A Brave Soldier, a True Patriot, a Noble Man, Defended Against Partisan Malice
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Johnson, Reverdy) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from A Brave Soldier, a True Patriot, a Noble Man, Defended Against Partisan Malice: Reply of Hon. Reverdy Johnson to the Paper Which Judge-Advocate Holt Furnished to the President, Urging General Porter´s Condemnation The preparation of this Reply was delayed until a printed copy of the Record in the case of Major-General Fitz-John Porter was obtained, and since, by professional engagements, which the writer was not at liberty to set aside. It is now submitted in the confidence that the intelligent and impartial reader will coincide in opinion with the writer, that a greater injustice was never done through the forms of a judicial proceeding, than was done by the sentence of the Court-Martial in the case of that gallant officer. Baltimore, July, 1863. To vindicate a citizen unjustly assailed, is the duty of all men who properly estimate the value of individual character and its influence on the public good. The duty is the more imperative, if the services of such citizen have contributed to the honor of his country, and have been rendered with great toil and solicitude, and amidst frequent and imminent perils. To this general obligation in the instance which causes this paper, there is with the writer superinduced the special one growing out of the professional relation in which he has heretofore stood to the officer whose case forms its subject. His first personal acquaintance with Major-General Fitz-John Porter was, when he became one of his counsel on his recent trial. Before then, he knew him only, (and who did not so know him who has followed the history of our sad civil war?) as a patriotic, skillful and gallant officer, giving his days and nights to duty, ever discharging it to its fullest measure, and on all occasions answering the highest expectations of his superior officers, bis friends and country. In his hands the military service had not only suffered no dishonor, but had attained even higher distinction. He had achieved for himself a name of which the nation was justly proud, and a reputation amongst all those of his brothers in arms, who, being themselves worthy of their noble profession, saw, without envy, every manifestation of his skill; and gallantry, and rejoiced at it as enhancing the reputation of the service, and giving the assurance that a patriotic soldiery led, as Porter led his men, could not fail to extinguish the rebellion, restore the people to their former happiness and prosperity, reinstate the Government in its rightful authority, and give it a name with the nations of the world, even brighter and more commanding than it had ever possessed. The high esteem in which, in common with all, the writer held Porter, was, if possible, increased after he became his counsel. And to that esteem was then soon added the closer and even stronger ties of personal friendship. For weeks, seeing him almost constantly, not only in the Court by whom his case was tried, but in private consultation, he had every opportunity of becoming acquainted with the man, and as far as he is capable of judging, with the officer. He witnessed in the former that freedom from vanity, that mildness of disposition with that firmness of purpose which are often united, and a strong sense of honor that won for him his highest regard, and in the latter a devotion to his profession, a perfect acquaintance with all the conflicts in which he had been engaged, a cheerful readiness in rendering honor where honor was due, a mildness of censure where he thought errors had been committed, an ardent love of country, and a confident consciousness of innocence of the charges which he was to answer, which, independent of all other evidence, satisfied him that such charges were in every particular wholly unfounded. When the evidence was all given, he regrets to be compelled to say, that he was further satisfied that they were as malicious as unfounded.
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