
hin, the Nirgnan, might place battery, and
they would not know at what moment shell
wonld burst in that very room
'On Sunday evening. the President had
his Old style Of the !acetiouS \ dcputa.
tion from the Young Mems Christian As.
ISOLATION waited upon hin. to ask him to
Withdraw tic military orders which were
bringing on war, and assuring him Aat
the attempt to pass troops through Mary.
land would produce q sanguinnry CON
tict FOR which God and the nation would
hold him responsible. lis answer com
i.icuD.1 -+f.'. 10 oYtt'..a "ttt'''t. --.s-
he said
Mechanically speaking. they could not
crawl under Maryland. nor could they fly over
70. Consequently they would have TO come
through d.
Tic omitted 90 mention that they might
90 round it, which ia what he is attempt
Ing to do; and he left out the Most i'm
por.ant point of all, that IT, as they could
not crawl under, OF fy over, aud might
not get round or go through, there was
the best way of al--,hat OF not going
there at all, but going home.
But there was still the same personal
trcpidation at work, IN his thought, for
during the same interview he assigned
one Of the overriding motives for having
these troops at Washington soon was,
that. the South Carolinians were march.
ing through Virginia Tor the purpose OF
hanging him
In the same interview the Rev. DR.
Fuller urged upon the President the mad
ness of prosecuting a war OF coercion,
and urged the policy OF tscatieg win tue
seeded States Tor peace
Mr.. Lincoln SAID
II he was to follow the advice OF Dr. uief'
he would have no gosVti'saleutt u, ~, rt rn
any hhs''la Nm l; ',,','... s,,,ia hs hra,eo M
's't , "n ~" ,soala he mor,h uobing
A., H.. I'D
10 " : "''0' 'p'''.Su .''S, a., Nm,
DC Saens s0,,'''','' IA Wv ..h" s,te,h.
a''u ""V it, H. Iinr,ln.s r.snonse
nave an niia"oS' ~ ' 'i,n,..,,. :,
~ns VA, ,i y. IA. a. ,hera mus, hc lint one
III ol'oi "''us' "" A., III noasrrns
Governments ",'o "h,' ',s,l;Ia,o hy
SNOW Hu
conquest ana 'ulVe'
The pltiaele CONDITION Oh 'n,s ma"
mind may be estimated ny Tue iao' 'ha'
two on three days before ne 'o'u com o
milicc IRON Baltimore ihal tlV on'y p"'.
pose for which troops were w" .,''.. AZ
Washington WY, WAS 10 P'o"o' '"V CIV
ernment persons ana properly, "'V"'u'
any thought OF eorfe'hS u'' 7V" VI
declaration winch 'he peepc ~ ""'S
land did nets'uS' III s',e nv " "'s
cial proclamation, oaH'"S 'u''" "V,Ps
Tor the spec'he1 pu'Pp'V VI ie'o'.', -