The Express.
London, England, 1865-04-26 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26.

Wnui all Europe has been rejoicing in the
fair dawn of peace and reconciliation, across the

Atlantic a steam vessel has been making its way
by day and night, upon the ocean, bearing a ,
terrible message. On the night of the
14th inst., President burnous was shot down
by an assassin in Washington, and died on the fol-
lowing day. The news is so overwhelming that
even the fact that the most distinguished states-
man in the United States, whom this deed would
have left us—Mr. Szwian--has also been the
victim of an attempted murder, and is in immi-
nent danger, while his son, Mr. FILIDERTCI
SEAWAII.D, also attacked, was already dead—seems
scarcely to add to its momentous character. Later
particulars of this terrible tragedy we must yet
wait some hours to learn, but of the deep horror
which it must have spread throughout the
Northern States we are already informed. Un-
happily it is less easy to foresee the bitter
fruits which it may produce ; the fratricidal hatred
which it may again raise into new life—now when
the leader whose wise moderation and patriotic
firmness were more than ever needed, now while
he who alone seemed destined by Providence
for the task of building up again the
great temple of Freedom so rudely shattered,
though not cast down, has passed for ever from
that world which so lately seemed filled with his
name.

It is indeed most probable that these acts, so
important in their consequences upon a nation's
welfare, were but isolated acts of ven-
geance. The telegrams which we publish
indeed seem to indicate this fact. It is easy
to conceive that some violent and 'awls*
men have fancied that in destroying the
chief pillars of the Federal power they would yet
do something for the ruined slaveowners. But
no such dream could have lingered in the
minds of the scattered and fugitive Go-
vernment of Richmond. They were men
who, in spite of their errors, had states-
manlike qualities at least above the folly of
nourishing a spirit of mere blind revenge. Never
was there a time, it is true, when a cynical
proverb which tells us that no man is missed
was less applicable than in this. It is not
too much to say that no single life
of a statesman could ever have been so
precious in the eyes of the best and wisest of
mankind. President Lixcors will indeed be
missed ; and hereafter none will be able to say
what larger measure of freedom, what greater
inheritance of human welfare might not have
been secured for us if Providence in its myste-
rious workings had permitted the saving of this
life. But, happily, even this great calamity
cannot undo what is done, or rob the world•of
that chief end for which he has toiled with
unfaltering:patriotism for so many days.

President LINCOLN is dead. Even now it seems
bard to oonceive that before long the anxiously
expected news from America will flub along the

wires from time to time with no mention of his
familiar name. He is gone—too soon, indeed, and
yet, had it been earlier, bow far greater had been
our loss. He had lived to show the world how
just, and moderate, and wise he could be in the
moment of his great triumph ; he had lived to
point out the way to that peace and reconatruction

which to the faint-hearted and the evil-minded
seemed so hopeless ; and what is more he had lived
to inspire a whole people with the spirit
of peace and good-will towards that
section of their race with whom they had so long
contended in bitter warfare. In his last cabinet

meeting, but a short time before his death, it is
reported that be had spoken very kindly of Lee,
and hopefully of the prospects of the republic.
Thoughts of these things, bad sensibility
remained to him, would rarely have filled his
mind, as the world in which he had played
so great a part, with all its hopes and struggles,
slowly receded from his eyes, mingling a feeling of
joy even with the bitterness of death.