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January 16th, 1866 AD (search for this): chapter 1.7
, the Senate called upon the President for information on the subject of the trial, but no response was made until January 7th, when reports on the subject from the Attorney General, Mr. James Speed, and the Secretary of War, Mr. E. M. Stanton, were filed. From these reports it seems that it was deemed proper that he should be tried for treason in the State of Virginia, where the Chief Justice was to preside, but that for reasons the Chief Justice would not hold the court. On the 16th of January, 1866, the Senate, becoming impatient under the outcry against the unconstitutional delay, called on the President for the correspondence between himself and the Chief Justice. From it we gather that the President asked the Chief Justice when he could hold the court, and was informed in reply that he was not willing to do so until martial law no longer prevailed in Virginia. During these delays many efforts were made by prominent men of all parties and sections to secure the discharge of
January 30th, 1866 AD (search for this): chapter 1.7
ich was furnished from the kitchen of the guard, and his linen was dealt out to him by the Major-General commanding, to whom that function had been assigned by General Halleck. （121 War of Rebellion, p. 565.) Books, papers and correspondence were luxuries, which were deemed inconsistent with public safety and were prohibited. (Id., p. 695.) Late in the summer of 1865 books and newspapers were allowed him. It would be unjust to his jailors were the statement omitted, that, on the 30th of January, 1866, after the press at the North had commented severely on the treatment of the State prisoners, Davis and Clay, the Secretary of War ordered that $36 per month be paid for furnishing the prisoners—Davis and Clay—with such food as they require, and for the payment of the laundresses who do their washing. The day after this expansion in diet the daily report shows that Mr. Davis suffered more than usual from dyspeptic symptoms. （121 War of Rebellion, p. 874-75.) Amidst the earlier a
April 25th, 1866 AD (search for this): chapter 1.7
On the 2d of October, 1865, because of the representation of the medical officer attending Mr. Davis, he was removed to a very much better room in Carroll Hall in the fortress, and was in every respect very much more comfortable. On the 25th of April, 1866, Mrs. Davis, whose letters had remained unanswered, hearing her husband was failing rapidly, telegraphed the President for permission to visit him. The President referred it to the Secretary of War, and he ordered General Miles to permit Mr parole. (Id., 900-1.) During this long period the Major-General commanding had almost daily reported the physical and mental condition of his prisoner, often accompanying his report with that of the medical officer in charge. On the 25th of April, 1866, Dr. George F. Cooper, the surgeon, reported to General Miles as follows: I would respectfully report that the general health of State prisoner Jefferson Davis is not as good as at my last report. His appetite is failing and his muscula
May 8th, 1866 AD (search for this): chapter 1.7
d be attempted. (See Chase's Reports, pages 12, 14, 17.) It must not be forgotten that before Mr. Davis was brought to trial Messrs. Horace Greeley, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and Gerrit Smith offered themselves as bondsmen on any bail bond which might be required of him, and were among the obligors when it was finally taken, nearly two years after the tender was made. An indictment against Davis was found in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Virginia. on the 8th of May, 1866. It presented— Jefferson Davis, late of the city of Richmond, in the county of Henrico, in the district of Virginia, aforesaid, yeoman, being an inhabitant of and residing within the United States of America, not having the fear of God before his eyes nor weighing the duty of his said allegiance, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil, and wickedly devising, intending the peace and tranquility of the said United States of America to disturb, and the Government o
May 10th, 1866 AD (search for this): chapter 1.7
Mr. Davis on bail, or otherwise, were being made by Mr. O'Conor and others, there was behind the scenes some adverse influence which was too powerful to be overcome, which Mr. O'Conor believed emanated from the Secretary of State, W. H. Seward. When Mr. Reverdy Johnson, the senator from Maryland, applied to Seward to help him in the effort to secure bail, Seward pointed to the scar on his neck, made by the knife of the assassin, and said: You can hardly expect me to aid you. On the 10th of May, 1866, the House of Representatives adopted a resolution introduced by Mr. Boutwell, of Massachusetts, instructing the Judiciary Committee to inquire whether there was probable cause for believing in the criminality alleged against Davis and others, and whether any legislation was necessary to bring them to a speedy and impartial trial. To this committee it was that Colonel Turner was assigned as Judge Advocate, and it was due to his intelligent and indefatigable efforts that the frauds whic
May 20th, 1866 AD (search for this): chapter 1.7
sful. But the hardy veterans of the fort felt indignant that they should be constantly ordered to perform the duties of bailiffs in guarding a sick and feeble old man whom a youth of fifteen could have overmastered. Their manly natures were shocked at what they saw, and no discipline could keep their tongues quiet; hence, gradually the public press, both North and South, commenced to make most significant inquiries, and then to charge wrong, injustice and wanton cruelty. About the 20th of May, 1866, one of Surgeon Cooper's reports as to Mr. Davis' health and the causes of its depression became public and created an outburst of indignation which found voice in the newspapers of both parties and all sections. From a long article in the New York World some extracts are worthy of note. The editor says, after referring to the surgeon's report: It cannot be read by any honorable and right-minded American, no matter what his sectional feelings or his political opinions may be, wi
May 22nd, 1866 AD (search for this): chapter 1.7
at it was only necessary for him to order the keeper of the Fort Monroe jail to deliver Mr. Davis up to the marshal of the District of Virginia on proper application. While the Attorney-General saw no reasons why Mr. Davis should not be tried, he set forth many reasons why the court which was to try him could not sit, and why the court had not convened on the 6th of October, the day to which it adjourned and to which Mr. Davis' trial was postponed. Congress, he said, had, on the 22nd day of May, 1866, passed an act providing that the Circuit Court of the United States should be held at Richmond on the first Monday in May and the fourth Monday in November in each year. This, the Attorney-General held, abrogated the special term fixed for October. But on the 23d of July Congress passed an act to fix the number of judges of the Supreme Court and to change certain judicial circuits. Among those changed was that assigned to the Chief Justice, when Delaware was taken out and South Ca
May 26th, 1866 AD (search for this): chapter 1.7
simplest decencies of life to a man who for four years wielded the resources of eleven belligerant States against the whole power of the Union. * * * The American people, should these stories prove to be true, will have a serious account to settle with the functionaries who could thus misrepresent and belittle them in the eyes of Christendom and of history. Similar articles appeared in other papers, both North and South. These articles were keenly felt by General Miles, and on the 26th of May, 1866, he wrote to Adjutant-General Townsend, enclosing him a number of extracts from the papers, of which he complained very bitterly. He averred he had done nothing but obey orders, and that the press was doing him great injustice. (Id., 914.) The newspaper extracts are all published in the official correspondence along with General Miles' letter. One who will read the correspondence published in the one hundred and twenty-first volume of the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion
May 28th, 1866 AD (search for this): chapter 1.7
g with General Miles' letter. One who will read the correspondence published in the one hundred and twenty-first volume of the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion by the government can judge of this, as well as General Miles. Having written his complaint of and protest against the press, General Miles turned his attention to his subordinate, Surgeon Cooper, whose report had come to the public eye. He wrote (221 War of the Rebellion, 919): Confidential. Fort Monroe, Va., May 28, 1866. General E. D. Townsend, Assistant Adjutant-General. General,—I regret to say that I think Surgeon Cooper is entirely under the influence of Mr. and Mrs. Davis, the former of whom has the happy faculty that a strong mind has over a weaker to mould it to agree with its views and opinions. Surgeon Cooper's wife is a secessionist and one of the F. F. V.'s of this State. He is exceedingly attentive to Mrs. Davis, escorting her to Norfolk and back, and yesterday he had a private interview
June 5th, 1866 AD (search for this): chapter 1.7
llegiance, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil, and wickedly devising, intending the peace and tranquility of the said United States of America to disturb, and the Government of the said United States of America to subvert, and to stir, move, and incite insurrection, rebellion, and war against the United States of America, on the 15th day of June, 1864, in the city of Richmond, &c., &c., with the usual adjectives and strong language of such literature. On the 5th of June, 1866, Messrs. James T. Brady, of New York; Willam B. Reed, of Philadelphia; James Lyons and Robert Ould, of Richmond, appeared in the Circuit Court for the city of Richmond as counsel for Mr. Davis, and through Mr. Reed, in very terse and clear language, asked the conrt what was to be done with the indictment and whether it was to be tried. This last question he said he probably had no right to ask, but he claimed the right to that speedy and public trial guaranteed by the Constitution, an
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