Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-05-16
From the Trans. M s.issippi Region.

THR REBEL PRESS ON THE AssAssIHArIoS.
Prom the Alexandra, La, Democrat, April %.
The assassination of the President of the
United States and the Secretary of State is
one Of the most astonishing events that
has ever occurred That the Chief Magis-
trate ofa'Republio should be, struck down
at the Capital, In the midst of his friends,
surrounded by a garrison of faithful SOL
diers, is enough to fill the world with
Amusement We csunot comprehend it
We should even disbelisvs 1t, we're the
proof of its occurrence not beyond the
possibility of doubt. g,
Although 10 some quarters the excited
people OF the United States lay this act at
the door Of the authorities of the Confed-
crate States; VIC observe that this is not
the general opinion at the North. We do
pot believe thata full invest gation will
lead tOLth6 discovery of any .complicityin,
the affair on the part of any one connect-
ed with the government of the Oonfeder.
ate Statesi for, even supposiug that the de-
sire to commit any such deed existed, its
inability to result in any substantial beue.
ut to our cause would have been sufficient
to deter us from attempting it. The suc-
cess OF any one of the mauy attempts to
take the life of the first Napoleon would
have produced a marked effect on the des.
tiny of France, because Napoleon was the
embodiment and the soul of the cause
which he upheld. But the assassination
OF William the Silent did not put AN end
to the struggle which he commenced, aud
which was ended successfully eighty years
hia ill "a L.
sination of President Lincoln. The whole
North is united in its efforts to subdue the
| Confederate States, and the mere. change of
rulers will produce no material change in
the policy which the government Of the
United States has pursued for the past
four years. All who know anything about
/ the character of the successor to Mr. Lin.
coins Office will admit that the South had
not in the late President a more bitter
enemy and more enthusiastic supporter
OF the war than it has in the person of the
Southern traitor and renegade who now
| fills the Presidential chair. The govern
ment Of the United States is committed to
the task OF suhjugation. Who shall be the
particular agent to carry out its objects is
matter of but little consequence to US or
anybody else.
Butwhat shall We think now of the "best
| SSHSA w IuC AhCe OI tue EARN T. III
its Chief Magistrate is not safe among his
own people. and cannot 20 forth from bis
house without such guard as the NOM
arehs and tyrants of the Old World gather
around them to protect their persons, it
would seem that the people are very far
from being the best people on the earth,
whatever may be the peculiar excellencies
OF the government under which they live.
NIB. LINCoLE's DEATH NOT THE LEAST OF ruE
NlsPoRTUARs LATELY BEPALLEH TIE SOUTH,
Prom the Shreveport Ia-) Sentinel, Aprna.
Two weeks since we designated Lincoln
as despicable despot, aud our opinion of
him is unchanged by his death, which at
an earlier date (had it occurred in any other
wsy) We should have rGjoiced at, as the
enemy of the South and the rights we are
contendiug for. Our feelings and priuci-
pies revolt alike, however, at the infamous
and eowardly crime by which be was cut
ot nor can we recognize In Il the hand Of
Providence, as respected contemporary,
much to our surprise, seems disposed to do.
NE snail not attempt any theological dis
cussion OF the subject, but We do not be-
lleVe that omuipoteuce would work out bis
iuserutable ends by any such means, or in
spire man to the commission of a crime
denounced and forbidden alike by laws
human aud divine. so
10 a political point of view, we regard
Mr.. Lincoln's death as by no means the
least of the misfortunes that have lately
6etsllen the South, for macy reasons, the
hrst and strongest of which is that he was.
without any doubt, a much better man than
The one who has succeeded him in the
Presidential chair of the United States
secondly, it will create a feeling of indie
nation and revenge at the North, which
VIII further delay and embarrass the nego.
uations, which as We have always con.
tended, will at last have to DE resorted 10
for peace between the conterding parties
and thirdly, what was, no doubt, the con.
eerted act OF few individuals only, will be
attributed to conspiracy Of the leading
men of the Confederscy, and therefore We
repeat again that We consider the crime not
emily wickedly atrocious one, but also
one mat will iEtiict far more injury on the
Lincoln, il be had lived, would have ever
attempted.