Produced by Carla Foust and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) THE JUDICIAL MURDER --OF-- MARY E. SURRATT. DAVID MILLER DEWITT. Baltimore: JOHN MURPHY & CO. 1895. COPYRIGHT, 1894, BY DAVID MILLER DEWITT. "_Oceans of horse-hair, continents of parchment, and learned-sergeant eloquence, were it continued till the learned tongue wore itself small in the indefatigable learned mouth, cannot make the unjust just. The grand question still remains, Was the judgment just? If unjust, it will not and cannot get harbour for itself, or continue to have footing in this Universe, which was made by other than One Unjust. Enforce it by never such statuting, three readings, royal assents; blow it to the four winds with all manner of quilted trumpeters and pursuivants, in the rear of them never so many gibbets and hangmen, it will not stand, it cannot stand. From all souls of men, from all ends of Nature, from the Throne of God above, there are voices bidding it: Away! Away!_" PAST AND PRESENT. CONTENTS. PAGE. PRELIMINARY CHAPTER I. The Reign of Terror, 1 CHAPTER II. The Bureau of Military (In)Justice, 15 PART I. THE MURDER. CHAPTER I. The Opening of the Court. Was She Ironed? 23 CHAPTER II. Animus of the Judges. Insults to Reverdy Johnson and General Edward Johnson, 41 CHAPTER III. Conduct of the Trial, 56 CHAPTER IV. Arguments of the Defense, 70 CHAPTER V. Charge of Judge Bingham, 82 CHAPTER VI. Verdict, Sentence and Petition, 91 CHAPTER VII. The Death Warrant and Execution, 112 CHAPTER VIII. Was it not Murder? The Milligan Case, 126 PART II. THE VINDICATION. CHAPTER I. Setting Aside the Verdict. Discharge of Jefferson Davis, 145 CHAPTER II. Reversal on the Merits. Trial of John H. Surratt, 165 CHAPTER III. The Recommendation to Mercy, 182 CHAPTER IV. Trial of Joseph Holt, 207 CHAPTER V. Andrew Johnson Signs another Death Warrant, 236 CHAPTER VI. Conclusion, 249 PRELIMINARY. CHAPTER I. THE REIGN OF TERROR.