The Express.
London, England, 1865-04-28 00:00:00

Goloilnic warn O.IT f 4
OF PRZNIDINT LINCOLN.

Wier Nam :1 teem Preform Otthlwia Staleil to
difficult to measure the calsak4
halted States aud the world have rft
urder of Presideat Lasso's' Te,

wont mercy
both of which this good and ask
mainstay. It is impossible not to IN
as to the tarn which this musda
Molly and morally, to the course%
tlit the powers of evil of all Mail
advantage in it. But I have UN
. most unfeigned confidence in the goo
Inmanity, the belf-oontrol, the law-long
,itional character of the Antonin

Mr. Seward also, if he is killed, a
tented, strange as the SilleltOZl
Au), without knowing anytniag
candidly watching his course, have goat
to day repeating the accustoms
iunciationa. Under trying drew
twithstanding great provocation, to
laboured to keep the peace. nit
fortunate if his suocessor dos, the

writing to you, however, is not to
irreparable, but to second you is
=aerated assumptions and extra)
•as to the character and prol4l,
Lincoln's constitutional success.
Andrew Johnson to the hei.
ae received with almost as much roil.
America as here ; and the mind of the
-)nle is no doubt by this time at work
leans of obviating the danger to tie
event may entail. Should teem-
, of securing the public interest will
ugh in a nation so attached to con.
ns no unconstitutional expedient will
till the resources of the constitution
lusted. Evan if it were clear that
ohnaon were no better than a Marat or a
Americans are not a Parisian or a
tb ; they are an educated nation,
action, and capable by their
ttelligenoe and practical resources of meet.
- emergency, as the events of the
mn. But it is quite premature to
'ohnson when in power will turn out
Zdasaniello. An American politician
thing may be said of the politicians
may be very rough, even coarse;
have in him sterling stuff, which
maibility may bring to light. Lis-
t originally a rough man, and if we
to certain parts of his early writings
we might have despaired of Ins be
rorthy ruler of a great nation. At his
Andrew Johnson, under the joint
appears, of great excitement
behaved in a way which shocked
len as much as it did us
not to forget that Pitt was once at
worse for liquor in the House of
. that if current tradition does not
speech was made by a very eminent
; House of Lords, in the debate on
Bill, which showed that the speaker
- the influence of political excitement
trident seems to me less serious than
proceedings of which Johnson has
been guilty in Tennessee, and which
iy a character prone to violence—
of all to be deprecated and dreaded
t juncture. But Tennessee, when
conflict has been going ca
Secessionist and Union parties, and
men, Johnson himself among the
) undergone every kind of outrage at
their opponents, is the land of
it is not to be assumed that :man
everywhere as be would behave

position and heavy responsibility have
,:eat effect in moderating and elent.
character, especially among the class of
a men to whom 1 think it very pro-
, President belongs. I shall not despair
ipel me, of seeing him, in his new dignity,
manners, throw off his Tenuous=
behave as becomes his station, and
best of his ability, both at home and
steps of the truly great man (for so,
unimposing form, Lincoln was), into
has been unexpectedly called. His
aeons to promise well. Ido not mean
the gravity of the accident which, at
substitutes for a representative of the
kindly West a man chosen to what
ace of little importance by way of
Unionist martyrs of the violent and
atlt. I only wish to avoid aggravating
Tell may) by anticipation, and, at any
in arresting, if possible, the flood of
luperation which is ready to flow from
portion of our press. These journalists
as tremendous a lesson on their own
the severity of destiny could read
ley could scarcely select a more dan-
,ent than the present for another exhi-
their temperance and discretion.
nate, the House of Representatives, the
Court, all have in their hands powers of
the action of the executive, which,
the case of the Senate and House of
.ives, increase in effectiveness in proPur•
personal influence of the President over
diminiabes. The army is in the hands of
has been styled by journalistic omnir
butcher," as Lincoln was styled a
ibespierre," but who is in fact an American
Wellington, as straightforward and simple
as modest, as devoid of irregular
little likely to swerve from the strict
itary or civil duty, while his recent
Lee and the captured army shows that
tell how to behave to a vanquished
sin,

GOLDWIN SMITH,
tow that Mr. Lincoln is dead," 8871 8
journal, " his good qualities seem to
foreground." And why, let me ask in
.
i common honesty and veracity, did
come to the foreground" at the time
were being displayed ? In the same
id the new President belaboured with
docratic epithets bestowed till yester:
?redeceeaor, with an unthinking rePeti-
impudent falsehood originated' by sbe
he proposed "to tang the Southern
high as Haman." Thus slander leaves
with a hypocritical tribute to the virtues .
maligned, only to fix upon the living.

ANDON INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION.
mammy will take place et tho Floes-hoh
Garden, oa Monday altaniooa, Nal` Id, du°
prcisely. This musical arraairemaate will be et,l
aad the adman' sopirsd kw this common
an mamas of all the moss optima
fo peoteer.'
The mamba of &atria of articles exhim
bi
IT wr. compared with etkihitioas of • a
to ibt.e
and Wodethez thi undrztaking Di& Mit be e

PESSOR
MURDER 0
folio:mfg. let
ia the Daily
Sia,—lt is d
• .1i the United
• .. by the mu
his clesse
oration, of b
e was the maim
.• t misgivings s
3' /diet polities
ta. No doub
11 see their s
. test and most
. • the hnmani
d oonatitution
. ple.
The loss of Mr
eh to be lames
.m to those wh
• man or candic
from day to
.ffe and denun
oes, and notw
honourably
.rld will be for
e.
My object in wi
plore what is
recating exag
.t language
millet of Mr. L
e accession of
noy will be r
ving in America
erican people
to the best mee
to which this e
y arise, means
. found, thoug
'tutional forms
resorted to til
ye been exhaus
.drew Johnson
aaaniello, the
eapolitan mob
'fled to pout
ailed intelligen.
g almost any en
ar have shown,
.time that Joht
Marat or a Ids
d the same th
our colonies) n
d yet he may
. wer and re spor
.1n himself was
ad looked onlyi
d speeches, we
'ming the wort]
auguration, A
. finance, it
d drink, bet
is oountryme
: ut we ought no
t seen the
ommons, and
eceive us, a spi
.. ember of the I
be Reform Bill,
•as not under t
one. This inc
he arbitrary pi
. ore than once 1
• ppear to betray
he thing moat c
t the present
desperate
tween the Se
here Union in
umber, have xi
•he hands of
iolemce ; and
ould behave
there. High poe
.metimes a gre
ing the charact
strong, rough
bable the new P
till factsoompel
mend his mar
animosities, be]
treed, to the b
abroad, in the
though in an ur
whose place he
first speech see
to underrate th
this crisis, auk
shrewd and iril
seemed an offi.
tribute to the L
stabbing South
evil (as we we
rate, to aid in
dangerous vitu
the pens of a p
, have just had i
fallibility as t
them ; and the
gerous moment
bition of their
The Senate,
Supreme Court
restraining thi
especially in ti
Representativo
Lion as the per
the nation dim
Grant, who ha
I cience a " b
" Robespierre
Duke of Welli
in character,
ambition, as 1
path of militi
treatment of I
he knows we]
enemy.—l an
April 27.
P. S. —" Ne
i virulent tory
come to the fi
the name of
I they sot "oo
when they
article I find
all the aria <
day on his pr
Lion of the
Times, that
leaders as hi
the dead, will
has maligned
a Warr Los
I luau/rival oari
." Covent Garda
o'clock preeleal
• London. The
is unusually
eharratar, and
great saseses.