A hard and grizzly1 face overlooks me as I write. Its inconsiderable forehead is crowned with turning sandy hair, and the deep concave of its long insatiate jaws2 is almost hidden by a dense4 red beard, which can not still abate5 the terrible decision of the large mouth, so well sustained by searching eyes of spotted6 gray, which roll and rivet7 one. This is the face of Lafayette Baker8, colonel and chief of the secret service. He has played the most perilous9 parts of the war, and is the capturer of the late President's murderer. The story that I am to tell you, as he and his trusty dependents told it to me, will be aptly commenced here, where the net was woven which took the dying life of Wilkes Booth.
When the murder occured, Colonel Baker was absent from Washington, He returned on the third morning, and was at once besought10 by Secretary Stanton to join the hue11 and cry against the escaped Booth. The sagacious detective found that nearly ten thousand cavalry12, and one-fourth as many policemen, had been meantime scouring13, without plan or compass, the whole territory of Southern Maryland. They were treading on each other's heels, and mixing up the thing so confoundedly, that the best place for the culprits to have gone would have been in the very midst of their pursuers. Baker at once possessed15 himself of the little the War Department had learned, and started immediately to take the usual detective measures, till then neglected, of offering a reward and getting out photographs of the suspected ones. He then dispatched a few chosen detectives to certain vital points, and awaited results.
The first of these was the capture of Atzeroth. Others, like the taking of Dr. Mudge, simultaneously16 occured. But the district supected being remote from the railway routes, and broken by no telegraph station, the colonel, to place himself nearer the theater of events, ordered an operator, with the necessary instrument, to tap the wire running to Point Lookout18, near Chappells Point, and send him prompt messages.
The same steamer which took down the operator and two detectives. brought back one of the same detectives and a negro. This negro, taken to Colonel Baker's office, stated so positively19 that he had seen Booth and another man cross the Potomac in a fishing boat, while he was looking down upon them from a bank, that the colonel, was at first skeptical20; but when examined the negro answered so readily and intelligently, recognizing the men from the photographs, that Baker knew at last that he had the true scent21.
Straightway he sent to General Hancock for twenty-five men, and while the order was going, drew down his coast survey-maps. With that quick detective intuition amounting almost to inspiration, he cast upon the probable route and destination of the refugees, as well as the point where he would soonest strike them. Booth, he knew, would not keep along the coast, with frequent deep rivers to cross, nor, indeed, in any direction east of Richmond, where he was liable at any time to cross our lines of occupation; nor, being lame22, could he ride on; horseback, so as to place himself very far westward23 of his point of debarkation24 in Virginia. But he would travel in a direct course from Bluff25 point, where he crossed to Eastern Tennessee, and this would take him through Port Royal on the Rappahannock river, in time to be intercepted26 there by the outgoing cavalry men.
When, therefore, twenty-five men, under one Lieutenant27 Dougherty, arrived at his office door, Baker placed the whole under control of his former lieutenant-colonel, E. J. Conger, and of his cousin, Lieutenant L. B. Baker—the first of Ohio, the last of New-York—and bade them go with all dispatch to Belle28 Plain on the Lower Potomac, there to disembark, and scour14 the country faithfully around Port Royal, but not to return unless they captured their men.
Conger is a short, decided30, indomitable, courageous31 fellow, provincial32 in his manners, but fully29 understanding his business, and collected as a housewife on Sunday.
Young Baker is large and fine-looking—a soldier, but no policeman—and he deferred34 to Conger, very properly, during most of the events succeeding.
Quitting Washington at 2 o'clock P. M. on Monday, the detectives and cavalrymen disembarked at Belle Plain, on the border of Stafford county, at 10 o'clock, in the darkness. Belle Plain is simply the nearest landing to Fredericksburg, seventy miles from Washington city, and located upon Potomac creek35. It is a wharf36 and warehouse37 merely, and here the steamer John S. Ide stopped and made fast, while the party galloped38 off in the darkness. Conger and Baker kept ahead, riding up to farm-houses and questioning the inmates39, pretending to be in search of the Maryland gentlemen belonging to the party. But nobody had seen the parties described, and, after a futile40 ride on the Fredericksburg road, they turned shortly to the east, and kept up their baffled inquiries41 all the way to Port Conway, on the Rappahannock.
On Tuesday morning they presented themselves at the Port Royal ferry, and inquired of the ferry-man, while he was taking them over in squads42 of seven at a time, if he had seen any two such men. Continuing their inquiries at Port Royal, they found one Rollins a fisherman, who referred them to a negro named Lucas, as having driven two men a short distance toward Bowling43 Green in a wagon44. It was found that these men answered to the description, Booth having a crutch45 as previously46 ascertained47.
The day before Booth and Harold had applied48 at Port Conway for the general ferry-boat, but the ferryman was then fishing and would not desist for the inconsiderable fare of only two persons, but to their supposed good fortune a lot of confederate cavalrymen just then came along, who threatened the ferryman with a shot in the head if he did not instantly bring across his craft and transport the entire party. These cavalrymen were of Moseby's disbanded command, returning from Fairfax Court House to their homes in Caroline county. Their captain was on his way to visit a sweetheart at Bowling Green, and he had so far taken Booth under his patronage49, that when the latter was haggling50 with Lucas for a team, he offered both Booth and Harold the use of his horse, to ride and walk alternately.
In this way Lucas was providentially done out of the job, and Booth rode off toward Bowling Green behind the confederate captain on one and the same horse.
So much learned, the detectives, with Rollins for a guide, dashed off in the bright daylight of Tuesday, moving southwestward through the level plains of Caroline, seldom stopping to ask questions, save at a certain halfway51 house, where a woman told them that the cavalry party of yesterday had returned minus one man. As this was far from circumstantial, the party rode along in the twilight52, and reached Bowling Green at eleven o'clock in the night.
This is the court-house town of Caroline county—a small and scattered53 place, having within it an Ancient tavern54, no longer used for other than lodging55 purposes; but here they hauled from his bed the captain aforesaid, and bade him dress himself. As soon as he comprehended the matter he became pallid56 and eagerly narrated57 all the facts in his possession. Booth, to his knowledge, was then lying at the house of one Garrett, which they had passed, and Harold had departed the existing day with the intention of rejoining him.
Taking this captain along for a guide, the worn out horsemen retraced58, though some of the men were so haggard and wasted with travel that they had to be kicked into intelligence before they could climb to their saddles. The objects of the chase thus at hand, the detectives, full of sanguine59 purpose; hurried the cortege so well along that by 2 o'clock early morning, all halted at Garrett's gate. In the pale moonlight three hundred yards from the main road, to the left, a plain old farmhouse60 looked grayly through its environing locusts61. It was worn and whitewashed62, and two-storied, and its half-human windows glowered63 down upon the silent cavalrymen like watching owls64, which stood as sentries65 over some horrible secret asleep within. The front of this house looked up the road toward the Rappahannock, but did not face it, and on that side a long Virginia porch protruded66, where, in the summer, among the honeysuckles, the humming bird flew like a visible odor. Nearest the main road, against the pallid gable, a single-storied kitchen stood, and there were three other doors, one opening upon the porch, one in the kitchen gable, and one in the rear of the farmhouse.
Dimly seen behind, an old barn, high and weather-beaten, faced the roadside gate, for the house itself lay to the left of its own lane; and nestling beneath the barn, a few long corn-cribs lay with a cattle shed at hand. There was not a swell68 of the landscape anywhere in sight. A plain dead level contained all the tenements69 and structures. A worm fence stretched along the road broken by two battered70 gate posts, and between the road and the house, the lane was crossed by a second fence and gate. The farm-house lane, passing the house front, kept straight on to the barn, though a second carriage track ran up to the porch.
[Illustration: Plan of Garrett's House.
A Door through which the dying man was brought. B Corner at which the barn was fired. C Spot in the barn on which Booth stood. D Point where Corbett fired. E Porch where Booth died. G Door at which Lieutenant Baker knocked. H Shed. I Kitchen.]
It was a homely71 and primitive72 scene enough, pastoral as any farm boy's birth-place, and had been the seat of many toils73 and endearments74. Young wives had been brought to it, and around its hearth75 the earliest cries of infants, gladdening mothers' hearts, had made the household jubilant till the stars came out, and were its only sentries, save the bright lights at its window-panes as of a camp-fire, and the suppressed chorusses of the domestic bivouac within, where apple toasting and nut cracking and country games shortened the winter shadows. Yet in this house, so peaceful by moonlight, murder had washed its spotted hands, and ministered to its satiated appetite. History—present in every nook in the broad young world—had stopped, to make a landmark76 of Garrett's farm.
In the dead stillness, Baker dismounted and forced the outer gate; Conger kept close behind him, and the horsemen followed cautiously. They made no noise in the soft clay, nor broke the all-foreboding silence anywhere, till the second gate swung open gratingly, yet even then nor hoarse77 nor shrill78 response came back, save distant croaking79, as of frogs or owls, or the whizz of some passing night-hawk. So they surrounded the pleasant old homestead, each horseman, carbine in poise81, adjusted under the grove82 of locusts, so as to inclose the dwelling83 with a circle of fire. After a pause, Baker rode to the kitchen door on the side, and dismounting, rapped and halloed lustily. An old man, in drawers and night-shirt, hastily undrew the bolts, and stood on the threshold, peering shiveringly into the darkness.
Baker seized him by the throat at once, and held a pistol to his ear. "Who—who is it that calls me?" cried the old man. "Where are the men who stay with you?" challenged Baker. "If you prevaricate84 you are a dead man!" The old fellow, who proved to be the head of the family, was so overawed and paralysed that he stammered85, and shook, and said not a word. "Go light a candle," cried Baker, sternly, "and be quick about it." The trembling old man obeyed, and in a moment the imperfect rays flared86 upon his whitening hairs and bluishly pallid face. Then the question was repeated, backed up by the glimmering87 pistol, "where are those men?" The old man held to the wall, and his knees smote88 each other. "They are gone," he said. "We hav'n't got them in the house, I assure you that they are gone." Here there were sounds and whisperings in the main building adjoining, and the lieutenant strode to the door. A ludicrous instant intervened, the old man's modesty89 outran his terror. "Don't go in there," he said, feebly; "there are women undressed in there." "Damn the women," cried Baker; "what if they are undressed? We shall go in if they haven't a rag." Leaving the old man in mute astonishment90, Baker bolted through the door, and stood in an assemblage of bare arms and night robes. His loaded pistol disarmed91 modesty of its delicacy92 and substituted therefor a seasonable terror. Here he repeated his summons, and the half light of the candle gave to his face a more than bandit ferocity. They all denied knowledge of the strangers' whereabouts.
In the interim93 Conger had also entered, and while the household and its invaders94 were thus in weird95 tableaux96, a young man appeared, as if he had risen from the ground. The muzzles97 of everybody turned upon him in a second; but, while he blanched98, he did not lose loquacity99. "Father," he said, "we had better tell the truth about the matter. Those men whom you seek, gentlemen, are in the barn, I know. They went there to sleep." Leaving one soldier to guard the old man—and the soldier was very glad of the job, as it relieved him of personal hazard in the approaching combat—all the rest, with cocked pistols at the young man's head, followed on to the barn. It lay a hundred yards from the house, the front barndoor facing the west gable, and was an old and spacious100 structure, with floors only a trifle above the ground level.
The troops dismounted, were stationed at regular intervals102 around it, and ten yards distant at every point, four special guards placed to command the door and all with weapons in supple103 preparation, while Baker and Conger went direct to the portal. It had a padlock upon it, and the key of this Baker secured at once. In the interval101 of silence that ensued, the rustling104 of planks105 and straw was heard inside, as of persons rising from sleep.
At the same moment Baker hailed:
"To the persons in this barn. I have a proposal to make; we are about to send in to you the son of the man in whose custody106 you are found. Either surrender to him your arms and then give yourselves up, or we'll set fire to the place. We mean to take you both, or to have a bonfire and a shooting match."
No answer came to this of any kind. The lad, John M. Garrett, who was in deadly fear, was here pushed through the door by a sudden opening of it, and immediately Lieutenant Baker locked the door on the outside. The boy was heard to state his appeal in under tone. Booth replied:
"Damn you. Get out of here. You have betrayed me."
At the same time he placed his hand in his pocket as for a pistol. A remonstrance107 followed, but the boy slipped quickly over the reopened portal, reporting that his errand had failed, and that he dared not enter again. All this time the candle brought from the house to the barn was burning close beside the two detectives, rendering108 it easy for any one within to have shot them dead. This observed, the light was cautiously removed, and everybody took care to keep out of its reflection. By this time the crisis of the position was at hand, the cavalry exhibited very variable inclinations109, some to run away, others to shoot Booth without a summons, but all excited and fitfully silent. At the house near by the female folks were seen collected in the doorway110, and the necessities of the case provoked prompt conclusions. The boy was placed at a remote point, and the summons repeated by Baker:
"You must surrender inside there. Give up your arms and appear. There is no chance for escape. We give you five minutes to make up your mind."
"Who are you, and what do you want with us?"
Baker again urged: "We want you to deliver up your arms and become our prisoners."
"But who are you?" hallooed the same strong voice.
Baker.—"That makes no difference. We know who you are, and we want you. We have here fifty men, armed with carbines and pistols. You cannot escape."
There was a long pause, and then Booth said:
"Captain, this is a hard case, I swear. Perhaps I am being taken by my own friends." No reply from the detectives.
Booth—"Well, give us a little time to consider."
[Illustration: Garrett's House, Where Booth Died—Sketched by W. N.
Walton, for "Harper's Weekly" for May 30th, 1865]
Baker—"Very well. Take time."
Here ensued a long and eventful pause. What thronging112 memories it brought to Booth, we can only guess. In this little interval he made the resolve to die. But he was cool and steady to the end. Baker, after a lapse113, hailed for the last time.
"Well, we have waited long enough; surrender your arms and come out, or we'll fire the barn."
Booth answered thus: "I am but a cripple, a one-legged man. Withdraw your forces one hundred yard from the door, and I will come. Give me a chance for my life, captain. I will never be taken alive."
Baker—"We did not come here to fight, but to capture you. I say again, appear, or the barn shall be fired."
Then with a long breath, which could be heard outside, Booth cried in sudden calmness, still invisible, as were to him his enemies:
"Well, then, my brave boys, prepare a stretcher for me."
There was a pause repeated, broken by low discussions within between Booth and his associate, the former saying, as if in answer to some remonstrance or appeal, "Get away from me. You are a damned coward, and mean to leave me in my distress114; but go, go. I don't want you to stay. I won't have you stay." Then he shouted aloud:
"There's a man inside who wants to surrender."
Baker—"Let him come, if he will bring his arms."
Baker—"Hand out your arms, then."
Harold—"I have not got any."
Baker—"You are the man that carried the carbine yesterday; bring it out."
Harold—"I haven't got any."
This was said in a whining116 tone, and with an almost visible shiver. Booth cried aloud, at this hesitation117: "He hasn't got any arms; they are mine, and I have kept them."
Baker—"Well, he carried the carbine, and must bring it out."
Booth—"On the word and honor of a gentleman, he has no arms with him.
They are mine, and I have got them."
At this time Harold was quite up to the door, within whispering distance of Baker. The latter told him to put out his hands to be handcuffed, at the same time drawing open the door a little distance. Harold thrust forth118 his hands, when Baker, seizing him, jerked him into the night, and straightway delivered him over to a deputation of cavalrymen. The fellow began to talk of his innocence119 and plead so noisily that Conger threatened to gag him unless he ceased. Then Booth made his last appeal, in the same clear unbroken voice:
"Captain, give me a chance. Draw off your men and I will fight them singly. I could have killed you six times to-night, but I believe you to be a brave man, and would not murder you. Give a lame man a show."
Ere he ceased speaking, Colonel Conger, slipping around to the rear, drew some loose straws through a crack, and lit a match upon them. They were dry and blazed up in an instant, carrying a sheet of smoke and flame through the parted planks, and heaving in a twinkling a world of light and heat upon the magazine within. The blaze lit up the black recesses121 of the great barn till every wasp's nest and cobweb in the roof was luminous122, flinging streaks123 of red and violet across the tumbled farm gear in the corner, plows124, harrows, hoes, rakes, sugar mills, and making every separate grain in the high bin80 adjacent, gleam like a mote17 of precious gold. They tinged125 the beams, the upright columns, the barricades126, where clover and timothy, piled high, held toward the hot incendiary their separate straws for the funeral pile. They bathed the murderer's retreat in beautiful illumination, and while in bold outline his figure stood revealed, they rose like an impenetrable wall to guard from sight the hated enemy who lit them. Behind the blaze, with his eye to a crack, Conger saw Wilkes Booth standing33 upright upon a crutch. He likens him at this instant to his brother Edwin, whom he says he so much resembled that he half believed, for the moment the whole pursuit to have been a mistake. At the gleam of the fire Wilkes dropped his crutch, and, carbine in both hands, crept up to the spot to espy127 the incendiary and shoot him dead. His eyes were lustrous128 like fever, and swelled129 and rolled in terrible beauty, while his teeth were fixed130, and he wore the expression of one in the calmness before frenzy131. In vain he peered with vengeance132 in his look; the blaze that made him visible concealed133 his enemy. A second he turned glaring at the fire, as if to leap upon it and extinguish it, but it had made such headway that this was a futile impulse and he dismissed it. As calmly as upon the battlefield a veteran stands amidst the hail of ball and shell, and plunging134 iron, Booth turned at a man's stride, and pushed for the door, carbine in poise, and the last resolve of death, which we name despair, set on his high, bloodless forehead.
As so he dashed, intent to expire not unaccompanied, a disobedient sergeant135 at an eye-hole drew upon him the fatal bead136. The barn was all glorious with conflagration137 and in the beautiful ruin this outlawed138 man strode like all that, we know of wicked valor139, stern in the face of death. A shock, a shout, a gathering140 up of his splendid figure as if to overtip the stature141 God gave him, and John Wilkes Booth fell headlong to the floor, lying there in a heap, a little life remaining.
"He has shot himself!" cried Baker, unaware142 of the source of the report, and rushing in, he grasped his arms to guard against any feint or strategy. A moment convinced him that further struggle with the prone143 flesh was useless. Booth did not move, nor breathe, nor gasp144. Conger and two sergeants145 now entered, and taking up the body, they bore it in haste from the advancing flame, and laid it without upon the grass, all fresh with heavenly dew.
"Water," cried Conger, "bring water."
When this was dashed into his face, he revived a moment and stirred his lips. Baker put his ear close down, and heard him say:
"Tell mother—and die—for my country."
They lifted him again, the fire encroaching in hotness upon them and placed him on the porch before the dwelling.
A mattrass was brought down, on which they placed him and propped146 his head, and gave him water and brandy. The women of the household, joined meantime by another son, who had been found in one of the corn cribs, watching as he said, to see that Booth and Harold did not steal the horses, were nervous, but prompt to do the dying man all kindnesses, although waived147 sternly back by the detectives. They dipped a rag in brandy and water, and this being put between Booth's teeth he sucked it greedily. When he was able to articulate again, he muttered to Mr. Baker the same words, with an addenda148. "Tell mother I died for my country. I thought I did for the best." Baker repeated this, saying at the same time "Booth, do I repeat it correctly." Booth nodded his head. By this time the grayness of dawn was approaching; moving figures inquisitively149 coming near were to be seen distinctly, and the cocks began to crow gutturally, though the barn was a hulk of blaze and ashes, sending toward the zenith a spiral line of dense smoke. The women became importunate150 that the troops might be ordered to extinguish the fire, which was spreading toward their precious corn-cribs. Not even death could banish151 the call of interest. Soldiers were sent to put out the fire, and Booth, relieved of the bustle152 around him, drew near to death apace. Twice he was heard to say, "kill me, kill me." His lips often moved but could complete no appreciable153 sound. He made once a motion which the quick eye of Conger understood to mean that his throat pained him. Conger put his finger there, when the dying man attempted to cough, but only caused the blood at his perforated neck to flow more, lively. He bled very little, although shot quite through, beneath and behind the ears, his collar being severed154 on both sides.
A soldier had been meanwhile despatched for a doctor, but the route and return were quite six miles, and the sinner was sinking fast. Still the women made efforts to get to see him, but were always rebuffed, and all the brandy they could find was demanded by the assassin, who motioned for strong drink every two minutes. He made frequent desires to be turned over, not by speech, but by gesture, and was alternately placed upon his back, belly155 and side. His tremendous vitality156 evidenced itself almost miraculously157. Now and then, his heart would cease to throb158, and his pulses would be as cold as a dead man's. Directly life would begin anew, the face would flush up effulgently159, the eyes open and brighten, and soon relapsing, stillness re-asserted, would again be dispossessed by the same magnificent triumph of man over mortality. Finally the fussy160 little doctor arrived, in time to be useless. He probed the wound to see if the ball were not in it, and shook his head sagely161, and talked learnedly.
Just at his coming Booth had asked to have his hands raised and shown him. They were so paralyzed that he did not know their location. When they were displayed he muttered, with a sad lethargy, "Useless, useless." These were the last words he ever uttered. As he began to die the sun rose and threw beams into all the tree-tops. It was of a man's height when the struggle of death twitched162 and fingered in the fading bravo's face. His jaw3 drew spasmodically and obliquely163 downward; his eyeballs rolled to-ward his feet, and began to swell; lividness, like a horrible shadow, fastened upon him, and, with a sort of gurgle and sudden check, he stretched his feet and threw his head back and gave up the ghost.
They sewed him up in a saddle blanket. This was his shroud164; too like a soldier's. Harold, meantime, had been tied to a tree, but was now released for the march. Colonel Conger pushed on immediately for Washington; the cortege was to follow. Booth's only arms were his carbine knife, and two revolvers. They found about him bills of exchange, Canada money, and a diary. A venerable old negro living in the vicinity had the misfortune to possess a horse. This horse was a relic165 of former generations, and showed by his protruding166 ribs67 the general leanness of the land. He moved in an eccentric amble167, and when put upon his speed was generally run backward. To this old negro's horse was harnessed a very shaky and absurd wagon, which rattled168 like approaching dissolution, and each part of it ran without any connection or correspondence with any other part. It had no tail-board, and its shafts169 were sharp as famine; and into this mimicry170 of a vehicle the murderer was to be sent to the Potomac river, while the man he had murdered was moving in state across the mourning continent. The old negro geared up his wagon by means of a set of fossil harness, and when it was backed to Garrett's porch, they laid within it the discolored corpse171. The corpse was tied with ropes around the legs and made fast to the wagon sides. Harold's legs were tied to stirrups, and he was placed in the centre of four murderous looking cavalrymen. The two sons of Garrett were also taken along, despite the sobs172 and petitions of the old folks and women, but the rebel captain who had given Booth a lift, got off amidst the night's agitations173, and was not rearrested. So moved the cavalcade174 of retribution, with death in its midst, along the road to Port Royal. When the wagon started, Booth's wound till now scarcely dribbling175, began to run anew. It fell through the crack of the wagon, dripping upon the axle, and spotting the road with terrible wafers. It stained the planks, and soaked the blankets; and the old negro, at a stoppage, dabbled176 his hands in it by mistake; he drew back instantly, with a shudder177 and stifled178 expletive, "Gor-r-r, dat'll never come off in de world; it's murderer's blood." He wrung179 his hands, and looked imploringly180 at the officers, and shuddered181 again: "Gor-r-r, I wouldn't have dat on me fur tousand, tousand dollars." The progress of the team was slow, with frequent danger of shipwreck182 altogether, but toward noon the cortege filed through Port Royal, where the citizens came out to ask the matter, and why a man's body, covered with sombre blankets, was going by with so great escort. They were told that it was a wounded confederate, and so held their tongues. The little ferry, again in requisition, took them over by squads, and they pushed from Port Conway to Bell Plain, which they reached in the middle of the afternoon. All the way the blood dribbled183 from the corpse in a slow, incessant184, sanguine exudation185. The old negro was niggardly186 dismissed with two paper dollars. The dead man untied187 and cast upon the vessel's dock, steam gotten up in a little while, and the broad Potomac shores saw this skeleton ship flit by, as the bloody188 sun threw gashes189 and blots190 of unhealthy light along the silver surface.
All the way associate with the carcass, went Harold, shuddering191 in so grim companionship, and in the awakened192 fears of his own approaching. ordeal193, beyond which it loomed194 already, the gossamer195 fabric196 of a scaffold. He tried to talk for his own exoneration197, saying he had ridden, as was his wont198, beyond the East Branch, and returning, found Booth wounded, who begged him to be his companion. Of his crime he knew nothing, so help him God, &c. But nobody listened to him. All interest of crime, courage, and retribution centered in the dead flesh at his feet. At Washington, high and low turned out to look on Booth. Only a few were permitted to see his corpse for purposes of recognition. It was fairly preserved, though on one side of the face distorted, and looking blue like death, and wildly bandit-like, as if beaten by avenging199 winds.
Yesterday the Secretary of War, without instructions of any kind, committed to Colonel Lafayette C. Baker, of the secret service, the stark200 corpse of J. Wilkes Booth. The secret service never fulfilled its volition201 more secretively. "What have you done with the body?" said I to Baker. "That is known" he answered, "to only one man living besides myself. It is gone. I will not tell you where. The only man who knows is sworn to silence. Never till the great trumpeter comes shall the grave of Booth be discovered." And this is true. Last night, the 27th of April, a small row boat received the carcass of the murderer; two men were in it they carried the body off into the darkness, and out of that darkness it will never return. In the darkness, like his great crime, may it remain forever, impalpable, invisible, nondescript, condemned202 to that worse than damnation,—annihilation. The river-bottom may ooze203 about it laden204 with great shot and drowning manacles. The earth may have opened to give it that silence and forgiveness which man will never give its memory. The fishes may swim around it, or the daisies grow white above it; but we shall never know. Mysterious, incomprehensible, unattainable, like the dim times through which we live and think upon as if we only dreamed them in perturbed205 fever, the assassin of a nation's head rests somewhere in the elements, and that is all; but if the indignant seas or the profaned206 turf shall ever vomit207 his corpse from their recesses, and it receive humane208 or Christian209 burial from some who do not recognize it, let the last words those decaying lips ever uttered be carved above them with a dagger210, to tell the history of a young and once promising211 life—useless! useless!
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relic
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exudation
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blots
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