Modern persecution, or insane asylums unveiled, as demonstrated by the Report of the Investigating Committee of the Legislature of Illinois / by Mrs .E. P. W. Packard.

  • Packard, E. P. W. (Elizabeth Parsons Ware), 1816-1897.
Date:
1873
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Credit: Modern persecution, or insane asylums unveiled, as demonstrated by the Report of the Investigating Committee of the Legislature of Illinois / by Mrs .E. P. W. Packard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    ■will deserve honor, and you will have it. But if you become my persecutor and go against me, as Deacon Smith desires, you ■will deserve dishonor, and you will surely get it. Don't fall into this fatal snare, which the evil one has surely laid for you. He construed my earnestness into anger, and thrust me from him, determining to risk this result at all hazards. From that fatal time, all good influences, seemed to have for- saken him, and he left to pursue his downward way, with no power to resist evil or flee from the tempter. Eeason, con- science, judgment, prudence, consistency and affection, all, all directly sunk into the fatal sleep of stupidity or death. From that point, I have never had a protector in my hus- band. He has only been my persecutor! In a few weeks from that time, he forcibly entombed me within the massive walls of Jacksonville Asylum prison, to rise no more, if he could pre- vent it. He told me he did this, to give the impression, that I was insane, so that my opinions need not be believed, for, said he, I must protect the cause of Christ!