Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-06-15
Indictment against Jeff. Davis.
WASHINGTON, Nav 2G, 1868.

.... WASHINGTON, May 26, 1868.
At halfpast two o'clock this afternoon the
Grand Jury for the District of Columbia re-
ported to the Supreme Court of the District
an Indictment against jeff. Davis, of which
the following isa verbatim copy:
United States of America, District Of Column
bia, County of Washington, to.wit:
The Jurors of the United States of Amcri-
ca within and for the county of Washington
aforesaid, in the District of Columbia atore-
said upon their oath present: That Jefferson
Davis, late of the county of Henrico, in the
State of Virginia, yeoman, being an inhab-
tant of and resident within the said United
States of America, and owing allegiance and
fidelity to the said United States of America,
not having the fear of God before his eyes,
nor weighing the duty of his said allegiance
but being moved and scduced by the instiga-
ton of the Devil, wickedly devising and in
tending the peace and tranquility of said Uni
ted States of America to disturb, and the Gov
ernment of the said United States of America
to subvert, and to stir, move, and excite re-
bellion, insurrection, and war against the said
United States of America, on the first day of
June, in the year of our Lord 1864, at the
county of Henrico aforesaid, in the State of
Virginia aforesaid, with force and arms, un-
lawfully, falsely, maliciously, and traitorously
did compass imagine, and intended to raise,
levy, and carry war, insurrection, and rebel
lion against the said United States of Ameri-
ca for the subversion of the Government of
the said United States of America, in the
county of Washington aforesaid, of the Dis
trict of Columbia aforesaid, and within the
Jurisdiction of this Court, and in order to full
fill and bring into effect the said traitorous
compassings, imaginatons and intentions, he
the said jefferson Davis, afterward, to-wit, on
the said first day of June, in the year of our
Lord, 1864 at the county Of Henrico afore-
said, in the State Of Virginia aforesaid, being
then and there leagued in conspiracy with a
large number of insurgents and false traitors
waging open war against the said United
States of America, and being then and there
the leader and commander-in-chief of said in
surgents and false traitors, with whom the said
Jefferson Davis was then and there leagued
in conspiracy as aforesaid, and being then
and there acknowledged, recognized and
obeyed by the said insurgents and false troi
tors as their leader and comtnander.in-chief
for the prosecution Of the said war against
the said United States Of America, for the
subversion of the Government of the said
United States of America did unlawtully, ma
lciously and traitorously order and command
great multitude of said insurgents aud false
traitors who were then and there, to wit: at
the county Of Henrico aforesaid, in the State
Of Virginia aforesaid, on the day and year
last aforesaid, unlawfully and traitorously as
sembled and banded together to a great num-
ber, to-wit: to the number Of twenty thousand
persons and upward, and who then and there
acknowledged, recognized and obeyed him,
the said Jefferson Davis, as their leader and
commander-in-chief as aforesaid, but whose
names are to the jurors aforesaid unknown, to
march and proceed in a war-like manner
that is 10 say, with drums and colors, with
cannon, muskets, carbines, pistols, swords,
cutlasses and other war-Eke weapons, as well
offensive as defensive, from the said county of
Henrico, in the State of Virginia aforesaid,
to the county OF Washington aforesaid, in the
District of Columbia aforesaid, and within