Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-05-16
DAILY SENTINEL.
TUESDAY nORsISG. MAY Is.


The Assassinasssa N England.
(Prom The London Herald, April 81
A rRKxrsDors eArAsrRoPHk-rHr MOST rovER-
ruL EULkR OF THE cKsTgzY ooSE-TBk MOST
MoNKsToUs DEATH or THE TInks-
The startling news which vas yesterday re
ceived from merica is such az 10 throw into the
shade even the Tremendous catastrophe OF the
fall of Richmond and the surrender OF Lee
army Mr. President Lincoln has been sssas-
sinated. and is dead. Mr. Seward has been
stabbed. and IL reported in q hopeless state. Ar.
Andrew Johnson IL president Of the UnHed
States The blow Is sudden. horrible and ire
trievable. Never, since the death Of Henry ~ !.
By the hand of Ravsillac-neyer. perhaps, since
the assassination of Cassr, has murder been
commtted more momentous in its bearing rpon
the times In the very hight and plentitrde OF
his triumph-st the moment when All ms hopes
seemed fulfilled. and all his iaeors rewarded.
when the capitnlstion OF his most powerful enc
nv bad placed within his grasp that prize OF
empire for which he had so long and 50 earnestly
striven-Abraham Lincoln was smltten TO the
earth by dastardly assassin. Who shot him
through the head from behind. The commander
Of armies thai the Macedonian or the Roman
mi. tt have envied. the leader in the most ggen-
tic struggle OF the nineteenth century, the ruler,
or likely soon to be the ruler. OF the most popu-
Ious. and. in the opinion of many, the mighnest
nation in the modern civilized world. the man
sho bad risen from low estate TO power ss vast
as was ever welded by moral. whose recent
success has ast0nished and bevildered the uni
verse Is now reduced to some poor SIX feet of
common clay.
All texts and sermons OF the mutability of hn.
man affairs. and the instability of life. pale into
insignifcance before this tremendous common
tary. Much as We have condemned the attitude
of the American people during this civil war,
aad though We have from the first opposed the
policy and censured the acts of ihe late president
of the United States, we must sympathize with
the nation which 10 widowed By this sudden
bereavement. Now that he 10 dead the good
qualities OF the unfortunate Lincoln seem to
come into the foreground. We remember his
honesty and bis msnliness. we do justice 70 his
consistency, give him all praise for the spirit
of Cancellation which he has shown, for bis re-
fusal to be borne along by the sangunary coun-
sells of his friends, We make some allowance for
his frequent and untimely levity. We almost ex
cuse his obstinacy Ia the prosecution Of the war.
Such. we are almost persuaded, will be the sen
timents Of every right minded Englishman; and
they will be shared in by the vast minority of the
confederate people. He is gone; the pilot is
gone His country is left TO toss in the sea of a
dismal anarchy, a revolution of which no man
can presume to foretell the issue.
LETTER FROM THE REBEL MASON.
from The London Index.
Time will develop the mystery "a yet attend
ing the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, la te
president of the United States, and the attempt
ed assassination of Mr.. Seward, his secretary OF
state. / desire only 70 reDe at once the cslun
nions assertion of Edwin NJ Stanton. the sccre-
fary OF wsr, IN bis letter 10 Mr.. Adams printed
in the London Journal. of this morning. that
A.. fs..la al aK1 fNCf
bels under pretence OF avenging the south aud
aiding the rebel cause" and of which he says
there is :. evidence obtained. Mr.. Stanton .
letter ia dated on the 18Th of April and states
that Mr. Lincoln was assassnated 10 the theatre
at haf-past 10 the previous night, and died at 20
minutes past on ths morning of the day that
he wrote / adduce to show how unlikely it is,
in the hurried excitement and the necessary oc-
equations attending such events, that any but
the widest theories would prevail in regard to
the cause Of the event, OF the objects of the per
petrators
Mr. Stanton adopts that which he deemed
would be the most useful before the public of his
country. Should the evidence" TO which he re-
fers to support his calumny ever see the light
IL will be scanned with the experience derived in
regard TO other evidence. unscrupulousy fabri-
Gated in the same quarter, during the present
war for base political effect IL il the crudesi
Lincoln was planned and executed for the pur-
pose of aiding the rebel cause" but / can well
understand that il may have material influence
in aiding the cause of that overpow ering party in
the United States of which Mr.. Stanton is the
type, and Andrew johnson, who succeeds as
president, with Butler of the notorious prefix are
the opponents and leaders, party in whose
path the late president and bis secretary were ac-
knowledged obstacles in their projected schemes
Of plunder and rapine 20 follow their dominion
over the southern states.
For the rest, | learn from a we'll informed
source in London. that Wilkes Booth" who is
accused of the deed, isa son of the celebrated
English actor of that name, WAS of his father 5
profession, which he pursued principally in the
northern states, and was generally understood as
inheriting those traits significant of his father
name JuRius Brutus Booth. by whom he was
named John Wilkes. after the great English rad
ica--an origin, and mental training little likely
10 eugender the slightest sympathy with the
great cause of the conservative south As to
the crime which has been committed. none will
view IL with more adherence than the people of
the south but they will know. as will equally ali
well balanced minds that il lie the necessary
offspring of .those scenes OF blo0dshed and muir
der in every form of unbridled license, which
have signalized the invasion of the south by nor
thern armies, unrebuked certainly, and therefore
instgated by their leaders. and those over
them.
Pardon the length of this note. desire only
instantly to repel the atrocious calumnies in the
letter of Hr. Stanton.
Very respectfully yours,
j. NJ Mason,
No. "a Upper Seymour street. Portman square,
LoDdon. April 27. 1865
uisrepresentation Corrected.
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