The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1865-04-19
BIOOHsBURG, WEDNESDAY. APRIL 10, 1865
The Assa ssinatlOn Of President Lincoln and
Secretary Seward.

But yesterday the nation was al the height
Of joyful sxullation over the decisive victo-
Ties which seemed to promise peace and
. restored Union to a long suffering people
To day every loyal heart must suffer The
terrible shock, and swelI with overburden
ing grief at the calamity which has been
permitted to beialI us, in the assassination
of the Chief Magistrate.
The flags that Haunled their gIiiiering col
ors iE lhe sunshine of yesterday, and be-
spoke the re-esiabIished supremacy Of the
government, TO day must hang suspended
Al half-mast, for its chosen chief lies low in
death.
The splendor Of our triumph is robbed OF
haIfiis Iuster. II is deeper loss ,han if our
first soldier had fallen by hostile bullet,
as The ealan, SEDcwrcK fell; more than if an
army had perished in the shock OF battle
For il is the commander-in chief of our ar
mics and nayies who has fallen; and he has
fallen, no: by the natural course OF disease,
nor in the accepted peril Of war, but by The
foul stroke OF some unknown assassin.
Oar history has no parallel TO this. Such
grief az ours io-day is new 10 this nations
heart. Other Presidents have died while
holding he same high PIace-.HAssIsos and
TAyLoa; but bsih died in the ordinary course
OF nature, and the nations grief then had
no such Pang in it as this which is now
given by the shot of au ASSASSIN.
The cry of the murderer as be lesped
from the Presidents box and ran across the
Stage, "sic semper :yrsnnis." betrays no
madman's frenzy. The plot iucluded the
murder Of Secretary SEWARD also, and all
the circumstances show that the same poIi.-
ical fury and hate which lit the flames OF
great rebellion inspired these bellish deeds;
and By 80 much as these de:ract from the
splendor Of our triumph in its utter sutju
gaiion, by so much do they brand with a
deeper and more danning infamy its plot
ters, its leaders, its abenors, its sympaIhI-
zers, its character in impartial history.
Let every city, town. aud street and lane
and house and farm, Of The whole North,
become to-day but the wards OF an infinite
prison TO shut in and secure The villains who
have done this thing. Let every man be an
officer of the law TO search Them out sud
bring them TO summary and condigE justice.
The machinery OF government has already
been set 10 motion; but Ie, there be no es-
cape for them If thai should fail.
In;otbai proportions this calamity will
yet develop, no hnman eye can now fore
see. I:s effect upon the political future OF
sihs nation win, at least, not be such as
when dynasty is overhrown. Dor laws
provide for the succession TO such remote
degrees thai even assassination cannot leave
the nation without a visible leader aud
head
AsDsEw JOHNSON to-day becomes the
President of the United States, and the
chief political consequences which will
follow from this tragedy will be mainly
such as his personal character and political
opinions, especially on the subject Of recon-
srnciion, shall determine. May God give
him wisdom to discharge worthiIy the duties
Of his great office.