Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1865-04-18
THE NEW YORK PAPERS ON THE
ASSASSINATION.
NEW York, April, Is.
The Herald and Times of this morning
have no comments on the hesssassipation.

The Tribune says:
Sudden death is always overwhelming; ssssssi1a
tion Of the humblest men is always frightfully
startling; when the head of thirty millions of peo-
pie is hurried into etsrnity by the hand Of mur-
derer-that head man so good, wise. so noble as
AbrahAm Lincoln, the Chief Magistrate of a Nation
in the condition Of at this moment, -ihe sor
Tow and the shock are too great for many words
There are none in all this broad land to-day who
love their country, who wish we'll to their
will not bow down in profound grief at theevent it
has brought upsn US For once ell iparty rGncor
will be forgotten, and no right-thinung man can
hear of Mr.. Lincoln's death without accepting it
as a national calamity. We can give in these its
frat moments, no thought Of the future. God, in
his inscrutabie Providence, has thus visited the
Nation; the future we must leave to him.
The World says:
But yesterday the Nation was in the height of
Joyful exultaton over the decisive victories which
5. .tmed to promise peace and restored Union to q
long-sufering people.
To-day every loyal heart must suffer the terrible
shock, and swell with ovsrburdening grief at the
calamity which has been permitted to befall u.s. in
the assassin alton of the Chief Magistrate.
The flags that iaunted their glittering cOlors In
the sunshine of yesterday, and bespoke the re Go
tabished supremacy of the government, te-oay must
hang suspended at half-mast, for its chosen chief
lies low in death.
The spisndor Of our triumph Is robbed of halfits
lustre. 1t is deeper loss than if first socier
had fallen By hostile bullet, the gallant sedg-
wick fell more than if an army had pefished in the
snock Of battle. For it is the commander-in-chief
Of cur armies and naviss who has fallen; and he
has fallen, by the natural Of disease,
in the accepted peril Of war bus by the fowl stroke
Of some unknown ASA sin.
Our history has parallel to this. Such grief
as ours to-day is new to this nations heart Other
Presidents have died while holding the same high
plaee-Harrison and Taylor; bot both died in the
ordinary course Of nature, and the nations grief
then had DO Luch pang in it as this which is now
given By the shot Of an assassin.
The cry Of the murderer as he leaped kom the
Presidents box and ran across the stage, sic sem
per hraRHis," beIays no madman's ffenzy. The
plot included the murder Of Secretary Seward
also and al the circumstances show that the same
po itical fury and hate which liz the flames Of the
great rebellion inspired these heish dseds and by
DO m uch as these detract from the splendOr OF
triumph in its utter subjugatioe, by 10 much d D
they brand With deeper and more damning infa-
my it's potters its leaders, its abettoTs its syms
pAthizers, its character in impartial history.
Let every city, town, and street aad lane and
house end farm of ths whole North become to day
but the wards Of sn Infinite prison to shut in and
secure the villains Who have done this thing Let
every man be an ON -er Of the Law to search them
out and bring them to summary and condign JUS
tlce. The machinery Of Government has slIe eady
been set in motion but let there bs no escape for
them II that should fail.
Into what pr portions this calamity will yet de-
veiop, no human eye can yet foresee. : Its effect
upon the political future of the nation will, Et
ast, not be such IS when dynasty is oTerthrown.
Our laws pro- ide ior the sucsesiO to such re note
d. gree that even assassination cannot leave the
nsiOn without a visible leader and head.
The Post says;
Mr.. Lincoln had earned the love of his country
men to greater degree perhaps than any other
person who has filled the Presidents chair scarce
ly excepting the father Of his codntry for Wash
ington the universal feeling of love was toned 10
grave and profound awe. Next to Washington
PRECEDENT Jackson he'd the fTmest hold of the pop
ular mind by the generosity of his impulses JUS
tice Of his sentiments, and inflsXbile honesty Of
kfu NJ Tfr~n In usn.n hal r
Washington's elevation, none Of Jsckson's energy
by his kin6liness his integrity bis homely popu ar
humor, and his rare native instinct of popular truth
has as large a place in the private heart
while history will assign to him o less place in
the public h story of the nation. Mr.. Lincoln
brought TO his office prejudice Of section, no
personal rest ntment no unkind or bitter feelings
Ofhatred, and throughout the srying time Of his
administ 60 tion he has uttered rancorous
word towards the South, towards his political
opponents. He contemplated the responsibilities
OF his great charge with a calm desire TO 70 his
duty uuder the light OF conscience, and truth and
the best interests Of his country While the nation
mourns the death of its President, no part of
il ought to mourn that death more keenly than our
brothers Of the South, who had more to expect from
his clemency and sense Of justice than from any
other man who could succeed to his position.
The Commercial Advertiser says:
An honest earnest, patriotic man. who had SO
well done his duty; who hsd SO eonseientieusly
endeavored to keep his oath of office, and who had
so tOlemn conseerated himself 20 the task i'm
posed upon him by the institution, is no more.
With him die ths plan and policy from which the
best results were expected, and with the accession
of new men new and untried measures will be in
troduced. No one can perform the task that was
set for Abraham Lincoln. No man knows just
how far the vents OF the last fortnight were to
shape aad tone the policy Of the immediate future
Never kefore 81 tbs President came fr, m SPRING
field to assume the high duties Of his ofice, had he
gained 80 large share Of public confidence IS yes
teTday. Bis bitterFst enemies were ready to trust
him to the fullest extent and all people felt that
him could be safely committed measures of recon-
struction. What obstacle to the independence the
rebel States his life sd been may be learned from
the manner Of his death, and from the plottnRs Of
those who could resort to cUwardly ations
to eject their object.