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diff --git a/42855-h/42855-h.htm b/42855-h/42855-h.htm index f50fbcc..3c803e4 100644 --- a/42855-h/42855-h.htm +++ b/42855-h/42855-h.htm @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> -<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" /> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> <title>The Project Gutenberg eBook of Assassination of Lincoln: a History of the Great Conspiracy, by Thomas Mealey Harris</title> <link rel="coverpage" href="images/cover.jpg" /> <style type="text/css"> @@ -310,27 +310,10 @@ h1.pg,h3.pg,h4.pg { margin-top: 0em; </style> </head> <body> +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 42855 ***</div> <h1 class="pg">The Project Gutenberg eBook, Assassination of Lincoln: a History of the Great Conspiracy, by Thomas Mealey Harris</h1> -<p>This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with -almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at <a -href="http://www.gutenberg.org">www.gutenberg.org</a></p> -<p>Title: Assassination of Lincoln: a History of the Great Conspiracy</p> -<p> Trial of the Conspirators by a Military Commission and a Review of the Trial of John H. Surratt</p> -<p>Author: Thomas Mealey Harris</p> -<p>Release Date: June 1, 2013 [eBook #42855]</p> -<p>Language: English</p> -<p>Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1</p> -<p>***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ASSASSINATION OF LINCOLN: A HISTORY OF THE GREAT CONSPIRACY***</p> <p> </p> -<h4 class="pg">E-text prepared by Greg Bergquist, Charlie Howard,<br /> - and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team<br /> - (<a href="http://www.pgdp.net">http://www.pgdp.net</a>)<br /> - from page images generously made available by<br /> - Internet Archive<br /> - (<a href="http://archive.org">http://archive.org</a>)</h4> <p> </p> <table border="0" style="background-color: #ccccff;margin: 0 auto;" cellpadding="10"> <tr> @@ -2397,7 +2380,7 @@ Stamp. <p class="center vspace"> THE ONTARIO BANK,<br /> <span class="smcap">Montreal Branch.</span><br /> -<i>Exchange for £61 12s. 10d.</i><br /> +<i>Exchange for £61 12s. 10d.</i><br /> </p> <p class="sigright"> @@ -3323,7 +3306,7 @@ during the existence of a state of war, and the courts were only able to carry on their functions under the protection of the arms of the government.</p> -<p>This ægis being withdrawn, the administration of justice through +<p>This ægis being withdrawn, the administration of justice through the civil courts would have been an impossibility, even in the capital of the nation; and with this protection it was equally impossible to secure the demands of justice through the civil courts @@ -3550,15 +3533,15 @@ Such is the tacit understanding, or it may be usage of war, in regard to flags o Flags of truce are resorted to as a means of saving human life, or alleviating human suffering. When not used with perfidy, the laws of war require that they should be respected. The Romans regarded embassadors betwixt belligerents as persons to be -treated with consideration and respect. Plutarch, in his life of Cæsar, tells us that the -barbarians in Gaul, having sent some embassadors to Cæsar, he detained them, charging +treated with consideration and respect. Plutarch, in his life of Cæsar, tells us that the +barbarians in Gaul, having sent some embassadors to Cæsar, he detained them, charging fraudulent practices, and led his army to battle, obtaining a great victory. When the senate decreed festivals and sacrifices for the victory, Cato declared it to be his opinion -that Cæsar ought to be given into the hands of the barbarians, that so the guilt which +that Cæsar ought to be given into the hands of the barbarians, that so the guilt which this breach of faith might otherwise bring upon the state might be expiated by transferring the curse on him who was the occasion of it. Under the Constitution and laws of the United States, should a commander be guilty of such a flagrant breach of law as -Cato charged upon Cæsar, he would not be delivered to the enemy, but would be punished +Cato charged upon Cæsar, he would not be delivered to the enemy, but would be punished after a military trial.</p> <p>The many honorable gentlemen who hold commissions in the army of the United @@ -7456,16 +7439,16 @@ with the Ontario Bank I hold in my hand. It commenced May 30th, 1864, and closed April 11th, 1865. Prior to May 30th, he left with us sterling exchange, drawn on the rebel agents at Liverpool, for collection. The first advice we had was May 30th, -when there was placed to his credit £2,061 17<i>s.</i> and 1½<i>d.</i>, and -£20,618 11<i>s.</i> 4<i>d.</i>, amounting to $109,965.63. The aggregate +when there was placed to his credit £2,061 17<i>s.</i> and 1½<i>d.</i>, and +£20,618 11<i>s.</i> 4<i>d.</i>, amounting to $109,965.63. The aggregate amount of the credits is $649,873.28, and there is a balance still left to his credit of $1,766.23; all the rest has been drawn out. Since about the 1st of March he has drawn out $300,000, in sterling exchange and deposit receipts. On the 6th of April last there is a deposit receipt for $180,000. The banks in Canada give deposit receipts, which are paid when presented, upon fifteen days -notice. On the 8th of April he drew a bill of £446 12<i>s.</i> 1<i>d.</i>, and -on the same day £4,000, sterling. On the 24th of March he drew +notice. On the 8th of April he drew a bill of £446 12<i>s.</i> 1<i>d.</i>, and +on the same day £4,000, sterling. On the 24th of March he drew $100,000 in exchange; at another time, $19,000. This sterling exchange was drawn to his credit, and also the deposit receipts.</p> @@ -7499,8 +7482,8 @@ greenbacks, and on July 14th, $19,125. This was the amount he paid in gold, and at that time the exchange was about 55. I could not say what the amount of greenbacks was, but that is what he paid for it in gold. On March 14th last he bought $1,000 -worth of greenbacks at 44¾, for which he paid $552.20 in gold. -On the 20th of March he bought £6,500 sterling at 9½. He also +worth of greenbacks at 44¾, for which he paid $552.20 in gold. +On the 20th of March he bought £6,500 sterling at 9½. He also bought drafts on New York in several instances. J. Wilkes Booth, the actor, had a small account at our bank. I had one or two transactions with him, but do not remember more at present. @@ -7512,14 +7495,14 @@ Davis is a broker, who kept his office opposite the St. Lawrence Hall, and is, I think, either from Richmond or Baltimore.</p> <p>"When Booth came into the bank for this exchange he bought<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_184" id="Page_184">184</a></span> -a bill of exchange for £61 and some odd shillings, remarking, 'I +a bill of exchange for £61 and some odd shillings, remarking, 'I am going to run the blockade, and in case I should be captured can my capturers make use of the exchange?' I told him they could not unless he endorsed the bill, which was made payable to his order. He then said he would take $300, and pulled out that amount, I think, in American gold. I figured up what $300 -would come to at the rate of exchange. I think it was 9½, and -gave him a bill of exchange for £61 and some odd shillings."</p> +would come to at the rate of exchange. I think it was 9½, and +gave him a bill of exchange for £61 and some odd shillings."</p> <p>The bills of exchange found on Booth's body at the time of his capture were here exhibited to the witness, who said, "These are @@ -7785,8 +7768,8 @@ right!" It would be a very singular coincidence, indeed, on the theory that Davis, Thompson, and the others in Canada were not in the conspiracy, that on this very day Thompson drew on his bank account for $180,000 by a deposit receipt; and that on the -8th, two days later, he drew for £446 12<i>s.</i>, 1<i>d.</i>, and then again on -the same day for £4,000 sterling, amounting in the aggregate to +8th, two days later, he drew for £446 12<i>s.</i>, 1<i>d.</i>, and then again on +the same day for £4,000 sterling, amounting in the aggregate to over two hundred thousand dollars. Assuming this to have been the cost of the assassinations for which Booth and Surratt had made themselves responsible, and that on which they were counting @@ -11755,7 +11738,7 @@ powers which belong to government—that the Roman empire tumbled into ruins.</p> <p>"It was trampled down by the barbarians, and now not a son of -the Cæsars lives on the face of the earth, and not a descendant of +the Cæsars lives on the face of the earth, and not a descendant of a Roman matron exists anywhere in this wide universe. The empire perished, and crumbled into dust; nothing but its ashes remain. And thus will it ever be whenever a people cease to obey God, @@ -12680,7 +12663,7 @@ unravelment of complications that would have involved an ordinary mind only with inextricable bewilderment, and for a literal rending to tatters of all the metaphysical subtleties of the array of legal talent engaged on the other side, I know of no two productions in the English language superior to these. They are literally as the spear of -Ithuriel, dissolving the hardest substances at their touch; as the thread of Dædalus, +Ithuriel, dissolving the hardest substances at their touch; as the thread of Dædalus, leading out of the labyrinths of error, no matter how thick and mazy. Not Locke or Bacon were more profound; not Daniel Webster was clearer and more penetrating; not Chillingworth was more logical. I feel sure that the author of these two unrivalled @@ -12779,7 +12762,7 @@ teaches to men and nations the profoundest lessons which they learn. It does not me, Senators, that the learned counsel for the accused asked the Senate, in the consideration of this question, to close that volume of instruction, not to look into the past, and not to listen to its voices. Senators, from that day when the inscription was -written upon the graves of the heroes of Thermopylæ, 'Stranger, go tell the Lacedemonians +written upon the graves of the heroes of Thermopylæ, 'Stranger, go tell the Lacedemonians that we lie here in obedience to their laws,' to this hour, no profounder lesson than this has come down to us: that through obedience to law comes the strength of nations and the safety of men.</p> @@ -14488,7 +14471,7 @@ sentence of death upon them; and that the commander of a department, or the comm general in the field, may carry such sentence into execution. But, says the gentleman, grant all this to be so; Congress has not declared in what manner the court shall be constituted. The answer to that objection has already been anticipated in the -citation from Benèt, wherein it appeared to be the rule of the law martial that in the +citation from Benèt, wherein it appeared to be the rule of the law martial that in the punishment of all military offenses not provided for by the written law of the land, military commissions are constituted for that purpose by the authority of the commanding officer or the Commander-in-Chief, as the case may be, who selects the officers of a @@ -17079,9 +17062,9 @@ was found the following bill of <span class="locked">exchange:—</span></p> <blockquote> -<p>"No. 1492. The Ontario Bank, Montreal Branch. Exchange for £61 12<i>s.</i> 10<i>d.</i> +<p>"No. 1492. The Ontario Bank, Montreal Branch. Exchange for £61 12<i>s.</i> 10<i>d.</i> Montreal, 27th October, 1864. Sixty days after sight of this first of exchange, second -and third of the same tenor and date, pay to the order of J. Wilkes Booth £61 12<i>s.</i> +and third of the same tenor and date, pay to the order of J. Wilkes Booth £61 12<i>s.</i> 10<i>d.</i> sterling, value received, and charge to the account of this office. H. Stanus, manager. To Messrs. Glynn, Mills & Co., London."</p></blockquote> @@ -18087,360 +18070,6 @@ and the opening mark was poorly printed, so it could be something else.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> -<hr class="full" /> -<p>***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ASSASSINATION OF LINCOLN: A HISTORY OF THE GREAT CONSPIRACY***</p> -<p>******* This file should be named 42855-h.txt or 42855-h.zip *******</p> -<p>This and all associated files of various formats will be found in:<br /> -<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/4/2/8/5/42855">http://www.gutenberg.org/4/2/8/5/42855</a></p> -<p> -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed.</p> - -<p> -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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