The Conspiracy Trial for the Murder of the President, and the Attempt to Overthrow the Government by the Assassination of Its Principal Officers, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)
The Conspiracy Trial for the Murder of the President, and the Attempt to Overthrow the Government by the Assassination of Its Principal Officers, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from The Conspiracy Trial for the Murder of the President, and the Attempt to Overthrow the Government by the Assassination of Its Principal Officers, Vol. 1 The assassination of abraham lincoln was a military crime. While actually in command of the national forces, he was killed in a city which was his headquarters, strongly fortified and garrisoned, with a military governor, and a provost-marshal whose patrols were abroad day and night arresting all persons found violating the rules and articles Of war.' Not only ...
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Excerpt from The Conspiracy Trial for the Murder of the President, and the Attempt to Overthrow the Government by the Assassination of Its Principal Officers, Vol. 1 The assassination of abraham lincoln was a military crime. While actually in command of the national forces, he was killed in a city which was his headquarters, strongly fortified and garrisoned, with a military governor, and a provost-marshal whose patrols were abroad day and night arresting all persons found violating the rules and articles Of war.' Not only was the murdered com mander-in-chief, to use the words of the Constitution, in actual service in time of war, but it was a time of public danger, in which the assassins were constitutionally excluded from any right to a trial in the civil courts. Peace had not then been con quered there was a powerful enemy in arms, to whom aid and comfort could be given; the leader of the Rebellion was Still at large many loyal men were becoming disheartened by the conscrip tion. And by the prolonged expenditure of blood and treasure and there are good reasons for believing that the rebel authorities, having traversed all the stages of crime, confidently hoped by this assassination to inaugurate anarchy at the North, and to. Thus. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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