Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination

[JMadonna]

Excerpt from Booth's diary:
I have no desire to out-live my country. This night (before the deed), I wrote a long article
and left it for one of the Editors of the National Inteligencer, in which I fully set forth our reasons
for our proceedings. He or the Govmt ...

Here, in mid-sentence, Booth stopped writing.

From Wiechman we know that Booth did meet with an editor from the Intellegencer in which they had the "no more Brutus's" conversation. It seems more logical that he would give the letter to him with the same instructions he supposedly gave Matthews.

IMO - The 'He or the Govmt' line is referring to the editor not the messenger.