The Black Republican., 1865-04-29
TIE ASSASSINATION OF MR LINCOLN
COMMENTS OF THE NEW YORK PRESS.

The Tribune says: Sudden death is al
| ways Overwhelming. The assassination OF
| the humblest of men is always fightfully
| startling when the head OF thirty millions
| of people is hurried into eternity by the
| hand Of a murderer, and that head so good,
/ so wise. so noble as Abraham Lincoln, the
| Chief Magistrate of nation IN a condition
| like ours at this moment, the sorrow and
| shock are too great for many words. For
once all party rancor viii be forgotten, and
no right thinking man can hear OF Mr.. Lin
coins death without accepting /. as a na-
tional calamity.
The World says, but yesterday we were in
the height OF joyful exultation at the deci-
siVe effects which seemed to promise peace
and restoration of the Union to the suffering
people to-day every loyal heart must suffer
a terrible shock, and swell with grief at the
calamity which has been permitted to befall
us in the assassination of our Chief Magis-
trate. The splendor of our triumph is rob
bed of half its lustre. 1t is a deeper loss
than if our first soldier had fallen by hos
tile bullet as the gallant Sedgwick; +; more
than if the army had perished in the shock
of battle, for this is the Commander-in-
Chief of our armies and navies who has fall
en-. The cry of the murderer as he leaped
from the Presidents box and ran across the
stage, betrayed no madness or frenzy. All
the circumstances showed that the same
political fury and hate which lit the flames
of the great rebellion inspired these hellish
deeds, Into what proportion calamity will
develop no human eye can now foresee. Its
effect upon the political future of the nation
will at least not be such as when dynasty
is OverthroWn. Our laws provide for the
succession to such remote degrees that even
assassination cannot leave the nation with
out a visible leader.
The Post says Mr.. Lincoln had earned
the love of his countrymen to a greater de-
gree, perhaps than any other person who
has filed the Presidential chair, scarcely
excepting the Father of his Country. For
Washington the universal feeling of love was
toned to grave and profound awe. Next to
Washington, President Jackson had taken
the foremost hold of the popular mind by
magnanimity of his impulses, the Justice of
his sentiment and inflexible honesty of his
purposes.
The Commercial says: The honest, earnest,
patriotic man who had so well done his
duty who had so conscientiously endeavor-
cd to keep his oath of Office, and who had
so solemnly consecrated himself to the task
imposed upon him by the Constitution, is no
more. With him die the plans and policy
from which the best results were expected,
and with the accession of new men, new
and untried measures win be introduced.
No one can perform the task that was set
for Abraham Lincoln. No man knows lust
how far the work of reorganization had pro-
ceeded, and how far the events of the last
fortnight were to shape and tone the policy
of the immediate future.
Never before since the President came
from Springfield to assume the high duties of
his office has he gained so large share of
public confidence as yesterday; his bitterest
enemies were ready to trust him to the full
est extent, and all the people felt that to him
could be safely committed the means of re-
construction. What obstacle to the inde-
pendence of the rebel States his life was,
may be learned from the manner of his
death, and from the plotters Of those who
could resort to cowardly assassination to
effect their object