The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-05-10
rae Assassination Of the President
WHAT the Rebels Think About IL.
from the ChAttan ooga Daily Rebel, Selma. Ala

rae Assassination OF eu0 EfeSlueub-
What the Rebels Think About IL.
rTrom the ChAttah Ooga Daily Rebel Selma, Ala.
April IOth
If tha news we published yesterday from
Senstobix is true, William H Seward, the
cold-blooded and hesrtless political mis-
creant who guided the internal policy
which plunged US into this bloody and des-
olating war, has been arrested by an angry
God in the midst of his inisuities, and has
paid the penalties of his crimes st the
hands of an unknown assassin.
For many years Mr.. Seward has been the
moving spirit of Northern hostility to the
South, and to his enmity and ambitious de-
signs do we owe this war. 1t is doubtful
whether Lincoln would have had the nerve
to press the differences between the two
sections to the point of actual collision, If
Mr.. Seward had not stood at his back, and
with his devilish malice urged him on.
Doubtless, Seward had conceived In his
own mind some mighty scheme Of Govern
ment, in which the Southern Ststes should
play but q subordinate part, to the success
of which it was neceesssry that the IN
stitution of slavery, which was q para
mount interest, and gave strength and
unity to the South, and enabled it to exc
ercise an important, if not controlling
interest in the Government should be des-
troyed. He declared years ago that there
was An Uirrepressible con aict" between the
Northern and Southern systems Of labor,
and that the one must supersede the
other.
He steadily and persistently pursued the
warfare upon our Institutions, until he had
created q party sufficiently strong to elect
a President, and then taking the Premier
ship under that President, he insugurated
| this war with the view to the extinction ef
slavery, though it should involve the
daughter and the ruin OF the entire white
population Of these States.
His ambitions plans have been brought
to bloody, we do not say fitting eonciu-
sion. If It was right for Brutus TO slsy the
despotic Csessr, who shall say that the man
who slit the throat of this srch-plotter
against the lives and liberties Of this peo-
pIe is not worthy the laurel wreath.
And Abe Lincoln too, the political noun
tebsnk and professional joker, whom ma
ture intended for the ring of q circus, but
whom q strange streak of popular deluslon
elevated TO the Presidency-he also has
! fallen. His career wRs IS short as 1t was
bloody and infamous. He has gone to an
swer before the bsr of God, for the inno-
cent blood which he has permitted to be
shed, and his efforts 10 enslaVe heroic
people.
The dispatches are not sufficiently par
ticulsr 70 enable us to judge in regard to
the motives which prompted the slsasslns
to their work. We presume that the
South will be charged with melting them
70 their bloody work, and that q high de-
gree of exssperstion against US will be the
consequence. But while we DO not know
anything concerning the cause OF these
deeds, we do know that they have struck
our people here with as much surprise as
they have the people of the North: Whlle
they rejoice at the destruction OF their enc
mics, they would neither have suggested
nor will they sanction cold -blooded murder
however much the victims may deserve Inc
fate they met.
IFrom the Chattanooga ss'ms, Alabama RDaiiJ
RebeI, April "A
The people of the North are now reap
inc the natural and inevitable harvest o
cri1ne growing out of the decentralization
incident 10 q state of war. The last dis
matches exhibit most shocking and horri
HE state of society. The President AMI
his prime Minister killed By assssslna, an'
the new President and the Secretary Q
War murdered by q mob, which has 90
tsined and holds possession Of the Csplts
of the nation Other cities sacked an
a great popular revolution impending
While their armies are devastating ou
land, their own down-trodden populac'
ipfuriated by tyranny, and driven to d'
spair by want bursts the bonds OF laV
and reign OF terror and Of ruin Is estAt
lished. :,
Tnst nation which prided itself upon 4
strength and prosperity, finds three Ffes res
dents occupying its Executive chair with
in the space Of: y single month, two of ther
! we're murdered; discord and anarchy 7
: ding rampant and ruling the hour. Pc
!, haps they may yet ind it necessary to r
call the armies they have sent to the
States, to restore law and order amor
!, themselves. God grant it.