In the Senate of the United States. Mr. Howard Submitted the following Resolution. Senate 39th Congress, 1st Session. Mis. Doc. no. 39. January 16, 1866. Read, and ordered to lie on the table and be printed... it appears that Jefferson Davis, late President of the so-called Confederate States, is now held in custody, charged with the crimes of having incited the assassination of Abraham Lincoln... Resolved by the Senate, (and the House of Representatives concurring,) That it be respectfully recommended to the President that said Jefferson Davis and Clement C. Clay be, without unnecessary delay, tried by a military commission upon said charges.
[Washington, D.C.]: n.p., 1866. Broadside. 6 x 9 1/2 inches. First edition. Michigan senator Jacob Merritt Howard (1805-1871), who had worked closely with Lincoln in drafting and passing the Thirteenth Amendment, was a strong supporter of his measures, including "emergency actions during the secession crisis, and advocated 'severe, exemplary, and..... More