Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-04-21

With violent. often coarse language and oppro-
bious epithets, which the other neTer resented,
but cut short by the speediest exit
The fact growing DOT Of thfs condition Of az
f.Irsb. thai the children J csius Brutus. Edwin
Forrose John Wilkes. Josspb, and the sisters
are Of Sllssfimvse birth and 10 il q fact which
WOULD have probably died out with the few who
we're privy TO IL, bat for the great crime which
has ouickened public curiosity and unlocked the
seere,s Of the family charnel house, whose gates
sd beea so securely closed and guarded by the
children, 10 their struggle for professional rank
and social position, that even a legal inquistion
could hardly have forced them ajar. = r..s
The outlining facts OF toe stage career OF The
boys, a. published by us. are substantially cor
rect. and very little is to be added. They were
all greatly attached TO their mother, and II was
their custom, while fulfilling engagements
throughout the country, 10 remit their funds to
her trust. except 50 much as vss necessary TO
defray their personal expenses.
The sad story of this family l. not without its
moral immortality, dissipation, debauchery,
evil doing continually running through the lives
of the parents, and blossoming at last in the
child in the most horrible Of crimes. cold blooded
and most infamous murder Why can say what
influence the secret history of bis parentage ex-
ereised upon the mind of John Wilkes BOothi
Like his father. dissipated. of irregular and i'm
titles and lus,s, who can define the measure OF
the influence which the fathers career inflicted
upon the son, giving to an excited and morbid
temperament a dash of recklessness that made
him needless Of the moral consequences of an
act, and adding audacity TO daring and resolute
will that urged him on to deeds. the thought OF
which makes the reflective mind shudder and
stand appalled,
John wilkes Booths associations, in the
Ia ttht hat
class of young men who were the first 10 rejoice
in the calamities OF the nation. and the most for
ward to aggravate them by an impetuous rush to
arms. Impetuous, naughty, self willed, inflated
with vain ideas OF superior intellectual and social
standing. taught to despise honest-handed indus
try, social and political conservatism and s.abil-
ity, impatient of the prudent counsels OF age and
experience, resolved TO override law and order,
if either impeded their ambition or confcted
with their desires. fond OF turbulence aud strife,
making the pistol of the dueist and the knife OF
the assassin the arbiters Of personal difficulties
and quarrels; he was one of ten thousand ripen-
ed and corrupted and ready 10 lend himself 10
secre. plotters add contrivers TO carry out any
scheme requiring desperate resolution and I'M
shrinking nerve.
Neither intellect, nor education nor general
culture can change. and hardly influence. de
PRAYED and totally corrupted heart. John Wilke:
/ Booth never plotted the ASSASSINATION oil fresi
| dent Lincoln He had the hand to execute, no
the head to contriye; the sudacity to dare. no
the cunning so conceive; the heart to do wha
the contriver would have left undone, had il
execution devolved upon himself IL was cas'
of an I'LL balanced nature, thoroughly corrupted
and debauched, and ready for any deed. Hi
parentage his anteceder Is, his associations. ad
ded to bis political anupathies and prejudices
made him the fit tool for conspirators. and thu
soundness of the judgment that selected him i
confirmed by the manner in which he proceeded
to execute what he consented to perform Gin
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