Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1865-04-28
Tile Real Criminals.

Now that the country begins to arouse
from the supplying grief into which it
was plunged by the assassination of the
President, the question asked upon all
sides is, "NVho is responsible for the
horrible crime?" and though Southern
traitors and their Northern sympathiz-
ers tell us it was but the individual act
of ]. Wilkes Booth, acting upon his
own responsibility and for himself
alone, it will require better evidence
than is vet adduccd to bring the loyal
people of 5he North to this belief. On
the contrary everything goes to show
that it was the fruit of deep-laid con-
spiracy, concocted by the rebel leaders
themselves, with the knowledge and
Ibettal of Northern traitors. The sim
ultaneous and well-nigh fatal attack Oh
Secretary Seward, the attempt to i'm
clude President Johnson, Secretary
stanton and General Grant among the
victims, clearly shows that the murder
of the President is not to be charged to
private malice and personal wrongs on
the part of any one Or two individuals.
The EXPLANATIONS of the assassins at
the completion of their hellish work is
further proof that they were but the
tools -of others. Both shouted Sic
iSen,per 7yrannis," lever thus to ty-
rants). "The South is avenged" If
our readers will but for moment re-
fleet they will be convinced that this
crime is but the legitimate result of
what the Slave power has taught and
practiced for the last thirty years. This
is not the first foul murder it has COM
mitted; but because it this time struck
down the loved and honored chief of a
mighty Nation, we realized more keen
ly its devilish malignity than when we
heard Of its former thousands of muir
ders of equal brutality. 1t was the Gus
tom for many years preceding the re-
bellion to hangall "Abolitionists' found
on slave soil, and the Southern people
We're taught that they We're justified in
using any means to dispatch an oppo-
nent of the peculiar institution. y
Southern newspapers were continually
publishing articles describing the hang.
ing, lynching, tar and feathering, &C.,
of whoever should dare to utter a word
against slrvery, accompanied with APP
proving comments. And this was done
when the Slave power controlled tho
civil, judicial, and military branches o.
the Government, and when the victim:
of their malice We're powerless agains
them. Most of our readers can proba
bly, call to mind scores of such bruta
murders, and certainly all will remem
Der Lovejoy, who was hunted down lik'
q wild beast and shot in cold blood be
caused he dared to publish articles il
his paper denunciatory Of slavery. Tn
course pcrslstently pursued by South
ern representatives in Congress furnish
es additional evidence of the murderou
policy Of the slave oligarchy. The cow
ardly assassination of Sumner, in tn
Senate Chamber, by Brooks, of Soutl
Carolina, is but single instance, and
an event yet fresh in all our minds
The hundreds of fendish acts perpetra
ted by the "Border Ruiiians" of Mis-
souri, on the people of Kansas, in en-
deavoring to foist Slave Constitutio
upon them, is but another instance j.
proof of the policy steadily pursued tt
wards the advocates of freedom.
After the breaking out of the reba
hon We find the same course pursued
only to greater extent than before,