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One must of course await further details before pro- nouncing

any opinion on the incident—remembering always that in nothing do people exaggerate more than in regard to the details of alleged plots—but priml, facie there is nothing very improbable in the story. Such events always happen at the end of wars and great convulsions. It will be remem- bered that the conspiracy which resulted in the murder of Mr. Lincoln included also the murder of his Cabinet, and that the houses of two of them were actually entered by the conspirators and one of the Secretaries of State was seriously injured. If the facts are as alleged the conspirators deserve severe punishment, but it will be time enough to talk of that when we know the facts. We must not confuse accusation and proof.

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