Assassination of Lincoln a History of the Great Conspiracy Trial of the Conspi
Assassination of Lincoln a History of the Great Conspiracy Trial of the Conspi
T M Thomas Mealey Harris
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I appeal to any judge, any lawyer, any man who has had experience, if there was ever a case where the guilt of the party, was more clearly 308 ASSASSINATION OF LINCOLN. demonstrated. He is proven guilty not only beyond a reasonable doubt, but beyond the possibility of any doubt. There is not a man of you who can doubt it. It has been a strange case. It was a strange providence that brought the man back here to be tried. And now that he is here, you, the twelve men who in the providence of God h...ave been selected to try the case, are to say whether what he has done is right or not right ; whether he is guilty or not guilty. " That is for you to say, not for me. I know he is proved guilty. About that there can be no doubt. I do not believe that any of you have any doubt whatever on that subject. " That the purpose of this conspiracy was to assassinate the heads of the government from its very first inception, is made clear by the whole run of the evidence brought out on the two trials. Atzerodt, in his confession, which he had gotten up to be used in his defence, claims that he was a member of a conspiracy to kidnap the President, and carry him to Richmond.
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