The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-08-04
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q !. Theatre yv1A
h There is insths.f Il lluNlinR article such
| genuine ood, sense, that We copy it,
compliment and complaint inclusive
What makes It more foreible is, that we
take it fron.a Catholic, Journal of=large
Influence, The Philadelphia Weekly
! UMiUer8e: ID sisn,l i.lfl. agss2if-E
The Secretary ofHvar is the victim of
u great deal of abuse for having pre-
| vented Ford from reopenIng his Ilnfor-
tunRte theatre. But the obiurgation
! elected issues only from partisan ips
and pens. 1t would be absurd to deny
that the Secretary is u man of violent
temper; there is a common impression
that he is arbitrary; and Ford, in ordi-
nary times, wOuldihRve a clear right to
make the most of his playhouse. sBnt,
II we mistake not, il is the common
judgment that it would be a greyiouS
SIN OF 1ndecency against the foul ly-mur =
dered Chief Magistrate OF the nation.
ever to give up the spOtyof his murder
10 the reyelry of theatrical performance
es: ar. stanton has violated an indi-
V1dual right, but he has respected the
nanonal feeling, and therefore he has
done that which is just. It would be "A
InSting shame, in the eyes of the rest of
the world, to give up to the revelry of
song, of dance, and OF playing, theSpot
8nlcn the t%lce-eieeted President of the
Republic Was bloodily assassinated.-
Such n thing would be point blank
proof against us forever that we had no
noble sentiment in our heart Mr.. Lin
coin may have Ind many faults; hut.
as the Right Rev. Ordinary of this do
eese said in a touching sermon of him,
" ne LCdS q man OF geIltle LiTtUeS," and he
was the head of the country.
and therefore it would be an extreme,
shameless, ScandalouS thing to give IN
to theatrical dissipation the public place
in which the hand of treason murdered
him: We ourselves are the makers of
our Presidents. Presidents are our chief
men. We therefore owe them all the
enlightenment, independent, manly,
grateful honor we can beStOW. To give
them this honor is to throw credit on
our own principal national acts; to
withhold 1t from them, is species of
reputation of ourselves deliberately
su rrendering the place in which they arc
III ordered by treason to thentrial dissi-
patton would bean argument that we
were a lOw-minded nation,i unentitled
to the right of making our own rulers.
hut we are not such. The Secretary of
War has respected the national senti-
ment. Ford's right agaiflstthc nation
III feeling sinks out of life. But Ford
should be paid for his property. We
hnye no doubt that this will he DONE
The property is no longer theatrical. It
II national. The shedding in it of the
Chief Magistrates blood by the hand of
treason makes it SO and the most pro
per thing TO be done with it is to tear
down the nccursed building that occu
pies it, to fence it in richly and SPLEEN
did!y, and either to bury in ii n grand
national tomb, Abraham Lincoln, or
to erect on it n grand cenotaph in his
honor. Treason deserves such a triumph
over it's guilty head; murder deserves
II fFl1InInh III 10 bloody.
a treason-murdered President of "gen-
tie virtues" deserves such commemo-
ration of his character and fate and
tho magnanimityO of the country against
treason and against murder deserves
such an illustration of itself.