BKBrOBD PA„ FRIDAY, APRILS, 1865.
THIS LESSON AND THE DUTY OF
THE DAY.
The President of the United States has
perished by the hand of an assassin. It
was not personal motive, it was not private
revenge, which prompted this deed.of blood
It was partisan hate, it was political feroci
ty, which stirred the assassin's heart, and
raised his parricidal hand. It was the same
diabolical spirit which beat down Sumuer in
the Senate chamber, which murdered and
pillaged in Kansas, which conspired for the
assassination of Mr. Lincoln on his way to
the capital, which poured shot and shell in
* Fort Sumter, which fought with our
troops in the streets of Baltimore, which
butchered the garrison of Fort Pillow,
which wrought the atrocities of Quantrell
in the streets of Lawrence, and which star
ved eur soldiers in southern prisons. Noth
ing but the fiendish malignity which slavery
begets could contrive and effect the murder
ofthe Chief Magistrate in the presence of his
wife, and aim a bowie-knife at the throat of
an old man stretched on a sick bed and en
feebled by wounds. Slavery, after having
filled the land with war, and mourning, and
lamentation, now in its death agony com
pletes the record of its infamy by the most
brutal assassination. This is the lesson of
the day.
What are its duties? They are first to
take care of the republic. The succession
of the Presidential office is amply provided
for by the constitution And the laws. There
can be no interregnum. The functions of
the magistracy are silently transmitted from
one person to another. The office never
dies; there is a living hand always to bear
it. It is one of the felicities of our polit
ical system, that office can never fell into the
hands of a child. There is always a man
for it, chosen beforehand of the people.
And while it is a mistake to suppose that
the personal character of the officer has not
much to do with the administration of the
office, it is nevertheless true that the Presi
dent is so hedged about with other indepen
dent authorities, and these are all so res
ponsible to the people, that the real safety
of the people is after all in their own
hands.
There is, moreover, an influence of public
opinion, all-pervading and all-powerful, by
which our Government, more than any oth
er, is swayed, .and which proportionately
lessens the importance of any individual
man, however pure and wise. Mr. Lincoln
had the wisdom to study and the sagacity
to follow public opinion, which was, in fact,
the great secret of his marvellous succete.
His successor must follow his example, and
the pohey which he pursues must be the
policy indicated by the nation's matured
thought and will.
Besides all these, we have an element of
vitality which no other Government enjoys.
This lies in the state sovereignties, for sov
ereignties we prefer to call them, qualified
though they be. With them rests especial
ly the conservation of order and the protec- j
tion of private rights. It is owing to them
and to the vast power which they have ex
ited for the equipoise of the political iorces
the dreadful strain of this civil war. To
these great powers we may confidently look
hereafter for the balance of our system, and
that the heresy of secession and the extrav
agance of paramount state rights are gener
ally condemned and laid aside.
Taking courage from these reflections, let
us give a generous confidence to the new
President, upon whom is devolved, in this
hour of our bereavement, the great trust of
his honored and lamented predecessor.—
Graver responsibilities have rarely fallen
upon man. In an instant the task is put
upon him of composing the greatest civil
war in history, after the principal battles
have been fought, but while the elements
are yet in disorder. Let us give him our
confidence and our counsel. He is at once
our Chief Magistrate and our servant. The
responsibility is more with us than with
him. Let us confide in him and act with
him.
Another of the duties of the day is to
search out and punish the assassins and all
their aiders and abettors, whoever and
wherever they may be. A crime like this
must not go unpunished; but let everything
be done according to law. All irregular vio
lence is itself a crime, whether animated by
one man or by a conclave of conspirators, or
by a mob. The country has its laws for the
Government of all its people, and he or they
who infringe them by tumult or a breach of
the peace, rebel against the nation. Let us
be resolute and inflexible, but let us be or
derly and oalni.
TREATMENT OF THE REBEL LEA
DERS.
Those persons who are simple enough to
believe that Gen. Lee and the other rebel
leaders, military or civil, will be converted
into good Union citizens, by any conciliatory
measures, do not understand the character
nor the feelings of such arch traitors. The
, favorable terms granted to them by General
Grant have already been broken by them in
the spirit, if not In the letter of the terms of
capitulation. The letter writers from Rich
mond and Baltimore, speak of the unquali
fied impudence of some of the rebel officers
wearing their swords and some of them
loaded pistols, and all their uniforms, with
a strut and bluster as if they still had the
power to make their own will the law of the
land. Kindness is thrown away upon such
men. They have such an overweening idea
of their own importance, that they act as if
they believed that it was to their own merit
tliat a concession was made when they were
allowed to surrender, and not out of compas
sion to their weakness.
When they are treated as a conquered
people, and are made to feel that they are
rebels, and their lives depend upon the mer
cy of the Government , and that those who
show by their actions that they have aot re
pented of their treason will suffer the pen
alty of the law as traitors, then, and not be
fore, will their impudence be restrained, and
they either be content to remain in ob
scurity pursuing some honest employment,
or leave a.country to which they have been
a disgrace & ed a curse.
€kn. LeeiAwowEoeption. His education
at the expense of the United States at West
Point, and his association with Northern
men, has given him tire manners of a gentle
man, and prevents him from showing the
bravado and vulgar insolence so prevalent
aiaoßg his officers. In principle 'he is no
better than the worst of the rebels in the
South, or their sympathisers in the North.
Gen. Lee is equally responsible with Jeff
Davis for the treatment our soldiers received
when captured as prisoners of war *by the
army under his command. He knew the
treatment to which they were subjected in
Libby Prison, Castle Thunder and Belle
Island. We have no evidence that he ever
objected to it, and year after year, as his
army was successful in taking prisoners,
ivhich by the laws of war he was bound and
g-overened as every other civilized man, to
treat with all the kindness consistent with
security from escape, he delivered over to be
treated with an inhumanity which has no
parallel in the annals of civilized
No one can believe that if Gen. Lee desired
t hat our prisoners should have been treated
ovlherwis j, it would not have been done.
Will any of his admirers deny he could not
ha tie prevented the colored soldiers taken in
bat* "le from being sent to work upon the for
tifications near Richmond, and yet that was
done and persisted in until some of the F.
F. V's. in our hands as prisoners, were sub
ject in retalliation to like treatment by Gen.
Butler. When two of our officers had been
piaced r.n dungeons in Richmond and or
dered that the son of Gen. Lee and another
F. F. V., then our prisoners of war, be held
as hostages, and notified Jeff Davis that
they would be treated in the same manner
as he should treat the Union officers, Gen.
Lee had the Union officers released. What
his affection 'as a father could induce him to
do to save hit own son, his duty as a soldier
a General and a man, should have induced
him to do for the prisoners-of-war taken in
battle by men under hiscommand, and whom'
he knew were subjected to the torture of
slow starvation, and the most inhuman treat
ment, and even butchered in cold blood.
He has never shown by his conduct or his
orders that what was done to our prisoners
has ever been disapproved of by him, and it
is too late now, when his power to do evil
has been broken, to deny his participation
in the guilt, nor avoid the infamy which
must forever cling to him as one who de
liberately allowed his prisoners-of-war to be
subjected to a treatment that would surely
and certainly lead to imbecility, disease and
death.
The rebels in the South and the Copper
heads in the North, may extol Gen. Lee a3
the finest soldier of their so called Confeder
acy, and a most gallant gentleman, but ev
ery right thinking man and the civilized
world, will consider such terms when ap
plied to him, in the same light as the term
"first gentleman in Europe" that the admi
rers of George IV, applied to him in his
life time, but who is now condemed as one
of the greatest brutes and most heartless
scoundrels that ever disgraced a throne.—
Miner's Journal.
THE REBEL REFUGEES IN THE PROVIN
CES. —Those who bold tlie leaders and agents
of the rebellion entirely guiltless of compli-
VJ* - ,TT * * • AW*VU"
** The editor of that journal not
only repeats his assertion, that the leading
rebels of Toronto—with a "Southern cler
gyman" at their head—held a carousal in
honor of the assassination, but he adds that
those of the rebels that did not participate
in the debauch, were unable to conceal their
satisfaction at hearing that President Lin
coln had been murdered. The public opin
ion of the resident population compelled a
chaDge in their tone. But the first impulse
of th J ruffians was one of eutire concurrence
in the justice and righteousness of the mur
derer's act. Everything, indeed, goes to
prove thai the *oi-disant peace agents were
so far privy to the conspiracy against the
President's life, that they have all along
freely predicted his murder. It is impor
tant that these facts should be borne in mind
in settling the limits of any future amnesty.
The . rebel cut-throats who have been em
ployed to hatch schemes of roberry and
murder against us on foreign soil—the
Thompsons, the Slidells, the Sanderses, the
Masons, the Burleys and the Youngs—
clearly rank with the class of outlaws whose
crimes can neither be condoned nor forgot
ten.
A UNITED PEOPLE. —It really seems as if
the sacrifice of Abraham Lincoln's life was
providentially ordered, to bring about per
fect unanimity among the people of this
country. All partisan feeling has ceaeed
among us. Evei 7 house in the land is a
house of mourning". The and uni
versal grief has ma de us all brothers, sor
rowing as for the lot is of a beloved father.
The consciences of tnose who once derided
and .abused Abraham' Lincoln have been
sorely smitten, and we believe there is a sin
cere determination that the head of the gov
ernment, in a time of civil war, shall no lon
ger be the object of partisan opposition.
President Johnson, judging by present ap
pearances, will be supported by the people
with a degree nf unanimity unknown since
the time of Washington. The plotters of
the late infamous crime have brought about
a result they could never have dreamed of.
They have united the loyal people as they
have never been united before. In all meas
ures necessary to finish the work of Presi
dent Lincoln, President Johnson will have
the support of all parties.— Phila. Bulletin.
PRESIDENT JOHNSO.N'S ADDRESSES.—
Nothing could be more appropriate and be
coming, in tone and sentin'ent, than the ad
dresses which Mr. Johnson has been called
on to make since the duties t'f the Presiden
cy devolved upon him. Thep are weighty
in manner and in matter. 1 hey indicate
unmistakably that solemn sense of responsi
bility which is the best guarantee for the
faithful discharge of his high trust. His
reserve in speaking of specific acts of admin
istration is especially considerate and wise.
In declaring that he shall act upon each
question as it may arise, and as it may at the
time seem best, he lays down the golden
rule of all wise statesmanship and givea
strong assurance that the government will
be administered with strict regard to the
practical necessities and emergencies of the
hour.
CAPTURE OF ALZEROTT.—A dispatch
from Gen. Tyler, at the Relay House, Md.,
announces without qualification that George
Alzerott, one of the accomplices of Booth in
the assinatioa of the President, has been
captured. He is said to have been identi-
fieo.
Alzerott, sometimes called Port Tobacco,
is described as one of Booth's accomplices,
in the order of and a re
ward of twenty-five thousand dollars was of
fered for him. ■ Although it would be more
gratifying to announce the capture of the
chief criminal, there is much gratification in
this. If the arrest and charge are proven,
the machinery of the crime may expect rev
elation ; so that the great mystery which now
annoys us will all be cleared up. And hav
ing one of those who are charged as acces
sories or principles, there is more encour
agement that the prime criminall will be ta
ken.
In answer to an address by a delegation of
the Sons of Vermont who waited on him on
Saturday, the President said, "He would
say to the wealthy traitor, you must pay the
penalty of your treason; and on the other
side, to the misguided thousands who have
been deluded and deceived, many of whom
have paid the penalty with their lives and
limbs, conciliation, forbearance, and clem
ency."
HafSecretary Stanton has offered a re
ward of $50,000 for the arrest of the mur
derer of ihe President, and $25,000 each for
the capture of G. A. Alzerott and David C.
Harold, two of Booth's accomplices. Gov.
Curtin has offered a reward of SIO,OOO for
the arrest of Booth within the State of Pen
sylvania.
fisaf'Evidcnce accumulates of their having
been a regular conspiracy to assassinate Vice
President Johnson and every member ofthe
cabinet. Many of the conspirators are known
to the authorities, and as soon as it can pru
dently be done, their names will be given to
ihe public*
The Funeral Ceremonies
Of our lamented President took place at
Washington on Wednesday last, and were
the most imposing ever seen in the Capital.
The time schedule for the transportation
of the body to Springfield, Illinois, the for
mer home of the President, is as follows :
Leave Washington, April 21, 8 a. m.
Arrive at Baltimore, April 21, 10 a. m.
Leave Baltimore, April 21, 3 p. m.
Arrive at Harrisburg, April 21, 820 p. m.
Leave Harrisburg, April 22. 11a.m.
Arrive at Philadelphia, April 22, 4 30 p. m.
Leave Philadelphia, April 24, 4 a. m.
Arrive at New York, April 24, 10 a. m.
Leave New York, April 25, 4 p. m.
Arrive at Albany, April 25, 11 p. m.
Leave Albany. April 26. 4. p. m.
Arrive at Buffalo, April 27, 7 a. m.
Leave Buffalo, April 27, 10 10 a. m.
Arrive at Cleveland, April 28, 7 am.
Leave. Cleveland, April 28. midnight.
Arrive at Columbus, April 29, 7- 30 a. m.
Leave Columbus, April 29, 8 p. m.
Arrive at Indiannapolis, April 30, 7 a. m.
Leave Indiannapolis. April 30. midnight
Arrive at Chicago. May 1, 11 a. m.
Leave Chicago, May 2, 9:30 p. m.
Arrive at Springfield. May 3, a. ni.
Thus far the schedule has been strictly ad
hered to. .
Al TTa!-•;.Sntnnlai; 1...< .1
thousands viewed the remains in the Hall of
the House of Representatives.
In Independence iHall, Philadelphia, it
was estimated that 187,000 people looked
upon the body.
CONCERNING THE ASSASSIN A TION.
LYNCH LAW.— Five Confederate deserters,
who had taken the oath of allegiance, were
lynched and hung at Indianapolis on the 15th,
for expressing pleasure at the assassination
of President Lincoln.
A SOUTHERN GIRL at school at Saratoga
was expelled last Saturday for saying that
was the happiest day of her life.
CASUALTY.— Andrew Bailey and William
Crosby were almost instantly killed in Wil
li&msburgh by the premature discharge of a
cannon, with which they were firing a salute
in memory of the President.
AT New Haven, on Saturday, a* party of
soldiers marched over to Fairhaven, where a
treason-talker lived, called him out, and made
him give a formal bond of $3,800 to appear
when wanted, and then returned to camp.
HARVEY FORD, an old man in New Haven,
was very much effected by the news of Presi
dent Lincoln s decease, and after appearing
much depressed all duy, he dropped dead in
the evening.
CHARI.ES A. BOYD, Esq., of North Provi
dence, R. 1., desires to be oneof one hundred
persons who will offer an additional reward
of one hundred thousand dollars for the ar
rest of the murderer of Abraham Lincoln.
W i find this remarkable paragraph in a
Western paper: "About eight miles from
Shelbyville, Indiana, is the little town of Ma
rietta, a place noted for nothing in particular,
save the virulent type of copperheadism pre
vailing there. The reception of the dreadful
news from Washington set the honest Dem
ocrats thereabouts crazy with joy. In the
absence of a cannon they loaded and fired an
anvil repeatedly, shouted, danced, sang, and
in every possible manner gave expression to
their demoniac joy, after which they construc
ted an effigy of President Lincoln, with a rude
representation of the bullet-hole in his head,
which they carried about the streets, a big
ruffian following, and ringing a bell. The
effigy was afterward burnt."
AT Camp Burnside, Indianopolis, on Wed
nesday, asoldiei of the Forty-third remarked
that he would "have a hoe-down" over the
news of President Lincoln's assassination,
and began frisking around, and indulging in
extravagant demonstrations of joy. His com
rades swung him up by the neck, so that his
toes just touched the ground, and kept him
there until he was black in the face, and his
spirit was just fluttering on the borders of
eternity. Others who expressed their grati
fication at the news were served likewise.
Five, in all, were elevated.
A NOTORIOUS copperhead living in the vi
cinity of W aterbury, on hearing of the Presi
dent's death displayed a flag with the words,
'•'The Devil is dead," upon it A party of
young men proceeded to the residence of the
scoundrel, and made a demand for the flag.
The man denied having exhibited any; where
upon a rope was fastened about his neck and
he was threatehed with hanging unless he
"showed his colors." He still stuck to the
denial, but as he felt the halter drawn tighter
about his neck he confessed his infamy and
brought out lhe flag. After giving him a
thrashing his visitors withdrew.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN!
J.WILKES BOOTH KILLED!
HARROLD CAPTURED!
ST. MARYS COUNTY, MD,
THE PLACE OF REFUCE.
Mpccial Dispatch to the Bedford Inquirer.
WASHINGTON, April 27, 9:30 A. 31.
Muj. Gen. Dix„ A'c York:
J. Wilkes Booth aud Ilarrold were chased
from the swamps in St. Mary'scounty. Md.,
to Gammill's farm near Port Royal ou the
Rappahannock by Col. Baker's force. The
barn in which they took refuge was fired.
Booth was shot and killed, and Harrold cap
tured. Booth's body and Ilarrold are now
here.
E. M. STANTON.
SPEECH OF PRESIDENT JOHNSON.
The Crime of Treason and it* Punishment
The following is a full report of the speech
of President Johnson, delivered at Wash
ington on Tuesday, week in reply to an ad
dress from the Illinois delegation :
"Gentlemen: I have listened with pro
found emotion to the kind words you have
addressed to mc. The visit of this large
delegation to speak to me through you, sir,
these words of encouragement I had not
anticipated. In the midst of the saddening
circumstances which surround us and the
immense responbility thrown upon me, an
expression of the confidence of individuals,
and still more of an influential body like that
before me, representing a great common
wealth, oheers and strengthens my heavily
burdened mind. I am at loss for words to res
pond. In an hour like this of deepest sor
row, were it possible to embody in words the
feeling of my bosom, I could not command
my lips to utter them. Perhaps the best
reply I could make, and the one most readi
ly appropriate to your kind assurances of
confidence would be to receive them in si
lence. [Sensation. ] The throbbing of my
heart since the sad catastroyhe which has ap
palled us, cannot be reduced to words ; and
oppressed as I am with the new and great
responsibility which has devolved upon and
saddeued me with grief, 1 can with difficul
ty respond to you at all. But I cannot per
mit such expressions of the confidence re
posed in me by the people to pass without
acknowledgement.
' 'To an individual like myself, who has
never claimed much, but who has, it is true,
received from a generous people many marks
of trust and honor, for a long time, an occa
sion like this, and a manifestation of public
feeling^so well-timed, are peculiarly accepta
ble. hprung from the people myself, every
pulsation of the popular heart finds an im
mediate answer in my own. By many men
in public life such occasions are often consid
ered merely formal. To me they are real.
Your words of countenance and encourage
ment sink deep in my heart; and were I
even a coward I could not but gather from
them strength to carry out ray convictions
of the right Thus feeling, I shall enter up
on the discharge of my great duty firmly,
steadfastly [applause], if not with the sig
nal ability exhibited by my predecessor,
which is still fresh in our sorrowing minds.
Need I repeat that no heart feels more sen
sibly than mine this great affliction.
"In what I say on this occasion, I shall
indulge in no petty spirit of anger, no feeling
ot revenge. But we have beheld a notable
event in the history" of mankind. In the
midst of the American people, where everv
mmß,^iteibVea'
assassinated ; and when we trace this crime
to its cause, when we remember the source
whence the as.-a.-sin drew his inspiration,
and then look at the result, we stand yet'
more astounded at this most barbarous, most
diabolical assassination. Such a crime n.
the murder of a great and good man. honor
ed and revered, the beloved and the hope
of the people, springsnot alone from a soli
tary individual of ever so desperate wicked
ness. We can trace its cause through suc
cessive step*, without my enumerating them
here, back to that so tree which is the cause
of all our wot-.-. No ne can say that if the
perpetrator of this fierdish deed be arrested
he should not undergo the extremest penal
ty the law knows for (Time; none will say
that mercy should iiterp.ise. But is he
alone guilty ?
"Here, gentlemen j>u perhaps expect me
to present some indication of ray future pol
icy. One thing 1 wil say. Kverv era teach
es its lesson. The tines we live 'in are not
without instruction, The American people
must be taught;—it' thy do not already feel
—that treason is a criie and must be pun
ished [ applause]; thathe Government will
not always bear with fc enemies; that it is
strong not only to profcet hut to punish.—
! Applause, j Wheu v turn to the criminal
code and examine thecataiogue of crimes,
we there find arson laj laid down as a crime
with its appropriate jiialty ; we find there
theft and robbery, ad murder given as
crimes; and there, tc| we find the last and
highest of crimes—fason. [Applause j
With other and inferr offenses our people
are familiar ; but in ur peaceful history
treason has been albst unknown. The
people must understal that it is the black
est of crimes, and wilte surely punished,
i Applause. J
"i make this ailurii, not to excite the
already exasperated fsngs of the public
but to point out the pjciples of public jus
tice which should guicl our action at this
particular juncture, afwhich accord with
souud public morals. Let it be engraven
on every heart that trton is a crime, and
traitors shall suffer itfjenalty. [Applause]
While we are appalleipverwhelmed at the
fall of one man in ourtidst by the hand of
a traitor, shall we alio men—l care not bv
what weapons—to atipt the lite of the
state with impunity? V bile we strain our
minds to comprehend i enormity of this
assasasination, shall wllow the nation to
be assassinated ?
•'I speak in no spi of unkindness. I
leave the events of thdture to be disposed
of as they arise, regang myself as the
humble instrument ot* American people.
I n this, as in all thingistiee and judgment
shall be determined bieiu. Ido not har
bor bitter or revengeiWlings toward any
In general terms, I Wd say that public
morals and public opin should be estab
lished upon the sure i inflexible princi
ples of justice. [A>use.] AVhen the
question of exercisingercy comes before
me, it will lie conside calmly, judicially
remembering that I abe Executive of the
nation. I know that n love to have their
names spoken of i| cipction with acts of
mercy, and how easy $ to yield to this im- !
pulse. But we mitt forget that what
may be mercy to tie dividual, is cruelty
to the state [AriU.] In the exercise
of mercy, there sbubc no doubt left that
the high prerogotfc hot used to relive a
few at the expend/lie many. Be assur
ed 1 shall never f<t that I am not to con
sult my own fecliftlone, but to give an
account to the wj people. [Applause.]
•In regard to future course I will now
make no professi/ no pledges. I have
been connected sivhat actively with pub
lic affairs, and tof history of my public
acts, which is fair to you, I refer for
those principles fch have governed me
heretofore, and %uide me hereafter.
In general I will f have long labored for
the amelioration lelevation of the great
mass of mankinJly opinions as to the
nature of populjoverument have long
been cherished, and, constituted as I alii, it
is now too late in life for me to change them.
"I believe that Government was made for
man. not man for Government. [Applause, j
This struggle of the people against the most
gigantic rebellion the world ever saw, has
demonstrated that the attachment of the
people to their Government is the strongest
national defence human wisdom can devise,
j Applause. | So long as man feels that the
interests of the Government are his inter
ests, so long as the public heart turns in the
right direction, ana the people understand
and appreciate the theory of our Govern
ment, and love liberty, our constitution will
be transmitted unimpaired. If the time ev
er comes when the people shall fail, the
Government will fail, and we shall eease to
be one of the nations of the earth.
"After having preserved our form of free
Government, and shown its power to main
tain its existence through the vicissitudes of
nearly a century, It may be that it was nec
essary for us to pass through this last or
deal of intestine strife to prove that this
Government will not perish from internal
weakness, hut will stand to defend itself
against all foes and punish treason. [Ap
flause.] In the dealings of an unscrutahle
'ro vide nee, and by the operation of the
constitution, I have been thrown unexpect
edly into this position.
"My past life, especially my course during
the present unholy rebellion, is before you.
I have no principles to retract. I defy any
one to point to any of my public acts at va
riance with the fixed principles which have
guided me through life. I have no profes
sions to offer. Professions and promises
would be worth nothing at this time. No
one can foresee the circumstances that will
hereafter arise. Had any man gifted with
prescience lour years ago, uttered and writ
ten down in advance the events of this pe
riod, the story would have seemed more
marvellous than anything in the ' 'Arabian
Nights.'' I shall not attempt to anticipate
the future. As events occur and it becomes
necessary for men to act, I shall dispose of
each as it arise, deferring any declaration or
message until it can be written paragraph
by paragraph in the light of events as they
transpire.
A CHAPTER OF RECENT HISTORY.
President Lincoln and the Tirglnia Rebels.
SECRETARY SEWARD'S CONDITION
President Johnson-
THE PLOT OF THE ASSASSINS.
From the N. Y. Tribune.
WASHINGTON, April 20, 1865.
The following is the history of the author
ity recently given for the assembling of the
Rebel Legislature of Virginia:
While President Lincoln was in Richmond
he was waited upon by Judge John A.
Campbell, who observed :
"I had an interview with Jefferson Davis,
Benjamin and Breckinridge just before they
left, and said to them : "The military pow
er of the Confederacy is broken. Its inde
pendence is hopeless. It only remains lor
as to make the best terms we can. The
trouble is, the President of the United
States cannot enter into negotiation with
you; but he does recognize the States, and
can confer with their regular authorities.
Under the doctrine of State Rights, so uni
versally held in the South, the troops from
Virginia—the Confederate Government be
ing a fngitive—will recognize the right of
the Virginia Legislature to control them. —
If you, Mr. Lincoln, will permit that body
to convene, it will doubtless recall them
from the field."
Campbell's arguments for this course were
many and specious. The President was ac
tuated by his absorbing desire for peace to
listen attentively; but he said :
'Judge Campbell let us have no misun-
D.atfk hffii wniid. uiy ou.y
immediately wrote the same propositions
winch Mr. Seward took from him to the
Hampton Roads Conference:
11. No retraction of Executive or Con
greessional action on the subject of Slavery.
111. r*o armistice.
To these be added a forth condition, that,
it leading Confederates still persisted in the
war, now it had become so utterlv hope
less their property should be relentlessly
confiscated.
Campbell prayed for a modification of
third article, but the President was im
movable. He said:
"We will not negotiate with men as long
as they are fighting against us. The last
election established this as the deliberate
determinition of the country."
On the steamboat which brought Mr.
Linco.n down the James River, he wrote
this order to Gen. Weitzel:
•"Youwiil permit the persons who call
themselves the Virginia Legislature to con
vene in Richmond, for the purpose of with
drawing the Virginia troops from the Rebel
army; but you will not allow them to use
any treasonable language, or adopt any trea
sonable measures."
Without consulting with any person
whatever, or advising any one of its con
tents, he sealed this document, and sent it
to General Weitzel by a United States Sen
ator.
But ou the very day of his death, he re
ceived a letter from Judge Campbell, tinged
with the usual Rebel iusolence, ignoring al
together the proposition which the Presi
dent had made to him in writing and ur"-
nig : b
"It is true that the military power of the
Confederacy is destroyed, but the spirit of
the Southern people still remains unbroken,
it yoif want to conciliate them, it will be
wise for you to grant an armistice, and nec
essary foi you to treat leniently their lead
. 'lie and seek their assistance !"
1 his was too much even for Mr Lincoln's
good nature. He characterized Campbell's
course as ungrateful and outrageous. "Mean
while, the capitulation of General Lee ob
viated the necessity of convening the Rebel
Legislature, and he sent an order counter
! mandiag the call.
One of the President's last official acts
was a deed of mercy towards his enemies.
He expressly stated that he meant to give
the leading Confederates an opportunity to
leave the country. This telegram from
-I ortland came to Washington :
. Beverly Tucker and Jacob Thompson
will be here to-morrow in disguise, to leave
on the steamer for Europe. What shall we
do r
Mr. Lincoln directed the authorities to let
them go. A few hours later he fell by the
assassin s bullet, and beside his death-bed a
member of the Cabinet countermanded that
order. Fortunately for their own lives,
Thompson and Tucker did not come into
the United States after the conspirators had
murdered the only man who could have sav
ed them from their doom.
Mr. Seward exhibits wonderful vitality
but his physicians have little hope that his
mouth will ever recover its symmetry It
is likely to be awry, and probably power will
be Jacking entirely to close the lower jaw
Several days since the Secretary, with char
acteristic unselfishness wrote upon a slate •
lor myself I care nothing; but the people
should have been more watchful for their
President
Evidence disclose that there were ten con
spirators in the plot; that at a meeting held
in Memphis they selected by lot the assas
sin of the President. Our authorities have
a letter which says: "It becomes your hap
py lot to destroy this tyrant. You can se
lect the cup, the blade or the bullet; but
yon know the cup ha, once bom tried, and it
failed.
The unhappy lady—the daughter of a
Aew-tngland benator—to whom Both wafc
affiatK*>d, is plunged in profoundest grief;
but with womanly fidelity, is slow to believe
him guilty of this appalling crime, and asks
#ith touching pathos, for evidence of his
innocence.
President Johnson wisely determines to
show the world, that in spite of this fearful
tragedy, the protection of our Executive is
pot, even, to be-in the bayonets of a guard,
but in the love and vigilance of the people.
He exposes himself in public places with
the utmost indifference, i A gentleman,
meeting him on Wednesday, in the parlor of
the kirkwood-House, asked:
"'Mr. President, is it wise for you thus to
jeopard yourself !"
fie replied: '"Yes. I have already been
shot at twice, you remember, without inju
ry. Threatened men live long."
There is no teason to doubt that Pre*
dent Johnson's general policy will be wise,
besides, like ail officials in this country, he
is so directly subject to the judgment and
desires of the people that be could not long
pursue any contravening them,
There were complaints during hi* milita
ry administration in Tennessee, that he per
mitted himself to be surrounded and some
times influenced by old political associates,
not altogether good or pure men. But un
der this now and momentous responsibility
he will doubtless, guard against tnat error.
The most sanguine Rebels will hardly
hope to intimidate him. In the dark days
which preceded Bragg s last invasion of
Kentucky, Buell, then in command of the
Army of the Ohio, was about to evacuate
Nashville, Gov. Johnson implored, expos
tulated and stormed to no purpose.
He finally declared, under the solemnities
of an oath, that if all the rest of the Army
left, he would remain with his four Middle
Tennessee regiments, defend the city to the
last and perish in its ashes, before it should
be given up to the enemy.
Buelf then left a garrison, weich, though
weak, proved sufficient to hold the capital of
Tennessee.
Capture of Maeon—Howell Cobb a
Prison er—lm porta nt Inform at ion
Relative to the Murder of Presi
dent t Lincoln.
WAR DEPARTMENT, 1
WASHINGTON, April 24, 1865. j
Maj. Gen. Dix , .Y K : —A dispatch
from Gen. Sherman states that Wilson held
Macon on the the JOtb, with Howell Cobb,
G. W. Smith and others prisoners, but
they claimed the lienefit of my armistice
and he has telegraphed to me, through the
rebel lines, for orders.
I have answered him that he may draw
out of Macon, and hold his command for
further orders, unless he has reason to be
lieve the rebels are changing the status to
our prejudice.
This department has information that the
President s murder was organized in Cana
da, and approved at Richmond. One of the
assassins now in prison, who attempted to
kill Mr. Seward, is believed to be one of the
St. Albans raiders. E. M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
Gov. C'urtin About to Demand the
Return of McCausland find Others
for Trial in the Civil Courts.
HARRISBURG, April 25, 1865.
Gov. Curtin means to demand the rendi
tion of McC'ausland, Gilmore and other
rebel officers, concerned in the sacking and
burning of Chambers-burg, for trial on the
charge of Arson and Robery, and it is con
fidently expected that President Johnson
will require them to be surrendered. S.
The rumors which have heen circuiting for
some days about negotiations between Sher
man and Johnston have at length taken defi
nite shape. A courier from Gen. Sherman
arrived at Washington last Friday with the
intelligence that that General had assumed
the responsibility of arranging terms of peace
with Gen. Johnston, and had agreed upon a
inet meeting fierio
of ben. Sherman was disapproved by the
President, by the Secretary of War. by Gen
brant, and by every member of the cabinet'
and he was ordered to resume hostilities im
mediately. Lieut. Gen. Grant left immedi
ately, by a special steamer, to take supervi
sion in person. A dispatch from Fortress
Monroe announces his arrival at that place on
..aturday. It is to be apprehended that these
operat ions havegiven JeffDavistime to make
With Rich-
; A BAFTIST clergyman from Bellingham,
Massachusetts, preached by exchange in Mil
ford last Sabbath morning. Neither in pray
er nor sermon aid he recognize the great woe
that was oppressing the heart of every hear
er. The omission was so clearly intentional,
that at the close of the first service a commit
tee of the church waited upon the unfaithful
preacher, and ordered him to leave town im
mediately, which he did.
Fiuioßtt'S HOT sc. It i s sa]d that Ex .
President Millard Filmore's house in Buffalo
displayed no mourning, on Monday, in strik
ing contrast with other bouses in the vicinity.
I he people gathered a crowd and covered the
front of the house with ink.
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