. . . . Jim Lane came into my room this morning and said the
President must now chiefly guard against assassination. I pooh-poohed him, and
said that while every prominent man was more or less exposed to the attacks of
maniacs, no foresight could guard against them. He replied by saying that he
had, by his caution and vigilance, prevented his own assassination when a reward
of a hundred thousand dollars had been offered for his head. . . . .
SOURCES: Clara B. Hay, Letters of John Hay and
Extracts from Diary, Volume 1, p. 194; see Michael Burlingame & John R.
Turner Ettlinger, Editors, Inside Lincoln’s
White House: The Complete Civil War Diary of John Hay, p. 195-6 for the
full diary entry.
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