We Hear Discouraging News of the Nation’s Prisoners—Denunciation of Joseph Holt and His Witnesses by the Reverend Stuart Robinson—He Exposes the “Infamous Perjuries of the Bureau of Military Justice”—Their Confession and Flight from the Country—Charles O’Conor Writes Me; Also Ben Wood, Who Offers to Advance the Cost of Mr. Clay’s Defense; Also Judge Black Writes Cheeringly—I Hear Through R. J. Haldeman of the Friendliness of Thaddeus Stevens; and from General Miles; Also, in Time, from Mr. Clay—His Letter Prophesies Future Racial Conditions, and Advises Me How to Escape the Evils to Come—Freed from Espionage, He Describes the “Comforts” of Life in Fortress Monroe—One of the Tortures of the Inquisition Revived 286 CHAPTER XXIV. ONCE MORE IN THE FEDERAL CAPITAL. Communications Are Reopened with Washington—Duff Green Makes Application to the President on My Behalf—I Hear from Mrs. Davis of Her Misfortunes—I Borrow $100 and Start for the Capital—Scenes on Cars and Boat—I Meet Many Sympathisers—And Arrive at Last at Cincinnati—Yankee Ideas and Yankee Notions—Mrs. Pugh Visits Me—Also Senator and Mrs. Pendleton, Who Take Me Home—Once More en Route for Washington—Within Its Precincts 300 CHAPTER XXV. SECRETARY STANTON DENIES RESPONSIBILITY. Arrival at Willard’s—Expecting Enemies, I Find Many Old Friends—General Ihrie, of Grant’s Staff, Calls On Me—Also a Nameless Lady—Judge Hughes and Judge Black Counsel Me—I Visit the White House to Plead with Mr. Johnson—Mrs. Douglas Is My Companion—Mr. Johnson “Lives up to His Reputation” and Tells Me to See Mr. Stanton—Which I Do—The Secretary’s Manner—“I am Not Your Husband’s Judge, Neither am I His Accuser”—I Call Upon General Grant, Who Writes to President Johnson on Behalf of Mr. Clay 307 CHAPTER XXVI. MR. HOLT REPORTS UPON THE CASE OF C. C. CLAY, JR. I Send General Grant’s Letter to Mr. Johnson—And Beg to Be Allowed to Visit Fortress Monroe—I Begin to Feel the Strength of a Concealed Enemy—I Refuse to Go to Mr. Stanton, and Have a First Pass-at-Arms with the President—Mr. Holt Presents His “Report on the Case of C. C. Clay, Jr.”—His Several Opinions of Mr. Clay in Parallel—Denied an Examination of the Infamous Document by the War Department, the President’s “Official Copy” Is Placed at My Disposal—Some of Its Remarkable Features—The President Promises Me He Will Not Deliver My Husband and Mr. Davis up to the Military Court, and Agrees to Issue on His Own Responsibility a Permit to Visit Fortress Monroe—I Go to New York and Hobnob with “An Old Abolitionist” 317 CHAPTER XXVII. PRESIDENT JOHNSON INTERPOSES.