Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-06-02

evening"; and have many times enter
ed the mansion and walked up 10 the
rooms Of the tso private secretaries as
late as 9 or 10 O'Clock at night, without
seeing or being challenged BY single
soul There were, indeed, two attend
snts--One for the outer door and the
other for the door Of the oficisi cham
berF; bns hese-ihinking, ! suppose,
that none would call after Office hours
save persons who we're personally &C
qgainted, or had the right Of official en-
try-weTe, not unfre quentiy, somewhat
remiss in their duty
To this fact | nog veniured TO call the
Presidents attention, saying that to me
perhaps from European edueation--it
ape red deliberate courling Of dan
ger, even if the co ntry were 10 state
Of the profouadest peace, for the person
at the head of the nation to remain so
unprotected.
Even granting Mr. Lincoln" l said,
"ihai no ASSASSIN ehoa.d seek youf lite,
the large number of lunatics always in
community, and always larger in times
Ike these, ard the tendency winch iB-
sanity has 10 strike at shining objects,
or whosOeyer is most talked about,
should lead-I submit--fo some guards
about the place, and some permanent
officers with be power and duiy Of qups-
tioning al wFo seek % enter 10 This
] added some brief sketch OF. the all but
innumera6ie ciazy letters and projects
which wefe continually beng received
at General Hsileck' heedq arters, and
which hs had oue day iaggb.rgiy turned
over to ne, On the ground that | now
and ibeu wrote verses
'Tberc are tEo dangers, therefore" |
wound up b7 sayiug: the danger Of
dsiberSts 20 iiicaI assas 81 inauon, aud
tie msr- brute violence of insanity"
Mr. Lincoln had heard me with a
smile, his hands sull locked across hs
kuees, and he body still rock ng back
and iorth-he common indication that
be WIS amused
Mos, as TO political assassination, =
be ssrd. "do yeu hink the Richmond
people would IKE 10 have Mr.. HamIin
here any better IEan myse In hat one
a ternaiive, ! have al insurance on my
life worth haf be prairie land Of llli-
nOis. And besides this more graveiy
III there we're such plot, and they
wanted to.g-t a. me, no vigilance could
keep them out We are 90 mixed up in
our sBairs, thaf--nO matter what the
system establishtd--H conspiracy 10 as
sassnate, il such there we're could OBJ
thin pass to me for suy or more Of its
instruments
TO betray fear Of this, by placing
guards or 50 forth, would only ne to put
the idea into their heads, ard perhaps
lead to the very result It was intended
to prevent As to the crazy folks, Ma
jCr, why | must take my chancts--the
worst crazy people At present fear be-
ing some of my own TOO Zeaious adher-
snts That there may be such dangers
as you and many others have suggested
TO me, 8 quite possible; but guess il
wouldn'l improve things any to publish
that se we're AFRAID Of them IN ad
vance.
A. this point, the President turned to
the rapers had brought over for his
signature, and, signing Them, handed
them 10 me, with some message for Gen
HalIeck. Whereupon | bowed mysel
out, and the stream of omniur1 gather
um humanity from the waiting rooms
/ a@lin commenced howiLg in upon bin'
+ --sOmeimes in individual-somefimei
in deputational or collective 10 asses.
The whole interview | have here mar
rated, though taking 50 much longer q
tell, had probably not endured over ;eI
or fifteen minutes, and it was the first
] though not the only time, that ! hesrC
Mr. Lincoln discuss the possibility Of al
attempt to asssssnale him
-. L.
over one evening after dinner to Gen
Hallecks private quarters 20 protest
half joculafly, bait in earnest-agains
q small detachment of cavalry, whiel
had been detailed without his request
and partly against his will, by the la
mented Gen Wtasworth, as q guard 70
his carriage IN going to and returning
from the Soldiers Home. The burdel
OF his complaint was that he and Mrs
Lincoln couldn't hear themselve
talk" for the clatier of their sabers am
spurs; and that as many of them at
peared new hands and very awkward
be was more afraid of being shot by tn
accidental discharge of one OF the car
bines or revolvers. than of any atiemp
upon his life or for his cap ore By III
rowing squads of Jeh Stuurt's cavalry
then lowering al round the exteriO
works Of the city
This cOnverslji5n Is related, as repro
duced By a memory Of perhaps NOR
than average tenacity, precisely as th
writer would record The mater II calle
upon 20 give sv55suce thereabaut in
coGFt Of justice. Nothing has bee
added 20 90, Gog anything suppressed
3 - I III
remarks-p, rhsps solilcquy we're III
better term-rela.ive TO :he necfs ,ity c
constant Iut accommodation with ih
average people of the country, made
deeper impression on me- and his cal
ing these general receptions his "publi
opinion baths" was q phrase not 500
TO be forgotten.
From the 25h of August, 1862, unit
relieved from General Hailtck's staff
late in December cf the same year-,b
writer had the good fortune of enioyjn
fr, quent oppor uniies Of 5, eing an
hearing Mr. Lincoln; aud more espt
eially during the dark days from Gene
al Pope's disastrous defeat at the secon
/ Bull RUG and Chantilly until after th
: enemy, beaten by Mcclellan at Anti,
tam, had again been driven South Dd
ing all this period the President, a
compauied BY either Major Hay or N
Nicoiay, spent some hours several ever
ings in each week at General Hslleck
private quarters; and it certainly is nj
too much to say that the mere az
candid mind saw Of Mr.. Lincoln-eve
if opposed to his political views-tt
more deeply must it have become ia
pressed by the houely, honesty, kindl
ness, force, sarewdnsss, originality, bt
NOR and seif-sacrifciug patriotism
that great au9 good mans character
Nesc York Citizen
MAJos Wilt CoNBAcK.-Aajor Cum
: back having been unanimously eleets
by the Board Of Directors Of the Indi
! napolis and Cincinnati railroad. the
] Attorney General has applied to Il
War Department 10 be released from II
/ nop,uand az tha Paw DPnartrapnt vii