The Copperhead - or, The secret political history of our Civil War unveiled (1902) (14576108119)

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Title: The Copperhead : or, The secret political history of our Civil War unveiled

Year: 1902 (1900s)

Authors: Hall, Fayette

Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Publisher: New Haven, Conn. : F. Hall

Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection

Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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Pinkie and old Dr.Bamford. I have been chosen as their medium of communicationwith you. Before you can hope to bring about the great and last-ing glory of this republic, you must make every man within itsboundaries free. You must emancipate all the slaves by your pen,and your armies must indorse your action with the sword. On September 22, 1862. he signed the proclamation, makingthe slaves free men. As Col. Kase concluded his story he lookedat the reporter steadily, and raising his right hand, said with greatsolemnity, As there is a God in Heaven, all that I have told youis true. As the spirit communicating did not send in his cardor announce his name, and the question arose as to who it might be,some one present seeing the portrait of Daniel Webster suggestedthat it might be his spirit, and it was at once decided that it was. I think it more likely to have been the spirit of the negropirate, Wansley, who with the pirate Gibbs, was hanged on gibbet,now Bedloes Island, in New York Bav.

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54 Daniel Webster, while living, once said, in speaking of aboli-tionists, that he never knew one who did not have a screw loosesomewhere in his intellectual or moral machinery. That medium was Miss Nettie Colburn of Bolton, Ct., and thebook which she has written is entitled, Was Abraham Lincoln aSpiritualist ? Upon her first introduction to the President she wasimmediately provided with a position in the Agricultural Depart-ment, but was soon relieved of all laborious duties and her wholetime devoted to spiritualistic performances. In the summer of 1863I spent three weeks with the Laurie family and while there asmall private s€ance was held, at which Mr. Laurie became en-tranced, purporting to be controlled by the same spirit that nomi-nated Abraham Lincoln in i860, Robert Rantoul. When alludingto that occurrence he said: Again I stand upon the mount of prophecy, and ere ninety daysare past the war will be over and all will be at peace. He went onwith quite an harangue for some tim

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