Show I 1 I 1 t a a ac c from tho the london times june 6 the confessions of wilkes booth f the murderer of Pre president lincoln Lin colu lately published by the order or permission of the united states staten government are arc calculated to raise a moral anes Cs ion 1011 which lit is ie important that public al e op opinion should lay fore at rest kii an old heathen doubtless could be guilty of conscious and deliberate crime crime and anddie he also might according to construe into a meritorious action what would strike us its as a most beinous offen offense se sc but ire baldly know of an instance ins talice in iiii antiquity iii id which vb ell evil was done that good might come colne from it il it if J its s tin this s notable complo inise ayleth principle I 1 we conceive that must bo as 23 the aspeci a tiff ff I 1 api ing of perverted Christianity when Booth complains odthe of hie harsh judgment af pf of his hia cou n ti amena against gain st him inability to perceive the identity bet between W cen hi his s own act and that for which brutus waz was honored lio nored lie he is simply aabol for in brutus 0 own wn estimation and that of his age the de death rall of 0 casar was waa a iced deed of lulling 1 I ino mur der derbut kut when the analogy isi is carried on oil between the deed at washington and the exploit which made tell a herp hero we fear we cannot cu not reject the ilie the teeth of the present generation as n undeserved we wc never had bad never can ha bave veany any scruple about dh missius booth au an a struck sti tick maniac a wretched wi etched morbid cg egotist otist whose most moat appi opria teno less than must e efficient punishment should be a careful avoidance of ciny mention of his bis name argood bof good or arev eq il it was doubtless in the most deplorable ages of rabid s sectarianism that heavens blessings wet aure C called down head of jacques clement or of Ka Pla cland cand of stores scores of obber ical ho homicides in ic des it was that aliat made philip philipia JI 1 of spain the most of madni midnight cal it murderers but v i wat wai not butof fanatical ze zeal 11 but of ab bea th eliat it tho the J suits armid a m the t lie liand haid 4 of bigots origin rin of rit political cal must bu be bought in a a i period som Boms whit ante to the protestant Prot stant reformation we must look for it ife among amon the acea plis bed cd and aind on the waible liot plod gate skeptics ties wh who 0 on the revival of literature era ture thought alicy could engraft greek and romin virtues virtu ex upon the rude and gloomy rule of uri on which mediaeval media eval civilization had been based among the worldly yet lofty intellects I 1 who dreamed of a more genial and sympathetic community than that which francis of ashai and doninic domnic of guzman had on grovel ilig asceticism and ferocious intolerance in italy especially wilfre the reproduction of republican forms and in ill t the free citie 1 I e ed t the he spread i of pagan 21 maxima maxim s regicide re S fic 1 dle under the spacious name of was avas exalted acted alted into the grandest L achievement not ouli only were sach meas all or gian i maria ria corpier or piar luigi farnese true fru patriots of tho the most S spotless f fame ame tut but even base minions like lo 10 1 r enz in 1 0 dis medici C ahen th they 0 y took offa c Alu panion 1 of deal like tie the duke alessandris Ales were deemed by that deed acca of treachery to have rJ redeemed deemed 0 whole life of infamy and dared to writ wile e on their dagger vincit am amor 01 pa patriae pat t tim rire i t a imm immen en as elipido cli pido between prissily prie eally and their literary instructors no yonder wonder if tile the most crooked havo been enter and ana to io a great reat extent ac ted upon buth both in afta V and andain I 1 in other classical and X 1 s 11 but with us via us us men of teutonic blood we r do not not see sec a spade should not be called callea a spade or why murder should under any circum circum cB be ace anted heip Ielpi ism sm noti ing mg should certainly deprive I 1 besuch jauch beings aw aa aha 66 coeday aay of any ally meed of giaise due to characters pre yiota to their r deadly deeds not nothings dilugi interfere with our admiration for the fortitude wit li which they bore the cou consequences sequences but s surely brej noille nothing also should extenuate the gravity etra vity of the deeds themselves TeS nothing liutti should g 1 ive lit too toa the motives motive or objects by which lucli deeds were actuated booths action according zo TO hit hio own cod confession was purer than tells he booth had no wrong offis of his downto avenge 0 he hacop hoped ed f for no gain 1 woe to aks u lf if any case upon any ground we allow ohp ho end to justify the moans means 1 and marat nud and the duke of Pari parma Aa may have been in Abr faham lincoln and Pulle bossi may haye been bone factors of their race rabe notra whit more lawful to rid the abc earth of the lormar filiar ohanio than cn atille tt t ille I 1 latar r ph ort n their cae caicco wo or ss Iti BibB NIS trifling with sacred pi in ciple this baloi 11 alo of mitic f rom audi and dramatic awakens awak enc in t baor mor of lp out it of batel all this pc relapse apse into ahto paean aai m which ta thel 11 crackbrained crack brained wretches like booth and brin 3 tilea thorn to their deaths in uncertainty whether they dee r no e god and mans cu aca or their tle blessings sings ta the cause for which robert leu lee fought and stonewall 8 tone wall jackson did dit dini might el clit have had bat enough in it to stimulate exen ions Ms but bat what could the hc death of linein line in or ven even of seward have achieved for it triumph 1 there is no instance ine tance on record wo tre can conceive of no combi nati m n in which the removal of one man cin can permanently antly affect aspect tile the course if destinies coblar falln but rome kome does not live it was at the sempach or morga Mor arUn pvn riot not at the hohlweg eliat Switz switzerland eiland lland was vas boro barn it was with rob es pierre on thu the scaffold not with marat in the bath that the Q reign of i terror came to a cloae alobe in III too many instances the patriots dagger has only reveled the chains it asp reato sever and aggravated the evils it longed to r edreos brov providentially I 1 identically also in cases casco it was the regicides failure that accomplished his object ob 9 act whan bin success would auld only have frustrated it i these are arc obvious truis truisms ins and we are arc ready enough to acknowledge them in cold blood bl iod but wo are arc apt to forget eur ethics nut only at the opera but before any a actual exhibit exhibition i oll of choso merely physical jowui s of endur endurance ance of winch the commonest malefactor is ia capable booth boasts of the firmi iLaa with which lie he rode sixty miles on the night of the inui der with the bone of his broken leg tearing the flesh fles lint it every was equally bevc c when torn to pieces with red pin pincher hera fl there is ia still an ail amount of pagan or indeed red in among the bet be t of us its we attach in an absurdly undue importance ai ce to tn a mans nit re etea dinia as of nerve to his superiority over physical pai pain il strong indeed must bp conr instinct of life if by indic defiance of death the suicide the duelist or felon on the t cafield beaff old can so BO readily comm command and our sympathy byro pathy it ja not by out our di siegard of life that we can best beat play our part but by nn an endeavor fo mako make ic ft valuable to others no less than to ourselves i |