14 kwietnia

14 kwietnia, 1865

LINCOLN MURDERED!

    More blood. The slaughter at Seward's house and the attempt to murder him increase the horror of this night. Bathed in his own blood Seward bocomes purified from almost all his political misdeeds.

   Judging from rumors and from various reports, these horrors seem perpetrated by comparatively young men, incited to murder by those fierce, savage, beastly notions forming the gist of slaveocracy.

   Under the eyes and by the direction of F.F.V.'s, and of other so-called chivalry in Richmond and all over the rebel region, the press for years incited to Lincoln's murder. For years a part of the Northern press, often mentioned in these diaries, a press which was and is the gospel of Northern Copperheads, slavers, and traitors, pointed to Lincoln as to a tyrant, and to Seward as to his henchman. Murder and slaughter by infuriated wretches are now the fruits of those stimulating teachings.

Adam Gurowski