The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-10-12
From the New York world]
Per j. wilkes Booth.

| andI taking for gospel the speeches OF
iudee-advocates arguing before military
Commissions, will answer-"by j. Wilkes
Booth. a "Belial. flown with insolence
and bad brandy; yea, by one familiar
with the nit from his youth up, perverse,
and utterly devoted to the wicked
schemes of an unnatural rebellion :"
But to the saints better way is given;
| and, verify, they live by purer light.
For them Beecher shines, and the Dick
insons. elder and younger, female sages
off Ringhamton aud of Philadelphia,
called Of men Anna and Daniel, do dis
| seminate knowledge And wisely recur-
ring to the utterances OF the wise, tneSe
the elect do perceive that to speak OF ).
Wilkes Booth as the slayer of Abraham
| Lincoln is gross and sensual dullness,
| as of one who should protest that Pontlus
PLATE procured the crucifixion of the
| Saviour of mankind 1t was in April
last that Abraham Lincoln fell. Golden
October now shines about us; and surely
thew who in April last could read the
most intimate counsels of the Most High
God, must long ere this have been Justi-
fed of the things which have come to
pass in accordance Herewith.
Let us consider and see, then, whether
this be so, that haply our hearts may
bnrn within u.s. and we, lifting up with
our hearts our voices also, may glorlfy
the elect.
While all the land mourned together
the dreadful taking g-off of the late presi-
dent; while the soldiers OF Lee IN VIZ,
ginia mingled their voices with those OF
the soldiers of Grant in execration OF that
most foul and most unnatural; while
Johnston in North Carolina was clench-
ing the hand of Sherman in a common
horror at crime at once so hideous and
so irrational, the privy councillors OF the
Almighty, the pious and prosperous
preachers who have now for several
wears kicked all interlopers down the
back-stairs of Heaven, possessed their
souls in an exceeding patience, and
smiled, sad but superior, upon the nnper-
ceiving sorrow of the nation.
For Them there was the balm OF a
thousand flowers in Gilead, and phosi-
clan there whose sands of life are inter
minable, making all things even more
than commonly serene Where tie rest
of us sbuddered from a nameless abom-
ination. these well-informed mouth
pieces of the Divine Majesty recognized
a masterpiece of celestial policy, and
adored a benehcient though amazing
"ten strike" of grace.
Nothing in all Abraham Lincoln's life,
| they assured us, so well became MN as
| the leaving of it. Had not all things
been added unto him? Had he not LED
the nation up. like another Moses, to the
heights of the Promised Land; and was
| il not time that he should make way FOR
a man more given to the sword, for
the Joshua by whom Philistia should
surely be smitten hip and thigh-yea,
and Agag be hewed in pieces? Like
the sending of Joseph into Egypt" quoth
the sage Of Binghamton, who, to give
him his due can beat, not the Dutch on
". but the Father of Lies himself at
ouoting Scripture like the sending of
Joseph into Egypt, the murderers of
Abraham Lincoln meant it for evil; but
Cod means it for good" The drafts of
the Almighty indorsed by Daniel S. Dick
inson, who, but copperhead of the
vilest type can refuse to honor2 and so
straightway from all that know the Lord
and Keep an open account with Heaven
went up positive paan of thansgiying,
that He had been pleased of His infinite
mercy to take Abraham to Himself, lest
| that too sensitive soul should persist
| like the Christ of old, in forgiving his
enemies and in doing good to them that
had despitefully used him and persecut'
ed him
"I thank my God!' exclaimed the
| meek and lowly Butler, chat In taking
that life the rebels have left the iron
hand of the people to fall upon them y
God" protested the expert Chittenden,
confidential clerk of st. John the Divine,
and agent for several leading cotton
mills in Massachusetts, God intended
| that Abraham Lincoln should be remov-
ed in order that the proper punishment
should be imposed upon the author OF
| this rebellion"
"He has goue from u.s." shouted the
suave and cOnciliatory Cheever, lin or
der that a miserable and mistaken len
iency should not enter into the policy OF
our government towards the rebel
chiefs"
And, summing up the glad tidings OF
great ioy in her unhesitating female way,
a Deborah of the chosen people exult-
inely declared at the Cooper Institute:
abraham Lincoln's special mission be-
ing accomplished in the triumph OF the
| national arms, Providence saw that his
kind heart would not permit him to
hang quite so many traitors as would
secure our country against future rebel
lions, and so disposed of him through
the instrument of the rebellion itself, for
his own historical Immortality, and to
make place for sterner and less mercl-
| tul successor
Here, then, we have it plain and clear
so plain, so clear, that he who runs
may read, and the wayfaring man,
though fool, shall not CIT therein. God
| slew Abraham Lincoln to make way tor
| His chosen hangman and exterminator,
Andrew johnson. For, that being smit'
ten on the right cheek he evinced an ex-
aggerated disposition to turn the left
cheek also to the smiter; for, that being
robbed of his cloak he seemed disposed
to profer his coat also to the robber !;
for, that being reviled he reviled not
again; for, that, in short, reciting daily
the Lords Prayer, he absurdly sought to
make it rule of politics as well as o
form of words, Abraham Lincoln, these
authentic tribunes of the Gospel assure
us had forfeited his right to live, had
outlasted his usefulness in Gods divine
economy, and so was considerably put
out of the way, made martyr OF, and
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