Identifier: assassinationof02harr (find matches)
Title: Assassination of Lincoln; a history of the great conspiracy: trial of the conspirators by a military commission and a review of the trial of John H. Surratt
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Harris, T. M. (Thomas Mealey), 1817-1906
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872 Surratt, John H. (John Harrison), 1844-1916 Booth, John Wilkes, 1838-1865
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : American Citizen Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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the inevitable logical conclusion that it was because of this knowledgethat this recommendation had been before, and had been discussed by, the President andhis Cabinet, and his determination not to speak of what was said at Cabinet meet-ings, that he would not speak? But, finally, my friends, has not the faith of Judge Holt been realized? Has nottime caused the truth to shine forth and his innocence to appear? In 1873, he said:An abiding faith, however, remains with me that the public will do these witnessesjustice, and myself, also; and that if truth has power to disarm the cloud of calumnyof its lightnings, that then, standing in their presence and under their shelter, I maywell feel that for the future this cloud can have no terrors for me.Saith an old poet: — I ... I have ever thoughtNature doth nothing so great for great menAs when shes pleased to make them lords of truth.Integrity of life is fames best friend,Which nobly beyond death shall crown the end. 7/. £00?. oSW. oiSS7
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