Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-09-30

build up a personal party, seeking In
dorsement in the North by Swinging
around the c~ircle,n by bis arm-in-arm
convention at Philadelphia, and in the
South by his loyal governments, adj
hitting the people gradually and wean-
ing the masses from the leaders.
MRS. sURRAIT.
There is another, not the least, but the
last here Of his open, hagrant and mex
cusable violations Of constitutional
rights Of person, Of property, Of liberty,
Of Hfe-the last, but the most deep and
damning blot on the escutcheOu Of this
unmiiitary Brigadier-General
He had insulted old men aud women,
jeered fair suppliants, and secuted tender
applicants for mercy toward those they
loved. Even beauty and innocence in
kears had failed to mpress this man Onron
among women and old men this man
Of war, when backed by cannon and
bayOuets, and guarded in front BY light
ing Generals. He had imprisoned u
cent men for crimes committed by otn-
ers upon his loyal eompeers; he had
impressed the property Of innofiensive
men to pay his loyal friends tor alleged
losses: he had confined holy men Of
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prison fare; he had committed murders
by the damps and footed pOisons Of his
nOisOme dungeons upon Kray-haired old
men. imprisoned for no crime; but he
had vet to come before the civilized
world, and afix to a great nation a. its
representative, the fouiest blot hat ever
chung 10 a great people.
MURDER.
Av. 81 Murder foul enough AZ in the best, % Is,
But this, most foul, strange aud unnatural
Mrs. Surratt was an Irish lady, and
one of Maryland's daughters, pure as
she was devOut and good. her, IN that
reign Of terror, in that high carnival Of
evil passions when he seemed 70 slI'
the front Of all the bad passions in the
nation. he foullv murdered without ex-
cuse or p~alliatiOn.
Lincoln and Seward had been assas-
sinated, and Dir. johnson, the bitterest
of an against the South, left to succeed
To the Presidency; the assassin killed
and mvsteriousiy buried. A mill
tary our was empaneled by President
Jo6nsOpis order. said order is as tOl-
lows. latter reciting that the Attorney
General hnd given his opinion that
90 the assassins, their aiders and aDettors,
are subject to the jurisdiction Of, and
lawfully triable before a military COM
mission, . it proceeds:
It is ordered: First. That the Assistant Adj
iutant-General detail Mint competent mill
tary officers. 70 serve As a commission FOR me
trial Of said parties, and that the Judge-Ad-
vo-cate-GeneraI proceed 70 prefer charges
against said parties for their alleged oienses
and bring them to trial before said eommts-
conducted with all diligence consistent with
Justice, the said commission 20 sit Without re-
gard 70 hours. Third, That said commission
establish such rules OF proceedings as may
avoid unnecessary delay, and conduco 70 the
% ~ ANDREW JOHNSON.
The armies had all surrendered nearly
two months before, and every armed
rebel was peacefully at his home, his
Armsin the government ordnance stores.
Peace reigned when this court was or
dered 10 try, not an armed rebel, for
none had ever trod the streets Of the
capital; not a traitor with thousands Of
svmpathizing friends, ready to rush to
arms, endangering by his very life the
peace of the country; but a pure and
innocent old woman, charged with COM
plicitv in the assassination, and con-
victed on the testimony Of suborned
witnesses.
Her trial was concluded on the fifth
of July, 1855. The finding approved
the same day, with undue haste, and al
most certainly, without examination Of
an immense testimony:
EXECUTIVE MASsIOS, July 6-Tbe finding
and sentence in the ease Of ID. Z. Harrelll q.
AtzeruIt, Lewis Payne, and Mary T. surattr
are hereby approved, and IT Is ordered thal
the sentences IN the cases O these parties De
carried into execution, by the proper mlutHrJ
authorities, under the direction ~ inc Secre-
Of War, on the seventh day OF -uAys 800
between the hours Of ten o'clock In the morn
ing and two O'Clock in the afternoon Of Jhht
day. ANDREW Johnson,
President. United states. l