The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-03-09
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THE ASSASSINATION PLOT.
When President Lincoln was murder
ed. nearly all loyal people believed that
the South had made serious mistake.
very few thought otherwise VI these,
two said to us: "You are mistaken, tney
know what they are aboun Anoy
johnson is their tool" 80
You will see" MI
One thing was certain. The morning
of the Inauguration he was alnhns
freely with blatant copperheads. Ills
annearance on that occasion is matter
81 history: and the deep disgrace OF 1t
Vas never exaggerated by any published
ooconnt His intemperance was excused
ON the ground that, they had drugged
his brandy, and it is possible they may
have done so, but certainly not with the
view of doing him a fatal injury; for
since the beginning of the second month
| of his Presidency they have been ms
visitors and apparently connaentlai
friends The class of Washingtonians
who never went to the White House
while President Lincoln lived, put
ALWAYS refused to recognize him as
President, aud spoke to him with scorn'
BEGAN at once to visit Johnson, and were
graciously received. The first the pub
Fir knew of this was given to the Consti.
tut;onaI Union, and was excused on the
ground that Tom Florence, its editor,
Was the Presidents personal friend. So
he was, and is, and is to be. He, the ed
tor of paper that most loyal menhave
tboppht should have been suppressed
during the war tor its disloyalty-the
blatant ,Ebrawling, pot-house politician,
editor of a traitorous sheet which had
aided Mr.. Johnson's election by linking
his name with that of Mr.. Lincoln in the
abuse heaped upon him, was all the time
tbe personal friend and confdant OF MI
Johnson, and was thus early and public
" acknowledged as such.
= Can it be possible that it was part OF
the assassination plot to get rid OF one
Tins in secret bonds of friendship with
Northern leaders of the secession ranks Z
or was that stupid, miserable wretch,
Atzeroth, duped into the belief that they
wished him to commit a crime they
knew he had not the courage to perpe'
trate, and which he should find no OPP
portunity to commit ? That they IN
tended to get rid of President Lincoln
and Mr.. Seward there can be no doubt,
The attempt on Mr.. Stanton's life was
; likewise in good faith, but the chain
links of the evidence were not closely
followed on the trial; and the necessity
for his death was not imminent, as he
could be removed.
The business was to get the President,
and they got him. That it was the
South which nominated Mr.. johnson
through indirect intluence-that Mr.
Johnson labored cunningly for that
nomination by boisterous professions OF
loyalty, and the thrusting forward OF Ill
ira pledges designed to he broken, there
is no longer any doubt. That he was
prepared beforehand to serve the pur-
pose of treason there can be no doubt -;
that his administration and its pro
gramme were part and parcel OF the as
sassination plot we have no longer the
shadow of doubt
; This does not make it necessary that
he should have known of the intended
assassination. We do not think either
Tyler or Fillmore knew that the men
h who used them intended numbering Har.
rison and Taylor; but in all these cases
the assassins knew their men and these
three Presidents, made Presidents by as
sassination, are each with their admin.
istrations, as much incidents of the re.
bellon-emanate from the brain of the
arch .fends and wholesale murderers
who plotted that rebellion, as was the
starvation of our men at Andersonville,
or the poisoning of our armies. Wheth-
er known or unknown to Mr.. Johnson,
his veto message is the further unfold
ing IF the assassin plot
That assassination was a change of
base, in the traitor war for the destruc-
ton of the Union, The veto is the Sum
ter guns of this second era of the war,
and will probably be followed by Bull
Run and Balls Bluf-by disaster and
perhaps apparent defeat to the loyal mil
lious whose weapons are once more turn
ed upon them by their trusted agents.
Andrew johnson has his plans matured.
He is in full sympathy with the South,
and will follow up his advantages to the
bitter end. Let the people nerve them
selves to do what they can. They can
and will save the government but there
is great danger of a repetition of the
mist kes and delays and dreadful dis
asters of the first stage of this war.
Their is great danger of a kid glove
campaign under some political McClel-
| Ian.
Could the people be made to feel that
the assassins of President Lincoln are
now the honored guests of the White
| Hnnsn- fhot thfc mart nf the
murderous programme, Northern cop
perheads would not insult a loyal peo-
pie by their insolent rejoicings, and the
traitors of the South would stand aghast
before their indignation.
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