Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-07-11
HORRIBLE CASH cur IN Ills


A HORRIBLE CASH cur In Ills
THROAT
And a razor by his side. Sur
geon-General Barnes is flashed
for by telegraph, but it is too
late. Stanton is past surgery
the lile-blood spurts over the
walls and floor. The arch-chief
lot Mrs. Surratt's executioners
has executed murder on himself,
and the spirit Of the martyred
woman, with hood and manacles,
such as glazed the eyes of the
beholders at the Arsenal, seems
to fit across the chamber of the
1suicide. As if conscious that an
other link had been forged in
the chain which appeared to
drag down to untfnely death all
who figured in the execution Of
Mary Surratt, the friends of Mr..
Stanton attempted to conceal
the cause of his shocking end.
But sooner or later the facts
here stated viii be vouched for
by those who know them to be
true. Surgeon-General Barnes
has never denied them. He
cannot do so.
"From a sudden and unprovi-
dcd death, 0 Lord, deliver u.s."
Such is the language of the
Christian Litany, the supreme
appeal of men for mercy. Did
Andrew johnson, who was deaf
10 the agonizing shrieks Of that
child of Mrs. Surratt, whom
Stanton and King and Lane re-
pulsed from the human mercy
seat, ever appeal to heaven in
the beautiful language Of the
Litany? Was he saved from a
sudden and unproyided death
when it came his turn to die?
Let it lie hoped that he was for
the sake Of his eternal salvation.
But it cannot be forgotten that
the ex-President, after having
been hunted down like a wild
animal by his own party, and
that, too, when he was trying to
do his duty; after having been
betrayed and sold out by Gen
eral Grant in shameless man.
ner; after having been impeach-
cd and tried and almost convic-
ted, and finally, after having tri-
umphed over all his foes and
having been borne back to the
Senate on the tidal wave of Dem
ecratic ascendency, it cannot, it
must not, be forgotten that
ANDREW JOHNSON FELL DOWN
IN A FIT,
And died of apop!exy almost
within the hour that had seen
him we'll and full of lusty life.
"From a sudden and unprovided
death, o Lord, deliver us!"
What a terrible moral do not
these pregnant examples teach!
Out of the world, hip and thigh,
the sword of a higher ven-
geance than mans hath smitten
the shedders of an innocent WO-
mans blood. Is there a Mem
esis in pursuit? Does the blood
of the innocent cry out from the
ground, or is all a mere diStor-
ton Of sickly brains, an idle ar
ray Of imaginary condolences?
But truth is at last fairly afoot.
The great black lie which WEIGH
mann told is painting and stag
gering still in front, kept there
yet by reason of the love justly
felt for the martyred Lincoln,
but not to be in the ascendant
long. AT last
THE TRUTH CATCHES THE LIE.
The cowardly John Surratt,
who had stayed in Washington
long enough to be the occasion
of this great trouble, and who
hadn't the filial courage to re-
turn there and strive to avert it
or perish with his mother, is ar
rested, brought back and tried.
And then the truth flies forward
and takes the glorious lead.
Nobody talks of Mrs Surratt
as a guilty person since the tri-
al of her son.
THE MARTYR OF THE WHITE
HOUSE, AND THE MARTYR
OF THE ARSENAL,
| Had both fallen under the
strokes of bloody executioners.
The evidence in John Surratt's
, trial proved to demonstration