The trial is over; four of the conspirators1 have paid with their lives the penalty of the Great Conspiracy2; the rest go to the jail, and with one exception for the remainder of their lives.
Whatever our individual theories may be, the great crime is ended, and this is the crowning scene:
It was a long and dusty avenue, along which rambled3 soldiers in bluishly white coats, cattle with their tongues out, straying from the herd4, and a few negroes making for their cabins, which dotted the fiery5 and vacant lots of the suburbs. At the foot of this avenue, where a lukewarm river holds between its dividing arms a dreary6 edifice7 of brick, the way was filled with collected cabs, and elbowing people, abutting8 against a circle of sentinels who kept the arsenal9 gate. The low, flat, dust-white fields to the far left were also lined with patrols and soldiers lying on the ground in squads10 beside their stacked muskets12. Within these a second blue and monotonous14 line extended. The drive from the arsenal gate to the arsenal's high and steel-spiked wall was beset15 by companies of exacting16 sabremen, and all the river bank to the right was edged with blue and bayonets. This exhibition of war was the prelude17 to a very ghastly but very popular episode—an execution. Three men and a woman were to be led out in shackles18 and hung to a beam. They had conspired19 to take life; they had thrilled the world with the partial consummation of their plot; they were to reach the last eminence20 of assassins, on this parched21 and oppressive noon, by swinging in pinioned22 arms and muffled23 faces in the presence of a thousand people.
The bayonets at the gate were lifted as I produced my pass. It was the last permission granted. In giving it away the General seemed relieved, for he had been sorely troubled by applications. Everybody who had visited Washington to seek for an office, sought to see this expiation24 also. The officer at the gate looked at my pass suspiciously. "I don't believe that all these papers have been genuine," he said. Is an execution, then, so great a warning to evil-doers, that men will commit forgery26 to see it?
I entered a large grassy27 yard, surrounded by an exceedingly high wall. On the top of this wall, soldiers with muskets in their hands, were thickly planted. The yard below was broken by irregular buildings of brick. I climbed by a flight of rickety outside stairs to the central building, where many officers were seated at the windows, and looked awhile at the strange scene on the grassy plaza28. On the left, the long, barred, impregnable penitentiary29 rose. The shady spots beneath it were occupied by huddling30 spectators. Soldiers were filling their canteens at the pump. A face or two looked out from the barred jail. There were many umbrellas hoisted31 on the ground to shelter civilians32 beneath them. Squads of officers and citizens lay along the narrow shadow of the walls. The north side of the yard was enclosed on three sides by columns of soldiers drawn33 up in regular order, the side next to the penitentiary being short to admit of ingress to the prisoner's door; but the opposite column reached entirely34 up to the north wall.
Within this enclosed area a structure to be inhabited by neither the living nor the dead was fast approaching completion. It stood gaunt, lofty, long. Saws and hammers made dolorous35 music on it. Men, in their shirt sleeves, were measuring it and directing its construction in a business way. Now and then some one would ascend36 its airy stair to test its firmness; others crawled beneath to wedge its slim supports, or carry away the falling debris37.
Toward this skeleton edifice all looked with a strange nervousness. It was the thought and speculation38 of the gravest and the gayest.
A beam reached, horizontally, in the air, twenty feet from the ground; four awkward ropes, at irregular intervals40, dangled41 from it, each noosed42 at the end. It was upheld by three props44, one in the center and one at each end. These props came all the way to the ground where they were morticed in heavy bars. Midway of them a floor was laid, twenty by twelve feet, held in its position on the farther side by shorter props, of which there were many, and reached by fifteen creaking steps, railed on either side. But this floor had no supports on the side nearest the eye, except two temporary rods, at the foot of which two inclined beams pointed45 menacingly, held in poise46 by ropes from the gallows floor.
Two hinges only held it to its firmer half. These were to give way at the fatal moment, and leave only the shallow and unreliable air for the bound and smothering48 to tread upon.
The traps were two, sustained by two different props.
Was this all?
Not all.
Close by the foot of the gallows four wooden boxes were piled upon each other at the edge of four newly excavated50 pits, the fresh earth of which was already dried and brittle51 in the burning noon.
Here were to be interred52 the broken carcasses when the gallows had let go its throttle53. They were so placed as the victims should emerge from the gaol54 door they would be seen near the stair directly in the line of march.
And not far from these, in silence and darkness beneath the prison where they had lain so long and so forbodingly, the body of John Wilkes Booth, sealed up in the brick floor, had long been mouldering55. If the dead can hear he had listened many a time to the rattle56 of their manacles upon the stairs, to the drowsy57 hum of the trial and the buzz of the garrulous58 spectators; to the moaning, or the gibing59, or the praying in the bolted cells where those whom kindred fate had given a little lease upon life lay waiting for the terrible pronouncement.
It was a long waiting, and the roof of a high house outside the walls was seen to be densely60 packed with people. Others kept arriving moment by moment; soldiers were wondering when the swinging would begin and officers arguing that the four folks "deserved it, damn them!" Gentlemen of experience were telling over the number of such expiations they had witnessed. Analytic61 people were comparing the various modes of shooting, garroting, and guillotining. Cigars were sending up spirals of soothing62 smoke. There was a good deal of covert63 fear that a reprieve64 might be granted. Inquires were many and ingenuous65 for whisky, and one or two were so deeply expectant that they fell asleep.
How much those four dying, hoping, cringing66, dreaming felons67 were grudged68 their little gasp69 of life! It was to be a scene, not a postponement70 or a prolongation. "Who was to be the executioner?" "Why had not the renowned71 and artistic72 Isaacs been sent for from New York?" "Would they probably die game, or grow weak-kneed in the last extremity73?" Ah, the gallows' workmen have completed the job! "Now then we should have it."
Still there was delay. The sun peeped into the new-made graves and made blistering74 hot the gallows' floor. The old pump made its familiar music to the cool plash of blessed water. The grass withered75 in the fervid76 heat. The bronzed faces of the soldiers ran lumps of sweat. The file upon the jail walls looked down into the wide yard yawningly. No wind fluttered the two battle standards condemned77 to unfold their trophies78 upon this coming profanation79. Not yet arrived. Why? The extent of grace has almost been attained80. The sentence gave them only till two o'clock! Why are they so dilatory81 in wishing to be hanged?
Suddenly the wicket opens, the troops spring to their feet, and stand at order arms, the flags go up, the low order passes from company to company; the spectators huddle82 a little nearer to the scaffold; all the writers for the press produce their pencils and note-books.
First came a woman pinioned.
A middle-aged84 woman, dressed in black, bonnetted and veiled, walking between two bare-headed priests.
One of these held against his breast a crucifix of jet, and in the folds of his blue-fringed sash he carried an open breviary, while both of them muttered the service for the dead.
The second party escorted a small and shambling German, whose head had a long white cap upon it, rendering87 more filthy88 his dull complexion89, and upon whose feet the chains clanked as he slowly advanced, preceded by two officers, flanked by a Lutheran clergyman, and followed, as his predecessor90, by an armed squad11.
The third, preacher and party, clustered about a shabby boy, whose limbs tottered91 as he progressed.
The fourth, walked in the shadow of a straight high stature92, whose tawny93 hair and large blue eye were suggestive rather of the barbarian94 striding in his conqueror's triumph, than the assassin going to the gallows.
All these, captives, priests, guards, and officers, nearly twenty in all, climbed slowly and solemnly the narrow steps; and upon four arm chairs, stretching across the stage in the rear of the traps, the condemned were seated with their spiritual attendants behind them.
The findings and warrants were immediately read to the prisoners by General Hartrauft in a quiet and respectful tone, an aid holding an umbrella over him meantime. These having been already published, and being besides very uninteresting to any body but the prisoners, were paid little heed96 to, all the spectators interesting themselves in the prisoners.
There was a fortuitous delicacy97 in this distribution, the woman being placed farthest from the social and physical dirtiness of Atzerott, and nearest the unblanched and manly98 physiognomy of Payne.
She was not so pale that the clearness of her complexion could not be seen, and the brightness of the sun made her vail quite transparent99. Her eyes were seen to be of a soft gray; her brown hair lay smoothly100 upon a full, square forehead; the contour of her face was comely101, but her teeth had the imperfectness of those of most southern women, being few and irregular. Until the lips were opened she did not reveal them. Her figure was not quite full enough to be denominated buxom102, yet had all the promise of venerable old age, had nature been permitted its due course. She was of the medium height, and modest—as what woman would not be under such searching survey? At first she was very feeble, and leaned her head upon alternate sides of her arm-chair in nervous spasms104; but now and then, when a sort of wail105 just issued from her lips, the priest placed before her the crucifix to lull106 her fearful spirit. All the while the good fathers Wigett and Walter murmured their low, tender cadences108, and now and then the woman's face lost its deadly fear, and took a bold, cognizable survey of the spectators. She wore a robe of dark woolen109, no collar, and common shoes of black listing. Her general expression was that of acute suffering, vanishing at times as if by the conjuration of her pride, and again returning in a paroxysm as she looked at the dreadful rope dangling110 before her. This woman, to whom, the priests have made their industrious111 moan, holding up the effigy112 of Christ when their own appeals became of no avail, perched there in the lofty air, counting her breaths, counting the winkfuls of light, counting the final wrestles113 of her breaking heart, had been the belle114 of her section, and many good men had courted her hand. She had led a pleasant life, and children had been born to her—who shared her mediocre115 ambition and the invincibility116 of her will. If the charge of her guilt117 were proven, she was the Lady Macbeth of the west.
But women know nothing of consequences. She alone of all her sex stands now in this thrilled and ghastly perspective, and in immediate95 association with three creatures in whose company it is no fame to die: a little crying boy, a greasy118 unkempt sniveller, and a confessed desperado. Her base and fugitive119 son, to know the infamy120 of his cowardice121 and die of his shame, should have seen his mother writhing122 in her seat upon the throne his wickedness established for her.
Payne, the strangest criminal in our history, was alone dignified123 and self possessed124. He wore a closely-fitting knit shirt, a sailor's straw hat tied with a ribbon, and dark pantaloons, but no shoes. His collar, cut very low, showed the tremendous muscularity of his neck, and the breadth of his breast was more conspicuous125 by the manner in which the pinioned arms thrust it forward. His height, his vigor126, his glare made him the strong central figure of this interelementary tableaux127. He said no word; his eyes were red as with the penitential weeping of a courageous128 man, and the smooth hardness of his skin seemed like a polished muscle. He did not look abroad inquisitively129, nor within intuitively. He had no accusation131, no despair, no dreaminess. He was only looking at death as for one long expected, and not a tremor132 nor a shock stirred his long stately limbs; withal, his blue eye was milder than when I saw him last, as if some bitterness, or stolidness133, or obstinate134 pride had been exorcised, perhaps by the candor135 of confession136. Now and then he looked half-pityingly at the woman, and only once moved his lips, as if in supplication137. Few who looked at him, forgetful of his crime, did not respect him. He seemed to feel that no man was more than his peer, and one of his last commands was a word of regret to Mr. Seward.
I have a doubt that this man is entirely a member of our nervous race. I believe that a fiber138 of the aboriginal139 runs through his tough sinews. At times he looked entirely an Indian. His hair is tufted, and will not lie smoothly. His cheek-bones are large and high set. There is a tint140 in his complexion. Perhaps the Seminole blood of his swampy141 state left a trace of its combative142 nature there.
Payne was a preacher's son, and not the worst graduate of his class. His real name is Lewis Thornton Powell.
He died without taking the hand of any living friend.
Even the squalid Atzerott was not so poor. I felt a pity for his physical rather than his vital or spiritual peril143. It seemed a profanation to break the iron column of his neck, and give to the worm his belted chest.
The third condemned, although whimpering, had far more grit145 than I anticipated; he was inquisitive130 and flippant-faced, and looked at the noose43 flaunting146 before him, and the people gathered below, and the haggard face of Atzerott, as if entirely conscious and incapable147 of abstraction.
Harold would have enjoyed this execution vastly as a spectator. He was, I think, capable of a greater degree of depravity than any of his accomplices148. Atzerott might have made a sneak149 thief, Booth a forger25, but Harold was not far from a professional pickpocket150. He was keen-eyed, insolent151, idle, and, by a small experience in Houston street, would have been qualified152 for a first-class "knuck." He had not, like the rest, any political suggestion for the murder of the heads of the nation; and upon the gallows, in his dirty felt hat, soiled cloth coat, light pantaloons and stockings, he seemed unworthy of his manacles.
A very fussy153 Dutchman tied him up and fanned him, and he wept forgetfully, but did not make a halt or absurd spectacle.
Atzerott was my ideal of a man to be hung—a dilution154 of Wallack's rendering of the last hours of Fagan, the Jew; a sort of sick man, quite garrulous and smitten155, with his head thrown forward, muttering to the air, and a pallidness156 transparent through his dirt as he jabbered157 prayers and pleas confusedly, and looked in a complaining sort of way at the noose, as if not quite certain that it might not have designs upon him.
He wore a greyish coat, black vest, light pantaloons and slippers158, and a white affair on his head, perhaps a handkerchief.
Atzerott lost his life through too much gabbing160. He could have had serious designs upon nothing greater than a chicken, but talked assassination161 with the silent and absolute Booth, until entrapped162 into conspiracy and the gallows, much against his calculation. This man was visited by his mother and a poor, ignorant woman with whom he cohabited. He was the picture of despair, and died ridiculously, whistling up his courage.
These were the dramatis personæ, no more to be sketched163, no more to be cross-examined, no more to be shackled164, soon to be cold in their coffins165.
They were, altogether, a motley and miserable166 set. Ravaillae might have looked well swinging in chains; Charlotte Corday is said to have died like an actress; Beale hung not without dignity, but these people, aspiring167 to overturn a nation, bore the appearance of a troop of ignorant folks, expiating168 the blood-shed of a brawl169.
When General Hartrauft ceased reading there was momentary170 lull, broken only by the cadences of the priests.
Then the Rev85. Mr. Gillette addressed the spectators in a deep impressive tone. The prisoner, Lewis Thornton Powell, otherwise Payne, requested him to thus publicly and sincerely return his thanks to General Hartrauft, the other officers, the soldiers, and all persons who had charge of him and had attended him. Not one unkind word, look, or gesture, had been given to him by any one. Dr. Gillette then followed in a fervent171 prayer in behalf of the prisoner, during which Payne's eyes momentarily filled with tears, and he followed in the prayer with visible feeling.
Rev. Dr. Olds followed, saying in behalf of the prisoner, David E. Harold, that he tendered his forgiveness to all who had wronged him, and asked the forgiveness of all whom he had wronged. He gave his thanks to the officers and guards for kindnesses rendered him. He hoped that he had died in charity with all men and at peace with God. Dr. Olds concluded with a feeling prayer for the prisoner.
Rev. Dr. Butler then made a similar return of thanks on behalf of George A. Atzerott for kindness received from his guards and attendants, and concluded with an earnest invocation in behalf of the criminal, saying that the blood of Jesus cleanses172 from all sin, and asking that God Almighty173 might have mercy upon this man.
The solemnity of this portion of the scene may be imagined, the several clergyman speaking in order the dying testament174 of their clients, and making the hot hours fresh with the soft harmonies of their benedictions175.
The two holy fathers having received Mrs. Surratt's confession, after the custom of their creed176 observed silence. In this, as in other respects, Mrs. Surratt's last hours were entirely modest and womanly.
The stage was still filled with people; the crisis of the occasion had come; the chairs were all withdrawn177, and the condemned stood upon their feet.
The process of tying the limbs began.
It was with a shudder178, almost a blush, that I saw an officer gather the ropes tightly three times about the robes of Mrs. Surratt, and bind179 her ankles with cords. She half fainted, and sank backward upon the attendants, her limbs yielding to the extremity of her terror, but uttering no cry, only a kind of sick groaning180, like one in the weakness of fever, when a wry181 medicine must be taken.
Payne, with his feet firmly laced together, stood straight as one of the scaffold beams, and braced182 himself up so stoutly183 that this in part prevented the breaking of his neck.
Harold stood well beneath the drop, still whimpering at the lips, but taut184, and short, and boyish.
Atzerott, in his grovelling185 attitude, while they tied him began to indulge in his old vice86 of gabbing. He evidently wished to make his finale more effective than his previous cowardly role, and perhaps was strengthening his fortitude186 with a speech, as we sometimes do of dark nights with a whistle.
"Gentlemen," he said, with a sort of choke and gasp, "take ware187." He evidently meant "beware," or "take care," and confounded them.
Again, when the white death-cap was drawn over his face, he continued to cry out under it, once saying, "Good bye, shentlemens, who is before me now;" and again, "May we meet in the other world." Finally he drifted away with low, half-intelligible ebullitions, as "God help me," "oh! oh!" and the like.
The rest said nothing, except Mrs. Surratt, who asked to be supported, that she might not fall, but Harold protested against the knot with which he was to be dislocated, it being as huge as one's double fist.
In fact all the mechanical preparations were clumsy and inartistic, and the final scenes of the execution, therefore, revolting in the extreme. When the death-caps were all drawn over the faces of the prisoners, and they stood in line in the awful suspense188 between absolute life and immediate death, a man at the neck of each adjusting the cord, the knot beneath the ears of each protruded189 five or six inches, and the cord was so thick that it could not be made to press tightly against the flesh.
So they stood, while nearly a thousand faces from window, roof, wall, yard and housetop, gazed, the scaffold behind them still densely packed with the assistants, and the four executioners beneath, standing190 at their swinging beams. The priests continued to murmur107 prayers. The people were dumb, as if each witness stood alone with none near by to talk to him.
An instant this continued, while an officer on the plot before, motioned back the assistants, and then with a forward thrust of his hand, signaled the executioners.
The great beams were darted191 against the props simultaneously192. The two traps fell with a slam. The four bodies dropped like a single thing, outside the yet crowded remnant of the gallows floor, and swayed and turned, to and fro, here and there, forward and backward, and with many a helpless spasm103, while the spectators took a little rush forward, and the ropes were taut as the struggling pulses of the dying.
Mrs. Surratt's neck was broken immediately; she scarcely drew one breath. Her short woman's figure, with the skirts looped closely about it, merely dangled by the vibration193 of her swift descent, and with the knot holding true under the ear, her head leaned sideways, and her pinioned arms seemed content with their confinement194.
Payne died a horrible death; the knot slipped to the back of his neck, and bent195 his head forward on his breast, so that he strangled as he drew his deep chest almost to his chin, and the knees contracted till they almost seemed to touch his abdomen196. The veins197 in his great wrists were like whip-cords, expanded to twice their natural dimensions, and the huge neck grew almost black with the dark blood that rushed in a flood to the circling rope. A long while he swayed and twisted and struggled, till at last nature ceased her rebellion and life went out unwillingly198.
Harold also passed through some struggles. It is doubtful that his neck was broken. The perspiration199 dripped from his feet, and he swung in the hot noon just living enough to make death irritable200.
Atzerott died easily. Life did not care to fight for his possession.
The two central figures lived long after the two upon the flanks.
There they hung, bundles of carcass and old clothes, four in a row, and past all conspiracy or ambition, the river rolling by without a sound, and men watching them with a shiver, while the heat of the day seemed suddenly abated201, as if by the sudden opening of a tomb.
The officers conversed202 in a half-audible tone; the reporters put up their books; the assistants descended203 from the gallows; and the medical men drew near. No wind stirred the unbreathing bodies, they were stone dead.
The bodies were allowed to hang about twenty minutes, when surgeon Otis, U. S. V., and Assistant Surgeons Woodward and Porter, U. S. A., examined them and pronounced all dead. In about ten minutes more a ladder was placed against the scaffold preparatory to cutting the bodies down. An over-zealous soldier on the platform reached over and severed204 the cord, letting one body fall with a thump205, when he was immediately ordered down and reprimanded. The body of Atzerott was placed in a strong white pine box, and the other bodies cut down in the following order, Harold, Powell, and Mrs. Surratt.
The carcasses thus recovered were given over to a squad of soldiers and each placed in a pine box without uncovering the faces. The boxes were forthwith placed in the pits prepared for them, and directly all but the memory of their offense207 passed from the recording208 daylight.
In the gloomy shadow of that arsenal lies all the motive209, and essay of a crime which might have changed the destinies of our race. It will be forever a place of suspicion and marvel210, the haunted spot of the Capitol, and the terror of all who to end a fancied evil, cut their way to right with a dagger211.
EXTRA MURAL SCENES.
As everything connected with this expiation will be greedily read I compile from gossip and report a statement of the last intramural hours of the prisoners.
During the morning a female friend of Atzerott, from Port Tobacco, had an interview with him—she leaving him about eleven o'clock. He made the following statement:
He took a room at the Kirkwood House on Thursday, in order to get a pass from Vice-President Johnson to go to Richmond. Booth was to lease the Richmond theater and the President was to be invited to attend it when visiting Richmond, and captured there. Harold brought the pistol and knife to the room about half-past two o'clock on Friday. He (Atzerott) said he would have nothing to do with the murder of Johnson, when Booth said that Harold had more courage than Atzerott, and he wanted Atzerott to be with Harold to urge him to do it. There was a meeting at a restaurant about the middle of March, at which John Surratt, O'Laughlin, Booth, Arnold, Payne, Harold and himself were present, when a plan to capture the President was discussed. They had heard the President was to visit a camp, and they proposed to capture him, coach and all, drive through long old fields to "T. B.," where the coach was to be left and fresh horses were to be got, and the party would proceed to the river to take a boat. Harold took a buggy to "T. B." in anticipation212 that Mr. Lincoln would be captured, and he was to go with the party to the river. Slavery had put him on the side of the South. He had heard it preached in church that the curse of God was upon the slaves, for they were turned black. He always hated the nigger and felt that they should be kept in ignorance. He had not received any money from Booth, although he had been promised that if they were successful they should never want, that they would be honored throughout the South, and that they could secure an exchange of prisoners and the recognition of the confederacy.
Harold slept well several hours, but most of the night he was sitting up, either engaged with his pastor213, Rev. Mr. Olds, of Christ Church, or in prayer. His sisters were with him from an early hour this morning to twelve o'clock; they being present when he partook of the sacrament at the hands of Dr. Olds. The parting was particularly affecting. Harold conversed freely with them, and expressed himself prepared to die.
Powell conversed with Dr. Gillette and Dr. Striker on religious topics during the morning, sitting erect214, as he did in the court-room. From his conversation it appears that he was raised religiously, and belonged to the Baptist church until after the breaking out of the rebellion. He appeared to be sincerely repentant215, and in his cell shed tears freely. He gave his advisers216 several commissions of a private character, and stated that he was willing to meet his God, asking all men to forgive, and forgiving all who had done aught against him. Colonel Doster, his counsel, also took leave of him during the morning, as well as with Atzerott.
Mrs. Surratt's daughter was with her at an early hour. One of her male friends also had an interview with her, and received directions concerning the disposition217 of her property. During the night and morning she received the ministrations of Revs218. J. A. Walter and B. F. Wigett, and conversed freely with them, expressing, while protesting her innocence219, her willingness to meet her God. Her counsel, Messrs. Aiken & Clampitt, took leave of her during the morning.
A singular feature of this execution was the arrest of General Hancock this morning, who appeared in court, to answer a writ83 of habeas corpus, with a full staff. It is well to notice that this execution by military order has not, therefore, passed without civil protest. President Johnson extended to General Hancock the right conferred upon the President by Congress of setting aside the habeas corpus.
As usual in such executions as this, there were many stirring outside episodes, and much shrewd mixture of tragedy and business. A photographer took note of the scene in all its phases, from a window of a portion of the jail. Six artists were present, and thirty seven special correspondents, who came to Washington only for this occasion.
The passes to the execution were written not printed, and, excepting the bungling220 mechanism221 of the scaffold, the sorrowful event went off with more than usual good order. Every body feels relieved to night, because half of the crime is buried.
On Monday, Mudd, Arnold, O'Laughlin, and Spangler, will go northward222 to prison. The three former for life, the last for six years.
Applications for pardon were made yesterday and to-day to President Johnson, by Mrs. Samuel Mudd, who is quite woe-begone and disappointed, in behalf of her husband, by the sisters of Harold, and by Miss Ann Surratt. Harold's sisters, dressed in full mourning and heavily veiled, made their appearance at the White House, for the purpose of interceding223 with the President in behalf of their brother. Failing to see the President, they addressed a note to Mrs. Johnson, and expressed a hope that she would not turn a deaf ear to their pleadings. Mrs. Johnson being quite sick, it was deemed expedient224 by the ushers225 not to deliver the note, when, as a last expedient, the ladies asked permission to forward a note to Mrs. Patterson, the President's daughter, which privilege was not granted, as Mrs. Patterson is also quite indisposed to-day. The poor girls went away with their last hope shattered.
The misery226 of the pretty and heart-broken daughter of Mrs. Surratt is the talk of the city. This girl appears to have loved her mother with all the petulant227 passion of a child. She visited her constantly, and to-day made so stirring an effort to obtain her life that her devotion takes half the disgrace from the mother. She got the priests to speak in her behalf. Early to-day she knelt in the cell at her mother's feet, and sobbed228, with now and then a pitiful scream till the gloomy corridors rang. She endeavored to win from Payne a statement that her mother was not accessory, and, as a last resort, flung herself upon the steps of the White-House, and made that portal memorable229 by her filial tears. About half-past 8 o'clock this morning, Miss Surratt, accompanied by a female friend, again visited the White-House, for the purpose of obtaining an interview with the President. The latter having given orders that he would receive no one to-day, the door-keeper stopped Miss Surratt at the foot of the steps leading up to the President's office, and would not permit her to proceed further. She then asked permission to see General Muzzy, the president's military secretary, who promptly230 answered the summons, and came down stairs where Miss Surratt was standing. As soon as the general made his appearance, Miss Surratt threw herself upon her knees before him, and catching231 him by the coat, with loud sobs232 and streaming eyes, implored233 him to assist her in obtaining a hearing with the President. General Muzzy, in as tender a manner as possible, informed Miss Surratt that he could not comply with her request, as President Johnson's orders were imperative234, and he would receive no one. Upon General Muzzy returning to his office, Miss Surratt threw herself upon the stair steps, where she remained a considerable length of time, sobbing235 aloud in the greatest anguish236, protesting her mother's innocence, and imploring237 every one who came near her to intercede238 in her mother's behalf.
While thus weeping she declared her mother was too good and kind to be guilty of the enormous crime of which she was convicted, and asserted that if her mother was put to death she wished to die also. She was finally allowed to sit in the east room, where she lay in wait for all who entered, hoping to make them efficacious in her behalf, all the while uttering her weary heart in a woman's touching239 cries: but at last, certain of disappointment, she drove again to the jail and lay in her mother's cell, with the heavy face of one who brings ill-news. The parting will consecrate240 those gloomy walls. The daughter saw the mother pinioned and kissed her wet face as she went shuddering241 to the scaffold. The last words of Mrs. Surratt, as she went out of the jail, were addressed to a gentleman whom she had known.
"Good-bye, take care of Annie."
To-night there is crape on the door of the Surratt's, and a lonely lamp shines at a single window, where the sad orphan242 is thinking of her bereavement243.
Judge Holt was petitioned all last night for the lives and liberties of the condemned, but he was inexorable.
The soldiers who hung the condemned were appointed against their will. I forbear to give their names as they do not wish the repute of executioners. They all belonged to the Fourteenth Veteran Reserve Infantry245.
Here endeth the story of this tragedy upon a tragedy. All are glad that it is done. I am glad particularly. It has cost me how many journeying to Washington, how many hot midnights at the telegraph office, how many gallops246 into wild places, and how much revolting familiarity with blood.
The end has come. The slain, both good and evil, are in their graves, out of the reach of hangman and assassin. Only the correspondent never dies. He is the true Pantheist—going out of nature for a week, but bursting forth206 afresh in a day, and so insinuating247 himself into the history of our era that it is beginning to be hard to find out where the event ends and the writer begins.
Next week Ford's Theater opens with the "Octoroon." The gas will be pearly as ever; the scenes as rich. The blood-stained foot-lights will flash as of old upon merry and mimicking248 faces. So the world has its tragic249 ebullitions; but its real career is comedy. Over the graves of the good and the scaffolds of the evil, sits the leering Momus across whose face death sometimes brings sleep, but never a wrinkle.
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