Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-04-27

BeS oohu Niihco uooIi, WIN doodooiiidteu
the President at the Theater in Washington,
on the night of the 18th inst, if he has been
called after Lieut.. Wilkes, formerly of the
U. S. Navy, was aptly named-Lieut Wilkes
after the rebellion broke out, having deserted
the old flag and taken service with its ene-
mics. The time selected by Booth for the
commission of the high crime of which he
stands charged, was perhaps the most favora.
bic for the accomplishment of his purpose
the preceding day throughout the country hav
ing been one of universal rejoicing over the
victories achieved by the Army of the Poto-
mac in its demolition of the rebel army, and
had also been set apart,by the President as the
time for re-hoisting over the battements of
Sumter, by Gen. Anderson, the same flag
which he was compelled to strike in 1861,
when he surrendered to South Carolina the
Fort, where this grand demonstration had just
been concluded. Such was the time and occa-
sion seized by this desperate for the gratifca-
ton of his hatred to the President and the
country, to crafty his personal malignity in the
death of the one, and to the other to cause q
sudden transition from universal joy to sorrow
and untold grief, in the death of ruler whose
popularity was unrivalled since the days of
Washington. Thus much this ever-memora-
BILE assassin has accomplished, but the prima-
ry motive which induced the commission of
the foul deed, the disintregation of the very
Government ITSELF" has proven an utter fail
ure; the succession and administration of our
Government, Notwithstanding the severe shock
which it received, still moving on in all its
wonted efficiency and harmony, as though the
death of the Executive had been natural,
instead of tragical one. In the monarchial
world Governments may be revolutionized in
this way, because the source of their power
emanates in the sovereign only; but thanks
to the Almighty, such is not the case in this
country: the people, being the source of all
power, it is vain imagination in order to de-
s.roy it, to slay the organs whom they select to
administer the public affairs; were it possible
even to slay at one and the same time all the
officers who preside over the several depart
ments of the Government-the Executive, the
Legislative and the Judiciary-the accom-
plishment of the destruction of our Govern.
ment would be as remote as ever, unless an
impossible act should be Performed the
decapitation of the people themselves -
who are the fountain of all political pow.
er; physically such is impossible, but in
a moral point of view such ends have been
attained by corrupting the mind of the
people, of which we in America have nc
cause to fear, while every mound and hill
throughout the country displays the church
and common-school edifces which adorr
them. Was our Government susceptible o.
destruction by the death or lapse in the
Presidential Office: it could not have beer
otherwise than that such would have been the
case during the last six months of the admin
istration of James Buchanan: during which
term Of time, he refrained from the exercise
of allthe important duties deyolving upon hi
Department, leaving the wheels of Govern
ment to run without his cooperation from thu
impetus previously impaired to it. and the sev
eral departments of his Government to rur
riot, totally subverting all the Executive au
thority; and still we see the Government un
der his successor resuscitated in all its pleni
tude Of power in brief period of time, which
is not alone to be ascribed to an Executive
but to the people, the true and only source o
power in Government like ours; hence, tn
murder of President Lincoln was vain effort
so far as the perpetrator had accomplished hi
purpose; the Government instead Of beinl
thrown from its balance, still moving on il
the even tenor ofits way, as though thermul
tder had not been perpetrated and Mr. Lincol
was. still in full life. .l se2- --N'4-'
I After the commission, Of his crime, an
Booth had leaped from the box occupied b
the President to the stage of the atheater, h
assumed the attitude peculiar to his a.rprrofe,
sion, and flourishing a dagger in the presene
of; a vast assembly exclaimed, - SIC sen
per tyuanis," which translated reads; deve
80 to tyrants,", which IS the motto adopted b
Virginia, and emblazoned on the escutcheo
representing her State Sovereignty Mistake
man, had be used the proper remedy for tn
extirpation of the evil ofwhich he complained
and which were only applicable and to b