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The Assassination of President Lincoln.

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The MAYOR said it was to him, as he was sure it
was to all, a source of deep and painful regret that
they should have had occasion to hold that meeting
in Birmingham that day. (Applause.) When. the
news first arrived in the country so improbable did
it appear that so great and able a man as the late
President of the United States should have been
deprived of life by the hands of an assassin, and at
such a momentous period of his country's history,
that people at first refused to believe the intelli-
gence until the subsequent telegrams confirmed the
sad news. (Applause.) They now knew but too
well Abraham Lincoln no longer lived to assist by
his wise counsels and advice in guiding and direct
ing the affairs of his country through the perils with
which she had during the last four 'years been sur-
rounded, and from which she was just on the very
eve of emerging. (Cheers.) As soon as he heard
the melancholy and painful intelligence he felt it his
- , tx-stonee to convene the meeting for the pur-
pose of giving his fellow-townsmen an opportunity
not only of expressing their horror and indignation
.—(applause)—that Abraham Lincoln had been de-
prived of life by the hands of a cowardly assassin,
but also of giving them an opportunity of moving
and forwarding aresolution of sympathy and con-
doleuce to the people of the United States, express-
ina their deep regret for the horrible loss which they
had sustained. (Applause.) Whatever the opi-
nions of the people of this country might be, whe-
kiti
lilier sympathising with - the North or with the •
South, Abraham LinColn had gained the respect
and esteem of Englishmen for his straightfor-.
i ward honesty, industfy, and 'great firmness of
.purpose—(cheers)—and for his great firmness of
purpose in carrying out what he believed to be right,
and, above all, for his constant advocacy of a
policy of conciliation towards this country, and at
all times endeavouring as much las possible to pre-
serve friendly relations with England. (Cheers.)
They knew that =there was but one feeling through-
ont the length and breadth of the land, and that
was. a feeling of indignation that he should have
been deprived
,of life at the hands of an assassin.
(Applause.) He would not detain them longer
with remarks of his own, but would submit a reso-
lution for their approval, which would be seconded
by Mr. Jaffray. The resolution was :
That this meeting desires to express the deepest regret

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• 'For notices of this startl.ng work see the "Saturday Re-
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THE CREDIT FONCIER AND MOBILIER
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At a Meeting of the Shareholders of this Company, held
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at the irreparable loss which-the people of the United States
of America, havo sustainqd by the untimely death of Presi-
dent Lincoln ; that this Meeting regards with horror and-
detestation the crime by which the President's life was
sacrificed ; and th 4 on behalf and in the name of the in-
habitants of Birmingham, this meeting respectfully offers
to the Government and the'poople.of the United States the
most sincere and earnest .ympath, under the calamity which
has befallen them, and that an address of sympathy be also
transmitted to Mr. Seward." (Cheers.)
- Mr: jAFFRAY, in seconding 'the resolution, said
that a debt of gratitude was due to the mayor for
affording the town over which he presided an oppor-
tdnity 'of sencliiag across the Atlantic a resolution of

sympathy witb their fellon men—their brethren in
laws, language, and blooV—in the midst of the

great calamity which had befallen them. (Cheers.)
It was fitting at such artime as that, when no ques-
tion of sympathy with North or South was involved,
when it was a.question of civilisation and humanity
altogether—(applause)—that anything savouring of
party expression or feeling should be excluded alto-
gether from the proceedings. The time might
come when those who agreed with him in the views
he held of the struggle across the Atlantic might
consider it their duty to express their feeling of
delight that the horrible war had been put an end
to. Their duty was, however, a more solemn one
on that occasion ; it was that of sending out the
unanimous expression of their horror at the great
crime which had been committed ; aye, and com-
mitted in the much-abused name of liberty--(loud
applause)—and of their sympathy with a people
emerging from one of the greatest calamities that
ever fell upon a nation, complicated by having at
the moment--the supreme moment, as it were, of
its history—the directing head struck down before
them by an assassin's hand. (Loud applause.)
There might be differences of opinion, and there
were, respecting the character of Abraham Lincoln,
but in his opinion history would record of him that
he was a great statesman. (Applause.) Let them
just think of the circumstances under which he was
called to occupy the position of Chief Magistrate of
that great nation over which he presided for four
years. A man of humble birth, of scanty education,
of little political experience, with no courtly man-
ners, and plunged at the moment of his election into
the struggles of a contest gigantic not only in its
proportions, but in its results, and throughout all
that contest preserving his humble attitude and his
pure heart, never elated in the hour of triumph, and
firm, yet temperate, in the day of defeat. (Cheers.)
But the last and crowning glory of all was the lat-
ter period of Abraham Lincoln's life. It was that
which had won for him the affection and respect of
all men, whether partisans of North or South.

Stanton said of Lincoln, in the touching and simple
despatch to the American Legation in England, in
his later moments he spoke kindly of Lee--(cheers)
—and all his thoughts tended towards conciliation.
There was something of the fine old Puritan in that
frame of mind. (Loud applause.) The moment Lee
laid down his arms and declared the game had been
played out, Lincoln's thought was not of humiliat-
ing him as an enemy, but receiving him back within
the pale of the Constitution as an erring brother.
(Applause.) Could any one doubt that a man like
that, dying with such thoughts in his breast, was
worthy of the admiration and respect of universal
humanity ? Under these circumstances he came be-

fore them—on his first appearance to speak in a
town-hall meeting—to express on behalf of those
whom he had consulted in the matter their earnest
sympathy for the American people under the great
calamity, and their utter detestation and abhor-
rence of the manner in which the freedom of access
to their statesmen had been abused. (Cheers.) There
was one word more he had to say, and it was a word
of caution. At the early part of the struggle there
was no man more denounced than Abraham Lin-

coin, but they were premature in their judg-

ment. At the present time, according to the Con-
stitution, the Vice-President, Andrew Johnson, had
succeeded to the Presidential chair. Little was

known of him ; he hoped, therefore, that until they
knew more all expressions of opinion as to his fit-
ness for the discharge of the duties of his high office
would be suspended.

The resolution was carried unanimously.
The Rev. Mr. DALE moved, and Mr. Alderman

HAWKES seconded, a resolution expressive of deep
regret at the attempt made on the life of Mr. Seward,

and of hope for his recovery. This was carried.
It was also resolved that an address be framed, and
the Mayor was requested to transmit copies of it to
Mr. Stanton and to Mr. Adams, the American
Minister in London.

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though of varying proclivities heretofore with re-
spect to the sad American conflict, were quite united
in expressing their hearty detestation of the das-
tardly deed whereby America had been suddenly
deprived of Mr. President Lincoln, and of deep
sympathy with Mrs. Lincoln and her family and
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support of the following resolutions, were Mr. John
Rand, the Rev. J. P. Chown, Mr. Charles Hardy
(brother to Mr. Gathorne Hardy, M.P.), Mr. Win.
Byles, the Rev. Dr. Campbell, and Mr. William
Rand :

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and with his knife deeply wounded Mr. Seward's
face and throat. • Closing with Mr. Frederick
Seward (the Assistant-Secretary of State, and eldest
son to the sufferer), the ruffian dealt him a blow upon
the head which fractured his skull in two places,
and has probably terminated Mr. Frederick Seward's
earthly career. Almost simultaneouS he poniarded
a male nurse in attendance upon Mr. Seward, in-
flicting wounds since pronounced to be mortal.
Upon Major Seward (another son, if I am not mis-
taken, of the Secretary of State) the miscreant in-
flicted injuries which, though not likely to be fatal,
effectually prevented any further interference with
his own escape from under a roof which had looked
down within a few seconds upon the grim horrors
iof a fourfold assassination. Mounting his horse
! outside the door he saved himself, like his associate,
by swift flight, and up to the present hour both
have escaped detection and capture. The public
voice seems unanimous in pronouncing the assassin
of President Lincoln to be an actor named Wilkes
Booth (the brother, of- the more celebrated Edwin
Booth, who has latelYwon hif,Threputation in this city
by his admirable'impersonation for 100 nights of
Hamlet) whose face, it is asserted, was recognised by
many sEectptors acquainted with him. As I write,
revelations, flashed along the electric wires, indicating
the existence of a preconcerted conspiracy, in which
Wilkes Booth was a principal, and which was designed
to have taken effect on the 4th of March, are pla-
carded at the corners of the street, and devoured by
thousands of hungry eyes. The feeling with which
the brief record "Abraham Lincoln expired at 22
minutes past 7 this morning" is read may be con-
ceived by those of your readers who are acquainted
with the character and temperament of Americans.
How shall I describe the scene which already
New York presents ? There is, as I have already
said, no -it.

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" 1. That the inhabitants of Bradford, in public
meeting assembled, do hereby express their strongest
feelings of abhorrence and grief at the atrocious
assassination of the President of the United States,
and also at the dastardly attempt upon the life of
Mr. Seward, the Secretary of State.

" 2. That this meeting hereby record their deep
sorrow and heartfelt sympathy with Mrs. Lincoln
and her family in the untoward death of Mr. Pre-
sident Lincoln.

"3. That this meeting do express their deep
sympathy with the American people in the loss that
they have sustained by the cruel death of Mr. Pre-
sident Lincoln."

Iu
a hundred instances during the, last four year-
,
your. correSpOnjeltis have portrayed the fever fits of -N..
Yew York-Linass meetings in this svare•or that, 1,.
processions longer than that which
Prince of Wales, convulsions which shook Wall-
'Street and Broadway like an all-pervading ague--
but I'doubt-whether a scene like that'Of this *morn-
ing has yet been witnessed. The ch'ionio'exciteirient
Of this, war !influences this strange population as
cumulative poisons are said to act upon their victims. •
Instead of a dispersion of electricity through the
medium of these popular thunderbursts, the excite-
ment of the mass seems to accumulate and be hoarded.
until, Uppiii the occasion of each recurrent explosion,
thoreserve of delhidis passion is greater and greater
in volume. There have often before been paroxysnii
of sanguine intoxication in this city, or of depres-
-,sion, if not of despair, but never, before has the
thunderbolt fallen from a smiling sky-; never has
the proud and swelling note of victory_ been. Con-
Verted -in the twinkling of' .ii-tn 7 eye
.inta„the wail
of a nation. Abraham Lincoln had gr&wn to be
- - *tor
regarded, in a higher degree than_ and soldier or
sailor, .as the impersonation of the war_ power of
the TJnign. • Creeping into Washington in disguise
Awl with timid irresolution to be inaugurated as
chief Magistrate upon the 4th of March, 1861, he,
lived so to conciliate and, within four, brief
_years, -
ta win popular affection that his second inauguration
upon the 4th of March, 1865, Was the ovation,..of-a4;
almostunaniinotts people. Tlte4stim4o.**l44lo:;::
racter and, of the calibre of his ingllectsinee was 4.
su4denly tossed to the surface of ti_ great nation
have been numerous and contradictory; bUt the
opinion seems to be daily gaining ground that irn-
-pittikl history4iik assign to lffin(dneAf
places among the statesmen who have hitherto pre-
sided. over .the. North in the supreme agony of the
nation. There .eaii be ciliated against Mr. Lincoln no
such extravagant vaunts Or unseemly denunciations
of others, no such rash- predictions-or disingenuous
colourings,us crowd the- despatches °OIL Seward:;
on the other hand, there 'are thousands of Mr. Lin-
coln's anecdotes and quaint conceits, none of which
fail to indicate shrewdness, while many reveal a sin-
gular depth of insight into the circumstances under
which they were spoken. It was mentioned to me by
one of the Southern Peace Commissioners that at the
recent conference in Hampton Roads he was deeply
impressed by the ascendancy of Mr. Lincoln through-
out the interview over Mr. Seward. The flags at
half-mast, the festoons of crape hung out by each
store in succession, and already creeping along the
whole length of Broadway upon either side of the
street, the eager closing of shutters and suspension
of business in Wall-street, the feverish bewilderment
of thousands who can as yet but half realise the
truth, the agitated swaying to and fro of hurrying
multitudes in the streets, the frenzied accents of
grief and' rage, the tolling bells, the deep boom of
the minute guns, are fitting expressions of the pub-
lic grief, for they indicate not only the lamentation
that a just, temperate, calm, and well-intentioned
statesman has died in the track of duty by the most
appalling of deaths, but that in one of the most awful
of crises which ever overtook a nation his successor'
should be Andrew Johnson.

that ( undar ,a. _ .stained at so a
period of their national history, and their- earnest
hope that all cliculties connected with that loss
maybe happily snrinounted." ,

NE*6ASTLELON2fYINE.
A requisition to 'the mayor of OAS town isqeincr
numerously signed by the inhabitantrj, requeSting
his worship to; call a public, meeting tAgxpress sym7
pathy with the American.people and, the widow and
family .of their late President, " in the terrible aftlic-
lion into whieh they have been so suddenly plunged
by the assassination of their high-minded and pa-
triotic chigf magistrate." The meeting, it is antici-
pated, will be heldin the early part of next week.
Very grqat.exciteinent has continued to prevail
among the.. communities in the north-eastett part.
of England since the news of the assassination .of
President Lincoln was telegraphed. All 'class'efi aiid
men Of all opinions express their horror of the Ginnie.
The-American ships lying in the Tyne 'have. had
their flags •flying half-mast high since the intelli-
gence of Mr. Lincoln's death reached this country.
-
The News of the Assassination in .New
York,

(From the Tunes' ,Viecictl Southern Correspondent.).
- NEW YORK, April
It may.safely be affirmed that in the history-of.
mankind civilised capital ever wore the asked
which, upon the receipt of the ghastly tidings of this
morning, New York at this hour presents. - There
was exciiennent, dOubtless, in Paris when Henry-
of Navarre fell before Ravaillac's dagger, —in
London :when (Mr. Perceyal yielded his life to a.
maniac's Rome when Cardinal Rossi fell'
slaughtered in the. public streets ; but what facilities
had Paris, LondOli,pr Rome for thrilling in an in-
stant 'the' public heart and brain compared with
those whiCh the diffusiVe penny press and swiftly
recurring =telegrams of America place at this hour at
the disposal of New York ? Or was there ever nation
so sensitively plagtic fo the impress of great national
sentiments as the keenly sentient, mercurial, quick-
witted population which, in wild bewilderment,
surges and sways throng the thronging streets
now under my gaze ? Last night the people of this
great city went to bed, lulled by their cheerful
optimism, reckoning of the rebellion as already
a thing of the past, little heeding difficulties, social,
financial, and economical, which might well make a
statesman stand aghast, believing that Abraham
Lincoln and William 11. Seward were the chief
apostles of the revived American Union, which is
described in a work recently published as synony-
mous with the new Heaven and the new Earth.
This morning they woke to the stunning conscious-
ness that in the night the shadow of a great and
ghastly crime had passed over the land; that assassi-
nation, sudden and unlooked for, executed with
remorseless cruelty, but intrepid effrontery, had
engraven its hideous tale upon that page which
records four years of horrors without parallel, cul-
minating in the abhorred crime which has added to
the victims of this war the names of Abraham
Lincoln, and, as seems too probable, of William
H. Seward. A thousand American cities, linked
together by a network of lightning, have this
morning awakened to the simultaneous knowledge
that he who 12 hours ago was their first citizen,
the chief architect of their fabric of a resuscitated
Union, the figure-head round which clustered their
hopes and pride, is numbered with the dead. Al-
ready over hundreds of thousands of square miles
is every particular and detail of the rash and bloody
deed of last night scrutinised by millions of eager
eyes. It is believed that precisely at the same hour
two ruffians, manifestly in concert with each other,
lifted their hands against the two most valued lives
of the Republican party—that upon the night of
Good Friday Abraham Lincoln was stricken with his
death-wound in his private box at Ford's Theatre ;
that the small pocket pistol which launched the
fatal bullet was found, still smoking, on the floor
of the box ; that the undaunted assassin, having
entered the box from the rear, stretched his hand
over Mrs. Lincoln's shoulder until the muzzle of his
pistol almost touched the President's head ; that
the bullet, designedly (as it would seem) propelled
by a small charge of powder, did not pass through
the head, but lodged in the brain about three inches
from its point of entrance ; that the ruffian who
fired it, rescuing himself without difficulty from Col.
Parker, of General Grant's Staff, who was in the
box with Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln, calmly stepped
from the private box upon the stage ; that, brand-
ishing with melodramatic gesture a naked dagger in
his hand, he pronounced the well-known motto of
the State of Virginia, "Sic semper tyrannis," in ap-
parent justification of a deed against the atrocity of
which all that is noble and manly in that proud old
State will recoil with indignant execration ; that,
turning with unruffled imperturbability, he left the
stage and made his exit from the theatre by one of
the side scenes with which he seemed familiar, and,
mounting a horse which was attached to a tree in
the immediate neighbourhood of the theatre, gal-
loped swiftly off into the night, and was lost.
But it was reserved for his accomplice to exhibit
still more undaunted nerve, although wherever this
tale is read humanity will shudder at the heartless
cruelty which could instigate an assassin to force his
way to the bedside of a suffering old man already,
half dead, and to anticipate by a savage act of vin_
dictive butchery the fatal event whereby Mr. Se-
ward's life seemed yesterday but too gravely
menaced. It, must be remembered that Mr. Seward
is 65 years old, and it would appear there are justi-
fiable grounds for the general belief that the suf-
ferer, if ever he arose from his sick bed again, could
scarcely have recovered, even without the horrible
events of last night, from a fracture of the arm and
jawbone, and from the exhaustion which is known
to have followed his accident, without a sensible
abatement of those singular powers, physical and
mental, which have enabled him during these
last four years to flood every European Foreign-
office with a deluge of despatches such as never
issued in like space of time from any single
pen. Boldly entering Mr. Seward's residence under
the pretext of being the bearer of some important
medicine which Dr. Verdi designed for his patient,
the assassin, undeterred by three men who attempted
to interpose, forced a road to his victim's bedside,

Dreadful as is the fashion of death, if ever man
was felix opportunitate mortis that man may be pro-
nounced to be Abraham Lincoln. The difficulties
which he has surmounted during the first term of
office, stupendous as they have been, are features,
trifles, air bubbles when compared with those which
await his successor during the four coming years.
But there can hardly be two opinions that in the
interest of the South no event could be more pre-
judicial, or more deeply to be deprecate'', than the
foul assassination of last night. There breathes no-
where in the Northern States a partisan so blinded
by sectional passion, nor so exasperated against Se-
cessia as to imagine that the execrable crime of
which Washington was last night the scene could be
regarded by 'Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and
the men who share their confidence, otherwise than
with unmeasured detestation and poignant regret.
This is not the place nor the moment for attempting
to expatiate upon the character of Mr. Davis. But
having long occupied a position which afforded pe-
culiar facilities for understanding him, I cannot for-
bear briefly saying that, be his faults what they may,
the time is not far distant when history will mete out
to Mr. Davis that justice which is at present denied
to him not only, as is natural by Northerners, but
by many of his own ignorant and ungrateful country..
men. Meantime the natural vindictiveness, conse-
quent upon the fearful crime of last night, vill be em-
ployed to intensify Northern bitterness against Mr.
Davis. There is already a disposition to draw a line
of demarcation between him and General Lee,
which none would resent more than the latter. The
advocates of harshness will be fearfully augmented
by the crime of last night, against which Mr. Davis,
whose leniency throughout this war has amounted
to a weakness, and who under terrible provoca-
tion has never committed one act of retaliation,
would revolt with unutterable horror. The denun-
ciations of General Grant for his liberal terms to the
Confederates who surrendered to him will be fiercer
than ever, especially those which proceed from Gen. -
Butler, and which are embittered with obvious per-
sonal malignity against the General. It has always
seemed to me that the surrender of General Lee
and the opportunity for generosity so admirably
seized by General Grant bridged over the gulf which
divides the two sections to a degree which none
could have hoped two months ago. But the bullet
of a dastardly assassin has in one instant neutralised
the effect of the great stride towards conciliation so
happily taken by General Grant.

CONSTANCE KENT'S CONFESSION.—That Con-
stance Kent had made no communication to her family of
her intention to charge herself with the murder is pretty
clearly demonstrated by the following incident :—Mr.
Kent, who resides near Llangollen, visited Oswestry on
Wednesday, and his conversation impressed the first per-
son on whom ho called with the idea that he was much
more cheerful than usual. Ile made an appointment to
call again, but failed to keep it. About two o'clock he was
at the Cambrian Railway Station, and there purchased a
newspaper, which first acquainted him with theßow-street
proceedings. Temporarily paralysed, his first impulse
seemed to be to hide himself from human observation, and
rushing up the main street he entered the Wynnstay Arm
Hotel, where he ordered a carriage, in which he imme-
diately started for his home.

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tion,'-the inay74. of- this borough.' has convened' a ,-inSst of -popular- fever, 'Carrying s • ,••otlfalensa,--7.
public meeting of the inhabitants,; to be held on -'tion through a dense mass of human r :•gwhich
Monday evening next, ~,,; to express their horror and „in any other capital 1 have ever seen w• . take :'t
regret at the assassination of the President of the- hours to learn and understand what is here I .• :Wp
United Statefi, their sympathy with the .people of felt, and iiiiikiefattid in a few passionate secon-4.4
--.,....,A6g,
;hat country undar , a loss sustained at BO critical a
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