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The Daily Dispatch: June 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], A trial for treason at Cincinnati. (search)
ying war against the United States, and affording aid and comfort to its enemies. We expect to show that Young is a native of Virginia; that he resided some time at Cape Girardeau, and afterwards in Alabama, in the service of the so-called Confederate States of America, and was in correspondence with persons guilty of treasonable acts. That he came to Ohio about April 1st, 1861. for the purpose of giving aid and comfort to these persons, and that he never divulged their names. Hon. William M. Corry, for the defence, said the prisoner stands on the defence arraigned under the act of 1790--an act threescore and ten years old, and one which contains the definition of a negative crime. The Government has grasped the horn of the dilemma, which it calls negative misprison, and it is bound to prove that the defendant did not communicate his knowledge to the President of the United States, to any of the judges thereof, to the Governor of any State, to any judge or to any justice. In