The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-05-24
Suppressed Testimony:

Suppressed Testimony:
Completely Of Rebel AuthOr.
titles.
Intimacy Between Dssth ana Saaasss-
The evidence, or . part Of it, ct least,
taken in secret during the early days Of
the assassination trial, is DOW being made
pnblic by the permission Of the Admins
tration and the Court. From this testi-
mony it seems very certain that Booth
Was but the active instrument welded by
the rebel authorities in Richmond and
directed by their accredited agents in Can
ada, for carrying out their deliberately
concerted plans of Arson. assassination and
Northern Instruction, under the auspices
of the " Golden Circle - and "Sons of
Liberty" u
We have space only for few brief andj
poi nted pars graphs of the testimony. and
will confine these, for the present, to the
evidence adduced on the first day of the
trial.
Henry Van Schumacher, who was for
three years Military Engineer in the Con-
federate service, and was at the battle OF
Gettysburg. deposed that it was univer-
sally understood amongst the army officers
that an enterprise was on foot to capture
or assassinata President Lincoln and other
high officials, and the project was very
generally approved.
Booth made visit to the Confederate
army in Virginia immediately after the
battle of Gettysburg, and secret meet
ing Of officers was held under his auspices
to further the project of the conspiracy.
On this point the witness testified IS fol-
lows:
Q. Will You state what Booth said to
you in regard to any contemplated pur-
pose OF attack upon the President Of the
United States +? State all that he said
A. / was asked by Booth, and by those
others, too, what / thought of the proba.
bic success Of the Confederacy, and told
them that after such a chase as we had
then got from Gettysburg, | believed il
looked rather gloomy; aud then Booth told
me "that is nonsense; if We only act oui
part right the Confsderaoy will gain theil
independence old Abe Lincoln must &c
up the spout, and the Confederacy vii
gain their independence anyhow J" tina
was the expression At the time.
Q. What did you understand BY thu
express ion, =" be must 60 up the spout,
from II that Booth said A. 1t was
common expression, meaning he must b.
killed; that understood always.
Q. Did he state under what circum
stances that would become necessary ?
a. He said as soon as the Confederac,
was near giving out-so soon as the.
were nearly whipped that must be done
that would be the final resource to gair
the independence of the Confederacy.
Q, Do you know whether there was I
secret meeting of rebel officers on that oc
casion Z A. That evening there q secre
meeting, where | was not admitted.
@. Did they state to you the purpoe.
OF that meeting, and what conclusion they
reached p? A. Some officer, afterwards
who was about the meeting. stated to M
what was the purpose Of it.
Q. Was Booth in that meeting? A
/ believe so; they we're all together.
Z. What did be state to you was th,
determination and purpose of that meet
ing? A. The purpose of the meeting
was, as | was informed afterwards, 4
send certain officers or detached servic,
to Canada and The borders, and to delive
prisoners, and to lay Northern cities il
ashes, and, finally to get after the mem
bers OF the Cabinet, aud kill the Presi
deut /; that was the main purpose.
heard that more than thousand times
but never so much as at the time when
was informed it was the purpose Of ,h
meeting | always considered it common
braggadocio before
q. What was the name OF the Office
who gave you this account of the pro
ceedings of the meeting? A. Lientenan
Cockerell.
~ Wuot poiuuu vi sbC oCfftoc uis
he belong, do you know 7 A. To the p
Virginia regiment. l believe, and th,
same company that Capt. BeslI belonged
to-th Captain who was executed at Gov
ernor's Island.
q. Was anything said as to what par
Captain Beall-the one afterwards exc
cuted--was to play in these movement
at the North A. Cockereil told ME
Beall was on detached service, and we
would hear of him.
@. Cockerell was member of tba,
meeting, | understand you to say. A
Yes, sir.
=. Did you while there see Booth and
Cockerell associated tcgethery A. / did
not see them particularly saw them all
In crowd Together.
Y. Was Booth associa,ipg with all TIC
ofncers He was associating with ereal
many of them.
q Did you know Of any secret associ
alton or meeting. having similar objects
n M