Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1865-05-11
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WHAT WAS EXPECTED BY THE CONSpI.

WHAT WAS ExPEeTEDp BY THE CoNspI.
The Chattanooga Rebel ], published at Selma
Ala, on the Goth ult. has the following In re.
gard to the assassination:
civilian II. Seward. the cold blooded and
heartless political miscreant, who guided the
internal policy which plunged us into this
bloody and desolatiEg war, has been arrested
by an angry God in the midst Of his iniquities,
and has paid the penalties of his crimes at the
hands OF an unknown assassin.
"Abe Lincoln, toO the political mountebank
and professional Joker, whom Nature intended
Tor the ring OF circus, but whom a strange
streak OF popular delusion elevated to the
Presldency-he, also, has fallen. His career
was as short as 1t was bloody and infamous.
He mas gone to answer before the bar of God
Tor the Innocent blood he has permitted to be
shed, and his efforts to enslave free people,"
On the next day the same paper had the fol.
lowing:
The last dispatches exhibit a most shocking
and Prime Minister killed by assassins and
the new President and the Secretary of War
murdered by mob which has obtained and
holds possession of the capital OF the nation
Other cities sacked, and great popular reyo.
luton against the rulers impending While
their armies are devastating our land their
own own down.trodden populace, infuriated by
tyranny and driven to despair by want, bursts
the bonds OF law, and reign OF terror and of
ruin is established. -
sThat nation which prided itself upon its
strength and prosperity, finds three different
Presidents occupying its executive chair with
in the space of a single month, two of whom
were murdered; dscord and anarchy riding
rampant and ruling the hour
This paper, the Reb Ell, is, If we mistake not,
the paper in which appeared the advertise
men Offering reward Of million of dollars
fer the murder of Abraham Lincoln.
1t would seem not improbable then, that the
Rebel knew the details of the plot and from
the fact that President Johnson and Secretary
Stanton are included amongst those belieyed by
the Rebel to have been assassinated, there can
be no doubt, that the conspirators proposed
their murder simultaneously with that Of MIR.
Lincoln and Secretary Seward. How the de-
sign upon President johnson failed has already
been explained, and 1t can be readily shown
how that upon the Secretary of War failed
though it seems to have escaped attention
heretofore.
1t will be remembered that on the fatal night
of the assassination the Arsenal employees
turned out in torchlight procession in honor of
the raising of the stars and stripes over Sum-
ter, and marched up town to pay their re-
spects to Mr.. Lincoln and to the Secretary of
War. They reached the residence of Secretary
Stanton not long previous to the hour of the
assassination, and paused there to serenade
that official; after whicrSte returned his &C.
acknowledgements for the compliment.
As the plot contemplated that the blow
should be struck simultaneously in all QUAR-
ters, it would seem that the presence OF such
an assemblage at Mr.. Stanton's residence at
that time Disconnected the plan OF the conspira.
tors SO far as the attack upon him was in
yOlyed.