Show sixteen yours vonra aso when the startling news cewa of f the tha at tempt upon president Pr eident garfielda Gar fields lira ito reached saturday S morning the tb minds of men instinctively t Inot ively reverted t to 0 tho the only liko like event la in american history it was on saturday morning april 16 15 1805 1865 that now new york learned ot of tho the murder ot of president lincoln tile the news was at first received with incredulity then no na the awful truth was confirmed the excitement everywhere became inexpressibly intense botens O there was wan one great brit outpouring pouring of tho the 0 deepest sorrow mingled with horror and indignation A general gloom oom per vadon the entire community diurnal dismal masses of crops crape and hill halt masted lugs flags ever everywhere appeared bat the feeling of grief and execration was vaa not in ot the only one which found email expression in iho he throngs which surged through the a treat the spirit of 0 revenge manga hid had broken oat out on an overmastering erieg desire to m make ake short work with anyone who who even suspected to be ba in sympathy with ra bellion already Ali it was wan reported potted re i two or three men had been killed and d lot liot and slaughter seemed deemed cimmin imminent an ant A at t noon moon was held in wall street in III front of the C cintora a atom louse bouso at which were we ire made by many prominent citizens uno 0 of f the moat impressive of these addresses which is ia now invested invest eil with a 0 I 1 al interest was delivered by br general genera fa gar held flold it la Is salt gala that his words had a marvelous marve loua effect la in quieting the passions of the mull multitude etude rie ile spoke as follows I 1 have just reached this olty city from washington W eb lugton uhe the night before the ansas assas Blua sloat tion ion of abraham lincoln there was wag hold a meeting at which was expressed tho the groat joy of cf the nation sit as it was never expressed before in alow ol of the great victorien orien which had bad crowned our arms and DOW cow it has found this terrible a contrast in the news which has reached us from froin that placid ky this last got of madness it seems as though the rebellion lad had determined that the president of the soldiers should go BO with the soldiers who have laid down their lives on the battlefield they slew claw the noblest and greatest heart that ever put down a rebellion on this earth I 1 desire not to seem irreverent in saying baying that it seems to mo me ho he almost touched tho the parallel of the son of ged who died saying 1 rather father forgive tea then for they know not what they do bat t in taking that life they have loft left the iron hand baud of the to tall fall upon them love is on the front of t the he throne of god but justice and judgment with inexorable dread follow behind and when law is slighted and meroy mercy despised when they havo have rejected those who would lie be their th ti r best friends fri ondi then cornea comes justice with w i b bar aar bojos ojos and w with th the tha swords at and d 6 bcalel OR le a from every gaping wound of ef your dead chief from ivery every wound of your dying Hoo secretary rotary of state and bis big BOB flout dying too lot the voice go up from tho the people to see lee to it that our louse is swept and garnished I 1 hasten to say bay one thing more fellow citizens for mere vengeance I 1 wo would U I 1 d do nothing this nation u is too great to look for more mere revenge bat fox for the so BO entity of the I 1 would do everything all along the battlefields on many of which I 1 love had the honor to stand have ascended aacen deil tha ills spirits of our departed dead if they could look down upon this scene would they not say to you to lie ve have committed to yo you a the high and loly holy charge that we shall not hayo bavo died in vain I 1 do not believe that it bblain is in tho american character to become assassins like the people of france prance and italy I 1 do not believe that general lee and his bis officers will sanction this got but it if they do the red lightning of it a peoples vengeance will never sleep I 1 will not detain you yon follow fellow citizens my lay heart is too full fall I 1 stayed staved with one member of the cabinet at washington nail and left him only yesterday and almost the last words he bo said tome were 1 I lovo more every day that I 1 sao lim him there is no point of this rebellion that he does not BOOM to have thought upon and brooded blooded upon and I 1 believe that ho he has thought more maturely upon pon this that than guy any other american Amerio au lie has gone still nail lead dead b he is in your ft aident and mine mine and we mourn him im anew york ITi brime |