Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 52, Number 19, Jasper, Dubois County, 11 February 1910 — Page 2

VOICE OF EXPERIENCE

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bodyguard of President Lincoln and continued in that ca racity until his assassination in the -prlng of 1S55. During the three years of ray stay in Washington, the most critical period of the nation's history. I saw and heard many things that have never found their way into the public pnrs Some of the bodyguard were constantly with the president and his ramify, whether at fashionable levees, receptions to foreign legations or private interviews. At all such functions we were silent spectators of all that

place. We were always treated with the hlgh-

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garaea us as a part of the household. Every private of the guard received the same attentlsns of courtesy as the most famous statesman or diplomat at the capital. We all formed a strong personal attachment for tho presi

dent ana wnen the grand o d man laid rtn-

hls life In behalf of the cause that bad been &Is life work we felt as If we had lost the dearest friend we ever had. During the first two years of our term of service the most rigid discipline was enforced. Sometimes we would be ordered to use extraordinary vigilance and to let no one enter the grounds of the White House without the proper passes and to be very particular as to who approached the president. Often the order would come for te guards on duty to be doubled. It was seldom that he knew the direct cause of these extra precautions, but we supposed that the officers of the secret service were In possession of information of some plot that brooded harm to the president Up to 1S64. owing to our vigilance and the protecting hand of Providence, our beloved chief had escaped tho hand of violence. The back of the confederacy was broken, a good feeling; pervaded all Washington and consequently the strict watchfulness that had prevailed grew Into laxity. This was the fatal period, for It was at this time that conspiracies were batched and confederates overran the city, comparatively unmolested. The president and family spent the summer at the soldier's home, situated about three miles north of the city, and thither the bodyguard always accompanied them. It was in the summer of 1864. while we were up at the home, that an Incident happened that came very near culminating in Just such an awful tragedy as followed only a few months later nt Ford's theater. It was the custom of the president to remain late at the war department when anything of great Importance was happening In the army, consulting: with the secretary of war and transmitting and receiving dispatches, and after his work was finished he would ride out to the soldiers' home. That summor he had persistently refused an escort. Imagining himself perfectly secure One night about the middle of August I was doing sentry duty at the large gate through which entrance was had Into the grounds at the home. The place Is situated about a quarter of a mile off the Bladensburg road and Is reached by a devious driveway. About one o'clock 1 beard a rifle shot In the direction of the city and shortly afterward rould bear approaching hoofbeats. In two or three minutes the horse came near enough so that in the dim moonlight I recognized the rldei us the belated presided. The horse, a

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very spirited one, belonging to Lamon. the marshal of the District of Columbia, was Mr. Lincoin's favorite saddle animal and when he was In the White House stables he always chose him. As horse and rid

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gate I noticed that the president was

bareheaded. After I bad assslted him In checking bis steed the president said to me: "He came pretty near getting away with me. dldnt he? He took the bit In his toeth before I could draw the reins." I then asked him where his hat was and he replied that somebody had fired a gun off down at the foot of the hill, which scared his horse, and the lurch of the animal toppled his hat off. I led the horse to the cottage where the president and his family was staying. There he dismounted and went In. Thinking the proceeding a little strange, a corporal and I started In the direction from which the report of the gun had been heard, to Investigate When we came to the place where the driveway meets the main road we found the president's hat-a plain silk hatand on examining it found n bullet nolo through the corner of the crown. The shot had been fired upward and It was evident that the person who had fired It had secreted himself close to the roadside. Wo listened and searched the locality thoroughly, but to no avail The next day I gave Mr. Lincoln his hat and called his attention to the bullet hole. He unconcernedly remarked that It was put there by somo foolish gunner and was not Intended for him. Ho said, however, that ho wanted the matter kept quiet and admonished us to say nothing about IL Tho next fall, after we had taken up our winter quarters at the White House, a conspiracy to kidnap the president was unknowingly frustrated by us. Had the truth of the affair leaked out at tho time It doubtless would have created great excitement. Our quarters were Immediately In front of the south porch of tho Executive Manslon, a position which placed us at about equal dlstanco from the treasury building on the cast and the war and navy building on the west. For reasons at the time unknown to us we were ordered to move our guard tent and place it at the west end of the gravel walk, directly in tho rear of the war department. While we stayed there nothing occurred to arouse suspicion. Shortly afterward we learned, however, that on the very night after we had moved the tent the confederates had a plan laid to capture the president The conspirators wcro to hide In the shrubbery and when tho president came along

tho walk they were to seize, gag and carry him across the river into Virginia. Thence ho was to be taken to Richmond or somo other confederate stronghold, where he was to be held as a hostage. The members of the bodyguard always supposed that tho conspirators were frightened away when they saw our guard tent and abandoned tho plan of kidnapping. Not long after the attempted kidnapping another eplsodo took place, which afterward was found to have been planned by a band of assassins who made their headquarters In the city Ilourke. tho veternn coachman, who had served at tho White House through Pierce's and Buchanan's administrations and thus far Into Lincoln's, was taken sick and compelled to be off duty. Immediately a stranger, who represented himself as an experienced coachman from Baltimore, applied nt the White House and was employed as coachman. From the first ho was domineering and after a few weeks became so Important that ho was discharged and Bourke reinstated. Ono night shortly afterward, Just about dusk, the discharged coachman was seen sneaking around tho stables by somo of tho guard. Tho stables had been locked for tho night nnd It was not supposed that ho could do any damngo and consequently the men who saw him did not go to the stables. Presently the whole Interior of the barns was found to bo on flro. The guard was called out and by dint of great exertion wo saved tho president's conch and team, but Tad Lincoln's ponies and Col. Hay's carrlago team perished In tho flnnics. The plan was to havo this man flro tho stables and thus to distrnct our attention. During thp excitement some of the conspirators were ready to rush into the Whito House and murder tho president, but instead of remnlnlng In the house Mr. Lincoln ran out among us and thus In all probability frustrated another attempt at assassination. What makes this appear moro likely now Is ! the fact that, after the Incendiary was arrested I ho produced several witnesses, who later found employment at Ft,rd'a theater, to testify that he ' was down In the city during tho wholo of the ! evening. These wero tho persons who doubtless ' planned tho final conspiracy that brought the i great benefactor to the grave.

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