Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-05-18

| England nave adopted resolutions OF sym
pathy and Indignation.
Large numbers of German in London |
also presented an address to Mr.. Adams.
IL is reported that Queen Victoria will |
sond coincidence to Mrs. Lincoln, and ex- |
press sympathy with the American people. |
THE AMERICANS IN LONDON.
The Americans in London, at the call of
Mr.. Fernando Wood, assembled in cousid-
cradle numbers at Grosvenor Hotel on the
9th, to give expression to their sentiments,
but at the suggestion Of Mr.. Adams, who
sent message to that effect, the meeting
was adjourned to the lst of May, when q
great meeting of Americans will take place
at st. James Hall, under the presidency of
Mr.. Adams.
THE VOICE OF THE ENGLISH PRESS.
from the London Star, Aprilo7l
The appalling tragedy which hasj just been
perpetrated at Washington is absolutely
without historical precedent. Not in the
records of the 6ercest hatreds, have we an
example OF an assassin plot at once so foul
and SO senseless, SO horrible and so successful,
as that to which Abraham Lincoln has
: already fallen victim, and from which
, William II. Seward can hardly escape
a Only in such instances as the murder of Will.
s liam of Orange, Of Henri Quatre, or Of
Capodistria have we any deed approaching
!. in hideous ferocity to that which has just
Q robbed the United States of one
o of the greatest of their Presidents -
But1rom the fanatics, hateful point of
: view there was at least something to he said
O for men like Balthazar, Gerard and
e Rayaiao. They at least might have be-
It lieved that they saw embodied in their vic
2 tins the whole living principle and motive
/ power of that religious freedom which they
" detested. They might have supposed ths,
e with the man would die the great hopes and
it the great cause be inspired and guided. So,
m too, Of Orsini. That unfortunate and guilty
a. being believed at least, that in Napoleon
1t Ill, there stood an embodied and con
Of centrated system But Abraham Lincoln
= was no dictator and no autocrat. He repre-.
sented simply the resolution and the re-
Of sources OF a great people. The miserable
te excuse which fanatcism might attempt ia
il. plead for other political assassins has nc
s. application to the wretch whose felon hand
I'd dealt death to the pure and noble Magistrate
Id of free nation. One would gladly, for the
al poor sake ofcommon humanity, have caught
I'd a. the idea that the crime was but the work
of some maniacal partisan. But the mere
xt nature of the deeds, without any additiona
evidence whatever, bids defiance to such al
It's idea. While the one murderer was staying
nd the President of the Republic the other wa
he making his even more dastardy attemp
x. upon the life of the sick and prostrat,
rs Secretary. 1t does not need even tn,
1t, disclosures which have now, too late for an.
ut purpose, reached official quarters to prov
that two madmen cannot become stimuli
ly taneously inspired with the same monstrou
a project and impelled at the one moment t.
no do their several parts of the one blood
$ o business. The chiyalry Of the South ha
,at had much European compliment of late =
nd II has been discovered to be the fount am
es. qualities which the world heretofore ha
ht- principally known through the medium q
,se medi9vll romance. Let it not be forgotte
la. that Southern brains lately planned tn
zee confagration Of peaceful city. 1t neve
le. can be forgotten, while history is read thr
YES the hands Of Southern partisans have bee
he reddrn,d by the fouest assassin plot tn
on world has ever known; that they have bee
ich treLcherous'y dipped in the blood OF one {
= the best citizens and purest patriots
yht whom the land of Washington gave brit
lch IIrom the London Times, April Ell
,ch The critical condition of affairs in Americ
I've the position of the Southern States at III
cy. feet Of their victorious antagonists, I'll
cry gigantic task Of reconstruction which mu
uld be undertaken by the political leaders
ith character OF the man whom an accident h
the made the ruler Of the Union for the ne!
sp- four years tend to exalt our estimate Of tt
Inv loss which tho States have suffered in tt
Gu. murder Of their President; but 1t would
oy- unjust not to acknowledge that Mr.. Linco
The was man who could not under any circun
er stances have been easily replaced. Startil
from a humble position TO one OF Il
the greatest eminence, and adopted by Il
liza Republican party Us makeshift, Slmp
ose because Mr.. Seward and their other prom,
lp, nent leaders wvre obnoxious to diifare
,ry sections of the party, it was natural that
To career should be watched with jealO,
ted suspicion. The Office cast upon him W;
uld great, its duties most onerous, and the o
re- security Of his past career afforded no guara
tie OF his ability to discharge them. His sho
,lu- comings, moreover, were on the surface,
nee The education of man whose early yea
I'M had been spent in earning bread by manu-
: of labor had necessarily been defective, al
lifi faults Of manner aud errors Of taste repellt
eat the observer at the outset. In spite Of the
tho drawbacks, Mr.. Lincoln slowly won for hiu
the self the respect and confidence of all. Ii
nal perfect honesty speedily became apparen
did and, what is, perhaps, more to his credi
N amid the many unstudied speeches which
ler- was called upon from time to time to deive
ant ihouSu euouSh ehoy Wolo Iout
am humor Of his carly associates, he was in mol
Of them betrayed into any intsmperance
ord language toward HIS opponents or towa
alb neutrals. His utterances were apparent
lar- careless, but his tongue was always und
command. The quality of Mr.. Lincolr
res administration which served, however, mo
than any other to enlist the.sympathy of
nen ISLANDERS was its conservative progress.
in felt his way gradually to his conclusons,al al
those who will compare the different stag
of of his career one with another, will find tn
the his mind was growing throughout the cour
the oft The adioete with which no once su
Iin gested to the negroes that they should tai
.rm themselves off to Central America, becau
ter, their presence in the States was inconveI
,ili- ent to the white population, soon diss
of peared. The gradual change Of his lang
res age and of his policy was most remarkab
,ur- Englishmen learned to respect man W
,nt, showed the best characteristics Of their ra
son in his respect for what is good in the pa
acting in unison with recognition Of wh
and was made necessary by the events of passi
the history.