The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-05-11
Letter from John M. Mason.
aB INDIGNANTLY DENIES THAT THE ASSASSINATION
WAS PLANNED BY REBELS.

TO THk EDrrOR OF THE LONDON INDEX.
Sm-Tme will develop the mystery yet attending
the assassination Of Abraham Lincoln late President Of
the United States and the attempted assassination Of
Mr. Seward his Secretary Of State desire only TO repel
at once the calumnous assertion OF Edwin M Stanton,
the Secretary of War In his letter Mr. Adams printed
In the London journals of this morning that these acts
were 'panned and set foot by rebels under pretence
OF avenging the South and aiding the rebel cause and
OF which he says there is "evidence obtained" Mr.
Stanons letter is dated the 18th April and states
that Mr. Lincoln assassnated in the theatre at half
past ten the previous night and died at twenty minutes
past seven on the morning Of the day that he wrote
addnce this TO show how unlikely Il IS, In the hurried
excitement, and the necessary occupations attending
such events, that any but the widest theories would
prevail m regard TO the cause or the event or the
objects Of the perpetrators Mr. Stanton adopts that
which he deemed would be the most useful before tho
public OF his country. should the tfevidence' 10 which
he REFERS to support, his calumny the light II
will be scanned with the experience derived in regard
70 TO. other evidence nnsU,rpoloasly Fabricated in
political effect II ls the crudest conception too that
the murder of Abraham lincoln was planned and exc
can well understand that may have material Influence
In aiding the OF that overpowcring party In the
United States Of which Mr. Stanton is the type and An
drew Johnson who succeeds President with Butler OF
the notorious prefix arc the oxponents and leaders-a
party In whose path the ae President and his Secretary
were acknowledged obstacles in the projected schemes
Of plunder and rapae to follow their dominion tho
southern States For the rest, learn from well
informed source In London, that ''Wkcs Booth :"
who is accused of the dsed Is a Of the ceie-
brated English actor OF that name, of his
father's procession which no pursued principally in
the Northern States, and generally understood in
heriiing those traits significant OF his fathers name
Junus Brutus Booth by whom he named John
Wilkes after the great Fngls radcal-an origin and
mental training little likely to engender the slightest
sympathy with the great Of the conservative South
As to the crime which has been committed, will
view It with adherence than the people Of the
South, but they will know, as will equally all well
balanced minds that Is the necessary offspring OF those
of bloodshed and murder In every form Of
bdled license which have signaliscd the invasion Of the
South by Northern armies, unrebuked certainly, and
therefore instgated by their leaders, and those
them.
Pardon the length Of this note. desired only In
gany 70 repel the arocous calumnies In the letter Of
JM MASON,
"a Upper Seymour street, Portman square
LONDON, April 27, 1903.
The London Trae editoally referring to this letter
reolces to Mason repudiaq tho crime, and says
the Southern States Themselves do utterly and
moro emphat!cay renounoe II and is authors they will
forfeit all the sympathy which remains the solace of
theft msfortunes and drvo the whole British people Into
rapid and strong adhesion 70 tho federal cause.