Show t where eliere the guilt rests 1 booth the assassin is dead but not with him died the guilt of the awful deed committed committed the instrument is brolien broken but where is the band by which it wad was wielded the bolt has been launched and done its deadly work now we have to look for the cloud whence it imbued and sped upon its mission of death in the deliberate assassination of abra ham Lincoln a crime was consummated that we may be sure eure has not been done without some adequate motive more pc tent than a mere blind desire for revenge there is more in this than can be accounted for by any such supposition had revenge been sought grant ar or sherman had bud been the nuitt natural iral vie victims for they and not abraham lincoln have been the ministers of national vengeance ati ab their hands handa has treason re calved lits most deadly blows we are told that tho the conspiracy for the murder of the late president together I 1 with his cabinet and all his possible successors in office for so much did the fell plot embrace in its hellish scope is traced to the knights of the golden circle and again 1 to the st albans raiders which simply means that these who all belong to the same fraternity are only the underlings of some higher authority still undiscovered whose purposes these agents were endeavoring deavo ring to carry into execution who inspired the st albans raiders to their murderous work who commissioned the would be lake pirates to open their career of devastation rapine and blood on our Norther borders 1 abc sent the incendiary minions in into to our I 1 cities to commit them to the flames flim eg of the lives limps of women and children who must have bare peris perished bed by hund re reds ds when the raiders and lake pirates were arrested in canada by whom were they recognized as agents and coughl to be sheltered from punishment when the answer to all these questions is found we shall need to seek no further for the source of the conspiracy whereby the death of abra i ham bain lincoln was comp compassed Essed alet let us see if we cannot trace some conil connection petion between the league of assassins and richmond in fin this affair as in others scarcely less malignant we do know that there was a bons conspiracy piracy existing as early as march 1861 with the i same end in view and we know kno wo further that men then on the floor floo of congress and afterwards members of the CAfe confederate domie government werd were cognizant co of and countenanced the deed the chave to have slumbered for a timeto bat we remember distinctly as many will that only a few months since I 1 a refugee wo think it was brought the news from in richmond 0 of f the act active iv 0 ej ex 1 istance ofa con conspiracy piracy having its birth and with the consent 0 or f the rebel government to to accomplish the very crime which has at benerth transpired but iff part bartas as contemplated alf by ite instigators i ab nb 1 oo 00 ana frunzi runk waa wa i fauna fou rih a le lettjr tie r fr fram l r s conic confederate begging begging 1 i M hi IM m I 1 to postpone the tragedy until ordera be obtained from fiam richmond wherefore la ty the he same receptacle was found a confederate dou colonels oil els uniform nl kept kep nr for 1 11 1 1 1 aba purpose oso who were ivere to be bebop b ene f 1 1 r 1 fil felted I 1 4 most by this his scheme afi wholesale 4 murder embracing at least as many I 1 agenda for it s colsum as r intended victims not the as assassins sassing surely 1 it at ahe they rema remained ched biear the scene ac en oath air crime or where the arnia could reach the them r 4 their preparations for flight sha that they expected 1 e prepared to be hunt bunt ed cd like wolves v 1 e who aben had c p latender la tended suppose buano se hii 01 av 04 tho the president preside nt in office and nil all the chief headd of the civil government I 1 struck down what would bothe bo lie necessary effect under the circumstances in which the country is placed al 1 authority would lapse lap e into military bands anda military dictatorship for the time being must become a no ne cassity ces sity could rebels have wished anything more the end at which they have bare been aiming for months past has been to obtain a settlement of the national biffl callies by military commanders command erg thereby in surrendering they would obtain the rights of prisoners of war and could not be punished for political offenses offe falling failing in tw ibis can we p permit ernist ourselves to doubt tb that it they have sought 0 the same end by indirect means by assassination in short Is there anything in the character of jeff davis or his confederates w which bich forbids the hypothesis there is absolutely nothing and the abo many crimes of which they have been instigators igors only less notorious than this because kept secluded from the gaze of mankind murdering prisoners of war in cold blood or starving them to death by thousands with de deliberate li abera te c cruelty these and a thousand other nameless pam eless crimes can never be expiated until all all the chief leaders of the rebellion are gibbeted upon the for treason theirs is the gnile and theirs should be lie he punishment let us not like the wounded bear bite at the arrow that has pierced our side forgetting tile the hidden bidden bunter who aimed it |