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202 APRIL 18, 1865 NEVADA TRANSCRIPT
It is hardly needed this last act in the national drama to teach us the meaning and quality of
that chivalry which is the Southern boast; but this cowardly assassination is in keeping with all
its attributes. We see the nature of that higher civilization which is born in the slave-pen, and
suckled by greed. We can compare the rival civilizations of the Slave and Free States—for this
war has not left us infrequent opportunities. The demoniac impulse that slew Mr. Lincoln had
guarded the death line at Andersonville, and deliberately starved our prisoners at Mellen and
Wilmington. It had massacred and tortured negro troops at Fort Pillow and slain their white
officers. It had burned Lawrence, revelled in its blood streaming streets. It had applied the rack,
the whip and chain to prisoners of war, as at Savannah; and desecrated the dead at Manassas.
It had carried on a war to fetter more securely the limbs of the slave, and had murdered in
cold blood any colored man be he slave or free, though possessed of the immunity of a prisoner
of war, who was found fighting for the liberty of his race. And yet, in the hour of extremity,
they called, like cowards, upon this same trodden and abused race to seize the musket that was
falling from their grasp, and fight for slavery. Who wonders at the fact that a people who have
thus tolerated, encouraged and abetted, such attrocities [sic], should furnish a band of assassins
to exceed any former infamy? Who wonders at this last deed of slavery? A system that makes
a people familiar with cruelty and lust, and broken family ties; that creates ignorance and
degrades labor, who shall wonder that it has plunged the people cursed with it into war against
constitutional liberty; or that that war should be signalized by an act at which the world turns
pale?
We may trust posterity to write the eulogy of our slain President. The present is just to his
name, but the future will delight in crowning his memory with fresh, unfading laurels. Few
such men have been in the course of the ages—large-hearted, gifted, sincere and patriotic. A
child of the people—the peer of princes in place and power—their superior in true nobility
of character. Bitterly we lament his untimely death; but we will rejoice that the land he loved
and served lives, and shall live; and that his name will live on forever intermixed with its most
heroic chapter, and enshrined in the hearts of freemen for all time. . . .
At the conclusion of Mr. Sargent’s remarks, Mr. Dryden addressed the audience, comparing the
death of the President by violence, to the death of the Savior. The former for the redemption of this
country, and the latter for the redemption of humanity. He stated that the nation would be brought, by the
event, to a full realization of the deep infamy of the slave power. He then alluded to the deeds of violence
and the outrages committed through the agency of the slave power. The sacrifice of the noble Broderick;
the massacre of Union soldiers; the starvation of prisoners of war, and the last deed of infamy and
violence—the assassination of the President. .. .
We learn that an excellent address was also delivered by Rev. R. F. Putnam, of the Episcopal
Church, at the Baptist Church, to a large audience.
GOOD.—A Secessionist who rejoiced at the death of the President in Washington, was shot dead
by a soldier and no arrest followed. Three rebel prisoners at Indianapolis who expressed satisfaction
were killed by the guard. In New York a Wall street “shark” was menaced with hanging. Everywhere the
people seem to deal sternly with those who show disrespect to the memory of the President.
THE people of San Francisco vented their indignation upon the traitor journals on Saturday last. Six
of them were sent to —— [sic].
GEORGE A. WEAVER announces that he desires all persons indebted to the late firm of Weaver &
Co. to settle up immediately. He will remain in this city thirty days for the purpose of closing business.