Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1865-04-28
EXTRACTS from our Exchf ffedaas.

We publish extracts from some Of our
exchanges es the death Of the Presidsnt.
not directly alluding to the high eharss.
ter of the deceased, but expressing the
feeling which this great crime has caused:
1.-THE rebellion, as it dies, wins its
most signal victory.
by the blow Of an assassiA A-who brSG
its by the unsuspicious courage Of one Of
the most generous Of men,-the rebalEoo
takes the life Of the only man in this
country who could have saved the lives Of
its leaders.
This act Of cowsrdics will outlive tho
memory ef every ethsS act Of ths se-
bcllon. II is iss NEST fitting msmssisl-
Whether with some historians, We
consider the great rebellion as beginning
when coward's blow struck Mr. Sswse1
down, OF whether, with others, ws count
it as beginning when outlaws of Missouri
were permitted 70 make ssvases o. uu-
armed settlers IN the wildeysess,sv wheeh.
er its birthday were the day when an
army opened fire upon . starvisg eon-
pany Of men which had spared them for
weeks as they made their opss sppsssss.
es, or whether its birth is to be reckened
from the time when its leaders swore fesl.
Fty to the Constitution only that they
might plundes the natios's treasury aud
arsenals--one ruling principle has pre-
sided in its history from its birth 70 ito
death. In the xsoment Of ito destb, thss
principle reveals itself most precisely, in
two deeds Ut the msaness and lowest
crime, to which 10 savages till now knsws
in history would have descended.
ton Ado.
"A shudder Of horror ran throush ~
community as it became know on Sssu,.
day morning that President LincoTa had
been murdered and that Secretary Seward
had been stabbed to death (as it was ttsp
believed) in his sick bed BY assassin 6ends.
The shock to the scpsibilities Of the pso-
pie dc6es the power Of pen to dsser1e.-
1t was almost stunning. Few nerves
were firm enough to receive it without
1ulvering. C~apeeisors tremblsd at their
midnight cases as they pat tie dreadful
intelligence in type, and readers in tie
morning found it almost impossible to b.
lleve that the President Of the United
States had really been stricken down by
the assassin's hand, although the fact was
officially announced. 1t was . crime
without parallel for unprovoked atrocity.
Rulers have before been murdered. but
the annals of all time will be searched in
vain for crime of this magnitude. which
by one fatal blow dashed so many hopes.
and may he followed by consequences 20
wide spread and calamitous."-PovslssS
Argus.
I" A heavy blow has fallen upon shs
national heart--a bolt from an almost
clear sky. One week ago to-day The
people Of the United States were jabiIans
with joy. Rejoicing filled the land =
rejoicing at the approaching end Of ths
rebelion--that the bow Of pescs-a peace
likely TO be lasting because founded o.
eternal jasticc-appeared once more to
span the heavens. But on Saturday fol.
lowing, after brief period OF Eve short
days. a deep, profound. universal grief
settled down upon the nation, caussd by
the thrilling intelligence that the Prss;.
dent Of the United States, while sitting
with his wife quietly witnessing . pubic
entertainment, had become tho victim Of
dark bloody and damning assassination.
-Porfland Pyess,
President Lincoln fell sacri6oe 10
his country's salvation % absolutely, pal.
pably, IS though he had been struck
down while leading an assault on the ram.
parts Of Petersburg. The wretch Who
killed him was impellel BY no private
mAhee, but imagined himself ~ avsasse,