Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1866-11-29

worked a partial wreck of body and mind.
It has been said that Mr. Lincoln became
and was totally insane at that time and
place. This is not exactly the truth. The
dethronement of his reason was only par
tial, and could alone be detected by his
closest friends and sharpest observers,
through the abruptness OF his sentences,
and the sharp contrasts of his ideas and
language. To give you fair idea, an ex-
act one Of his then true mental state and
condition. imagine Mr.. Lincoln situated as
have attempted to describe. Mr.. Lincoln
had strong mind, a clear and distinct one.
His STYLE and mode of expression in 1885
we're entirely different from what they were
from 1858 10 1864. He had more, much
more, emotion, fancy and imagination, in
1885, when he was 26'years Of age, than he
had in 1853 to 1864, when he was 48 to 50
years Of age. He grew stronger as he grew
older. Did this dread calamity Of which
l have spoken, crush him and thus modify,
if it did not change, his nature? 1t must be
expected that his expressions would follow
truly his own rational thoughts ia part only,
not only so in logic at least. His utter
ances and expressions would be necessarily
disconnected and sharply coatrasted. 1t is
said, and I believe it, that he lost his logi-
cal faculty-power over cause and effect,
and their legitimate relation-through the
momentary loss of memory alone.
The friends of Mr.. Lincoln
men, women and children-begged him to
quit his home and place of business. They
coaxed and threatened him by turns in or
der 10 get him to quit the places and scenes
Of his sorrows and griefs. His women
friends tried their arts on him. Men
begged and held out strong inducements
to 20 into the country The boys and girls
of the town and neighborhood aided and
assisted the older people all they could.
All tricks we're detected by the man the
whole people so dearly loved. Bolin Green,
and some of his and Lincoln's special
friends, at last tried their powers. They
succeeded in throwing Lincoln off his
guard by robbing him Of his suspicious.
Mr.. Lincoln, in September, went down to
Bolin Green's in consequence Of the pres
sure thrown on and around him, and in the
space of week or ten days, by Bolin's
humor, generosity and hospitality, his care
and kindness, aided by the womanly SYM
pathy, gentleness and tenderness Of his wife,
Lincoln soon rose Up man once more.
He was visited daily by men, women, boys
and girls, whose conversation, stories, Jokes,
witticisms, and fun, soon reused up the man,
thus enabling him to momeltarily throw
off sorrow, sadness, grief pain and anxiety.
They walked over the hills with him, danced
for him, read for him, laughed for him, and
amused him in a thousand ways. He
evidently enjoyed all as a man scarcely
ever enjoyed two weeks before nor since.
He got well and babe adieu, for a short
season, to Bolin's kind and generous hospi-
tality. Mrs. Bolin Green still lives, God
bless her! and survives her own husband,
and their ward and guest Mr.. Lincoln
went to New Salem, as thought a changed,
man. He went to New Salem about the
last of September, A. D. 1885. He now
once more picked up, took up, and read,
andre-read the poem called Immortality"
or 20 why should the spirit OF mortal be
proud p He saw new beauties in it. He
seized it, and it seized him-a mutual
seizure and arrest. He learned, learned it
by heart, committed it to memory, and re-
peated it over and over to this friends.
These passages contain all that is in the
lecture concerning Mr.. Lincoln or Miss
They are exceedingly interest
ing and throw much light on phases of Mr..
Lincoln's character, and especially on the
and distracted mood which so
many Of his friends had observed, and
which no one hitherto has attempted to
exDlain.