Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-05-05
what Depth Of sorrow do such
NTI7 ExUrcesfOns Indicate?

VVhat Depth Of Sorrow do such
MU' Expressions Indicate:
THAT portion Of the secular Administra-
tion press which is considered radical have
snolen In such terms of the assassination OF
President LINCOLN, that it is somewhat diff
6cult to determine which feeling has the
nredominance with them-regret or salts
faction. A portion of the religious Admia-
istration press do not, by their comments,
allow us to remain in this uncertainty. In
The Catholic Telegraph we find an example.
Itdevotes an editorial to president LIN
coLNn in its issue of the 3D. inst. The fact
is gratifyingly acknowledged that "men OF
all parties have paid the tribute that MS
president LINcoLN'sl labors, patriotism,
Goodness and honesty deserved;" but it
thinks that it is now fitting that our people
ashould commence to think and act for the
hest interests, the future happiness, and
honor of the country" The Telegraph tells
its readers, that the benefits President LIN
COLIN has beuueathed to his country are "the
prostration of the institution OF slavery ana
the annihilation of the demon secession
With propriety, the journalist VINO IS as
posed to pay tribute to the memory oil fres-
ident LINCOLN should have ended the
statement here, and not coupled it with the
declaration, that ''if he President LINCOLN ]
had lived, slavery might have gathered Its
broken images and nended them with
compromise glue, according to the constl-
tuition of the United States and the chiefs
of secession might receive the kiss OF par
don, and inoculate the rising generation
with the virus which has robbed our homes
of our dearest and bravest, and crimsoned
many fields with the precious OF our kins-
men. His assassination has smashed every
link OF slavery, ground to powder the idols
which naughty and imperious class wor-
SHIPPED and stamped every syllable OF the
Emancipation Proclamation uponthe great
loyal heart of the North" OF course, an
editor who feels thus is impelled to adopt
the conclusion that The Telegraph adopts in
this sentence
.sHence while we deplore the murder OF
President LINCOLN 10 toiLl, perhaps, De 6ene-
fit to oar aohole country"
1t is subject worthy OF consideration,
whether an editor who feels and talks after
this manner is really very sorry over the
death of President LINCOLN, and whether
he did not hold himself in readiness tovisit
denunciation on him if he should have lived
and carried out the policy of pacifieation
the country was given to understand ne IN
tended to carry out. foyr
What May Probably be Expected.
1t is probable that very few OF the lead
ing participants in the Rebellion will be
executed. They will, doubtless, be frighten-
ed out of the country, by having large re-
wards offered for their apprehension and
arrest; but the great mass of the partici-
pants in Rebellion are likely to be treated as
aliens and denied participation in the affairs
of Government, through the exercise OF SUI
frage, until after they shall have undergone
"a heightened probation, while upon the
colored man will be conferred suffrage,
with view of preserving wholesome
Union sentiment in the South. They will
be enfranchised while the secesslonists will
be disfranchised. In addition to this, the
large estates will be broken up and parcel
edout among those who shall give satisfac-
tory evidence of 'loyalty." The great plan
of pacifcation will not very materially diff
fer from this, if the discussions now going
on among leaders in the Administration
party on the subject are guides to a reason
ably correct conclusion. $50 '.t