The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1865-04-22
CONsPIRATORs.


conspirators. The manner, the place, the
time, that the President was shot and the
Secretary stabbed, with all the accompany
ing circumstances leave no room for doubt
on that head. That it was from political
consideration, is equally. obvious. 1t is al
question of vast moment what peculiar polit-
ical considerations prompted this act and
how far the conspiracy extends. Were these
assassins some Southern men, whose bust.
ness, property, and perhaps domestic rela-
tions had been broken up that sought this
: in revenge-to take the lives of these two
most prominent men in the prosecution of
\ the war I'd put down rebellion? Vas It'd
from menfyho sought Office and failed to get
Or having bad, either civil or military, had
been dismissed, who sought envy in this
way? Thd mind of an intelligent man will
hardly SO believe without the strongest pos
sible testimony. There may have been iu|
and about Washington City set of high
zblooded rebels at heart, who in view of the
fact that the Southern Confederacy was
crushed, and any furthur probability of sue
cess hopeless, determined to seek their ven>
geapce against the Government by assassin |
ating these two men; determined that Mr., :
: Lincoln and Mr.. Seward should not enjoyI
the honors of having put down the REBEL. /
lion, and that these assassins were the select |
! ed agents Of carrying it into execution
This combination may have been very limit +
led, having its origin as we'll as execution inI
the Federal Capital. There may not havet
been five men implicated in the murder TT
may have originated down in Virginia or
South Carolina, and have been much larger
than that. -
Was it the result Of wide combinations inI
the South? Did Davis and Lee and the dis
4 Etinguished men in the South originate it n
did they connive at it-this, worst of ALL
Grimes rebellions Is this the sentiment in|
the South? That there has moved the
Southern mind from the beginning of this|
strife Geep hatred to the Yankees, all know y
and that that hatred has been aggravated as
THE war swept on, and intensified as it was|
Hike to culminate.
Thousands of men scattered through the
srevolted ates s.zould destrot the Presidant|
and government too If they could; but would
4 the leading minds of the South connive at
an act, for baseness and criminahty uppar>
alleled in the history of human crime Ger
atainly we cannot believe that they would /
Wrong to the highest degree in the REBEL !
ion as they have been, yet they have fought!
too bravely on thousand fields to be COM
petent to such cowardly deeds as these.
The circumstances would rather inclineI
us to the believe that this conspiracy came
from Virginia. "Sic semper tyrannis -
may this ever be the fate of tyrants-thel
words the assassin used when he jumped on|
to the stage while fourishing a large knife
over his head, in the face of the crowded au-
dience, just after he had inflicted what he|
knew to be mortal wound on the Presi-
dent, are the classic motto of the State of
Virginia. This would naturally turn ourl
seyes to Virginia seeking vengeance for herr
prostration. Some defiant, reckless Virgini-
an we conjecture perpetrated this deed.
Another thought-however the great body
of the revolted States will look upon this as|
the most atrocious act on record, is it, or isl
it not the legitimate result of the rebellion q
Destroy the Government or rale with slavery
4 and to this end secede, organize another
Govcrnment, inaugurate revolution, fight to|
the death, has evidently been the sentiment
and feeling of the South. Failing in this,
base men, and thousands there are, will
seek TO carry on the war with the weaponsl
Of an ssassin. If the ey cannot overthrow
tho Government founded in the popular
voice, they can at least murder the officers
of the Government, and thus everlastingly|
keep the Nation in mourning and trepeda-
tiou. ThA .Abpsition, with such men as|
these conspirators, would murder every Gov
ernment official in the land What public
officer will be safe for moment, after this, j
if that spirit should actuate the rebels.
The MURDERER.-The man that assassi.
mated the President bears the name of j. Wilkes|
Booth. He is Marylander or Virginian-we|
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