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The Daily Dispatch: December 11, 1865., [Electronic resource], Treason cases. (search)
Treason cases.
--Senator Doolittle, of Wisconsin, who is said to be a supporter of President Johnson's policy of reconstruction, and therefore not a sympathizer with the Radical majority in Congress, has introduced into the Senate a bill which assumes that there would be great difficulty in empaneling a jury to try Jeff. Davis and each like distinguished offenders against the law. It provides that in all such trials no juror be rejected by reason of opinions previously formed or expressed as to the guilt of the accused, which may have been founded upon rumors, statements in newspapers, or the common history of the times, provided that the juror declare upon oath, and it appears to the satisfaction of the Court, that he will impartially try the case upon the evidence deduced upon the trial.
Affairs in Kentucky. Louisville, December 9.
--The Jefferson Circuit Court, in the case of the Commonwealth against Major-General Palmer for aiding a slave to escape, has dismissed the indictment on the ground that a requisite number of States had adopted the constitutional amendment abolishing slavery before the indictment, and therefore the criminal and penal acts of the Kentucky Legislature relating to slavery were of no effect.
General Palmer has issued a proclamation declaring that slavery has ceased to exist in Kentucky; and advising colored people to apply promptly to the courts for redress, if public conveyances deny their right to travel at pleasure.
A resolution was yesterday introduced into the Legislature endorsing the President's policy, favoring general amnesty and recommending the pardon of Mr. Davis.
The Daily Dispatch: December 11, 1865., [Electronic resource], Admission of Southern Representatives. (search)