Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-05-18

forced his way into theebed.room where Mr.. |
Seward, the chief of the Presidents Cab.
net, lay i'll of the accident he had sustained
some days before. Stabbing him several
times, and mortally wounding Mr.. Stewards
son, tho assassin succeeded in effecting his
escape. Mr.. Seward, it is feared, lis NOR
tally wounded also. This lis the fruit of
Slavery-the climax of atrocious rebellion.
Ii is impossible to describe the horror and
CONSERVATION the news of this diabolical
tragedy has produced. The feeling pre-
valent is even in Newcastle almost as ap-
palling as the awful tragedy itself The
news came upon US like tbunderbolt, and
has given rise to imprecatons we dare not
repeat. Knowing what is felt and said in
England, we can we'll imagine what is felt
and said in the land which Abraham Lin.
coin has served and blessed and died ior =
The slaveowners have done their best and
worst. Failing to destroy great and free
Government, they successfully conspird to
murder great and unbending pstr OF =
Hideous as were their other crimes this
last surpasses them all. Hencefoith they
may expect neither mercy nor compassion.
Abraham Lincoln was the most popular
man in America. He was known and loved.
The idol OF a nation he had saved, he has
now becoUe its martyr. To him, il was
hoped, the glorious task was intrusted of
concihating the insurgents he had subdued
If all thought Of conciliation has now been
banished from the mind of the Northern
people-if desire for vengeance has taken
the anxiety for forgiveness slaveowners
have only to reproach themselves. The
universal cry fer mercy has today given
place to loud and exasperated demand
for punishment. The fierce and unrelent.
ing disposition that may come Of this horrid
consummation of a four years struggle fol
Slavery, it is terrible even to contemplate
but whatever may happen to the slaveown
ers now will have to he endured without tht
poor consolation OF English sympathy.
, GERMANY AND SWITZERLAND.
Addresses of coincidence to the American
, people have passed the lower House of th,
, Austrian Reichsrath unanimously.
! The Austrian and Swiss Government
, have forwarded addresses The Protestan
: Church of Paris performed funeral ser
= vice yesterday.
, The Prussian Government and Chamber
also have given expression Of their sym
, pathy.
Herr Won Bsmark, Prime Minister G
, Prussia, addressed letter to the Unite
n States Minister in Berlin, and it was pei
;. sonally delivered by the under Secretary {
n State.
4 In the Prussian Chamber of Deputie
h Herr Lowe, in earnest terms, moved vOt
% Of sympathy with America. He extollet
l. from personal acquaintance, the greatne.
ef President Lincoln's character. klmos
n all the members rose in token of their col
g currence in the proposed vote.
e FRANCE.
10 All the Paris journals KIP essed fee'r
y of horror at the assassination OF Preslde
1t Lincoln
( The Emperor Napoleon sent messeng
r to the American Minister
y, A dispatch from Paris says Napoleon
~ receiving the news depued an aid.de-can
= to call on the Minister of The United State
AZ to request him to convey to Preside
re johnson the expression of profound uffi
~ tion and sorrow with which the odlu
at crimes had inspired the EmI error.
a The italian Chamber of Deputies W
or draped in black on the 9th, and would &C
n. tinue so for the three following days
= mourning for Abraham Lincoln. The Nj
h lister of France moved, and the Chant
n n agreed to send an address to the Americ
Of Congress, expressing the grief OF the cou
he try and the House at Dir. Linooln's assi
H. sinatlon.