The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1880-07-07

sell.
allow could the recommendation
have been attached to the papers i'm that
form ?"
ut was attached after the papers had
been returned to Gen. Holt, and after
President Johnson had approved the
sentence of the court. The papers were
made up in legal form, attached at the I
top, and starting from page to page, IA I
legal documents usually do The sig
natures of the commission to the SELL
tence they had pronounced embed about I
half way down the last page hut one
of the sheets which composed the entire
document. The proper place for the
recommendation Of mercy was follow
ing that Of the sentence of the court,
MIR. johnson claimed that no such rec
concentration was ever presented, and
that, after full consideration and any
ioas inquiry into all the points of the
ease, he had begun Ia write his approx
al Of the sentence. Just having half
the signatures Of the commission, thai
approval by the President mort than
filled the remaining half of the page,
and, moreover, Ia the top Of the page
and partially dawn il to the signature.
As the document should now stand
among the records of the war depart 7
ment, the recommendation of the court
should appear behind even the approval
of the sentence by President johnson,
and 50 marked as to show that the file
had been opened, and that the paper
WAS attached after it left the hands of
the president ..r ..t.....f ..r.l..
"Have these facts ever been disproved
before?'
Certainly; in 1872, when Andrew
Johnson was "a candidate for congress
from the state-at-large in Tennessee,
Henry =. Foote, but lately deceased,
was writing an article for the Washing
ton City chronicle. In one of these ar
ticles, and in order to discount the can
di,iacy of ex-President Johnson, Gov.
FoOte attacked him on the Surratt eX-
ecution. President Johnson replied and
brought tai the witness stand General
Joseph Holt, the judge advocate upon
the trial. This was what MIR. Johnson
desired, and furnished him an Opportu-
nifty of writing "a long and conclusive
letter upon the subject, which was pub
lished in the Washington Chronicle,
and to which neither Gov. Foote nor
Gen. Holt afterward gave response,
while President Johnson indicated the
facts, which would constitute the advo-
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