Arizona republican., 1914-07-15
TRIAL OF JEFFERSON DAVIS

the Confederate arms had met with defeat, resentment was felt in the north against southern leaders, and the first person to feel the strong arm of the victors was the president of the con- federacy, Jefferson Davis.
 When President Lincoln was assas- sinated and Andrew Johnson assumed his place, he at once laid plans to ap- prehend Davis with whom he had never been reconciled since an ugly de- bate between them in the house of rep resentatives in 1S45.
 President Johnson proclaimed Davis an outlaw for supposed connection with the conspiracy to assassnate Lin coin and offered a reward of $100,000 for his capture.
 Two miles northeast of Irwinsville, Ga, at early dawn on May 10, 1865, Davis and his party were surprised by a troop of United States cavalry under the command of Colonel Benjamin D. Pritchard. For a moment he thought of fighting his way through the enc my's cordon or of giving up his life in the effort. He changed his mind, how ever, and submitted to his captors. who conducted him to Macon and there Wills n, the highest United States off cer in this region.
 The journey to Macon was made un- pleasant by the jeers of the captors and by the exhibition to the party of President Johnson's manifesto. But Davis recognized that it was the hand of an old personal and political enemy
 From Macon MT. Davis was sent to Augusta, Ga, where Vice President Stephens joined the party as a cap tive. Mrs. Davis and her children ac- companied the prisoner. After some days spent on a ship Stephens was sent to Fort Warren. in Boston Harbor and Davis was placed in a easement in Fortress Monroe.
 In a few days General Nelson A Miles was given charge of the "state prisoner and he ordered irons to be riveted to his ankles. All books ex- cept the Bible Were denied him, and even letters from Mrs. Davis were not allowed to be delivered until after they had been inspected.
 Davis was compelled to remain ir this prison until autumn, when Hor- ace Greeley, Henry J. Raymond Charles O'Connor, and other northern men took up his case, and he was given new and more comfortable quarters Finally, in the summer of 1866, Davis and his family were reunited, and were allowed rooms in Carroll Hall. Finally the charge of connection 1T I the assassination of Lincoln fell to tht ground, and then the policy of pro. ceeding on the charge of treason wa! | taken up. Both the president and Gen
 eral Grant opposed the plan of a tria
 on this charge.
 l On May 4, 1867. Davis was conducted
 to Richmond, where his case was to b
 heard. The following day he was SC | free on bond signed by Horace Gree ley, Gerrit Smith and other former op ponents of the south. The release, | prisoner at once went to Canada t
 meet his family and others, whom tn
 fortunes of war had driven into exile.
 In october Davis was again sum tmoned to appear in the United State
 court at Richmond. The indictmen
 that was drawn up against him wa
 briefly as follows: Jefferson Davi!
 late of the city of Richmond, yoemar
 being an inhabitant and residing with
 Tn the United States of America, wit
 force of arms levied and carried o
 war, instruction and rebellion agains
 the United States and with a grea
 multitude of persons, whose names ar
 to the jurors unknown, to the numbe
 of five hundred persons and upward
 arrayed in a war-like manner-that
 to say-With cannon,- muskets, etc
 levied and carried on the conflict con
 trary. to the duty and allegiance an fidelity of the said Davis against tn l Constitution, etc. When Davis reached Richmond expressed his readiness to be tried, bl the council of the government was nc prepared, and the trial was again post poned The Canadian winter havin proved too vigorous for Davis journeyed to Cuba, and from there
 went to New Orleans and journeye north through the section with whic he was so thoroughly familiar. He r, turned to Canada and embarked wit his family for Europe.
 The case of MT. Davis was Jiropp, on February II, 1869, and after his di ! charge he became president Of a Ii ! insurance company at Memphis. Ten ! He eventually settled at Beauvo \ Miss, where he died on November { 1879.
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