New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-05-13
FROM SOUTH CAROLINA.
Osr Martyr and B.fs Moarners.
from Our Special Coiresponder.a

The gloom which oyershadowed the MOTH
.hsn our President ,va. murdered fell with heavy
weight the l,yal hearts hereon the northern men,
on the negr9 and on the few white hatiVes we oil
he ruup race had few words when we met each other
In the streets-but they came through tears and q
choAinr utterance. never such sad faces
ING never heard such heavy hearts beating as in
Charleston that day.
The native loyaists that is the colored people,
ike children bereaved of their only and loved parent
Issw one old woman going up the street wringing
her hand, apd saying aloud, as she walked along look
ing sragh before her. so absorbed in her grief that she
noticed one,
"Oh, Lords Oh Lord Oh Lord Massa Sans
dead Massa Sans dead Oh, Lord Lord Massa
Sans deadl'
Who's Dead auntyi' asked her
"Massa Sam" she said. not looking round. and re-
cunning her lamentations:
"Oh. Lorsi Oh. Lord Lord Massa Sans dead y
who's Massa Sam I" asked
..Uncle sam she ssid. '.Oh, Lord Lord :"
Twas NOT quite sure that she meant the President
and spoke again.
WHO'S Massa SAM aunty7'
''Mr Iincum" she said. and she walked along,
wnging her hands and mourning for the death OF the
man whom God sent into the world to set her race free
The poor old save-mother was too ignorant to know
the difference between the very unreal Uncle Sam and
the actual President but her heart told her that he was
lying in bloody grave whom Heaven had sent in an
swer to her prayers, and she was in sore distress
.Ohi sir" colored man said to NE. 1 lad rather
have had nv father or mother Killed. Seems to me
would have felt satisfied"
And still another said: Well he e like Noses; he
saw the Promised Land way of, but he was not lowed
20 enter it,"
And many Others more psthetieal still, simply TOOK
my hand said a word two none at ALL and turned
sway.
Ali these are the hearts, there are only in this old
hesthendom. on whom we can rely. We can trust them
and them only. They love The rest submit to Us
The love of the colored South Cardinals for the Pres
dent was different from ours; for we lost our Chief
Magistrate but he bis Lberator.
The sentiment of indignation aroused by the assassi
cation of the President alarmed that portion Of the oath
takers whose record will not bear examination. They
aever had proposed to hold Union meetings they had
Dcen urged to do So but held back and now, TO avert
The indignation which threatened to make them the OBJ
ects OF hatred, they called meeting TO express their
sentiments on the demise OF the President Of the United
States" DR.. Msckey, and the five other Union men
whose names the committee resolutions.
were not consulted. 1t entirely secessionist,
blockade-running. slavetrading affair. The applea
ton for the Of the hail made by Gov. Aiken al
blockade-runner the owner Of 700 slavesa who
had JEFF. Davis for his guest while he remained IN
Charleston and who declared within two weeks that
the South might have back if President Lincoln
had not been fool and that he must take back his
Emancipation Proclamation. Gov. Aiken is one of
those rich whose chances of getting into the king
dom Of Heaven quite slim; who is neither hot nor
cold and ia likely TO be opened out Of the mouth Of good
and angels-a courteous educated gentleman. but
neither patriot, phlanthropis nor positive
power Of any Sort Geo. W. Williams the next signer
is as smooth as velvet in his meanness he worth
go 600 before the but made tl50OoO out Of block
ode running which is invested in real estate here. He
is Of the distributors of the Government bo1nties
to the poor JAS Lynah, the third signer Is old
htical stsger and was always strong seocssionist
during the Rebellion. james S Gbbes is described by
one who knows him well in these terms; up to the
18th OF February 1865 the day which Charleston
vas evacuated he furious seoessionst. but bav
ing a very large of real estate here he We
willing to sacrifice it by leaving the city, and therefore
remained here. and has since taken the oath ofaleg
ance not from the conviction that the Union cause was
tight but because the Rebel irretrevabiy
lost" He was chairman Of the Rebel Wayside Home
and was engaged in bockade-runnng. He goes on to|
Washington to-day to try to get some favor. Wm
Simmons ard Augustin l. Taveau, the fifth and sixth
,iRners were " hot secessioDists."
The stores were closed and consequently there was
voodly audience assembled at Hibernian Hala large
proportion of them Northern few ooored people
we're admitted but the bayOnet kept these 10y
alsts.
was not able TO attend this meeting personally bat
succeeded In securing report from Of the few true
and tried Unonists of Charleston and now give his &C.
count the affair:
THE meeting called 70 order BY Col Jas. LynAb
who proposed that eI-Gov Wm AIKEN be called to the
chair, which was carried Mr.. AUG. L. TAvEAU and
Mr. JACOB WILLIAM owo hot secessionists) were then
requested to act as Secretaries.
GOV. ATKINS sPKECH
Gov AIKEN then addressed the meeting az follows:
"'FELLow CITIZENS: We are assembled to pour ont
the general grief which has been felt IN this city Tor the
euddep removal from this life Of Abraham Lincoln late
President Of the United States The horrible and afro
cous OF President Lincoln has filed every
feeling heart with sorrow and indignation: i did not
know personally the late President but those who dld
have spoken OF him in the kindest manner ~ me- his
heart was benevolent and forgiving and We are told
and have reason believe, that through him onr diff
outies woad soon have been adjusted and peace once
sons Of dsgust for the dastsrdy wretch who could have
conceived and executed such diabolicd deed, can
scarcey be uttered. Murder Is always appalling but
more particularly in this momentous crisis of our
coontry-now our most ANXIOUS pomens; -, c.,,.xI
human being could be found to have ID his bosom
% diabolcal idea-and with an acconpiloe. entei
the sick bedroom Of another eminent and
parsonage the secretary Of state ard plunge INTO n
bosom the deadly weapon. Tbe heart sicxens ~ inc
recital Of such horrors.
1--WE syupsthlye with the late Presidents family
and that VI MI Stewards May the Almighty stretch