Assassination of Lincoln Report, 1866 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Assassination of Lincoln Report, 1866 In 1862 Jefferson Davis issued an order that all negro slaves captured in arms should at once be delivered over to the executive authorities of the respective States to which they belonged, to be dealt with according to the laws of such States, and that the like order be executed in all cases with respect to all commissioned officers of the United States army found serving in company with armed slaves in insurrection against the authority of the different States of the confederacy. By the statutes of South Carolina slaves or other negroes engaged in mutiny and insurrection were to be tried by two justices of the peace and three freeholders, associated together, who were empowered and authorized to inflict the punishment of death upon such offenders. On the 13th of June, 1863, S. S. Anderson, assistant adjutant general to E. Kirby Smith, and by his direction, addressed a letter to General R. Taylor, dated at Shreveport, in which that writer says, in answer to a communication of Brigadier General Herbert, asking what disposition should be made of slaves taken in arms, that "No quarter should be shown them. If taken prisoners, however, they should be turned over to the executive authorities of the States in which they may be captured, in obedience to the proclamation of the President of the Confederate States." "Should negroes thus taken be executed by the military authorities capturing them, it would certainly provoke retaliation. By turning them over to the civil authorities, to be tried lay the laws of the State, no exception can be taken." On the 13th of June, 1863, E. Kirby Smith writes to R. Taylor, commanding the district of Louisiana, and says: "I have been unofficially informed that some of your troops have captured negroes in arms. I hope this may not be so, and that your subordinates who have been in command of capturing parties may have recognized the propriety of giving no quarter to armed negroes and their officers. In this way we may be relieved from a disagreeable dilemma. If they are taken, however, you will turn them over to the State authorities to be tried for crimes against the State; and you will afford such facilities in obtaining witnesses as the interests of the public service will permit." Again: Smith, writing to General S. Cooper, adjutant and inspector general, June 16, 1863, encloses two letters addressed to General Taylor, and says: "Unfortunately such captures were made by some of Major General Taylor´s subordinates." Jefferson Davis, in his message to the rebel legislature, January 12, 1863, referring to the proclamation of emancipation of January 1, of that year, says that "by it the negroes are encouraged to general assassination of their masters by the insidious recommendation to ´abstain from violence unless in necessary self-defence.´ Although our own detestation of those who have attempted the most execrable measure recorded in the history of guilty man is tempered by profound contempt for the impotent rage which it discloses, so far as regards the action of this government on such criminals as may attempt its execution, I confine myself to informing you that I shall, unless in your wisdom you deem some other course more expedient, deliver to the several State authorities all commissioned officers of the United States who may hereafter be captured by our forces in any of the States embraced in the proclamation, that they may be dealt with in accordance with the laws of those States providing for the punishment of those criminals engaged in inciting servile insurrection." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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