Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-04-25
lIf.Fn. q Ias4feE VI. g g. II. 43IsTs

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snIE is related IS q circumstance made
Es4arkable by what has since occurred,
that during the late trip Of President Lin;
coin to City Point, hs Relieved af5 mi6d Oi
Wearyiug cares by reading Shakespeare,
and that he read several times over and
imIressively to his seompanions thts mourn.
ful ppostrophe of MAcbsth over ths being
he had murdered I!ls1A b1s go. E5.4-l 1sl'ii :
u "Dunean HfuAI5RaVo;
Afor hIsaB GtfaI feT6E h6Il66ps we'll;
fr4Aa4en hAgidone II W0rgti nor steel,
b Q9n touch him t1rther.s
I, t4Er. Seward wrote; 6fSr Being told OF
the ssgAssiPPatioq of the president: "Thfs
is only history repeating litsslf uaH great
revelations have theirIassassins as we'll as
their heroes!h AtsGh5tFeF ffh9fS, con7sr.
sing with lady, he wrote: "FOr myself
Ihqye nothing to complain OF friends or
enemies, In America or abroad. Nr. Lin
eell'S friends should have cated for him,
His life hAspaid the forfeit"
90 gentleman in public Office In Wash
tiugtOn, who had just 7fsltgd 2PtssidsIt
Johnson Win a dePutaElop of beads of
bur baus, writes to a friend in this city: ,,7,
II have SbeenImosts faaorabig impressed
with all he says and with his excellent
PeaFing. We only yI&6iiEl 70 assure Thin, as
every true man feels in our whole county,
replied most eatnes stiy aud win great force
of Sloquence, ct the same time With pefg
feet stmplicity n and beauty Of style ana
mahner.t 1T was EsscensST I shan ever be
glaq to have witnessed, for it re-Rssures me
of the safety of the Republic. But if rigor
Abecpmes the rule Rpd lenity the exception,
thuP reversing Nj Atheoln's sElovely;S i rnet-
cit1l, demeanor, it will be not so much
owing to q difference in the men, but to
.theigreRt fact Of the culmInation Of the
crime Of treason in hellish murder, beyond
all parallel since the .crqcifction."
q 1h respect to the course of the new presi-
dent we may feel sure of two things; he
viii not abandon Mr.. Lincoln'6 policy Of
-rec6nstruction, which he has himself inau.
guratedi i'd TSnnsssee55 and he will carry
out the policy of emancipation J.pMs
Langston, a colOred man from Oberlin,
Ohio, called upon President johnson i' on D.
Monday, and addressea5 5hIm' in behalf of
the "nati0qAl eqqa!r Eighltp league. an as.
ISOLATION Of colored men. In his reply Mr..
johnson said:-allsbaa sssl 7di 70 ~
b. Where the coleFed people know me- best
they have confidence in me. No man can
charge me with having proved false to the
promises have made to any class of the
peuplein my public life. Il tear that leads
ing colored men do not understand and ap.
preeiate the fact that they have friends on
the south sidelof the lines They have, and
they are as faithful andastaunch as any
north of the lice. 1t may be q very easy
thing. indeed popular; to be ana emaneibGL
tionist north of the line, bpks very differ
emit thing to be such south of It. South
OF lE It costs man effort, property, and
perhaps life. You may express these SEN
Etimentas together With my thanks to, the
people whom you represent. ;, .,,,..,-,r.
Esf9haFles MaCkay, the New, York CORES
paldent of the London Times, writes to
.he Tribune acaptiop1agpinst nakingytoo
muPh of 6hsta otth& assassin, Ssoaass d
the danger of exciting mania for suCh
Snotoriety in weak minds. he says:
'ufsome years ago, several attempts were
made to assassinate the harmless and esti-
iIlable lady who sits on the throne of Rug
EtAnd. The attempts succeeded each other
90 fapidly that there seemed an ,epidenic
Of madness and assassInatons IN ctbe air
Ice difficult 70 explain, a he cholera NOR
b1i. = YaS P1dd suggested by stu
dent OF human nature, that the desire Of
being spoken OF, Of being made the main
lelstor in 9 great tragedy, had ,charms
ss9ugh in the ipssiae stSa q people d
nit atrociSns srimss, : add .tsAt. the ,bes,
EPepulaE RG5 l6 Dog 81 ths bate back, eV- e.
IeFyi morning for month or six weeks, the
dEsk wretch who should thereAftar attemr4
t@ play the Brutus. The sspggestion M
acted upon; and Rinee that ;time she Life ol
Queen Victoria has been safe ftom, the IA.
nattcs and che lunaticss q These people
/ have NO fS9E Of the llQHsi blt &hey vehe'
mently a6hor whipping.