New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-05-17
FROM ICNDON.


Additional Talk About thc Assnssiunticn
Of President Lineoin-Thc Permanent
Effect CT sAc Winds OF Mcn-EnIiehien-
nlens rs 10 Southern Chnrncicristics- &
Eeaesioa-E OF ylr. Lincoln
and the Estimate of IHini-Pnsi aud
Present-Thc Conversion OF Our Enc-
n,ies Due 30 Our success, Not TO Nr.
Lineein's Murder" The Opportunity,
not the Cause--Whaf Would Have
Been faid if il had Happened During
Oar Disastcrs-Thc Wce;iugs-Fcr-
uando Woods Msndnciiy-Itcnis.
FIon Dor Special Correspondent.
LONDON May c, 1863.
We are still talking Of the assassination Of
Abraham Lincoln. Al England-indeed all civilized
md sympathetic Eropeinds no topic Of such interest
md gravity Tie frst great shock OF horror OF indg
nation and grief tie difficulty Of redlt'ag the
thing mastered, and the fact assni!aed into cotepo
rary history the permanent effect upon the minds OF
men remains be ebroncled. 1t is rroportionatc TO
such loss As any one with grain Of common sense
ANY just above the average OF plantation intellect
might have known the bcoly instructions have re-
ooilcd to plague their Inventors. No EDglishman now
but condemns deed none but feels that that il is
fhe natural and logical ut Of Slavery, and but few
WHO are teginIag get an Insight into the Kind
cf men produced Ivy As ignorant OF this the larger
proportion Of our own Northern people at She commence
ment OF tie war Il hardly put the case
stronger melting but such atroeity as this crown
juc one Of the Rebellion would have enlightened them.
II lad become the fashion here 10 distrust abolition
statements 10 copy the wial disbelief Of wicked
old pro Slavery press with respect TO the characters
tics of Southern nature. and 70 at Uncle Tom
generally. ('A pity the book all lies and rub.
bshi" said the literary critic Of morning paper TO
me- six months ago) Thus respectable" England,
tie nots and the snols ut the graat bulk Of
represented working men) ordeavorcd far as lay in
their power. to turn their backs upon the nobiest
records Of British philanthropy-negro emancipation
and adopted the brutal gospel Of the barracoon and the
slang Of the Pewter Mug the correct uteranee in
society," Tell them that there a plot TO murder
Abraham Lincoln before his first iDangura tion-that
rewards offered for his nation in Southern
newspapers. man condemninS it-that oar soldiers
Lave been horribly misused prisoners that one
must 60 back the old barbarous records Of feudasm
for paTale-they listened TO you with cOmplacent Brit
sb incredibly. They had read their bless YOU and
knew better while you. being the Northern side,
must be fanatic. One couldn't accept these extreme
Represented ons-always prevalent in war, you know.
Only nerer heard any lie atrocious any misrepre
ham Lineoln General Butler in New-Oreans, and smi-
m topics that did not readily find aoster father in the
Anco.C bel press and not glbly reproduced lin
roeie,y" have been thus particular in dscrimi-
mating this state OF feeling iha may contrast it with
tie rebound from it. NOW they know There is DO
getting over or ignoring the fact that the blame
lers President was murdered in the supposed
interest Of OF sacrificed to the revenge Of the South
And disavow they may ring the changes ofeulogy
on the man whom they persistenty viied while
living pile repentant wreatbs Of inm0Tte.s upon his
coffin it shall no, avail them to escape some portion OF
The responsibility. " i Go not envy said Mr. Taylor
NJ p for Leicester In his noble speech in St. James,
Hall last Monday. thc feelings Of those supporters Of
thar portion the British press-or rather the British
Confederate prcss"-(which nppellaton elected roar
u approbation who for four long years have heaped
upon the bead OF Nj. Lincoln every oppro-
brium and every calumny that could be leyeled
against the character OF great and honest
N man. do not believe those writer's and speak.
en- knew that their words tending 10 the bloody
and sad result that has leel achieved but do say
ihs, they did their Utmost to excite the passions Of the
sIsvedrivers Of the South" And it sgeneray felt
The Times The Post Tie Ttltgroph. Pasoi-amost the
bcsstly old .Sfnnderd--make haste now to unsay the
past with but cold consideration for the defeated South
The old dragon who died hard. and whose death
sting struck down our President Accomplces before
the act they turn their backs and its abettos and
cannot sufficiently record their own condemnation.
An can see tie worth Of this man. now that be is
cone,7 writes orr dear and valued friend Goodwin
Smith; but If Tire Times and its confeGeratcs in
press could only he made TO reprint what they have
been saying OF him for the last four years. Now, God
forbid that j. any American living should ignore
or dis'rus or undervalue. attempt to beltte, that
great universal hurst Of grief horror Indignation and
sympathy that went up from the inhabitants OF these
islands when the news reached them. II was 30
thorough and sincere as almost to atone for Great
Brtains sransgressOns against US. have written
before Ofthis the newspapers will afford you irresst
ibe testimony. hope and believe that the knowledge
a it viii do much to obiterate unkindy feelings on
both sides OF the Atlantc-ndeed the wretched Booth
has given the deathblow 10 sympathy with Secession
here and to the last hope OF tie friends Of Slavery Ut
is question whether Abraham Lincolns life was MT
worth another halfoentury OF il-bood and misunder
standing between tie counircs-I incline to the afrma
iive) But cannot 10, strongly mark my reprobe,on
TO the fact OF the Presidents assassination Fs
he crponu,iy ne eens Rebel Rbett used TO say
abont secession and Mr. Iibcolns election. The Re
beon yanquished, The Times and those who follow it
who had constantly predicted and aboIcd for its ulti
mate suctescoUd never have desired better oppor
sunity for rOg the side on which victory had de-
cIaIed Itself what ask would have been said II
the assassination lad occurred during any Of our
ha'ional reVcrses DO We not knows can we not
Oh 'maginef Tzei il would have been attributed TO
''o wiz vengeance Of The outraged South. dissotfac