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Identifier: civilwarechoesch00howa (find matches)
Title: Civil War echoes: character sketches and state secrets
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Howard, Hamilton Gay
Subjects: Statesmen
Publisher: Washington, D.C., Howard publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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then, was the motive of his call,and how came Booth to address the Vice-president of the UnitedStates in zvords of such familiarity, showing certain acquaintance,if not intimacy, zvith him? I do not zvish to disturb you, but would be glad to have an in-tcrvicxv. J. Wilkes Booth. These are words of strange and mysterious import, and are notto be lightlj set aside in so great a matter as unmeaning and insig-iiificant. Is it doubted that if ivlr. Johnson were a private citizen,instead of the Chief Magistrate of the United States, seeking todespoil honorable men of their characters, and to visit upon themthe ignominious death of the gallows, that he would have beenamong the first brought to tne bar of that immaculate substitutionof the indefeasible right of trial by jury, the Military Bureau ofJustice? Is there one, of all that multitude of prisoners of bothsexes—the refinement of whose tortures are made the theme ofglowing recital in the Northern journals—who could hope to escape 104
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U. S. SENATOR ROSCOE CONKLING, NEW YORK Civil-war Echoes — Character conviction, with such a communication upon that very memorableday, from the confessed assassin himself? Is it impossible thatBooth may have met Mr. Johnson in that lower circle they wereboth known to frequent, and thus haie formed an intimacy which acommon vice begets? Andrew Johnson, let it be borne in mind,has been for many years past an almost frenzied aspirant for thePresidency. All the arts and appliances which the fruitful brain ofthe unscrupulous demagogue could invent and employ have beenexhausted to attain this goal of his audacious ambition. After astruggle of years—and not until the States of the South, includinghis own, had separated themselves from all political connectionwith the North—did he reach the position of second civil officer ofthe Government. Then the prize, so long dazzling his vision,seemed within his grasp. Like Ludovico, he touched his browin anticipation of the encircling diadem. Bu

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