. The Copperhead : or, The secret political history of our Civil War unveiled . ed implicitlyin the signs of his many dreams, he was earnestly endeavoring tounravel them. His mind was readily impressed with some of themost absurd superstitions. His visit to the voudoo fortune tellerin 1861, his faith in the virtue of the mad stone, and the strangedouble image of himself, which he told his secretary, John Hay, * Governor Morehead, one of the most refined and accomplished gentle-man in the country, said that while calling upon the President upon Stateaffairs, that he, Lincoln, sat with his shoe
. The Copperhead : or, The secret political history of our Civil War unveiled . ed implicitlyin the signs of his many dreams, he was earnestly endeavoring tounravel them. His mind was readily impressed with some of themost absurd superstitions. His visit to the voudoo fortune tellerin 1861, his faith in the virtue of the mad stone, and the strangedouble image of himself, which he told his secretary, John Hay, * Governor Morehead, one of the most refined and accomplished gentle-man in the country, said that while calling upon the President upon Stateaffairs, that he, Lincoln, sat with his shoe off holding his toes in his hand, andbending them backwards and forwards in an awkward manner (giving themmassage treatment I suppose). Govenor Morehead was afterwards seizedby the Lincoln authorities, and dragged from his house and family, at midnightin violation of the most scared laws of the land, and taken to Fort Lafayette,where he was kept for many months, without being allowed to communicatewith his friends, denied a trial, and was never informed why he was Attila, King of the Huns, whose spirit, through the Medium, assured PresidentLincoln of regal power and a dictatorship for life. 47 he saw reflected of himself in a mirror just after his election ini860, strangely attest his inclination to superstition. wasdetermined to prosecute a war ostensibly for the suppression ofrebellion and restoration of the Union, we would suppose thatevery means would have been employed to accomplish that pur-pose. But such was not the case. There were other purposesand other objects to be attained. Lincoln had succeeded to the fullpromise of the voudoo prediction, when it would be supposed thatunder our form of government as established by our fathers andthe Constitution of the United States that his ambition would havebeen sated. Not so. No more than was Napoleons as First Consulof France, or Buckley with one term as Governor of predictions and promi
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