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a Liar AND PEACV
Last words of Mrs. Nathan Jewett, who died
February Md, 1865.
They were the last words of a lOved one's speech,
Given to our comfort—given lisle teach
How the Christian Pilgrim psasetb May fday.
Prom earth's shadowy night to Heaven's ehadowless
Light on the "Evergrevn mountains of life,"
Peace on the plains that never view strife;
The shed blood of brothers ne v er crimsons the sod,
Where the white Mies bloom in the Eden of God.
Peace like an anthem—Peace like sneer,
Poureth lea tides through the spirit tor.ver ;
Where seraph and:cherubim are In accord,
The Ineffable light of the "smile of the Lord."
Sweet-words! alter life's tura:lolls, after Its cares,
After the clouds which earth's sky often wears ;
How bleat to the Pilgrim the boon that is given ;
The• Light and therresee and the Glories of Heaven.
• E. E.' Mecs.
THE DEATH OP THE PRESIDENT.
Mos?Bost, AprU 21, 1885.
Dear l'lraiiog beard your address on the oc
casion of the Funeral Obsequies of President Lincoln
at Montrose, wo would respecitally solicit a copy
thereof for publication.
Bus:. 8. Brenzr,
C. L. Suomi,
F. R CIIA9DLEI4 Committee ontrrangernents.
W. E. Jcsatre,
1 1
E. C. FORDILLA
MosTaOsa, April 22, 18e5.
(7entlemen: The address yon requeated me to We,
and request now for publication, was written In a
brief and hauled Interval, to meet the bony. If It
may serve a larger Purpose, I place It herewith at
porn-disposal Ilery truly yenta,
Mut.roarr.
Today Is the witness of a Nation's grief. The
sorrow of life Is In death. There Is pathos, when
the shrouded figure comes, and its cold hand Dad in
exorable mandate, is laid upon one in a house, or a
neighborhood, or a city; but tq.day proclaimt the
accumulated grief of a mighty people, and there
break forth the many voices of a Nation's sorrow!
From the far North to the far West; from theAthustle
to the Pacific,. from the mountains to the prairies,
from the wide country, from the crowded city, from
the field of vast armies, rises to-day ,the sound of a
Nation's lamentation ! The aoleMn rut:ere:it pageant,
the long unending procession, the mulled drum
beat, the dead march, the draped flag, the minute
guns, slow booming from fort fo fort—whose sullen
echoes sweep from ship and battlement—all these
proclaim a universal sorrow.
The great leader at the people has fallen ! The
foremost man of his country sleeps in death!
. The hour of high and tumtiltnousjoy is broken by
Sorrow. The glad exultation, that came with the
swift news of success, Is blended with heavy grief.
We weave with the laurel wreath of victory and
palm of triumph, the cypress flower. Our eyes as
they are lifted to the flag which.:.' waves at last in cer
tain victory, are dimmed with_teartr, for the great
standard besrer is taken from 125 forever. He passes
out from the gates of the Mansion of the President
at the Capital, for the last time.
"We bury the mat dead, .
With a people'' , lamentation.
We bury the great dead,
To the noise of the mourning of a mighty nation.
" Lead out the pageant sad and slow,
As fits a universal woe,
Let the long, long procession go, •
And let the sorrowing crowd about It grow,
And let the mount:Ll martial musk blow,
The people's leader Is laid loW."
In tech an hour brief and imperfect must. be the
words which seek to hive utterancato out common
sorrow. When - a great whaler rose once, to give
his ordinary address, niter a deep affliction had been
laid upon him, '
hepaused.and as,he buried his face in
his hands, said,l cannot read, In the darkness of
the shadow of death." Very broken meat be the
words in which, in fulfillment of the duty to which
you have called me, I may endettvoe to bring before
you any portraiture of this chaticter, or to pass any
fitting , enloginm upon him who Is In all your
thoughts.
Abraham Lincoln was a man of the American peo
ple. He was a product of the American soil, OS
genuine as the American Pine, and unmistakable as
the granite of New England. No other nation could
have taken that rude unlettered boy from a western
farm house, and a life of toil and border. warfare,
and wrought out that grand, stalwart, honest man
hood. And yet the qualities developed in that long
discipline were to become the great characteristics
of his life. The steady triumph of honest endeavor,
the calm persistency of purpose, the determination
that, once conceived, held on 'through all difficul
ties, were to be moulded into his whole character.
The patient endurance, the unswerving energy, the
sure force of 'spirit, are to be knit into a tough
strong Ohre. Thence also is to =me that deep hu
man sympathy with all the cares and conflicts of
common men. Thence is to to formed that simple
but large humanity, that kindness of heart which is
to always hold him closely to the hearts of men.
Gentleness is blended with strength. Around the
stunt form of the oak are twined the tendrils of deli
cate flowers and vines. In the fragmentary incidents
of this period, we read his character and find the
illustrations of his progress. The few books which
he can find are studiously conned, while his
work goes on. A month's toil will pay for a vol
ume. And then bow reverently, away in that for
est country, does he solemnize the last service of
earth for his aged mother. By: slow steps he ad
vances in the study of the law,. and only leaVes It,
in the hoar of need, to join a company called out in
that border warfare, who make him their captain.
This tano school in which to form courtly manners
and an exterior grans, but there will come from It
the simple dignity of a self-respected manhood, and
a sincerity of noble action, Which no school can
teach, He will be trained to no subtle diplomatic
art, to no skilful intrigue In statecraft, but to what
is better, en honesty of purpose; &deference for hu
manity, a faith In a law of right; which is not state
craft, but the foundation of statesmanship. He gains
also a dexterous and ready use Of things, a wonder
ful knack and shrewdness in affairs, a knowledge of
men, which will serve him by add by.
Ile grows up Into the spirit...Of American Institu
tions, and of the American -people. There are
around him no memorials of 'dynastic power, no
signs of Imperial sway, but there is the life of the
American State. Its great principles of equality,
of the sacredness of civil and national obligations, of
obedience to laws, are wrought him. Row faith
fully does ho hold the great principles of our na
tional development, how lovingly and reverently
does be cherish the early memorials of our historic
growth—that fidelity which afterward he Is to hold
through the gloom and trial of the greatest civil
war In history, that love and reverence for the na
tion's unity and life, which is to maintain it against
the traitors' plot, and the passionate attack of
parricidal bands.
The later years bring but therdevelopment of the
same charaetertstici. There l throughout a true
consistency. He flees slowly grid steadily to emi
nence In the profession of the law. He alms not to
be en adept in its shifts and intrigues but shows in
all his afteriork, the patient grasp of Its great plan
elides. He gains that mastery ',Ol logic, which the
petty Intrigue ors dishonest Wed can neverrcacti—
that logic which Is bean only hi:on Just and noble
thought. In taro civic contest with Douglas, he shows
the forecast °flits Intellect. We know not whether
to admire more the logical power with which he met
a subtle and deztenens opponent, orthe great saga&
tylwith which he foresaw the perils, of our political
condition. That civic tournament must become
memorable In our history. And It was conducted
by him with such faience, each freedom - from all
that was petsonal, such amenity, that when he goes
to Waibingten, his greet antagonist becomes his
strongest supporter.
As we piss to his morel Spirit, we find that
it is characterized by personal conscientiousness,
and fidelity to right He huh the foundation of
all noble personal character , of all high Indleidual-
Ism in obedience to the individual conscience.
i
Ile s slow and careful and paLestaking in his judg
meats, but when gained they htild the firmness of
righteous conviction. lie IS open to all light, will
feel his way as well as See It, and make his deter
mimition stand in the midst ofiagttation. Its faith
is in the eternal. Its righteousness is in a trust In
the living God It is Ullarighteouss which ands
analqty in no other great leader of modem history
but Cromwell, and the statesmen of the English
commonwealth—that noblest eta In England's- an
nals. It le the righteousness which has been wrought
into the solemn ages of Illatory; which his laid the
foundation of ell that le enderiaz in time: The theo
ries and systems of men cannot past, it. The dog
ma, o f m en cannot teach it. It ts formed In
living action, in the grand fidelity of man to the laws
of his lieing,and the InapiritlOn of God. Righte
ousness, with this Man, is law' and Inspiration. It
was tele high trust; this sincerity of purpose, which
Made his public life one long endeavor of duty.
Through straggle dud 'suffering; and deepest human
sympathy, his way was sought.',; He seemed to bear
in himself the sorrow and agony of the country.
He felt the grief ot
. the lonely bousebobli. lie fluid s
"INA know, in tbia wag, I ant: A private sailer,"
and with eed -reputed thine worths,
FE=
coatirspoNDENcr..
ADDRESS.
" Freedom and Right against talaNtexy "and WrOnge"
MONTROSE, SUSQ. CO., PA., TUESDAY, MAY 16, 1865.
"Whichever way the conflict turns, I feel that I
shall not survive it lone,"' and the lines of that
worn and weary face bore the traces of close and
patient vigilance, and the marks of many cares.
It was well indeed that In a chtwuctcr of each
careful and conscientious sineerity, there should be
some relief else human nature could scarcely have
held its weight. And there wan in him a quaint and'
kindly humor, a fresh and genial wit, which was
the balance of character, and brought the needed
respite to the long pressure of duty, and unceasing
concern. It has been said by a profound critic of
Shakespeare, that the spirit which held the woe of
Lear and the tragedy of Hamlet, would have broken,
had it not had also the humor of the Merry Wives of
Windsor nud the merriment of the Midsummer
Night's bream.
In the review of Mr. Lincoln's political spirit, we
fled the same qualities—the firmness and fidelity of a
righteous purpose. He was a plai n man, talking to
plain men But there was a grand political wisdom,
underlying his acts. He held firmly the great prin
ciples, which are the foundation of tho order and
process of all society; and maintained the or
ganic unity and life of the nation with a trust and
strength which no system can br ing—which only a
Just faith can ever give. How many words lie has
uttered, which will pass Into political aphorisms,
brief sententious phrases that sum np a great his
toric or economic principle. I think no other man,
in our history, has uttered so many. When he says,
" The nation has made the constitution, and not the
constitution the nation," the sentence is worthy of
Burke. And what better definition of American de
mocracy has been glean, than that it Is "a govern
ment of the people, by the people, for the people.".
Or what more exact statement of Om great princi
ple of equality is there, than when he says " every
man hu the right to ho equal to every other man. "
These are great truths, which will pass into our civil
progress—solid blocks of political wisdom, which
will be built into the rising tebric of the Republic.
The crest temple of the liberties of America is built
upon the foundations of national rights, and open to
man; how- many a column that be has reared, how
many stones that ho has wrought will he built Into
Its walls.
But the character of Mr. Lincoln and hie work
would have been imperfect, had he not had also
the highest moral element, the spirit of sacrifice.
It Is that which has been the inspiring principle of
father and mother and son who have given all for
the maintenance of the nation's lite, for liberty, for
humanity. And to show bow self-forgetful was his
purpose, how deep and utter was his devotion to
the great principle of the conflict, how fully with
him It Was the lesson of every hour, let me call be
fore you one scene of these °ventral years. It was
that which marks the crisis of the war. It was the
field of Gettysburg. There wens the graves of the
thousands who bed fallen on that ground. But In
the wide horizon they seemed to sweep away, and
Join with the mounded grates of those who through
this long war have fallen on a hundred fields. A
vast assembly was gathered from all parts of the
country to witness the solemn dedication of that un
tlenal cemetery - . There was Mr. Everett. the repro
sentative of all our schools. He spoke with
charmed beauty. He called up the historic par- -
alleis of Marathon and Salamis, but here was
a greater field than Marathon, and the scene of
conflict in which men waged mightier issues than at
Salamis. He closed. But yet the vast congrega
tion lingered. There was one word yet unspoken,
one tone yet untouched. Then the tall form of the
President slowly rose and with few and simple
prefatory words, be said, "I cannot dedicate this
cemetery, you cannot dedicate It, it Is for us only to
be dedicated." And with those who there had given
their lives In sacrifice, his life wits made one,
and his spirit was hallowed In consecration with
them. The word was spoken. The ceremony was
ended. All felt as that sentence was uttered that
the great lesson of the hour was given. It was the
lesson of sacrifice—the devotion of life to humani
ty, to God. it Is the word which has brought di
vine strength to those who have been faithful unto
death—to those whose voice we listen fur, whose
hand we touch no more—to those for whose com•
big again we wait and wait In vain—to those who
walked these streets with us in glad companionship,
but who sleep the sleep of broken youth on yonder
hillside—to the great army of the nation's dead!
But while those words of sefflorgotful devotion
were spoken, he who uttered them knew not that
they were to hays the witness of his own blood.
On that day on which the church throughout all the
world, commemorates the infinite sacrifice of the
Rerun] Son, lie was to be called away, and tile life
to be given fsr that righteous cause for which he
bad striven so long. The cares and trials of the con
flict, for him are ended. Greatly loved, and with
the sorrow of millions, he enters his rest. Sleep on
now, brave ',silent spirit ! Thy Work was well done
The hour of our victory has come. The love and
homage of a united people mourns thy fall. The
solemnity of gathered multituces pr0 , i 4 10:15 over
thy tomb the voice of a people for whom thou bast
lived and died—the voice of the mightiest nation on
this earth proclaims One solemn, FAREWELL AND
PEACE AND EVEILLLSTINO U0Noli!
As we pass to the position of Mr. Lincoln In his
tory, we may speak but briefly. He was a man who
had a great place to till, and he tilled it, lie stood
in a great crisis of the world, and he stood as the
friend of God and humanitythe helper In Christ's
work.... For him the path of duty has been the path
of glory. His greatness was that 'whin In a mcms.
are each In his own place may attain. It was not
founded upon the possession of rare and exclusive
qualities, but upon the faithful use of those which
belong to the common citizen. This is the lesson
which his life should have for each of as. The emi
nence of his later years was. characteritcd by the
tame qualities, nnd rested on the same principles,
which marked his earlier. A popular journal has
drawn a comparison between him and the Caesar of
Napoleon. But the great contrast is in this, that
the one rises from and with the people, the other
on the people. But as to the verdict which may be
passed upon Min we may nut anticipate the tat tire.
But history Is calm. Historr Is imparti.an. Bbe
knows not malice, nor is moved by the changing
passions of men. She looks in her wide sweat' to
the life of nations rather than individuals. She hon
ors men as they have been the builders and main
tainers of nations; only those who have sought to
tear down and destroy does she consign to Infamy.
Upon the Amolds and Dacises and Lee. of history
her judgment is that of shame and everlasting con
tempt.
Mr. Lincoln bad one great and simple path before
him, as one who would he the maintainer of the
nation, and steadily and unswervingly he followed it.
Hs will stand In history with the grtltt ermstroctive
workers, with those who built and did not destroy,
who built for humanity, who built for time.
He will have honor also, as be had power—for
this, that he worked iu the spirit of his own age.
The age rises toward freedom for all!; the same pulse
beats In Italy, is Russia, In America. He, too, in
and for freedom, has done the noblest work. Ile
has striven for freedom, not fora caste, hat for man.
Or, since to One only we may ascribe this great de
liverance, we may say that us the time came he
showed himself the faithful Minister of that Will,
which was the Redeemer of the Hebrew through the
'Red Sea waves, which was to tie revealed in one
Day as the same Redeemer of a People from a more
degrading bondage.
It Is Impressive to think tow grand and noble will
be the place he will hold In the heafta of the African
people. As they become, as become they wi.l, great
and historic, still throngs all coming time, his name
will be lint in their historic story. He is shrined
there In the love and affection and fond memory of
a race. He has in them a memorial more lasting
than marble, and built up in richness which massy
gold cannot emulate. The recollection of his work
will be fresh, when the wreathe of storied sculptures
are faded; and the light of affection will kindle and
brighten at his name, when the lamps around a
King's tomb are dead!
His ma l e with them shall be an honed:mid word !
It shall be sung by the cradle of the child I It shall
be the watchword of manly aspiration ! And with
a whole people, once a race of slaves, but now men,
soldiers, citizens, with love and lingering affection,
It shall be repim'ed W the end of time How grand,
to-day, aye, how sublime is the spectacle of their
sorrow! When the chip-rots of ancient dynasties
werehuried, to add to the pomp of the ceremonial,
and to swell the funeral pageant, there were led to
the procession the representatives of the peoples
whom they had subjected to bondage. But in the
procession of to-day, with a pageant of more solemn
spihdor, will move the representatives of frier
i millions of people, whom he has aided to become
emancipate, regenerate, free!
Let this attest the place, in history, in the heart
of humanity itself, of this brave, faithful man, the
leader of the people, the servitor of God!
I have thus sought briefly to bring before Ton the
' larger outlines of this character. It will be for oth
ers to give the wider signllicance of the occasion,
and the lesson of the hour.
There is ono thought to which I would advert.
His death has come upon us with startling sudden
nee*. He fails not in the order and course of nature,
but by an act of wickednfts and (earful relme. It
is terrible to know that into the fair pages pf our
history is to pass the record of the most awful and
tragic guilt. The great rebellion which was organ
ized to, strengthen oppression, culminates In cow
ardly murder. When furgivimes was extended to it,
the mask falls from it, and reveals still Its character
in the dark. malignity of reckless crime. Then
swept over the country a feeling of righteous indigna
tion, a cry for justice. It was in principle a right
feeling- Let It be held, not with vindictiveness, nor
the haste of passion, but with the deliberation of
reason: It is a significant fact in the history of
Judea, that when a ruler was too lenient to the
wickedness of the people, he was suddmily removed
and one of severer judgment was called t,o hisphice.
We need a sterner, loftier Indignation 4tinst
wrong. We need to knoW that crime is. crime,
murder Is murder treason , Is teeseon .. Tfrre
is a weak and maudlin sentimentalism which Piths
topping of all rectitude. The majesty of law must
be vindicated. The sanctions or Justice must be
maintained. Let as hope that no, one would be das
tardly enough thus to assail the life of .tho worst.
culprit But they: who have lifted. their hands
against the nation's life, must meet the award of their
acts. Theirs is the greater.gailt as the heritage of
the Fathers is more- sacred, and the life of the ca
tion deeper and longer. Theirs Is a parricidal and
plebiscidal decd. Jostle« and the rigida of humani
ty, and the sacredness of law through all the future,
arraign them before their high tribunal. Ber.s mir
guided and betrayed people there is charity, Put for
their leaders there may be none. They must Meet,
the consequence of the darkest crime and guilt upon
the gallows tree, and In that solemn hour, before
the majesty of justice, history will soy, and let all
Ctuint'a people say, amen.
And let us pledge ourselves with • Sterner Indig
nation against the crime of this rebellion, to retaz
no effort, until the last vintage of its awful power
and tafluence le effaced. Let. us pledige ourselves,
If need b., to a lifelong battle with the enemies of
the nation's life.
Then shall come the vision, 10 the long future, of
a nation whose life is founded in sacrifice, and Which
Is enduring beearate resting ,ppon justice and the.
rights of a commorammatsity: Then shall ow, the
vision of Peace, of Peace tlintniei righteousness. of
Peace in obedience to the eternal law, "finll pure
and then peaceable." And, then, when security,
shall be the guest of every house, when peace shall
stand like Ruth among the gleaners of the corn on
many a Held, then shall we repeat with glad homage
the names of those who have lived and died to t.ecure
those blessings, and who have not lived and died in
vain. Beautiful and grand heyond the seer's pros
pect and the poet's dream,: shall be the futhre of
this mid/test because most . 1 righteous nation, the
last child of time.
There is to a Roman gallery a picture of these
who stand by the grave of the Master, and the form
laid there is gone, but out !tool the tomb spring rich
and clustering flowers. So It is that from the graves,
of those who have died for the nation shall spring
the natlon's eternal bloom. After the conflict fol
lows the victory; and to the upliftedgaze of eyes
that are dimmed with tears, may mu* the vision of
America, America in the realintion of her high
Ideal, America the leader In the progress of
humanity and the vindicator bf its divine right ; •
her garments are purified from their dark stall'
"her right hand is justice, In her left hand equity,
and beaming front her eyes the calm eternal light of
universal liberty."
•
" Peace, his triumph will be sung
By some yet unmunided tongue,
F. r on In summers that we shall not see;
Peace, It la a day of pain,
Ours e pain, be his the gain!
More than Is of maa's degree
Must be with us, watching , here
At this, our great solemnity.
Whom we see net we revere.
We revere and we refrain -
From talk of battles loud and vain.
We revere and while we hear
The tides of memory's golden sea
Betting toward eternity, •
I.:plifted high In heart and hope are we,
Until we doubt not that for one en true
There must be other nobler work to do,
And victor, he mug ever be.
On God and godlike men we build our trust.
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust,
•
But speak no more of his renown,
Lay your earthly fancies down.
And In the vest cathedral leave tam;
God accept him, Christ receive-him."
THE CONSPIRACY.
The Plot Against the Rulers of the Nation--
Those Who Projected and Thom Who
Winked at the Assamtnattan....Tharaveltng
of the Blurder—Bootb. Ats.
cretin. Payne, Arneld,the faissatte. ACldang.
Um Coke, Mudd, Spangler. Jett. the . ndarg.
v., lVtlmm et0...-ahelLonte and manumit or
Booth From the Theatre to the Tragedy.
Correxpondence of the New-York World.
Wasumwrox, May 2.—Justlee and fame are equal
ly simultaneously satisfied. The Plusldent is not
yet In his sareophagns, bat all the conspirators
against his life, with a minor exception or two, are
in their prison cells, waiting for the halter.
ISOOTIt THE ORMICIAL TROSECTER OT THE CR12612.
John Wilkes Booth was the projector of the plot
agahtst the Prosldent which culminated in the tak
ing of that good man's life. tie had roiled tinder
his tongue the sweet paragraphs of Blutltspears, re
ferring to I;trutus, as his father had so well that the
old man nauAd one son Junius Brutus, and the oth
er John Wilkes, after the wild English agitator, un
til it became his ambition, like the wicked Lorenzi
no de Medici, to stake his life upon one stroke for
hone, the murder of a ruler obnoxious to the South.
TIM FIRST CONCEPTION Or THE CRIES.
Booth shrank at first from murder, until another
and less dangerous resolution tailed. This was 110
less than the capture of the President's body, and
lie detention or transportation to the Smith. Ido
not rely for this assertion upon his soiled letter,
where he avows It; there bars been found upon a
street within the city limits a house. belonging to
one Mrs. Greene, mined and furnished with under
ground apartments, tarnished with manacles and all
the accessories to private imprisonment. Here the
President, acid as many as could he gagged and con
veyed away with him, were to be concealed in the
event of failure to run them into the Confederacy.
owing to his failure to group around him as many
men as he desired, Booth abandoned theproject of
kidnapping; but the house wan discovered last week,
as represented, ready to be blown up at a moment's
notice.
PRZPLRATIONS FOR MOUT
It was at this time that Booth devised his trium
phal route through the South. The dramatic ele
ment seems to have never been lacking in his design
and with all Lab base purposes he neverfolled to con
elder some subsequent notoriety to be enjoyed. Be
therefore shipped, before the end of 1864, his theat
rical wardrobe frame Canada to Nassau. Atter the
commission of his crime he intended to reclaim It,
and "star" through the South, drawing many as
much by his crimes as his abilities
soorn's umsyr Poll ACCOXPLICES.
When Booth began, "on his nwn responsibility,"
to hunt for accomplices, he bound his theory attanit.
The bold meu he bad dreamo of refused to join him
in the rash attempt at kidnnpning i the. President, and
were too conscientious to meet tate murder. All
those who presented themselves were military men,
unwilling to subordinate to a civilian and a mere
play actor, and the mortified bravo found himself
therefore compelled to sink to a petty rank in the
plot, or to make use of tutee and despicable saalstanti .
ills vanity found it easier to compound with the
second alternative than the first.
PIT FOR TREASON, STRATAGEMS AND SPOILS.
Mere began the first resolve, which, in Its mere
animal state, we may name ammo. Booth found
that a tragedy In real life could no. more be enacted
without greasy-feed and knocked-kneed stipemum.
market than upon Wu mimic atag,e. Your "First
Citizen," who swings a stave for Marc Antony, and
drinks hard porter behind the flies, la very like the
bravo of real life, who mfardera between his Cock
hills at the nearest bar. Wilkes Booth had Passed
the ordeal of a garlicky green-room, and did not
shrink from the broader and ranker greca-room of
real life. Ile assembled around him, one by one, the
cut-throats st whom Ma soul would have revolted,
except that he had become, by resolve, n cut-throat
in lumselL
CANADLiff raomrtras.
About this time certain gentlemen In Canada be
gan to be auenviahly known. I make no charges
against those whom I do not know, but simply
mr
the Confederate agents, Jacob Thompson,
McDonald, Climient Clay, and soma othPrs, had
ready accomplished enough villany to make Wilkes
Booth, on the first of the present year, believe that
ha had but to seek an interview with them.
ncerrn'e "cos" FROM CANADA.
He visited the provinces once certainly, and three
times It is believed, stopping in Montreal at Bt. Law
rence Hail, and banking - four hundred and . Ofty-tive
dollars odd at the Ontario Bank. This wee his own
money. I have myself seen his bank-book with the
single entry of this amount It eras found 111 the
room of Atzerotb, at Kirk - wood's Hotel.
WO= POUND Watt ♦ MURDURD FROM CANADA.
Some one or all of these agents thrashed Booth
with a murderer—the ,fellow Wood, or Payne, who
stabbed Mr Seward and was caught In Mm. Surratt'a
house in Washington. lie was one of three Ken
tucky brothers, all oat-laws, and. bad hinbsel.f, It is
believed, accompanied one of his brothers, who in
known to have been at Bk. Albans on the day of the
bank delivery. This Payne, besides being pnaltively
identified as the assassin of the Sowards, had no
friends nor haunts in Washington. Ile 'was simply
a despatched murderer, and after the night of _the
mime, struck northward for the frontier IMMO Of
southward in the company of Booth. Tho proof of
this will follow in the course of the article.
DOOTII MEETS ►HCIL`tT cosspnuerpss.
nalleoplauded, half rebutted by the rebel agent.
to Canada, Boothe tolpnetelone .bLs vita were jot
these which would inlet Wm the elumest for the
tragedy. Ma vaulty had bevaltxl by Uic esaarwe
that en ems depended. uP9A h meelA Rn dUg
ue be had the rtahpOnsitant! lie lPppl b ~.gbirdep
fame • and the method of correspondence was of
c that dark and mysterious shape which powerfully
loperated upon his dramatic temperament.
Mutt could please au actor, and the son of an ac
tor, better than to mingle as a principal in a real
eorsplraey, the alms of which were pseudo-patriotic,
and the end so astounding that at Its coming the
whole globe would reel. Booth reasoned that the
~ ancient world would not fed more sensitively the
death of Julius Caner than the new, the sudden
taking off of Abraham Lincoln.
And so tie grew into the Idea of murder. It be,
Came his business thought. It was his recreation
and his study. Ho bad not worked half so hard for
histrionic success as for his terrible graduation Into
an musk'. He had fought often on the boards,
and had seen men die to well-imitated horror, with
flowing blood upon his keen sword's edge, and the
strong stride <di:Lamle victory with which he doer.
tatted his weapon at the closing of the curtain. Be
embraced conspiracy like an old diplomatist, and
Maud Is the woman and the spot subjects fur emu.
tattoo.
2LUS UOTIIER 01 TUE CENCI
. Southeast of Washington stretches a tapering lid
ninsula, composed of four fertile cotmtics, which at
the remote tip make Point Lookout, and do not con
tain any town within them of more than a tow hun
dred Inhabitants. Tobacco has ruined the lands of
these, and slavery has ruined the people. Yet in the
beginning they were of that splendid stock of Cal
vert aad Lord Baltimore, but retain to-day only the
religion Of the peaceful founder. I mention as an
eXceptiontsble and remarkable fact, that every con
spirator hi Custody la by education a Catholic. These
are loyal eititena elsewhere, but the western shore
of 31uryland Is a noxious and pestilential place fur
patriotism.
The country Immediately outside of the District
of Columbia, to the smith, is named Prince George's
and the pleasantest village of this county, close to
Washington, Is called Surrattnviile. ibis eonalsts
of a few cabins at a cross-road, surrounding a tine
old hotel, the master whereof, giving the settlement
his name, left the property to his wile, who for
long time carried It on with indifferent success.—
Dating a eon and several daughters, she moved to
Washington soon after the beginning of the war, and
left the tavern to a trusty friend—one John Lloyd.
Burrattavllle has gained nothing In patronage or busi
ness from the war, except that it became at an early
stage a Rebel rost. Office. The great secret mall from
Matthias Creek, Virginia, to Port Tobacco, struck
Surmttaville, and thence beaded off to the cast of
Washington, going meanderingly north. Of this
post-route, Mrs. Barrett was a manageress ; and John
Lloyd when he rented her hotel, assumed the re
sponsibility of looking out for the mail, as well as
the duty of making Mrs. Berndt at home when she
chose to visit him.
So Sonattsville, only ten miles from Washington,
has been throughout the war a scat of conspiracy.
It. sawlike a suuurb of Richmond, reaching quite up
to therlial capital; and though the few Unioniata
on th e peninsula knew its reputation well enough,
nothing of the sort came out until after the murder.
Treason neverfound a better agent than Mrs. Sur
ratk She Is a large, masculine, self- possessed female,
mistress of her Lowe, nod as little a repel as Belle
Boyd or airs. Greenough. She has not the flip.
pantry and menace of the llnst, nor the nodal power
of the second; bat. the Rebellion has found no litter
agent.
At her ?try tavern and Washington home,
Booth was e welcome, and there began the mut
tered tour& against the nation anti mankind.
ato is vaunt Torso lEt razasom.
The acquaintance of Mrs Biarratt In Lower Mary
land undoubtedly suggested to Booth the route of
escape, and made biro known to -his subsequent ac
complices. Last fall he !kilted the entire region, as
far as Leopardatnwn, in 'St. Mary's county, profess
sing to buy land, but really making himself inform
ed upon the Rebel post stations, wish all the leading
affiliations upon whom be could depend. At thfii
time he bought a map, a fellow to which I have seen
among Atzeroth'e effects, published nt Buffalo for
the Rebel Government, and marking at hap-hazard
all the Maryland villages, but without tracing' the
high roads at all. The abeence of these roads, It will
be seen hereafter, very nearly misled Booth during
his crippled flight
When Booth cast around biro nirviaststants, he
naturally selected those men whom he could control.
The first that recommended himself was one Harold,
a youth of inane and plastic character, carried away
.by the example of an actor, and full of execrable
quotations, going to show that he was an imitator
of the muter spirit; both in text and admiration.—
This flurold was a gunner, and therefore versed in
arta; he had traversed the whole lower portion of
Maryland, find waif therefore a geographer as well I.
a toot His friends lived at every farm-horse be
tween IVashlngton and Leonardsville, and he was
respectably enough connected, so as to make his as ,
soctatlon creditable as yell as useful.
Young Barrett does not appear to have been a
puissant split. In the scheme Indeed, all design and
influence therein was absorbed by Mrs. Berndt and
Booth. The latter was the head and heart of the
plot ; Mrs. &matt was his anchor, and the rest of
the boys were disciples to Iscariot and Jezebel—
John Burratt. is youth of strong Southern physiog
nomy, beardless sod lanky, knew of the murder and
connived at it. "Sam" Arnold and one MeLanghlin
were to have been parties to it, but backed out In
the end. They all relied upon Mrs. Surrett, and
took their "cues" from Wilkes Booth.
DILUTING ToWABD THE DEATU.
The conspiracy had Its own time and kept Its
own counsel Murder, except among the principals,
was seldom mentioned except by genteel
But they all publicly agreed that Mr. Lincolnzught
to be shot, and that the North was a race of fratri
cides. Mach was said of Brutus, and Booth repeat
ed heroic passages, to the delight or Harold, who
learned them also, and wondered if he was not born
to greatness.
In this growing darkness, where all rehearsed
cold hearted murder, Wilkes Booth grew great of
stature. He had bound a purpose consonant with
hie evil nature and bad influence over "Weak men ;
so he grew moodier, more vigilant, more plausible.
By mien and temperament he was born to handle a
stiletto. We have no face so markedly Italian ; it
would stand for Cesar Borgia any day In the year.
All the rest were swayed or persuaded by Booth ; his
schemes were clime in order:—
Ist. To kidnapthe President and Cabinet, and ran
them South or blow them up.
2d. Kidnapping failed, to murder the President
and the rest, and seek shelter in the Confederate alp-
Ital.
3d. The Rebellion failed, to be Its avenger and
throw the country Into conatentatlon, while he es
caped by the unfrequented parts of Maryland.
TEC MIN POII TITE WORM_
When this last resolution had been made, the plot
was both contracted and circuited. There were
mad. two distinct circles of confidants, those aware
of the meditated murder, and those who might
shrink from murder, though willing accessories for
a lesser object. Two colleagues for blood were at
once accepted, Payne and At zeroth.
The former I have aketched ; he is believed to
have visited Washington once before, at Booth's ci
tation; for the murder was at first fixed for the day
of Inauguration. Atzerotir was a fellow of German
descent, who had led a desperate life at Port Tobac
co, where ho was &house painter. Ile had been a
blockade-runner across the Potomac, and a mall
carrier. When Booth and Mrs. Barran broke thede
sign to hien, with a suggestion that there was wealth
in it, he embnced the offer at once, and bought a
dirk and pistol. Payne also came bum the North to
Wasblognou, und, us fate would have it, the Presi
dent was announced to appear at Ford's theatre la
public. Then the resolve of blood was reduced to a
definite moment.
foe NlOll7 DETOIIII THE =Brum
On the night before the crime, Booth found onn on
whom he could rely. John Burratt was sent north
ward by his mother on Thursday. Sam Arnold and
McLaughlin, each of whom was to kill a Cabinet ofil-
Cer, grew plgeon•livered and ran away, Harold,
true to his partiality, lingered around Booth to the
end; Atieroth went so tar as to take his knife and
pistol t6Birkwood's, where President Johnson was
stopping, and hid them under the bed. But either
his courage failed, ore trifling accident deranged his
plan. lint „Payne, a professional murderer ' stood
game," and loughthis way over prostrate figures
to his sick victim's bed. There was great confusion
and terror among the tacit and rash conspirators on
Thursday night. They bad looked upon the plot as
of a melodrama, and found to their horror that John
Wilkes Booth meant to do murder.
PREPARATIONS FOIL TUN ACT AND TUN ➢LIQIIT
BUT weeks before the murder young John Barratt
had taken two splendid repeating carbines to Sumas
vllle, and told John Lloyd to secrete them. The
latter made a bole in the wninscoting and suspended
them from strings, so that they O fell within the plas
tered wall of the mom below. n the very afternoon
of the murder, Mrs. Barrett was driven to Berretta
villa, and she told John Lloyd to have the carbines
ready, because they would be called for that night.
Harold was wade quartermaster, and hired the hors
es. Re and Atzeroth were mounted between eight
o'clock and the time iaf the murder, and riding
about the streets together.
The whole party was prepared for a long ride, as
their spurs and gauntlets show. It may bays been
their design to ride in company to the Lower Poto
mac, and by their numbers exact subsistence and
transportation.
BOUTS OB BLOOD
Lloyd, I may lefmpolate, ordered his wife a few days
Shethe murder net knew visit to Allen's Fresh.
Libel pays silo does why she woe so sent
bAm p bur. swears that it is so. llorrild, three weglm
e the nitirtliir, Ifslted fort Tobstreo, And sold
that the next, time the boys heard of blm he would
be In Spain; he added that with Spain there was no
extradition traty. He said at Surratteville that be
Intended to make a barrel of money or his neck
would stretch.
Atzeroth said that If he easy came to Port Tobac
co again he would he rich enough to buy the whole
place. •
Wilkss.Bcioth told a friend to go to Ford's on Fri
day night and sea the beat acting in the world.
7112 ABSLSSII , IB MARK TILILP.
At Font's .theatre, on Friday night, there were
many standers In the neighborhood of the door and
along thi dress circle In the direction of the private
box where the President eat.
The play went on pleasantly, though Mr. Wilkes
Booth, an oliserver of the andlencervisited the titterer
and took note of the positlozus. Ills alleged associ
ate, the stage carpenter, then received quiet orders
to clean the passage by the wings tram the prompt
er's post to the stage door. All this time, Mr. Lin
coln, in his family circle, uuconscluus . of the death
that crowded fist upon him, witnessed the pleasant
ry and smiled, and telt heartfull of gentleness.
Bndilenly there was a murmur near the audience
door, as of a man spmdllng above Lila hound- lie
mid:
"Nine o'clock and forty-live minutes!"
These words were reiterated from mouthto mouth
until they passed the theatre door, and were upon
the sidewalk:
Directly a 'voice cried, in the eame alightly raised
monotone—
"Nine O'clock and titty minutes!" •
This also passed fromimui to man, until It touch
ed the street like u shudder.
" Nine o'etock and fifty-nce mlantes!" said the
same relentkys voice, after the next Interval, each
of which narrowed to a lesser span the life of the
good President.
Ten o'clock here sounded, and conspiring ehho
said In recerbemtion—
" TPn o'clock l"
So like a creeping thing, from lip to lip went
"Ten o'clock and"llve minutes I"
(An Interval).
'Ten o'clock and ten 'ninnies!"
At this instant Wilkes Booth appear:nil in the door
of the theatre, and the men who had repeated the
time so faithfully and so ominonaly, scattered at his
coming as at some warning phantom.
All this is to dramatigthat 1 fear to excite a laugh
when J. write, it, but report IL
TED 3 NUILDERS.
All evil deeds go wrong. While the click of the
pistol, taking the President's life, went like a pang
through the theatre, Payne was spilling blood in Mr.
Seward'e horse from threshold to sick chamber.—
Hut Booth's broken leg delayed him or made him
lose his general calmness, and hu and Harold felt
Payne to his fate.
1 have not adverted to the hole bored with a gim
let to the entry door of Mr. Lincoln's box, and cut
out with a penknife. The theory that the pistol ,
hall of Booth passed thron2ll this hole is now ex
ploded. And the stage-earpuuter may have to as
ewer for this little mince with nil his neck. For
when BoOth leaped from the box he • strode straight
across the stage by the footlights, reaching the
prompter's punt, which bi Immediately behind that
titivate box opposite to Mr. Lipeoln. From this
hoz to the stage door in the rear, the passage-way
leads behind the ends of the scenes, and is generally
either closed up by one or more siltlidrawn scenes,
or so narrow that only by doubling and twrningside
wise can one pass along. On this fearful night, how
ever, the scenes were so adjusted to the murderer's
design, that lie bad a free aisle from the foot of the
stage to the exit door.
Yt ' _ 1f ~ %I'!'
Within fifteen minutes after the murder the wires
were severed entirely around the city, excspting
only a secret wire for Government uses, which lends
to Old Point.t lam told that by tbLs wire the Gov
ernment reached the lortilleatiews around Washing
ton, first telegraphing' all the way to Old Point, and
then back bathe outlying forts. This Information
comes to me from so many creditataethauutas that
I must conedde it.
TEE PLUMY OF PAYNE.
'Pomo, I:wring; oo ho 413,303f,"inutin alas..
Seward, which would have been the case but for
Robinson, the nurse, mounted lila horse nod at•
tempted to find Booth. lint the town was In alarm,
and he galloped at sure for the open country, tak
lug, as he imagined, the proper road for the Fart
Branch. lie rode at a killing pace, nod when ilea:
Fort Lincoln, on the Baltimore pike, his horse threw
him headlong Afoot and bewildered, he res.ilved
to return to the city, whose lights he could plainly
we but before doing so, he concealed himself some
time, and made come almost absurd efforts to &Is
gui.e. himself. Cutting a cross section from the
woolen undershirt which covered his arm,
he made a redo cap of it, and threw away Lis blood
coat. This has since been Lonna in the woods, and
blood has been found also on his bosom and sleeves
He also spattered himself with mud and clay, and.
taking an abandoned pick from the deserted iatrench
melds near by, he struck out at once for Washing
ton.
By providence, which always attends murder, he
rcaehed Airs. Surratt's door just as the Milkers ot
the Government were arresting her. They seized
Payne at once, who Indian , awkward lie to urge In
his defense—that he had come there to dig a-trench.
That night h dug a trench deep and broad enough
for both of them to lie In forever. They washed his
hands, and found them sett and womanish; his
pockets contained tooth and nail brushes and a deli
rate pocket knife. All this apparel consorted 11l
with his assumed character. He is, without doubt,
Mr. Seward's attempted murderer.
How A WOMAN CAN SIMIDUIL
Coarse, hard, and calm, Slrs. Surratt shut up her
house after the murder, and waited with her oaugh
tern till the cithcers came. She was imperturbable,
and rebuked her girls (or weeping, and would have
gone to jail like a statue, but that In her extremity,
Payne knocked at her door. Ho had come, he said,
to dig a ditch for Mrs.
,Burratt, whom he very well
knew. But Mrs. Barrett protested that she had
never seen the. man at all, and had no ditch to dig.
"How fortunate, girls," she said, " that these ottl.
cern are here i this man might have murdered us all."
Her effrontery stamps her et* worthy of compan
ionship with Booth. Payne has been identified by
a lodger of Mrs. Surma's, as having twice visited
the house under the name of, Wood. The girls will
render valuable testimony In the trial. If John Sur
ratt were in custody the links would be complete.
VISO= OF LTZEROTU.
Atzeroth hid a room almost directly over Vice-
President Johnson's. Re had nil. the materials to do
murder, but lost apiritolopportunity. Re ran away
so hastily that all his arms and baggage were dis
covered; a tremendous bowie-knife and a Colt's
cavalry revolier were found between the mattresses
of his bed. Booth's coat was alsofocind there, show
ing conspired flight in company, and In it three box
es of cartridges, u map' of Maryland, gauntlets for
riding, a spat, and a handkerchief marked ;with the
name of Booth's mother—a mother's souvenir for
a mordent's pocket I
Atzeroth tied alone, and was found at the house of
his uncle, in ;Montgomery county, Md. I do not
know that any instrument of murder has ever made
me thrill as when I diew his terrible bowie-knife
trout its sheath.
Ft4GIIT OF BOOTH AND ULEOLD
I come now to the ride out of the city - by the chief
assassin and • his dupe.' Harold met Booth immedi
ately after the crime in the next street, and they
rode at a gallop past the Patent Office and over Cap.
Rol MIL
As they crossed the Eastern branch at Unlontown,
Booth gave his proper name to the =Deer at the
bridge. Thiti, which would seem to have been fool
ish, was, to rialitv,very shrewd. The - officers better..
ed that one' of * Booth's accomplices had given this
name to order to put them out of the rest Booth's
track. 80 they made efforts elsewhere, and so
Booth got a 'start, At =Weight, predsely, the two
horsemen stopped at Serrattsville,"Booth remained
on his nag while Harold descended and knocked
lustily at tile door. . Lloyd, the landlord, came
down at once, when Ilarold pushed past bin into
the bar, and obtained a bottle of whiekey, some 01
which lie gave to Booth immediately. White Booth
was drinking, Harold went up steles and brought
down one or the carbines Lloyd started to got the
other but Darold , taid :
" R t e don't want it ; Booth has broken his leg and
can't carry it."
Bo the seeped carbine remained in the hall, where
the officers afterward found it.
, As the two horsemen started to go off,lleoth cried
I out to Lloyd :
" Do von trent to hear some news?"
" 1 don't care much about It," cried Lloyd; by his
own account.
"We have murdered the President and the Secre
tary of titatti !" said Booth.
And wlthithts horrible confession,fliooth and Har
old dashed I away in the midnight, across Prince
George's County.
TIM BROEBN LEO
On Saturday, before sunrise, Booth and Harold,
who bad ridden all night without stopping else.
where, reached the house of Dr, Mudd, three miles
from Dryoutown. They contracted with him for
twenty-live; dollars In greenbacks to set the broken
leg. Harold, who knew Dr. 3lndd, lutrodueed.
Booth under another name, and stated that be had
fallen froM his horse during the night. The doctor
remarked of &will that he draped the lower part of
his lace while the leg,was being set; he was silent,
and In pain. Having. no splints' ln the home they
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man who at the same thee began to how ont a pair
of e'retehea. The lnfe.ior bone of the /eft leg was
I brelten
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The riding boot of Booth had to be cot from his
foot,; withill Were, the Words "J. .Wilkes.". The
doctor Stlya he did not notice theas, buttiudihmal
detect may cost him his neck. The two men waited
around the house sit day, but, towards evening they
slipped their horses from the stable and rode away
In the direction of Alien's Fresh.
TIMaItILBDCILICILBMtIIM.DEMED
Below Ervautown runs. certain deep and anti
swamps. Along the belt of thew Booth and Har
old picked up a negro Doped Ewan, who volunteer
ed to show them the road • for two dollars. - They
gave bim Ilse more to show them the route to Al
lea's Fresh ; hot really wished, as their actions inti
mated, to gain the humour' one dam Coke, a notod
bus rebel, and probably well-advised of the plot,—
They reached the house at 'midnight. It is a One
dwelling, one of tho .ticst In Maryland and after,
hallooing 'for some time, Core came down to the
door himself. As soon as he opened it, and beheld
who the strangers were, he blatantly blew out the
candle he held to hls hand, and, without a word,
pulled them into the room, tliellegvo temainlog 4 ti
the yard. The Confederates remained In Coke's
house till 4 a. m., during which time the negro saw
lb= eat and drink heartily; ,but . when My real:.
iknired they spoke In a loud tone, so that Swan
c oop; bear them, against the hospitality of Cole.—
All this was meant to influence the darky; but
their motives were as apparent as their words. Ha
conducted them three miles 'further on, when they
fold him that now they linew.the way, and giving
him five dollars more, making twelve in all, told
him to go back.
But when the nvgro, to the desk of the morning,
looked aftvr them as he receded, ho saw that both
horses' beads were turned ouce more inwards
Coke's, and it was this man, doubtless, who 'harbor
ed the fugitives from Buuday to Thursday, aided,
pOssibly, by such neighbors its the Wilson and the
idamso3.
At the point where Booth emceed the Potomac
the shores are ray shrillow, and one must wade out
some distance to where a boat will float A whits
man came up • hero with a CllllOO on Friday, and tied
It by a stone anchor! Between seven and eight
o'clock it dleappeared, and in the afternoon some
men at work on Mena,' Creek, In Virginia, Sim
liootti and Harold haul, tie the beat's rope to a eitqle
and ding it ashore, and strike oat across a plowed
field for King Georke Court House. litany folks en
tertained them, without doubt, but we positively
bear of them nextat Port Royal Fem, and then at
Garrett's farm.
In another letter I wlah to speak In full of the de
tective and military aorta to capture Booth on the
Maryland Bide of the Potomac,
In the Mont7tly Rdigious Ar4graine for February,
there to an interesting historical review of civil
war.; and on the and feet of the Peloponnealan war
the writer says:
"Thla long and deadly warfare cauldron have been
prolonged through twenty-seven years, except for,
the feet, that both Sparta and Athens were both
based on slavery. The Mayes tilled theta, the
citizens waged war. Slavery , not only supplied-the
munition but it gave the war a savage ferocity and
brutality. Athens alone bad four hundred thous
and slaves to sixty thousand freemen. But Sparta
waa made pre-eminently. barbarous And Inhuman by
the habit of domineering over slaves. - Daring the
progress of the war, tearing an inaurrection among
her - flelOta at home, she tainted :iltrerty to such
as would come fo and join her armies. Two
thousand brave men sprang up at the word giber.
ty,' and proanted themselves. They were never
heard of more. • They were 1.11 off secretly and maa
gicred ; and by this tiendish treachery, the oligarchs
rid themselves of such aLsvea lawould be morel/key
to prove a dangerous element at home.
de to the numbers engaged, the little Shiro Of
Niassachavetts furnished more men in - onr present
ornate than fought on both eldea in the greet
English rebellion It has, sent more men into tho
dell than Julius Camir commanded to gain the em
pire of the world ; more than all the troops of Bet.
..4s put together In the long struggle that rent her
n piLeve., when her nun went down In blood. The
Atate of New-Tone has equipped more soldiers than
it the troops of Comer end Pompey put together,
though drawn from every porlace from theEuphra
tea to the pilia-s of Hercules. 'the whole army of
Cromwell would only serve as skirmisens, or as a
detail for a ' raid,' from the army of Grant or Sher
man. His great military fame was gainedby mans
trine twenty-rive thousand men; and Its .marehee
and evolutions were within , an area lean extensive
than the State of Virginia."
"The great civil war of England, known as the
'Great Rebellion,' was also a wallet between the
oligarchs and the commons; called again the Cava
liers and the Roundheads called again mare appro
priately, the King and his Parliament. dlfidecl
England horizontally—the King and the Lords ernt
Bishops on one aide, the commons on the other;
and It decided the question forever, whether consti
tutional government was a possible boon to the En
glish race.
"The war was opened in 1612, and continued sev
en yearn. It would probably have been finished In
!Lilt that time, bat for the hesitancy and half mean
urea of Essex, the drat parliamentary . general. The
drat conflict of Edgehill has Its exact parallel in Au
%lett= Ili was a drawn battle: both parties /Flog
dl night on their arms bat in the morning, Hamp
den came up with tour thonaand fresh men. Juline
Caesar would have followed up quickly the former
days' work, and with blow upon blew liolshed the
royalists and the afar. Instead of this, thearmiee
'looked at each othei,' dreaded to renew the light,
and drew off each by Itself, much to the chagrin and
disgust of Hampden. Five thougand were left slain
aeon the field. slain to no purpose, as nothing was
decided. do things went on, till Oliver Cronawvil
game with his 'lnon.ide regiment,' and at the decii.
lve battle of Ilaseby dashed upon the king's fortes,
and shivered them In pieces.
" We may smile, on reading over these great bat
tles, at the number engaged. They Tilled from
twenty to rwenty-live thousand men on each side,
never exceeding the latter number. The battle of
Mentor' Moor was the moat otodleately contested,
between 'the most numerous armies that were en
gaged during the course of these wan;;' and ha that
battle, as Hume laments, ally thousand British
troops were led to mutual slaughter. Sueh was the
price paid; the end achieved was free government
tor the English mix everywhere."
The writer in the Rdigious Xontlaly, sap our crit
ic, deduces from the facts be relates severs: urgements. First comes one in favor of the cultivation
of a national military spirit as the surest way of
avoiding the shedding of blood. Ware unskillfully
waged are the bloodiest of all ; Clew, in three
bars' war between the Cwsareaua and the Pompe
ans, lost fewer men than McClellan did In a .Lnglo
battle on the Peninsula. Indeed, It Is said, that
more lives have been lost in our present Ann. than
the great civil wars of Greece, Bomo, and Ebgland
pot together; and this might have been avoided
had the Nort been a military people;
You should bear constantly in mind, 'that nine.
tenths of us are, from the very statute and timed
ties of the world, born to gain our livelihood by the
sweat of the brow. What reason, than, have we .to
presume that our children are not to do the same!
The path upwards Is steep and long: Industry.
can; and skill, excellence In the-,parmay .Isy the
foundation of a rise ander more Ihrorable circum
stances for the children. The children of these take
another rice, and by and by the deacer.danta or a
peasant lab orer become gentlemen. This la the'
wawa! progress. It Is by attempting to reach the
top at a*lngla leap that so maetimlwry Is produc
ed In the world. The edacatlon whlch Is recom
mended, consists la bringing children up to labor
with steadiness; with' are, and stillt—to show them
bow to do as many useful things pa possible;, to
teach them to do all In the beat manner • to set
them an example of industry, sobriety, clea nliness,
and neatness—to make all these habitual to theta.
so that they shall never be liable to fall into the
contrary—to let them always Bee a good llvine pro
ceeding from labor, and thus remove tram them the
temptation- to get goods of others ‘ violent and
fraudulent mere.—lrilliam Clad!.
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Yammer° INTO date.-'..These geed events
swallow up or overshidoirall! others. There Is
le no news from elteetaan,vonly 6.rnmor that he WU
On the move. Thera Ls no omelet the prams' ofthe
column moving from Rest Teneesesi There le news
from Alabama that a Federal ;owe was • con& el
marches In advance of Disport.; and there Is news
that Canby and the fleet were argiergiva with Mobile.
But the great fact la the defeat of Leda Min and
it la justly considered that this defeat Is decisive of
the Whet( of war.
What that issue would Do we badtever dr at n
and our readers know; that welgre never
them. With only ono army In the geld and that
weak one, It Is impossible that organised vegetates
.can be prolonged. When Leo is Atone. (Poised
Sherman and Hancock and. Thomas will Do able to
smirch where they Flee's, e. The (beam Ora slave pew
avtil paletted Into algee.riaWissbettgd. , Ft
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