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Boston Harbor (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.30
the blacks and the enslavement of the whites; stating that, if the Administration had so wished, the war could have been honorably terminated months ago ; characterizing the military order as a base usurpation of arbitrary authority ; declaring that he was at all times and upon all occasions resolved to do what he could to defeat the attempts now made to build up a monarchy upon the ruins of our free government. He was adjudged as guilty, and sentenced to confinement in Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, during the war. This sentence was changed by President Lincoln to banishment to the Confederate States. This military usurpation was spoken of by Governor Seymour of New York in a letter written at the time, in these words: The transaction involved a series of offenses against our most sacred rights. It interfered with the freedom of speech; it violated our rights to be secure in our homes against unreasonable searches and seizures; it pronouncd sentence without a trial, save one
Washington (United States) (search for this): chapter 1.30
s charged by the United States authorities; that he indignantly spurned these propositions, and assured them that, never having been acquainted with Mr. Davis, either officially, personally, or socially, it was utterly impossible that he should know anything against him, and that the offer of his life, dear as the boon might be, could not purchase him to treason and treachery to the South and his friend. The following letter is from the Rev. Father F. E. Boyle of Washington: Washington, D. C., October 10, 1880. Hon. Jefferson Davis. Dear Sir: . . . I know that, on the evening before the day of the execution of Major Wirz, a man visited me, on the part of a Cabinet officer, to inform me that Major Wirz would be pardoned if he would implicate Jefferson Davis in the cruelties of Andersonville. No names were given by this messenger, and, upon my refusal to take any action in the matter, he went to Mr. Louis Schade, counsel for Major Wirz, with the same purpose and with a li
Maryland (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.30
dier in the corps of Papal Zouaves at Rome. He was brought back to Washington, tried, and acquitted. The insertion of my name with those others, honorable gentlemen, as inciting and encouraging these acts, served as an exhibition of the malignant spirit with which justice was administered by the authorities in Washington at that time. The case of Mrs. Surratt, at whose house some of these persons had boarded, awakened much sympathy. She was spoken of by her counsel, Reverdy Johnson of Maryland, as a devout Christian, ever kind, affectionate, and charitable, which was confirmed by evidence and uncontradicted. On the day of the execution her daughter, who was quite a devoted and affectionate person, sought to obtain an audience with President Johnson to implore at least a brief suspension of the sentence of her mother. She was obstructed and prevented from seeing the President by ex-Senator Preston King of New York and Senator James H. Lane of Kansas, who were reported to have be
Jefferson Davis (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.30
ates proceeded in order to compass my ignominious death. Three principal measures were resorted to for the accomplishment of this object: the charge in the case of Wirz, above mentioned; the fabrications in the case now under consideration, and the cruel and inhuman treatment inflicted upon me while a prisoner in Fortress Monroe. At the session of Congress of 1865-‘66, a committee was appointed in the House of Representatives to inquire into and report upon the alleged complicity of Jefferson Davis with the assassination of the late President Lincoln, or words to that effect. George S. Boutwell was chairman of the committee, and the majority of the members were extreme advocates of the war. The charge emanated from the Bureau of Military Justice, as it was designated—a similar institution to the Secret Committee of the French Revolution. Of this institution Judge Advocate Joseph Holt was the chief. After an investigation continuing through several months, a majority of the comm
Baltimore, Md. (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.30
crime. When spoken, written, or printed, in relation to an act or acts which, if committed with a treasonable design, might constitute such overt act, they are admissible as evidence, tending to characterize it and show the intent with which the act was committed. Finally the prison in New York harbor became so full that many prisoners were sent to Fort Warren in the harbor of Boston. At this time the government of the United States used the old Capitol at Washington, Fort McHenry of Baltimore, Fort Lafayette at New York, and Fort Warren at Boston, for the confinement of those whom the usurper designated as state prisoners. Still further to relieve the fullness of the prisons, two men, John A. Dix of the army and Edwards Pierrepont of civil life, were sent to investigate the cases of the prisoners, and release some who were willing to take an oath of allegiance. Next it was made a condition precedent to an investigation that the said oath should be taken by the prisoner. As
Kansas (Kansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.30
counsel, Reverdy Johnson of Maryland, as a devout Christian, ever kind, affectionate, and charitable, which was confirmed by evidence and uncontradicted. On the day of the execution her daughter, who was quite a devoted and affectionate person, sought to obtain an audience with President Johnson to implore at least a brief suspension of the sentence of her mother. She was obstructed and prevented from seeing the President by ex-Senator Preston King of New York and Senator James H. Lane of Kansas, who were reported to have been at the Executive Mansion to keep guard over President Johnson. Each of these senators at a later period committed suicide. The trial of Major Henry Wirz was the next in importance which came before a military commission. In April, 1865, President Johnson issued a proclamation stating that, from evidence in possession of the Bureau of Military Justice, it appeared that I, Jefferson Davis, was implicated in the assassination of President Lincoln, and for t
New York State (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.30
William H. Seward, a favored son of the state of New York, would ring a little bell, which broughte laws, the courts, the executive of the state of New York, were subverted, turned aside from the ehe jurisdiction of all the courts of the state of New York was made to terminate and cease upon theThe subjugation of the government of the state of New York was made in another section of the same ightfully have no force whatever. The state of New York, in which this writ was thus suspended bthe subjugation of the government of the state of New York was made by the dominion over it of the the subjugation of the government of the state of New York by the domination of the military power mproperly to vote at the election in the state of New York. The state legislature, at its previof the authority of the government of the state of New York. They say: They, North, Cohn, and Jg to have been done under the law of the State of New York concerning elections, and making provisi[8 more...]
Fort Hamilton (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.30
state of New York, would ring a little bell, which brought to him a messenger, to whom was given a secret order to arrest and confine in Fort Lafayette a person designated. This order was sent by telegraph to the United States marshal of the district in which would be found the person who was to be arrested. The arrest being forcibly made by the marshal with armed attendants without even the form of a warrant, the prisoner without the knowledge of any charge against him was conveyed to Fort Hamilton and turned over to the commandant. An aid with a guard of soldiers then conveyed him in a boat to Fort Lafayette and delivered him to the keeper in charge, who gave a receipt for the prisoner. He was then divested of any weapons, money, valuables, or papers in his possession. His baggage was opened and searched. A soldier then took him in charge to the designated quarter, which was a portion of one of the casemates for guns, lighted only from the porthole, and occupied by seven or ei
Mount Vernon, Knox County, Ohio (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.30
ing of citizens. Three days afterwards a body of soldiers was sent by railroad from Cincinnati to Dayton, who, with violence, broke into his residence at three o'clock in the morning, seized, and hurried him to the cars before a rescue could be made, and departed for Cincinnati, where he was confined in a military prison. He was brought to trial before a military commission on May 6th. The specification made against him in the charge was that he addressed a large meeting of citizens at Mount Vernon, and did utter sentiments in words, or in effect, as follows: declaring the present war a wicked, cruel, and unnecessary war ; a war not being waged for the preservation of the Union ; a war for the purpose of crushing out liberty and creating a despotism ; a war for the freedom of the blacks and the enslavement of the whites; stating that, if the Administration had so wished, the war could have been honorably terminated months ago ; characterizing the military order as a base usurpation
Andersonville, Ga. (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.30
ncy, in the great mortality of the soldiers we had captured during the war and imprisoned at Andersonville. See chapter on exchange of prisoners. Orders were therefore issued by the authoritiecording to law was denied him. Captain Wirz had been in command at the Confederate prison at Andersonville. The first charge alleged against him was that of conspiring with myself, Secretary Seddon, to assure Wirz that, if he would implicate Jefferson Davis with the atrocities committed at Andersonville, his sentence should be commuted. He (the messenger, whoever he was) requested me to informot know anything about Jefferson Davis. He had no connection with me as to what was done at Andersonville. If I knew anything of him, I would not become a traitor against him or anybody else to sav that Major Wirz would be pardoned if he would implicate Jefferson Davis in the cruelties of Andersonville. No names were given by this messenger, and, upon my refusal to take any action in the matt
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