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

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAYvaVENING, APRIL

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THE NEW PRIMED ENT OF THE UNIT= peatemat of the °shiest oaks taw ineegkg Vomigsmt
STKfES. Thee, shosild we not be balks in Illa Unica,
—w-- by reshatiag even the Cepniellede 111\11 Admisiddiges la
(From the Deily News.) a etealltetiewal mode; sat ebb
(From Wily to= on our
Ir the estimate of the new President of the stle.tndadalistnala
vag to taWireLjW 7— • a thsaseeiry ? se
IiJNITSD STATIS put forward by some of our con- 18170, eppelemia sees e reiehem saved ii, meesread, the
temporaries is comuct, it must be acknowledged sensing Administration will have no power without our
that in his present position he is one of the most reemet, if we /*mac hares It moss Into °Moe Imad
tics auffed,
extraordinary phenomena of an extraordinary age. powerless te do hum. We, standing here, hold
We do not refer to those who are writing of him of power is_ rm., heads.
_.;
.._we,,
,_..,.._sin
_..,.ituat,,...t thessareiya
Sri a new and unknown man, a recent disoovery,
our t .____•=_!_:_nrdLe'll;:til'°h"re sot even the
exoavated from the mud of Tennessee, but to
power
e__'_',.l7.t'se ....,,,,,r wham wary moods 1,006
those who must be aware that Mr. Joassox has • Zlien, a reve7":withase"; oonniTitntin„ith, and the mini.
Public history, or, Is the Americans call it, $ eneeeee of, the Senate ofto draw him m the United Slary—his take. The P
000 reside
dal
" reward.as not even the power 25,.
Mr. Liereote's rise to station and power was V" bus per amlllt—tualst 7e el!Tri!!'a I!". lamtual•_..o. than!
morally considered remarkable, but it was a com- that the tree. Pam.
pro to fight the
thenanle is the U_ln.nssrmal
mon-place progress compared with what in
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appropriations ...
by
supposed to have been that of Mr. Jan". Congress; and if we were apprehensive that endosebeneote
SON. Here is a man who, according to cn° would be made on the Southern Staten and on their
much
insti.
authority, is " • mechanic whom none of us would wawa, i„ideur
dollar even s, of the onnatitut food his army co his o tino, we mom
" trust to perform the humblest office ;" who, him from having •
according to another, is "an incapable and igno- awry.
" rant person," who " cannot speak or write • word Mr. Davis replied :
"of decent English." Let us grant that such a lam entirely satisfied that the answer of the senator.
owe mhe e did not intend to fight at all ; that it
UM as this might by accident become President shows
wen a figure of speech, and does not justify converting 1
of the United States : many
strange things the Federal capital into &military camp. But it is a sort of
happen in revolutions, and this may be one revolutions, which h.
prop.... ; is is a
revolution ..4.s.sue
of them. But his elevation to the Presidency foam et the government. Now, I have to say, owe for all,
is not the difficulty that most needs to be that, u looses I ant • senator here, I will not use the
explained. The fact is that the man who points I passim to deetroy the very government to which I
is described as we have just seen, has been am aocredithd. I will not attempt, in the language of the
before the public—and before the same public— senator,ii iht°,,loodmitradran,. the Presidenttration b. I
ng .will
onibooet.atrontlthi
for thirty years, and his career has been • steady
nisteryits f ti I should vote, as Iyhave done to ad-
advance from trust to trust, and from honour to „entreat,a to which I
stood in
owe.,
relation,
araievt a
honour. That is the broad fact which our con- erne nomination; but I never would agree, ender the forms
temporaries have to reconcile with the theory they of the ennititntionoind with the powers I how an a .water
offer to the public. of the United Stem, to turn those powers to the deem-
Mr. Jonrisox is • Southern man, • " poor tire of the government I was sworn to support. near*
who take the oath with • mantel reser.
4' white," who if be was to rise honestly must rise
vett "n. It is cot' my policy. If I must have revolution,
by labour. And he did so. His energy and I say let it be a revolution such as our fathers made when
courage were exerted to supply the deficiencies of they were dialed their natural rights.
his humble birth. If he had been born in Massa- It is impossible to miss the contrast thus pre-
ohusetta he would have had a common school edu-
sented between Mr. JOHNSON, on the one hand,
cation ; but in North Carolina he grew almost to counselling moderation, and urging the duty of
manhood without being able to read or write, and exhausting the resources of the Constitution in
never attended • school. This may be the defence of the rights which it protected before
fault of the community in which he was born, abandoning the Union, and Mr. Davis on the
but the merit of conquering knowledge under diffi- other, distinctly declining the methods of conati-
culties is all his own. He became an earnest, tutional and parliamentary warfare, and deliber-
solitary, and successful student. His character &tidy preferring a resort to violence. We may
and conduct gained him the respect of his notice, once more, the only reference Mr. JOHN,.
neighbours, and after having served the offices SON made to the bitter personal attacks already
of alderman and mayor in Greenville, Tennessee, referred to. On the 2nd of March, 1861, he said :
where he carried on business, he was elected Bet, air, it mast be apparent, net oily to the senate, bet
to the State Legislature in 1835, and to the whole country, that either by accident cor by dolga,
again in 1839, and to the State Senate in there has been an arrangement that any one who seemed
184 1. He represented Tennessee in the United in this Senate to vindicate the Union of these States
States Congress from 1843 to 1853. In the course should be attacks& Why is it that so one in the Senate
ormsonnti of it,inwatho iskin favour of. the Union of these States
of the latter year be was elected Governor of the has
State. In 1855 he was re-elected Governor, and three
who hare tohowaPhaouthme •
a:dby
secret
groundlt in
in 1857 was elected Senator in the United States Wks of the Constitution, for the disruption of the govern-
Congress. These successive honours, it will be meat ? Why has there been • cowered attack upon me
remembered, were all conferred by a Southern from Use beginning of this discussion to the present
State. Tennessee, now free, wen at that moment, sot even confined to the ordinary courtesies of
time, with the exception of Virginia, the debate and of senatorial decorum? It is • question which
most populous and the most wealthy slave littluan itself `b°,:tici"""alitili I oar, not from what dim'
State in the Union. Thus for twenty-five years words me ;siin thart I feel" who
liwdulges
aboivnePlesim, and.tiewthatw;
Mr. JOHNSON was promoted from appointment to he is my inferior. Personalities are not arguments ; they
appointment of increasing trust and responsibility, are the resource of men whom minds are low and coarse.
having been twice chosen Governor of his State, I have preeseted facts and authorities ; sod upon them I
and mainintained for 16 years as its representative have argued ; from them I bare drawn conclusion' ; and
in one or the other House of Congress. We why have they DIA been met! Why have they not been
answered ! Why abandon
invite our pro-Southern contemporary who pater- the great issue before the oonn-
day described him as " the most brutal of North- t;iyr,' here gar,. into Peed • pointrsonal asiti"whiiocash we carrot Pe':
I;alkal attack
khout
" ern demagogues" either to deny or explain these theism t Our forefathers talked about it ; they spoke of it
facts. in the Coostitntion of the country ; they have defined what
We stated yesterday very briefly the nature of trance was : is it an offence, is it • crime, is it an intuit to
the testimony borne to Mr. JOHNSON'S character and Naito the Conatitution that was mark by Washington and
ability by those who had known him well, and the his compatriots? What does the Conetitution say :
" Trams spinet the United State, shall comet only is
confidence felt that his administration would disap- l ening war against them, or in adhering to their anemia
point the sinister predictions of his enemies. For loins them aid and comfort." There it is defined olearly
our further satisfaction we have since consulted that teelloll shall comet only in levying war agains tbe
the volumes of the Congressional Globe (the United States, and adhering to and giving aid and comfort
American Hansard) for 1860-2, in order to to their enemies, Who is it that has been engaged in
learn what part he was able to sustain in Con- esioPirssiss , Who is it that has been engaged in making
geese in those years. We should be glad to see war upon the United States? Who is it that has
find upon n" flag f Who I. that has giveneD M.
these volumes in the library of every public insti-
etra.oa totake oar so take oar
tution, convinced that a perusal of the debates foe* to tau our dockyards, to take the pebble property?
which preceded and accompanied secession would Is the language of the coedit/dim of the United States,
throw more light on that event than all the leading hays not those who have been engaged in it been guilty of
articles that have ever been written. Any treason tWe mike a fair issue. Show me who has been
one, no matter what his previous opinions, who engaged in then eenaltirsniae, who ha fired umlaut flag,
will consult them as we have done, will rise from has given inatnictioes to take our forts and oar custom.
them with the conviction that Mr. J °suitor( is a hones, our animAl4 and "rd"h7ania' and I will show you
• traitor.
man of high political capacity, who would
acquire influence in any deliberative ale Throughout the debate we are astonished at the
repeated proofs of Mr. JOHNSON'S moderation and
sembly. He figures in these reports as a
man of eminently parliamentary mind, practical, temper that everywhere recur. No one will deny
disciplined to „if_ocmmend, conciliatory in his de_ that in his controversy with the leaders of Pieces-
meanour, vendible of the value of rule, a thorough lion he showed himself immeasurably superior to
master of the forms of the House, and preferring to his opponents in this respect.
facilitate business by brief and appropriate susses, It is suggested, in more than one quarter, that
tone rather th„ occupy time with long speeches, Mr. Jonesoe will not exercise the prerogatives of
though equal to any of his contemporaries in his office. One predicts that the people of the
the power of presenting an argument in ita fullest United States will not obey him ; another, that
logical and rhetorical development- He particu- the great officers of the State will not serve under
larly distinguished himself in the debates which him. A contemporary who, in the summer
arose when secession was contemplated, and when of 1861, strongly urged General WPCim.u.sii to
his position as a Southern citizen and • Southern depose Mr. Liecour and to seize the government,
Senator, protesting against the division of the Re- now suggests that Gluier may do something of the
public, marked him out as the object of most bitter kind. Those who thus write can know little of
personal attacks Even then, however, the the people or public men of America. The people
.
allegations now raised against him by journ- will rally round their Passumer. Mr. ST•STON,
alista who show themselves utterly en_ Mr. M'Crrueen, Generals Geezer and Snaesue,
acquainted with his history and character, and Mr. Smraal4 if he survives' "ill Mild firmly
were unheard of, and his opponents treated him by him. Mr. JOHNSON will receive and accredit
as a formidable antagonist. An encounter be- ministers, authorise negotiations, move fleets and
tween him and Mr. JEFFeBSON Davis respecting armies, and do all that pertains to his office as Mr.
the alleged necessity of secession may be noticed LINCOLN did, and it will be once more seen that
as an illustration. Mr. JOHNSON argued that the the Government of the United States is not a
battle of slavery was to be fought within the personal accident, but a regular and stable instita-
Union. Mr. Davis seized on the word battle him'
and said, " I can understand how men may fight Whatever there is of real danger in Mr.
" when they assume attitudes of hostility, but I JOHNSON'S accession to power, lies in a direction
"do not understand how men, remaining con- which has not yet been pointed out. Instead of
the people not following him, it is possible that
" nected together in • bond as brethren, still pro-"
pose to fight each other." they may follow him too easily in a path upon
lir. Joassos—What I mean by fighting the hattle In the which his peculiar experience as a Southern
Union is, I think, very distinctly and clearly set forth in Unionist may lead him to enter. We have com-
ely speech ; and if the Senator will take it from beginning mended Mr. Joarisow's moderation as • member
to end, I apprehend that he will have no difficulty In war- lof Congress, and spoken of the value of the poll-
seining what I meant. But for his gratification elms this . tical education he received there. But he paired
particular point, I will repeat, in "Maim. what I them the last two years in a furnace of political pas-
mid as to fighting the battle in the Union. I meant that
i 111011. Listen to the description of the condi-
we should remain here under the Conelitution of the United
Staten and amtand for nil it. guarantees ; awl hy presser- ; Lion of Tennessee, spoken in Congress, in Ja-
ing the
eCstitutio and all its guarantees we would ors
.. nuary 1861 :—" The people of my State are
serve th Union. Our true place to maintain these guano . ' coerced, overborne, trodden down by the
tem, and to preserve the Constitution, is in the Union, there I " heel of (Confederate) power. They appeal to
e) fight our battle. How ? By ailment ;by " you for protection. They are arrested by hun-
the patriotism, to the good genie, and to the judgment of It dreth and by thousands
1 a...; they are drafted away
the whole country ; by showing the people that the
" from their homes and thrown into dungeons.
tuition had been violated ;that all its guarantees ware not I
" They were taught to love end respect the con-
theyped with ; and I have entersed the hops that when '
were posseased of that fact,
here would be found ea- " etitution of the United States, and to-day they
triotism end honesty enough in the great mama the people, " are hunted and hurried like the beasts of the
North and Sonia. to come forward and do what was just " forests by the Secession hordes. They are shot
and right between the contending sections of the country. i "or hung for no crime but a desire to stand by
I that the Wu way to fight the battle was for us
I m I " the constitution of the United States. Help-
to remain here and occupy the places deigned to um by the
of 1 ,
"
rtion th country. Why did I make that e. less children and innocent women are murdered
t Wee bee
cause, on the 4th day of Kuck next, datwe 'in cold blood ; our men are hanged and their
six majority is this body ; sad if, as some appro. " bodies are left on the gibbet ; they are shot and
the incoming Administration shall show any din- " their bodies are left lying in the gorges of the
to make encroachments upon the institution of " mountains. We appeal for protection, and
encroachments upon the rights of the ii the senator from Indiana replies that he is
or any other violation of the Constitution, I „
against a
coercive
policy. Ido not say these
remaining in the Union' and standing at our
1 " things in unkindness, but it is • duty I owe to
rill have the power to resist all these encroeoh- 1
How ! We have the power even to fejed the sp. "my country and to my wife and children. Pee-

" don me, sir► for this personal allusion. My wile
Smd clakholt,"" been turned into the steel,
."
end my home has been *inverted info a barrack,
" because I steed by the oonalitution and tt a iasti-
" Odious I have been taught to love end respect. ,
"Of my manieln-law, one has been thrown into I
" prison and another is forced to fly into the
" mountains to evade the pursuit of this hell-born
" conspiracy of disunion and secession."
' Mr. JOHNSON returned to Tennessee with the
victorious armies of the Union, and was until lately
Military Governor of the State, by appointment
of President LinooLx. In that capacity he has
for the last two years been battling with the pas-
sions which he had so energetically described. In
such a school a man learns the value of vigour but
naleartui that of moderation, and the danger we
spoke of is that he may carry the feelings of the par-
tisan into the office of President. There would be
danger of this at any time, but Mr. Jonr‘sox takes
office at a moment when the whole North is axes-
pointed almost to madness by the murder of the best
of magistrates, and when it is in a position to take
a signal vengeance on the South. It may be assumed
with oertainty that if Mr. JOHNSON were to pro-
claim a policy of vengeance,le would carrythe whole
Northern people with him. The mistake would soon
be perceived, but not until it was too late to re-
trieve it. But although this danger is real, we
hope it is not great. We sincerely trust that the
people of the Free States will not permit sorrow for
their late President to lead them from that magna-
nimous policy for which their voice was so lately
raised, which is that of the truest wisdom, and
which Mr. Ltwootar could his sentiments reach
them, would certainly enjoin. Let them be mo-
derate, patient, generous, and they will thus show
themselves worthy of the great position which
Providence has called their nation to fill in the
world.

AMERICA.

flOrAildee
us
emu&
by
imos Johaseapc is la the shy, NAM@ headedietsrs.
Were sorrow is depicted ia 4meelenindla at *Om-
an@ eveahisdhat ()warred te W Lai alp, aid the
greed Aimed ems is &epeeist everywhere at Mks Assails
of the Preeklent. No Asp were Weld la this city this
merslag until the slate of the President was known—erkse
they were all eland at half mast. The people sipper per.
hotly horrified, sad the utmost rose is fell towards all
known seressioakes sad rebel sympathisers. •
Another Washington despatch mays the audience
in the theatre heard the shot, but, supposing it to
be fired in the regular course of the play did not
heed it till Mrs. • n'a screams drew attention.
The whole affair, including the escape of the tame-
sin, occupied scarcely half a minute. The assassin
is about thirty years of age, 5 feet 9 inches high,
sparely built, of light complexion, and of a genteel
appearance. He entered the box which is known
as the state box, being the upper box on the right
hand side from the dress circle, in the regular
manner. When be emerged from the box after the
deed he was followed across the stage by a gentleman
who sprang out from an orchestra ()hair. He
rushed through the side door into an alley, thence
to the avenue, and mounted • dark bay horse, which
he apparently received from the hand of an &mom-
plisse, lashed up to F street, and thence towards the
back point of the city. The escape was so sudden
that he effectually eluded pursuit. During the
night cavalry and infantry scoured the city in every
direction for the assassins, and the people were
almost mad with excitement. _ _ .

The New York papers publish the following
despatch, dated Washington, April 15 :
The eititiONlA throughout Washiogtoe is intense, and
the horrible proeeedinp of last night are the only theme of
conversation. The muslin of the President left behind
him • het and • spur. The hat was picked up in the Pre-
sident's box, and has been ideotified as one belonging to the
suspected man. The spar hid dropped upon the stage,
and that also lies been identified* one procured at a stable
where the same man hired • horse in the evening. Two
gentlemen who went to the Secretary of War to apprise him
,of the attack on Mr. Lincoln, met at the madame of
the former a man muffled in • cloak, who, when accosted by
them, hastened away. It had been Mr. Stanton's intention
to accompany Mr. Lincoln to the theatre, and occupy the
mime box, beta pees of badness prevented him. It, there-
fore, seems evident that the aim of the plotters was to pars-
lyselthe country by a4naoe sinking down its head, bsart,•ad
arm. As aeon es the dreadful events were announced in the
doves Superintendent Richards and his assiatanta were at
work to discover the theamins. Ina few moment. the Wle-
gfraph had moused the whole police force of the city.
Mayor Walled' sad several members of the city government
um moos on the spot, and every preparation was made to
preserve order and quiet. Everytstreet was patrolled.
At the request of Mt. Richards, General Augur not horses
to mount the police. Every road leading out of Washington
is strongly picketed, sad every possible avenue of serape
thoroughly guarded. Steamboats about to start down the
Potomac were stopped. TheCtronicle osys,th it is suspected
this conspiracy originated in Maryland, the telegraph
dashed the mournful news to Seidman, and all the cavalry
were put upon active duty. Every road was picketed, and
every precaution taken to prevent the cacaos of the
meanie. A preliminary examination has been made by
Superintendent Richards and his assistants. Beyond per-
sons were called to testify, sad the evidence is coo-
elusive to this point, viz. : —That the murderer of the
President was John Wilkes Booth. His hat was found in
the private-box, and identified by several parsons who had
wee him within the last two days, and the spur which he
dropped by accident after he jumped to the stage was iden-
tified as one of those which be had obtained from the stable
where he bad hired his horse. This man Booth has played
more than once at Ford's Theatre, and is of worse ac-
quainted with its exits and entrances, and the facility with
which be escaped behind the scenes is easily understood.
The person who attempted to assassinate Secretary Seward
left behind him a slouched hat and au old rusty navy re-
volver. The chambers were broken loose from the barrel's'
if done by striking. The laths were drawn from the cham-
bers, one beingibet • rough piece of lead, add the others,
smaller than the chambers, were wrapped in paper, as if to
keep them from falling out.

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" -100011.* astmiethoilbs lot
wideePtilianibe hawse aggiellEalls. PniirdlBB°RDEßß OFG LDIVP/ISSINIDSNSKTITRWic°6I3I4
and that before his death he men
the 'Union rimlM sad slavery virtmelly-
• cad wt. too, .. Um diction malt of his own Me tetimefhi leper from Nohow •
*
Cola Buhl
Pogo 7. Nominee deeply sympathies with Mrs. Ida- Peen is She Deal News :1
Pogo la bar ipso. efilletica, and with the peopled the Muted B's,—lt is difficult to measure the
Stare la the hoeporable loss = have wentathed by the which the united gut, and
death of their great sad good megiskatis They wealtl r_______,. the the world have
also express their conlidmies in the ameeter cad thrifty el mmuu by murder of President Liticoba.
President Andrew Jammer whose ememdaladerthishostion, ameggio he. dose his boo to maika
of the State ot TIMMINS. endlawcwo Alligilkli at purpose ___, 4,. both
_,
which this Mercy
as ea anti4lavery may, are pledgee that he will carry on '•'‘. `'.vni of UK
the "overflown in the spirit el his illustrious predeoweer." hie was the mainstay. It is imposeible not to
The Emseeipelimi Seamy _h
oe have eservemed ersehlit inmailll gm"' origgfringo as to the turn which ties
to be bald at lit. Jamee's-ball Saturday swirls" aeon. le
Tindignatioa at the assessitio nof Preehleot Us. may give, politically and 'morally, to the eo-1/1„,"
ad sympathy with 161. Lthoonala aad the Poo* at events. No doubt the powers of evil of
e((
the the United States. Mr. William Enos, the president of
the society, will take the their at sews *Week. There will, will see their advantage in it. But I hew
no doubt, be a Plat ati•Gdalios of Meow anxious to PIP- greatest and most unfeigned confidence in gm
port the object of the meeting. =se, the humanity, the self-control, the
AKKILICANB 111 LONDON. and constitutional character of the
Yesterday afternoon &meeting of American gentle- ,
nes MIA held at the Gresvemir Hotel, Pimlico (coursed by Peelhe•
the Mo. F. Wood), for the purpose of • ' . mew The loss of Mr. Seward also, if be is Wed
southwest with reference to the late lementable in NM much to be lamented, strange
as the ,
from the United States. asaertace*
Mr. Rosa= moved that the Hos. Penrod° Wood should seem to those who, without knowing earvtli.-
take the their, epos which, and before the motion could be "Ito man or oerididly watching his .., -Ye a
Petnave
Dr. Bum, who wee aanonneed se • loyal gentleman on from des to day 'Venting the accowwr
from Kestseley, mid he led men to the seeds" scoffs and denunciations. Under tryin
n g *ma
direct from the Amine= Embassy, at the .riequest of shames, sud notwitheteming
great
prevccatict,
hi
Mr. Adams, their weeentative in this country, with whom
sad other gentlemen he had been in consultation as to the has honourably laboured to keep the New e
best steps to be taken oo this dreadful sod edema oacisioe. world will be fortunate if his
a_ 41
The gestlauses to winos he had alluded thought that women does h
aaia "tbP°4l"d• metrtiposlishoultdo btairiti7 61eirall Amsrialsasorrow is residents
he alline.depibloyreobjwechtstin"wriirtreinparg t:byleioubruhtowtoever,
second
yea
il :
wnthict
a Mr.
linwill's
c*lialbnisattialtitithttiselinstaimmia:tte:Lrect-ti:
coming manner (hear hear) ; with thst view they
e::sttesitlegredmixt woodsouldy,bestdasimblest.
j&most.hauhol,dossgrzahict
tzegregatommoks
deprecating
exaggerated
vagant language as to the
Mr. Adams would take the tear. (Applaniee.) He woule
therefore, mak the pressen meeting for a mainfestatioa character cad
.tubule
opinion upon this point
All bands were held up in favour of the proposition. The accession of Andrew Johnson to the pris ,
Dr. BLACK mid he was delighted to lind that such maid.
~_
_„, be . r .
linty prevailed, end he would et owe report the mown. wino,' WILI receive:l with almost as WWI iii.
stance to the American Weider.
Mr. Norm meted that Mr. Wood eke" take the giAmvinerigotin"peoeripleliiisunteredon;
chair, end that the Inuthon be proceeded with, but the
proposition was rejected. as to the best means of obviating the dagger to fit
The proposition for adjournment till Moeda . next was State which this event may entail. Should law
ultimately agreed to, and this closed the sity arise, means of securing the public interen
The following communication was yesterday sent to Mr. . found
hailtrilatitcle:hod.-Miou'sioittiresofroinueof the distressing distila7.deesingwe Stailltei,lligasi:6"seocernswhe; ibebtitresoiirtednal fthotormotiliusgniltohte bed
resouroesaconati°nstituntroofnalltnacheex oitaliompediett7a
eamm7hamos toomorwavroaiubsouia nMeantiagexprileliend the
Amerkaalel their feelingresidlint have been exhausted. Rvareanareilannoitetdawuca;cleet di:,
this sad 000•111:1L If ootmaioat to your gelagebeT, We Andrew Johnson were no better than a New a ,
eoProc.baimPe:ieeetlid:,tctbey'leaweerldleabody I'rgaussaideegm4 p.m.,
Biurgia.ted meeting,
,tvgjergamehmerpeemy rlate! Marianseapolitaniellor tmohe
bAm;
trained toerietheaatyn• stion, and amble by te,
.h.Lampeco, denies M'Heary, J. &Black, Paha Burrittizatsi,".
, Benjamin Moran, Crammed Kennedy. political
Bites, it. Hooting, W. B. Ballard, W. N. Newman,
Lacrimum,ke."
ing
expressed is your Doted this day, end with what I prienene war have shown. But it is quite premature t
assume that Johnson when in power will tan or
to be the Rests! wick of Americansia Landes, I ooamat to
year Perla ' end heleh=t2 memitigoodoil""sy next, a filmset or a Masaniello. An American politica
to inset or the purpose
at 3 pan., at St. Janieei-1 aM your obedient servant, (and the same thing may be said of the politica,
C. F. ADAMS: in our colonies) may be very rough, even come
and yet he may have in biro sterling stuff, whit
power and responsibility may bring to light. li.
ooln himself was originally • rough man, and if c
had looked only to certain parts of his early mitia
and speeches, we might have despaired of hub
coming the worthy ruler of a great nation. At is
inauguration, Andrew Johnson, under the jets
influence, it appears, of great excitants
and drink, behaved in a way which shocks
his countrymen as much as it did a
But we ought not to forget that Pitt was once a
least seen the worse for liquor in the Raise el
Commons, and that if current tradition does al
deceive us, a speech was made by a very emina
member of the House of Lords, in the debate a
the Reform Bill, which showed that the speaks
was not under the influence of political excitemen
alone. This incident seems to me less serious the
the arbitrary proceedings of which Johnson he
more than once been guilty in Tenneeme, and whiel
appear to betray a character prone to violence-
the thing most of all to be deprecated and dreaded
at the present juncture. But Teaussesse, when
• desperate conflict has been going a
between the Secessionist and Union parties, sal
where Union men, Johnson himself among the
number, have undergone every kind of out's. •
the hands of their opponents, is the bad d
violence ; and it is not to be assumed that s sla
would behave everywhere as he would beim
there. High position and heavy responsibility hue
sometimes a great effect in moderating and else&
ing the character, especially among the Ms et
strong, rough men to whom 1 think it very peo
bsiblethe new President belongs. I shall not darer
till facts compel me, of seeing him, in his new dig*,
mend his manners, throw off his Tans=
animosities, behave as becomes his statics, sad
treed, to the best of his ability, both at hoop sad
abroad, in the steps of the truly great man (ice*
though in an unimposing form Lincoln was), We
whose place he has been unexpectedly called. Ili
first speech seems to promise well. Ido sot OM
to underrate the gravity of the accident which, at
this crisis, substitutes for a representative of the
shrewd and kindly West a man chosen to whet
seemed an office of little importance by IV d
tribute to the Unionist martyrs of the violent sad
stabbing South. I only wish to avoid aggravating
evil (as we well may) by anticipation, and, at any
rate, to aid in arresting, if possible, the float d
dangerous vituperation which is ready to flow from
the pens of a portion of our press. These jonroditi
have just had as tremendous a lesson on their own
fallibility as the severity of destiny could rend
1 them ; and they could scarcely select a more clsk
germs moment than the present for another aid.
bition of their temperance and discretion.
The Senate. the House of Representatives, the.
Supreme Court, all have in their bands power" a
restraining the action of the executive, which,.
especially in the case of the Senate and Rouse d
Representatives, increase in effectiveness in neela''
tion as the personal influence of the President ova
the nation diminishes. The army is in the lands ct
Grant, who has been styled by journalistic man'
=nos a " butcher," as Lincoln was styled s
" Robespierre," but who is in fact an Amnia+
Duke of Wellington, as straightforward and MO
in character, as modest, as devoid of Wale d°
ambition, as little likely to swerve from the d'at
path of military or civil duty, while his earl,
treatment of Lee and the captured army shows the"
be knows well how to behave to a vaneniehell
enemy.—l am, &c.,
April 27. GOLDWIN SMITH'
P.S.—" Now that Mr. Lincoln is dead," sir
virulent tory journal, " his good qualities seem le
come to the foreground." And why, let nee sit.,.
the name of common homey and veracity, a"
they not "come to the foreground" at the tine
when they were being displayed ? In the st!!
article I find the new President belaboured with
all the aristocratic epithets bestowed till rater'
day on his predecessor, with an unthinking "4".1.i:
tion of the impudent falsehood originated 17„..""
Times, that he proposed " to Jiang the Eleaw"e
leaders as high as Haman." Thus slander lear0
..
the dead, with a hypocritical tribute to the virtues a
has =4A only to fix upon the living.

01:1131•103 IN ZEGLAND.

The following address from Germane in England
was yesterday sent to Kr. Adams :—" Sir, we the under-
Signed, speaking the feelings of a large number of Germans
resident in England, express our sincere grief at the &Wm.
tics of the life of the Provident of the United States, whose
very forbearance and leniency in the boar of national
triumph has not been able to stay the hands of eseamins.
Whilst deeply deploring that the joy we have felt at the
remit victories of the American Republic should be thus
marred by the untimely and violent death of its chief slants-
trete, we firmly trust that the people of the United States,
who have carried on during four years a gigantic war in
the cause of freedom and civilization, will only feel nerved
to further exertion' in rooting oat the hateful institutions
from which the shiveholders' rebellion, with all its at.
tendant crimes, has sprung. We beg you, sir, to convey
thee, sympathetic seetimente of ears to the authorities of
your free and great Republic, and we subscribe ourselves
yours obediently, Karl Blind, Ferdinand Freiligrath. Alexis
HelatiMin, Ernst Juch, Gottfried Kinkel, P. H. Berodee,
0. W. Siemens, Nicole= Trubner, E. G. iteivenstein."

mkayLemoss.

Yesterday at the meeting of the representative
vestry of Marylobate, held at the court-house, Mr. Clnueb-
warden Redd/airy in the chair, Dr. Richardson moved the
following repolntion :—" The vestry of St. It arylelicae,
having heard with the profoundest regret of the aseassina-
Pon of the President of the United States, beg respectfully
and earnestly to *convey at the Garbed poesible opportunity to
bis Excellency the American Minister the expression d
their honor at the detestable and cowardly crime that ban
been committed, and their despot Tuxtla; with the
American people on the lamentable
which has befallen them." Mr. J. A. Nicholay
the resolution, and observed that, although be quite agreed
that they should„consider this deplorable event apart Iran
any political considerations, at the mans time he amid not
bat feel that to the noble canon who had thus mid his
death at the hands of a bias amens was the world in-
debted for the total abolition of slavery—a crime which
every free Englishman hoped never to ass again eetablished
is America or elsewhere. Other members gave their
cordial support to the resolution, and it was put and
carried unanimously, and ordered to be forwarded at owe to
Mr. Adams, the American Minister.

A very large town's meeting was held in the St.
George's Hall, yesterday, to express sorrow and indignation ,
at the atrocious Bess nation of Proddeat Lincoln, and
the attempted samennetion of Mr. Seward. The room was
crowded in !ivory part, many ladies being proms. Before I
the procadm commenced. Ms. Best performed with 1101111211
affect, the " Dead Marsh in Saul" upon the great spa.
Upon the platform were the leading merchants and
bankers of the town, men of Northern and Southern view.
bung freely mingled. The Mayor, on taking his seat yea
loudly cieered. He said, if there was one time more
than another when men should cast amide all their antipathies
and differenom of opinion, surely it was when
they were calla upon to vindicate their oomince
humanity from the crimes and outrages which were peeper
tread in Be name. He hoped his fellow townsmen would
be satisfied that he, no is than any. amongst them—what-
ever might be their individual vows of the American
qosetion—felt the deepest sympathy with their brothel's on
the other side of the Atlantic, who were now sorrowing for
the lout of .their political chief, cut ruthlessly down to the
heyday of prosperity, and in the zenith of his power, and
an utter detestation of one of the foulest crimes that
wad be found in the long _ pages of the blood-
stained records of our ram (Chlters)- Mr. O. B.
Rawlies. jun., moved the following resolution
" That the inhbition' of Liverpool. in publics as-
sembled, do hereby expos their deep morrow and
ti on at the atrocious umanation of Abraham Lincoln,
President of the United Stags, and of Mr. Frederick
Seward, Assistant Secretary of State ; and at the destardly
attempt about the ammo hour, on the life of Me. Seward,
Sec State. They desire that the government and
the;tarsciple of the Veiled States should understand that no
difference of opinion on the merits of the conflict of the Lai
four years avails to prevent the unanimous condemnation
so great a mime against our common humanity." Mr. 8.
R. Gram esoooded the resolutioe, which I= supported by
a Parsee gentleman (a local merchant), and by Mr. John
and carried unanimously. Mr. W. BaXhbons,
inn., moved, and Mr. C. Bushell mended, that cora:,
the resolution be sent to the President of the United
through the minister in London, and also to Mrs. Linea&
Tim reeolutioo wee carried unanimously. On the actin
of Mr. Patterson, seconded by Mr. Frederick Hamilton, a'
vote of thanks was passed to the Mayor for his conduct in
the chair. Mr. Hamilton said that be was acquainted with
both Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Frederick Seward, and it was
impossible to know two more sincere, unaffected, and
amiable men. The proceedim then closed, it being an-
nounced that another meeting would be held in the even-
ing, for the purpose of giving an opportunity to the work-
men of the town to pass resolutions on the occasion of the
President's death.
A second public meeting was held last night at St.
George's Hall. which was densely crowded. Resoluticess
assomming the murder of Mr. Lincoln and the attack on
Mr. Seward were pealed unanimously.

The Mayor of Birmingham has called a meeting
is that town for Friday, "to consider as address to the
American people."
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A meeting is to be bald to-day at Bradford. to
express syssoisby with Mrs. Braes on saeonst of the
sadden end spoiling death al the be. President WWI&

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