The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-05-15


Time will develop the mystery as yet
attending the assassination of Abraham
Lincoln, late President of the United
States, and the attempted assassination of
Mr.. Seward, his Secretary Of State. de-
sire cnly to repel at once tho cAlumnious
assertion of Edwin N. Stanton, the Secre-
tsry of War, in his letter TO Mr.. Adams,
printed in the London journals of this
morning, that these acts were "planned
and set on foot by rebels, undor preten ce
of avenging the south and aiding the
reBel cause," and Of which no says there ID
q evidence obtained" Mr., StantOn's let
Ter is dated bn the 18th of April and
states that Mr. Lincoln was sssassinated
in the theatre al halt-past ten the previous
night, and died at hslf-past seven on the
morning Of the day that be wrote. sd.
duce this to show how unlikely it is in
the hurried excitement and the
necessary occupations attending such
events, that any but the Wildest
theories would prevail 10 regard to the
cause of the event, or the objects of the
perpetrators. Mr.. Stanton adopts that
which he deemed would be most useful be-
fore the public Of his country. Should the
aevidenceh 70 which he refers to support
his eslumny ever see the light, it will be
scanned with the experience derived In re-
gard TO other evidence, unscrupulously fab
ricsted in the same qdarter, during the
present war, for base political effect. 1t is
| the crudest conception, too, that the muir
| der of Abraham Lincoln was planned and
executed for the purpose Of "Aiding the
| rebel cause" but can well understand
that it may have material influence IN
siding the cause of that OverpOwering par
ty in The United States of which Mr.. Stan
ton is the type, and Andrew johnson, who
succeeds as President, with Butler OF the
| notorious prefix, sre the opponents ana
| lesders-a party in whose path the late
! President ard bis Secretary were seknoWl-
| edged obstacles in their projected schemes
| OF plunder and rapine 70 follow their do
minion over the Southern States. For the
| rest. learn from q well informed source IN
! L5naon that 1Wilkes Booth, who IS &C
cused Of committing the deed, is son oi
the celebrated English actor Of that name
and was of his fathers profession, which
be pursued principally in the Northern
States, and was generally understood IS IN
| heriLing those traits significant Of his faith
! 6TE uhluD, JuulAb DLAhuS .DOStAi ~ "@@S-
he was named John Wilkes; after thu
great English Radical-an origin and men
tai trsining little likely to engender the
slightest sympathy with the great cause o
The conserv alive south. AS to the crim'
| which has been committed, none viii view
/ II with more abhorrenee than the peopl'
eff the South, but they will know, as vii
equally all we'll balanced minds, that 1t Il
the necessary offspring Of those scenes o
bloodshcd and murder, in every form o
..h -iiled license. which hsve signslize'
the invssion of the South by Norsnei7: !:
armies, unrebuked certainly, and therefor
insiigsted, by their leaders, and those oVel
them
Pardon the length Of this Dote. l de
sired only instantly to repel the strociou
calumnies in the letter of Mr.. Stanton.
Very respectfully yours, s--
j. NJ. MA5oN,
No "a Upper Seymour street. Portma
| sousra london Aprii 27 1855,