The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1870-09-06
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anl even b elso aay btsi whatever
amp,, beea1 e tbt vehicle through,
which 5tls communicated % lAe pub
.lr Ii v5ll nevertheless aake e doe
impression. since tie iaets stated do
b.. resi- on tlc mere authority Of a
Dsmoaaae newrpapef bot il sustained
rs toe end, s,I oNc their support q
tbs testimony II persons referred to ia
sbe artic.o. and whose statements vii
carry ample weight Il Is not unlikely
that they. o. some q them, hay decline
+ Is say anything upon tbe subject from
esther personal or political reasons bat
after such a minute relation, in which
/ their names are freely b lde use u has
/ been given 70 tie pablic their silence
vouid be equally eondrmatofy with
thor open assent A. Sir Webster said
+ in DE kuapp trials And suicide is
confession So reticcuoo on tho part Of
the conspicuous gentlemen, ia which
( ihoy are publicly alledged to have
bccn concerned, could only be cou-
lstruc,ed as fuIi admission Of THEN truth.
The world has always imputed the
murder oi Lincoln to political causes,
though 1t must have appeared a little
unintelligibIe, Vhy o person 10 the po-
sition of Booth should have taken up
90 himself the perpotration Of such a
crime, for the reason assigned We
suppose that few ever believed that the
Confederate authorities, or any Of their
number, either bad any knowledge Of
the purpose. or would have looked up.
Oh a scheme 50 impohtic, az we'll as so
Icrminnl, with any sort Of complaceney;
and every saoh idea has long since been
dismissed, wherever entertained by
persons d ordinary judgment aud can
dor Still, the theory however vaguely
imagined, inparts sort Of dignity to
the unhappy event and elevated the as
sassination into kind Of martyrdom,
in the common apprehension Of which
as We well know, ploantiiul use has been
made All this prestige is completely
stripped away by the narrative OF the
Dmocrat, and the handed murder
Of the President is reduced to the level
Of M atrocious act Of private yongo-
auce.
The Democrat doyotes some eight
columns to the details Of this transac-
ton, Of which we can only give the
portion below II seems Booth was and
had long been an intimate and devoted
friend Of John Yates Beall, of Virginia,
an officer in the Coaiederate service,
who had conceived the idea Of recap
turing the confederate prisoners, a.
mounting TO some twelve thousand,
confined on Johnsons Island, in Lake
Erie, for attempting which feat be was
dolly commissioned. Having been ta-
ken prisoner himself, however, be was
put on trial before a military commits
ion, according 10 the practice OF those
days, was treated as a spy and SEN
fenced to summary execution. We now
copy the important part Of the narra-
tive Ii question, as published in the
Democrat Of July goth, to which We
fear that Republican papers win rem
der very little aid 10 giving currency
Whom Beall went as The special
agent Of tho South on a hazardous mis-
sion. the friendship o. Booth went with
him.
At last Beal was arrested He was
arrested lie was tried aud sentenced
q death Then with him looking in.
70 the Eterua' Mrror our chapter be-
gins It's cadmg
john Wilkes Booth resolved to save
the life q bis friend Beali, and convey
ed information Of his purpose to lin.
sith the whisper othopg a part thereof
A this time Booth loved with strange
and tender devotion daughter Of John
T. Hale United States Senator from
New Hampshire. He worshiped her Is
10 his mind, tho best and purest woman
he bad ever seen She admired him.
bat not with that eternal reaching Wild
ness q loyo bis vas for her
For the purpose of our recital We
must draw aside q curtain to reveal q
glimpse % q family picture.
/ Booth loved her for hef worth virtue,
purity and goodness But be was ro.
patea man u tie world, and She
feared 70 TRUST her heart and destin.es
into his keeping, though We have rea-
son 20 believe she greatly admired him
And her father, looking to tie bappi-
ness q. his daughter as be thought, was
mol quite wiling the alliance Booth de-
slred should e. iosmed Bot rs tic
gifted gerius ho had . liking ana an
admiration
0ae night ia Washington. after Beall
was doomed. John Wilkes Booth and
John r. Hale called on G W Mclean
70 80 With them 10 ahd Colonel John
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