The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-09-06
pREsIDEET LIN0OLNIIls. pREAM.

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Judge Pierrepont, in his speech at the
close of the trial of John H. Surratt,
spoke thus of Mr.. Lincoln's dream after
the surrender. of Lee, aud of the effect ii
produced on the mindssof the grsaeStates
men: sl-z
"Mr. Pierrepont said he now came to
strange act in this dark drama-strange,
though not neW-so wonderful that it
seems to come from beyond the veil that
separates US from death. 1t is not new,
but strange. All governments are of
God, and for some wise purpose the
Great Ruler of all, by presentmsnts. por-
tents, bOdings and By dreams sends some
shadoWy warning of a coming dawn
when great disaster is to befall a nation
So was ii IN the days of Saul-When Ca
sar was killed-when Brutus died at
Phillip; so was it when Christ was cruel
fed; SO was it when Harold fell al the
battle of Hastings; so was it when the
Gear was assassinated: so was it before
the bloody death of Abraham Lincoln. .
President of the United States. 10 the
life of Cae 'ar. by DeQuincy, in the life
Of PomPey, by Plutarch, are given the
porteuts that came to warn Pompey.
Here 1t is we find how Cae 3ar was warn
ed. We find il true in all cases, and new
er IN the whole history of the world has
there been single instance where the as
sassins of the head of a government have
not been brought to punishment. The
assassin of ruler never has escaped,
though he has taken "the wings of the
morning and fed to the uttsFmost parts Of
the earth" On the morning of A pril
IA. Mr.. Lincoln called his Cabinet to-
gether. He had reason to be Joyful, but
he was anxious to hear from Sherman,
Grant was here and he said Sherman
was all right" but Mr.. Lincoln feared, ]
and related dream be had had the night
betore-a dream which he had had pre-
yiOus to Chsncellorsville aud Stone river,
aud whenever disaster had happe ned.
The members of the Cabinet who heard
that relation will never forget it. A few
hours afterwards Sherman was heard from
but the dream was fulfilled. A disas
ter had befallen the Government, and Mr.
Lincoln's spirit returned to the God who
gave 1t. The dream.Was fulfilled.
The Washington Chronicle adds the
following interesting statement: l
Judge Pierrepont did not relate the
dream itself; but Mr.. Lincoln related it
before his death, and like everything in
any way connected with the sad tradegy,
it cannot fail to have a most pathetic in
terest. He seemed to be at sea in yes
sci, that was swept along by an irresisti-
bic current toward amaelstrom, from
which IL seemed no power could save her
Faster andfas the Whirling waters swept
the lated ship toward the vortex, until
looking down into the black abyss, amid |
the desfeniDg roar of waves, and with tue
sensation Of sinking down, down, down
an uulathomab e dep b, the terrified dream
er awoke. The same terrible dream Mr.. |
Lincoln had four times; first before the |
first battle of Bull Run, again before the
second d isastrous defeat at the same
place, again before the battle Of Murfrees- |
borO, and finally, as above mentioned, on |
the night before his own assassination. |
Mr.. Lincoln had at last come to Tecog- |
nize the dream as portento of some grave
disaster, and one can hardly consider his |
so regarding it a mere superstition.
Whether we attribute it to some superna-
tural agency or not, it is certainly one Of
the most interesting of psychological
mysteries, and reminds US foreibfy that
"tbere are more things in heaven and
earth than we have dreamed of in our
philosophy