was
Abraham Lincoln.

When those young Southern bloods had conspired with their co-patriot to
his downfall, had instigated and accomplished his assassination, and when
he appeared in their midst, the simple, unaffected, _uncrafty_ man that
he was, a revulsion of feeling immediately took place.

The liberal party in the spirit world, friends to humanity and progress,
could have prevented his removal had they wished; but not desiring to do
so, they prepared his mind by dreams and visions for what was about to
take place.

For a short time in the spirit world he held the position of Pacificator
and chief ruler over that portion of the American, spirit world
represented by the North and South.

But after averting this peril, which would have involved the States in
anarchy and war such as they had not yet experienced, he retired to
private life.

Another instance, proving that the inhabitants of the spirit world, like
their great prototype, the Creator, do not look at immediate distress,
but at the advantages that may accrue therefrom, presents itself in my
removal from the sphere in which I had probably worked out all that would
be useful to humanity.

Like a _charge d'affaires_ called back to Washington because he can
fill a better post, so I, through the solicitations of relatives and
fellow-citizens who have preceded me to this new world, was called here
for the purpose of editing a journal and assisting in ameliorating the
condition of the inhabitants of the Southern States, and also to use my
influence in the Congress and Senate at Washington toward producing a
better comprehension of their needs.

I have one thing to say to my brother journalist, Horace Greeley, and
that is that the Utopian ideas which have for so many years formed the
principal topic of his radical sheet are here put in operation.

Each one seems desirous of cooperating with his neighbor, and people of
like tastes and feelings associate together and live in vast communities
or cities. They do not settle down to one routine, as they do with you.
The cost of travelling depending chiefly on the will and energy of the
individual, the inhabitants are ever in motion, ever ready for a change,
if wisdom or pleasure should dictate it. The condition of the common
people is vastly improved, and America has been the chief agent in
placing the lower classes in a condition which adapts them to a higher
spiritualized life. I say lower classes, because un