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A Strange Weird Burial

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Parent Issue
Day
12
Month
May
Year
1865
Copyright
Public Domain
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Of the barial of Booth the Washington correspondent ot' tho New York World says : Yesterday tho Secretary of War, without instruotious of any kind, couitaitted to Col. Lafayette O. Baker, of the secret service, the Btark eorpse of J. Wilkes Booth. The seoret service never fulfilled Lts volilion more secrfciávely. " V hat have you. done with tho body?" eaid I to Baker. "That is kuowo," he answered, " to only one own. living besidea myself. It is gono. I will not teil you where. The only man who knows is sworn to pilence. Never till the groat trumpeter comea shall the grave of Booth be disoovered." And this is true. Last night, the 27th of April, a small row boat received thu carcasa of the niurderer ; two men wero in it ; thcy carried the body oö into the darkness, and out ot the darkness it will never return. lu the darkoess, like hiü great crime, may it remaioforever, impalpable, invisible, nondescript, condeirmad to that worae than damnation, aunihiiation. The river bottom may ooze about it ladeo with great shot and drovvning manados. Thü earth may huve opened to give it that silence and forgiveness whioh man will never give its inoinory. The fiabes may swira arouad it, or tho daiaies grow white above it ; but wa shall never know. Mysterious, incouiprehansible, unattainable, like the dim timoa through which we live and thiuk upon as if we only dreamed them in a perturbd fever, the assasáia of a nat'.on's head rests_ somewhero in tho elemeuts, and that is all; but if the indignant seas, or the profanod turf shall ever vomit this oorpse frora their recesses, and it reoeivea humane or Christian burial from some who do uot recognize it, let tho last words those decaying lips ever uttered be carved above them with a dagger, to teil the history of a young and once promising Ijfe - useless ! useless !

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Michigan Argus