Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-06-28

Ihe barber finishes the toilet and
the dressing-case is closed and re-
turned to the bureau-drawer. For
a short time the ex-Secretary is left
alone. When some members of the
household re-enter the room Edwin
M. Stanton is discovered stretched
on the floor with
A HORRIBLE CASH IN HIS THROAT
and razor by his side. Surgeon
General Barnes is flashed for by
telegraph, but it is too late. Stan.
ton is past surgery; the life.blood
spurts over the walls and floor. The
arch-chief Of Mrs. Surrat's execu-
TONERS has executed murder on
himself and the spirit of the mar
tyred woman, with hood and man
acles, such as glazed the eyes of the
beholders at the arsenal, seems to
fit across the chamber of the sui
eide. AS if conscious that another
LAX had been forged in the chain
which appeared to drag down to
untimely 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 will be vouched for by
those who know them to be true.
Surgeon General Barnes has never
denied them. He can not do so.
From a sudden and unprovided
death, 0 Lord, deliver usw Such
is the language of the Christian
Litany, the supreme appeal of men
for mercy. Did Andrew johnson,
who was deaf to the agonizing
shrieks of that poor child of Mrs.
Surratt whom Stanton and King
and Lane repulsed from the human
mercy-seat, ever appeal to heaven
in the beautiful words of the
Litany? Was he saved from sud-
den and unproyided death when it
came his own turn. to die? Let it
be hoped that he was for the sake
Of his eternal salvation. But il
cannot be forgotten that the ex.
President, after having been hunted
down like a wild beast by his own
lparty, and that, too, when he was
trying to do his duty; after having
been betrayed and sold out by Gen.
eral Grant in shameless manner
after having been impeached and
tried and almost convicted, anC
finally, after having triumphed owe
all his foes and been borne back t.
the senate on the tidal wave O
Democratic ascendency, it can not
it must not, be forgotten that
ANEREw JOHNSON FELL DOWN IN
A FIT,
and died of apoplexy almost within
the hour which had seen him vel
and full of lusty life. From a sud
/! den and unprovided death, 0, Lord
B deliver us !" Whata terrible mora
do not these pregnant examples
teachl Out of the world, hip and
thigh, the sword of a higher ven
geance than mans hath smitten the
shedders of an innocent woman'i
blood. Is there Nemesis in pur
suit? Does the blood of the limo
cent cry out from the ground, or il
it all mere distortion of sickly
} brains, an idle array of imaginary
coincidences2 But truth is at las
fairly afoot, The great black liz
} which Weichmann told is painting
| and staggering still in front, KEEP
there yet by reason of the Low,
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, whC
, had stayed in Washington Ions
| enough to he the occasion of this
J great trouble, and who hadn't th,
tilial courage to return there ant
strive to avert it or perish with hi
, mother, is arrested, brought bael
) and tried. And then the truth
flies forward and takes the gloriou
|. lead. Nobody talks of Mrs. Sur
ratt as a guilty person since thu
trial Of her son.
: THE MARTYR OF THE WHITE HOUSE
|. AND THE MARTYR OF THE AR
t sENAL,
! had both fallen under the stroke
Y of bloody executioners, The evi
: denoe in John Surratts trial PROVED
! to demonstration that abduction
e was the plan and plot of the con
f spirators, and that it had fallel
t through, and had been abandone,
1 long before the thought of murde
D entered the mind of Booth. Tn
r abduction scheme having been ex
/, plOded, its plotters had separated
gone North and South, and to Can
:. ada, and the thing was at an end
The evidence further proved tina
J. Booth first thought of assassination
t only a few hours before he went il
j such a cowardly manner and sho
e the President. When bafiled il
8 his abduction plot by the fall Q
l. Richmond and tho overthrow of th
l. Southern Confederacy, he was in
r spired by the devil to shoot th
d President. Because this was mad
e plain at the trial, and because O