| Show A deed without a balne the wing of the th e death angel broods brood over oter tae and his shadow has fall t ta ra a upon all the he land there is in confer nation in the public places and th the hearts or of the people are arc appalled with a sadness that is something more than sorrow our banners lm ners droop low and abe th cities are re clothed inthe habiliments ol of woe X T nature abare herself is hushed bushed to silence as though in sympathy with the nation al bereavement for a nameless crime has been committed tho the people have been stricker stricken down in the person of their chief magis irate arate and the nation humbled to th tb dust by an assassin hand band s alts ais weeping in sackcloth sack pack cloth and an avs alles strong men unused to shed tears learn wander about wit will I 1 heads bonded bt low and sorrowing borrowing lik liet children the announcement comes like an electric shock paralyzing paral izing the public mind with speechless horror but foi one moment only I 1 the mask is now thrown aside and the fell fiend of treason stands forth revealed in all its hideous depravity its devilish propensities is seen been to be a principle of unmixed malevolence the incarnation of evil this is the spirit that has animated those who have murdered weir th air captives in cold blood and starved to death the prisoners of yar war confined in southern dungeons this ii the spirit that has rioted in our northern cities made them the food of incendiary aineen diary ore and revelled bevelled revel led in a the blood of helpless beliles victims well would it bo for those who have heretofore hed he d sympathy with treason well ivell for the iun it if the wretched madmen who have bay wrought this last frightful tragedy with all of their coward league of conspirators could be at once 4 overtaken overtake 11 ll and brou brought 0 glit to condign za punishment at the hant of constituted arr dhority E se no man can foresee forese cr th the consequences for there is a spirit abroad that little brooks restraint vengeance which possesses the souls of men meir and cries aloud lor for retribution should it break forth it will spread like a conflagration fla like a deluge 0 of fire and glod od have bave mercy orr on any that stand in its course for or there will be nane in tile the hearts of men god help them if thus groping blindly for revenge the inno cent are made to suffer stiffler lor for the crimes ot of 1 the guilty we regard this as the most critical hour of the republic for never neve was there such cause to make imminent the inauguration of a reign of terrible anarchy arid and it will surely be our oar crowning triumph it if we cau can raise crar selves above tho the i pulses impulses m of the hour alas this feeling must havo longer lAi duration ration and the danger a will grow a as we ive are enabled to comprehend the awful tra tragedy at edy it will go ill with all who anve 1 ave manifested m it tik titue or of trial for the I 1 rury fury of pub gub lic he wrath ra will sweep them down dowil a whirlwinds whirl winds in their passage crush forest fores to oe fie earth never was messenger or of fate winged with sueh such fearl fearful til consequences 3 rash fools I 1 raving laying mailmen ma dinell when they baruck down abraham lincoln they their best friend he was the mediator between them and their ene enemies irlies between treason au an i outraged humanity who I 1 shall row BOW stay the tide to of righteous anger aner who stretch his hand dver over the mad alad sea of human passion n fraying to the troubled waves peace be still 11 and be obeyed ob oyed wo we feal the es e is none SIC never were words i more inaptly applied than those to UK great Apo ittle of Fre freedom freedain edoin abraham lincoln and who would dare to question justice if the people who loved ainu aig is mm men seldom boyc n ruler should fi myer answer from heart snow for the first tim burning with quenchless hate ram e would not heern irreverent bit cot i emberling em bering that the ani i li veril 1 itry of tiie jhc thc self day which saw sav the all ort on TH oun E calvary of th e Messi all eighteen hundred eari a e assa of the great liber i r lip r h g inar has baa henceforth L canonized 18 n nd nile immor immortal fal t As clire died to tunk make c nj men loyl hc bi has haa dietl died to make them fr free ie I 1 |
