TWO YEARS AND FOUR MONTHS
IN A
LUNATIC ASYLUM,
To December 20th, 1865.
1868.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
| Pg. | |
| Preface. | 3 |
| Chapter I. | 11 |
| Chapter II. | 26 |
| Chapter III. | 39 |
| Chapter IV. | 59 |
| Chapter V. | 99 |
| Chapter VI. | 114 |
| Chapter VII. | 140 |
| Chapter VIII. | 168 |
| Testimonials. | 183 |
PREFACE.
I have been urged ever since I left the Asylum, byfriends, to write my history of those two unfortunateyears, and give it to the public. This I did purposeto do while I was in the asylum, as soon as I left it,while all things would be fresh in my memory. Butafter leaving that place, and mingling again with theworld and with my friends, the very thought of thesubject sickened me, for I desired to think and talkas little about the matter as possible.
Besides this, in eighteen months after I left theasylum I entered upon the regular work of the ministryagain, and did not wish, while in the effectivework of the ministry, to mix with it the history ofthose two unhappy years, of which I knew, the publichad no adequate conception; and which, if I shouldwrite out faithfully, would develop facts which manywould disbelieve, while others would only laugh atthem, as freaks of my insanity, and not as sobertruths.
Another reason which has deterred me from givingto the world the history of those two years, is thefact, that a numb