The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-07-03
|.NO.46.

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night the leading men of the victo
rious hosts who were then shouting
their pgans of triumph. When dy-
ing-with his face lit up with the
blaze of the burning barn upon the
Garrett farm, just at the break of
day on the morning of April "a, he
mnttered some worls, a soldier bent
over him and caught them from his
fast ebbing breath First a message
for his mother: "Tell her I did it as
| thought for the best;;" and tl.en he
said:'"Tell others that the commu-
nication. l wrote addressed to the
National Intelligencer will explain
why di ! what did" During the
conspiracy trial at the arsenal, the,
Hon. Joseph Holt, the Judge Advo7
cate, called John f, Coyle then the
publisher of the National Intellgen
Ger, and asked ifthat communication
had ever. been received. His reply
was, mo" 1t was continued Mr..
Ford, burnt in the CRATE Of cham
Der of a boarding house, and a Cath,
olic priest, now living in Washing
TIN, had the fact confessed to him
soon afterward. | had the occur
renee revealed to me--with the added
information. of Che confession--by
the party who was the custodian Of
the package. This fnlly-sustains my
theoryathat John Wilkes Booth hail
notcontemplated the assassination Of
President Liucoln when he met Mrs.
iSnrratt at midday, and lie never met
her again. p i42a s1isttis ffaa
In order to demonstrate that his
brain was turned by the poetic AMI
dramatic, glamour. which transmitted
the story of the Roman assassination.
said Mi. Ford, itisl but Just TO de
scribe linn at thisitime. In person
he was remarkably handsome, with q
face of, singular manly beauty, in
perfect health, less than twenty years
of age, and almost idolized by his
friends. AS an actor he could earn
at least Sic, 900 a year. He was SO
popular in Boston that during All. en-,
gagement at I'll e Museum hundreds
Of ladies have, waited to see him
leave the stage to go to his hotel.
The facts and opinions will, | think,
show the great danger Of gtorifying
assassination under any circumstan.
ces. Julius Gees VI was tosaRome
"the union Of the. scholar, soldier
and the gentleman" Mi .hty Caesar
All Rome did love him once, not
without cause" Yet Cassius did
say: sa'13 as.i5 jaa g aX5 rH bad q
| ajAt % How many ages hence
Shall this our lofty. scene be acted over
In States unborn, aud accents yet IN
aYgf = known'g 81 ad TEs IN H8ttT
/ Was this, added Mr.. Ford, i'm clos,
ing the interview, the incarnation pl
dramatic prophecy, suggesting the
lcrime that occurred 1909 years az
tter, sin States unborn and accents
/ yet unknown,' when Caesar dieli
| II Baltimore Gazette. go
ITHE ASSASSINATION OF LINCOLN FATE
OF JOHN WILKES BOOTH s STATE
i, MENT. ~ 5''6 IVY ny" ra9taii 7aa
LOUISVILLE, June 2L-Mr.tJoitr
I. Fordsinl his statement of thesas
ASSASSINATION of !, President Lincoln
does not tell the whole story. The
package containing The statement O
John Wilkes Booth was delivered te
JOHN F. Coyle, then editor of the
]sNational Inte)ligencer.''s but it was
never opened, but was destroyed il
tpresence Of a very, distinguished
company. An eye witness relates
1that on the night of:the assassina
tion Of Mr.. Lincoln % private dinner
party was in progress ina back room
at, Wormley's restaurant in Wash.
ington, at which were present Gene
/ raj Bairl,e Robert Johnson Hon
Samuel Randall, John Morissey
John F, Coyle and one Other
gentleman. al. eai4li9t,a.l i9staa4
During the progress Of the dinner
a waiter, who had been out on ths
street, returned and stated that the
President had been shot at Ford's
Theatre. The news created grea,
Transformation inatI,e party, who a,
frst thought the waiter was drunk
or crazy. Later on, when they wcr,
assured that it was fact, and tina
John Wilkes Booth was accused io
the crime, John +. jCoyie, witt
blanched features and trembling
Hips, said: -"My God, gentlemen, thiI
/ very dayI met John Wilkes Boot
lin the market space. He was on ,
bay mare, and rode up to me an,
handed me sealed envelope, sayin,
as he did so, IF you hear Of me i
twentyfour hours publish this:
you do not hear Of me in that tim
destroy this and rode away b,
''Here is the package" said M,
! Coyle, producing a large envelop
'|'from his pocket. ''What must | d
: with it?''' III,
j 'Destroy it at once" said San
Randall. "They will hang anybod,
who knows anything about the assas
sination, no matter how innocentl,
they may have have come by -tbei
knowledge. Don't open it. Burn i
'ljust as it is.'
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