The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-04-18
President johnson and the Muir
der of lincoln.

M"rF.
President johnson and the MUIR
der Of lincoln.
The Memphis Appeal abiding TO the
late set W between Bingham and Spoon
Butler, draws the following conclusions
as to the probable course of the i'm
parchment business: .yigY.mri
The concluding sentences of Buffers
remarks are Of more than ordinary sig
nilcancc. THEY charge the President
wiM completely IN tic assassination V
Lincoln. 1t will be remembered that,
on the day Of the murder, Booth wrote
Il singular note to Mr.. Johnson, almost
demanding m immediate interview IN
Surratt is not yet brought to trial is5
Cheerful and sel,pOssessed, and anticipates
an easy acquitak. If he has said any
thing to implicate Mr.. Davis, it has not
lie n made public. Wilson, Of Massa.
chusetts, proposes to release that illus
trious captive On Ills own recogpi-ance,
which is II clear admission that he no
longer even suspected OF being an nc,
complete in the murder. l4Ae people Of
Tie NORTH are to be at c md completely
disabused Wthut notion, and their attcn-
ton will be directed to the facts that
Mr.. Johnson caused MI. Davis to be
captured, imprisoned and ironed; that
in the proclamation for his capture, he
charged him and others with causing the
assination; that his Attorney General
left nothing undone to substantiate this
charge by perjured tertimony that no
one knows with certainty that Booth
was killed, nor, ifhe was, why lie was
killed when he could have been captur-
ed, and when it was so essential to in
duce him to disclose who acre his en-
ployers or accomplices. 30. g"..
We believe when the arrest of Sur
raft was first heard Of, (ifthe prisoner
Is John Fl. Surratt, which for u long
time he denied) J, that he would be used
as an instrument to fasten on MIR. John
son completely, in the guilt Of the hor-
rible assassination Of Lincoln. Why is
he not brought to trial! What in
duced Congress suddenly to reconsider
it's resolution for immc liate adjourn
mcnty 1t is said that General Grant
advised Congress not to adjourn. W.
do not believe it. Gen. Grant attends
to his own business, and not to that OF
Congress. Stanton did do it. t
W. believe that the fatal net Is woven
around MI. Johnson, and that he will
be speedily impeached, as an accom-
Dlice in the assassination, and his con
%viction be procured by perjury, which
circumstances will seem to c%orr0borate.
But if the result should seem doubtful,
Malignancy will contine itself to efforts
to convince the whole northern people
of his guilt, as they toiled to implicate,
that they might murder, Mr.. Davis
Perhaps they are too far committed i'm
the matter of trials by military com
mitted in the matter oftrials by militia
nv commissions, to impeach and con.
Wet him, as they could ITO, for murder,
in causing the execution of Mrs. Shr
raft without lawful trial. The President
wW be put out Of their moy By some means,
as soon as they find that the masses Of
the Northern people will approve it, as
they will, if CONVINCED he had any oan
n%ection with the assassination. Has
Mr.. Holt the missing leaves of Booths
diary? ''''
At present we grope in the dark, of
u darkness thick with horrors. The
lightning will blaze by and by, and we
shall secaIl. Then, Congress supreme,
the President a prisoner, with the scat
fold in perspective, the Supreme Court
regenerated. Already Congress is
Commander in Chief Of the army; and
the Secretary OF War is its creature, in
dcucndcnt Of the President, who cannot
remove him. Who knows what part
General Grant is ready to play :? viii
he consent to be the Parliamentary
General? Perhaps he holds the fate
Of the country in his hands. .iH .'s.