| Show presentiment chicago times heralda 1 like napoleon abraham lincoln at al ways believed he was a man of d dee tiny he he aou would some lofty station in life bu hut that DEB have a sudden fall he e W i pleased yet alarmed at what hat ll 11 looked upon as a rent in the veil ahl 1 hides the future from mortal for the vision he saw was one 0 V V glory and ox 0 blood Lincol ns friends never willingly at lowed him to dwell on his faith IV 1 occult influences and not until jhb dark shadow he anticipated had wi did they see a strange faita fatality lity in is fw recurring visions the one that moat impressed him happened in in 1860 he was lying on a lounge 1 to his own chamber when glancing in a 81 m mirror irr or th that 8 t hung near he is sav icv double image of himself reflected thov v at that time lincoln was in the dav aa glory of health and hope but in bbb 1 N mirror the face showed a mortal pal palf f r ness again and again he tried the e pediment perl peri ment and always with the same J ghastly result afterward h he e tried it ft in the executive mansion but there tt it failed he did not attach so much impart ance to this vision or illusion 1864 on the day of his at baltimore on that day lincoln at al the war department in telegraphic telegraph IG w communication with gen grant wl ua j was at richmond A telegram arrive J at the white house informing coln coin of his at president 1 but though he went home for a hasty lunch he did not stop to read the tele at i gram on returning to the way dopart department part ment a dispatch was handed to him telling him of the nomination ot of andrew johnson for the vice j dency mr lincoln was surprised ud 1 said 1 I thought it was customary to nom binate the president first j on being told of the first telegram he be sald eald mournfully recalling the tl i double image in the mirror ill never live through rv my second term that belongs to johnsoa at least the best beet part of it shortly before his tim tan coln coin had a strange dream waca h w M related to his wife and mr his fate former law partner par trIer IT 1 I retired late for I 1 had walto waited t diw important important dispatches and I 1 soon fu into a light slumber I 1 dreamed there was a deathlike stillness about mif but still I 1 could hear the subdued bobs or of a number of people I 1 left my room went all through the house in ny dream everywhere the same weep fag and walling but I 1 could see no abdy 1 dy finally I 1 went into the east kroom oom and there I 1 saw a coffin with wany many soldiers as guard rt who is dead in the white house I 1 1 asked 1 why dont you know said one of 1 the soldiers the president has been r assassinated then a loud burst of t came from the crowd and with I 1 awoke mrs lincoln remembered the dream oil oft the fatal night of his death and J carted out this dream was prophetic A h lincoln had one fortunate dream which he often dreamed and which he iwa was always welcome as it indart ably my preceded a great union victory ae said he dreamed it before the bat 00 I 1 of antietam and again before that vt 44 gettysburg and several other en segments he dreamed that he saw 4 badly damaged ship sailing away r while pursuing vessels over and demolished the wreck this S bearo always comforted him when mr lincoln would be called fa t task by his friends for his belief in dreams he would invariably quote the k bible for his authority after his lt important dream he said in the morning when I 1 took up my bible the first chapter I 1 opened at was twenty eighth of genesis relating jacobs wonderful dream I 1 looked tt rugh the bible and everywhere I 1 deemed to find the same lesson six sn chapters in the old testament baad aad four or five in the new testament rat at reveal gods meaning in dreams V r afis former partner mr lamon t irtys nue m more ore intense the light which is fc t ed on what may be mr Lincol ns kest point the greater and grander W his character appear |
