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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 44: (search)
was presented to the House, Mr. A. J. Rogers, of the committee, a very respectable member from New Jersey, made a minority report. He asserted that much of the evidence was altogether suppressed, and that the witnesses, who had received large sums of money from Holt for testifying to the criminality of Mr. Davis, recanted their evidence before the committee, and acknowledged that they had perjured themselves by testifying to a mass of falsehoods; that they had been tutored to do so by one S. Conover; and that, from him down through all the miserable list, the very names under which these hired informers were known to the public were as false as the narratives to which they had sworn. Baltimore Gazette, September 25, 1866. Much more might be added to show the evil purpose of these men, together with the correspondence of Holt and his associates, but it would be out of place if it was put in these pages. Another case of this kind occurred in the state of Ohio in April, 1863,
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Index (search)
n law, 5-6, 8. Usurpation of power, 136, 157-62, 291. Legislation for abolition of slavery, 137-49. War power, 144-45. Recognition and admission of West Virginia, 256. Conflict with Andrew Johnson, 614-19; impeachment, 614. Appointment of committee of fifteen, 614; report, 615-16. Refusal to seat representatives from Southern states, 614. Acts for extension of franchise to negro population, 617-18. Congress (frigate), 165, 166, 169. Surrender, 166-67. Conner, General, 454. Conover, S., 420. Constitution (Federal), preservation, 5-6. Violation, 12-13. Ballot box authorized, not armed force, 135-36. Contraction and expansion of powers, 137. Suspension, 144-45. Abolition a violation, 145-50. Enforced ratification of emancipation amendment, 253, 254. Formation of West Virginia a violation, 255-58. Conynham, Capt., Gustavus, 230. Cooke, Colonel, 282. John Esten, 97. Cooper, General, Samuel, 506. Corcoran, James, 201. Corinth, Miss., Gen. Halleck's advance, 5