The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-07-03

The Crime Of Her Murder Avenged on
Her Executioners-The Brand of Cain
on Her Murderers-They Die Violent
and Miserable Deaths-The Martyr of
the white House and the Martyr of

New York Star, June 81


the Arsenal.
New York Star, June 22.l
l observe that the sad story of Mary Z.
Surratts death has been revived. Ford,
of Baltimore; Richardson, of Boston, and
Ben Pitman. the court reporter at the con-
splracy trials, and now of Cincinnati, had
each published his version of IT. As was
here at the time of the trial and judicial
murder, send you my views on the sub
ject:
Thirteen years have come and gone since
! the bullet of John Wilkes Booth was sped
forth on its horrible mission OF assassina-
ton. Thirteen years have come and gone
since Mary E. Surratt died on the gallows
in atonement for the great crime with which
it is now known that she had neither lot nor
part
TWO MARTYRS TO THE DEED or THE SATANIC
YOUTH.
The one was the beloved chief magistrate
of the triumphant republic, innocent, I'M
suspecting, and hurled headlong into eter-
nifty; the other a pious Christian widow,
/ equally innocent and dragged forth hooded
/ and masked and ironed TO the gallows where
they strangled her to death.
For some time after the execution the
demon of wrath stalked abroad through the
land, and the multitude said amen" to her
death. But the evidence of her innocence
/ could not be covered up for long. Now and
then we heard two or three remOrseful reve-
lations uttered through the lips of congress
men, showing that somebody was not at
/ peace wi hin; that the blood of woman
| had left its stains on the conscience of one
or more of the actors in the conspiracy trials.
! Presently
BUTLER ARRAIGNS BINGHAM
and tells him he will have to &C
! count to God for the life of Mrs. Surratt, and
/ Bingham, agitated at the malediction, started
/ like a guilty thing affrighted. Presently
/ Senator Jim Lane, who, with Secretary
Stanton and Judge Holt and Senator King
bad taken an active part in preventing the
! daughter of Mrs. Surratt from seeing Presi-
dent Johnson and telling that infatuated and
perhaps misled executiOner to stay his hand
and not to do murder on innocence-present.
VI, we say, poor Lane blew out his brains in st.
Louis, and then it was said Mr.. Lane had
never been happy since the taking Oft OF
Mrs Surratt After a while Senator King
wentinto a store and, buying several pounds
of shot, started for the river. He jumped in
and was drowned. At later day il is OBJ
served that an unwonted melancholy sits on
Mr.. Stanton. For years he had dreamed of
and sighed for a bencher's seat in the
supreme court OF the United States. The
presidents appointment and the senate's
confirmation crown the dream with fulfill
ment But the melancholy still rides him
like witch. He has been more or less an
invalid for some weeks when the news of the
ju5geship is conveyed to blm. The surgeon
general advises him to take the air, to ride
forth among cheerful scenes, and to shake
off what he deems the dependency of sick
room. The attendant is sent for to shave
Mr.. Stanton, and they prevail on him to
ride down as far as the capitol. The barber
finishes the toilet and the dressing-case is
closed and returned to the bureau-drawer
For a short time the cretary is left
alone. When some members of the house
hold re-enter the room Edwin NJ Stanton Is
discovered stretched on the floor with
HORRIBLE CASH IN HIS THROAT
and razor by his side. Surgeon General
Barnes is flashed for by telegraph, but it is
too late. Stanton is past surgery; the life
blood spurts over the walls and floor. The
arch chief of Mrs. Surratts executiOners has
executed murder on himself, and the spirit
OF the marryrsd woman, with hood and man
acles. such as glazed the eyes of the behold
ers at the arsenal, seems to fit across the
chamber of the suicide. As If conscious that
another link 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 at
tempted 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
! n
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 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 a sudden ana unprovided death when
it came his own turn to die? Let ii be hoped
that he was for the sake of his eternal saliva
ton But it can not be forgotten that the
ex-president, after having been hunted down
like wild beast by his own party, and that,
too, when he was trying to do his duty,
after having been betrayed and sold out by
General Grant in shameless manner; after
having been impsached and tried and almost
convicted, and finally, after having tri-
umphed over ali his foes and been borne
back 10 the senate on the tidal wave OF DEM
ocratic sscendency, it can not, it must not,
be forgotten that
ANDREW JOHNSON FELL DOWN IN A FIT,
and died of apoplexy almost within the
hour which had seen him well and full OF
lusty life. From a sudden and unprovided
death, o. Lord, deliver us!' What a terri
bic moral do not these pregnant examples
teach! Out of the world hip and thigh, the
sword of higher vengeance than mans
hath smitten the shedders of an innocent
woman blood. Is there a Nemesis in pur-
suit? Does the blood of the innocent cry
out from the ground, or is it all a mere dis
tortion of sickly brains, an idle array of I'M
aginary coincidence? But truth is at last
fairly afoot. The great black lie which
Weichman told is painting and staggering
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 occa-
sion OF this great trouble, and who hadn't
the flial courage to return there and strive
I to avert it o. 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 sine. the trial of her son.
THE MARTYR OF THE WHITE HOUSE AND THE
MARTYR OF THE ARSENAL
had both fallen under the strokes of bloody
execudoners The evidence in John Sur
rats trial proved to demonstration that alb
duction was the plan and plot of the con.