The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln And Its Expiation
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On the seventeenth, he sailed from Naples in a British steamer bound for Alexandria, which port, after stopping at Malta, he reached on the twenty- seventh, and, the American consul there having been apprized of his coming, he was finally intercepted and held to await the arrival of a United States vessel to carry him to this country.* Thus it was that, after the lapse of more than a year since the authorities were informed of his where- abouts, this notorious accomplice of Booth was fairly * F...or these particulars, see letters and testimony transmitted to H. R, with Report of Sec. of State, Dec, 16, 1866; Ex. Doe. No. 9, 39th Cong,, 2d Sess. 190 ASSASSINATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN thrust upon their hands; and against whom, now he was at length in their power, they seemed at a loss what course to pursue. The leading radicals in Con- gress, whose fiery zeal had not yet had time to cool, could account for such lukewarmness on no other theory than that the traitor sitting in the seat of Lincoln shrank from any further search into the cir- cumstances attending the assassination; and, accord- ingly, the House ordered the judiciary committee to find out the causes of such flagrant nonfeasance.
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