New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-05-11
Tho Voice OF the English Press.

The appalling tragedy which has Just been
perpetrated at Washington is absolutely without his
forca precedent. Not in the records Of the eroest
European CONFUSION in the darkest hour Of partisan
hatreds have we example of an MOT At once
20 foul and so scnseless so horrible and so successful
as that TO which Abraham Lincoln has already aien
victim, and from which William ii. Seward can hardly
escape Only In such instances as the murder OF VII
liam of Orange Of Henri Quatre, or OF Cepodistria
have we any deed R n aSeSs lT r. ny 70 :"
greatest Of their Presidents. But rom the ianatc
hateful point of view there at least something 10 De
said for men like Balthazar, Gerard and kavaiiiAc
They al least might have believed that they saw EN-,
bodied in their victims the whole living principle and
motive power Of that religious freedom when tney
detested. They might have supposed that Win we
an would die the great hopes and the great cause he
ga. md guided. So, too, Of Orsini That M
INSPIRED ~" 800, '"'"r believed. at least, that IN
Napoleon III there stood an -w-"I' "a.
centrated system. But Abraham LINCOLN was no INV
tator and no autocrat lie represented simply me reso
linton and the resources Of great No." +, ne mis-.
cradle excuse VINO" aticism m ight attempt to plead
ior o'Ge' -.car assOssins has 10 application 10 the
wv" ch whose feon hand dealt death TO the pure ana
noble Magistrate Of free nation One would gladly Ior
the poor sake of common humanity have caught az th
idea that the crime was but the wors OF sots
partisan. But the mere nature OF the dee1s "i,Hou'
any additional evidence whatever, bids dehahce 70
such AL idea. While the one murderer Was
slaying the President Of the Republic the
other was making bis even more dastargIy attempl
ppon the life Of the sick and PROSTATE secretary. II
foo late for any good purpose reached oca quarters
10 prove that two madmen cannot become sitiul
taneously inspired with the same monsirons pIoJec
md impelled at the moment To do their seyera
parts OF the bloody business The chlvary OF tn'
South has had much European compliment OF late /
has been discovered to be the Ount and origin OF al u
most noble and knighty qualities which the worl'
heretofore had principally known through the lheaiun
of medieval romance. Let II not De iorsotteN Una
Southern brains lately planned the connagraton OF
neaceful city II never can be forgotten, while histor
Is read that the hands of Southern paisans have pee
Redeemed by the fouest assassin plot the world mas eve
known; that they have been treacherouy dipped IN IN
blood OF one Of the best citizens and pnieSl patrols
whom the land Of Washington gave birth.
Fross The London Tinses, .1prU ~.
The American news which we publish thi
morning will be received throughout Europe wit
United States themselves. Mr.. Lincoln has fallen
the hands of an assassin. and Mr. seward mas 10
probably shared bis fate. While the Presiden, wa
sitting quietly with his wife and some friends IN
private box at q Washington theater Friday weci
he was shot by O who entered the box under
treacerous pretense Of public business and almost
the same hour accomplish Of the assassin wit
similar treachery forced himself into Mr.. Seward
sickroOm, and stabbed the Secretary OF Stat
four or five times in tho face and throat
The President died the next morning MI
Seward. when the mail left, lay almost beyond hop
Of recovery and his son, who acted as his secretary
In attempting 20 withstand the murder of his father
was wounded 10 his death Deeds Of such atrocit
cover their perpetrators with everlasting lnisDy an
discredt the they presumably meant serve
we trust ~ appear lbe cfllDtsoi w boot
and his accompce were conceived and executed in cor
cert with no one but themselves. The South, broke
and defeated, could receive possible benefit from th
removal of Mr.. Lincoln and Alr. Seward; the to
probable effect of the crime is accession of madne-
and anger rendering all schemes OF reconstruction III
oossibe On the other hand the waving of a knife b,
fore the argbted audience NJ the theater and the s.
smper tyroHais" pronounced by the assassin ndicat
The vanity Of men WILING 10 lnnortalze themselves
lust az we believe IL TO be- the Confederate cause wi
not escape the dishOnOr cast upon II BY tue wantO
murders OF Mr.. Lincoln and the Secretary. 1he ac
Irrdtion by the long and gallant defense OF icl
Inond sill be lessened The memory OF Lees loiy bee
ing and JacksOn's deep religious icelne VIII DC OF
fcuIed by the atrocities committed ln the name ana
behalf Of the South. Arson in New YORK. THEFT M
der the pretence Of in Vermont ana as' ssinntiD
IN The capql dim the rstnr Of for wears reolsthce
Superjor forces Of many wel-fyught neld ~ Isnis