. Civil War echoes : character sketches and state secrets . ts occasion-ally to the academy where as a teacher she appeared before us onthat eventful day. In passing I will say that I was reliably informed thatduring much of President Johnsons term of office, he wasperiodically visited in the White House and instructed inpolitical economy and the science of government by the lateFather McGuire, of the Jesuit fraternity. The well-knownsecrecy prevailing in this order, was, doubtless, the reasonof such choice of an instructor. My informant was thelate MISS EUGENIA WASHINGTON, a liberal catholic,
. Civil War echoes : character sketches and state secrets . ts occasion-ally to the academy where as a teacher she appeared before us onthat eventful day. In passing I will say that I was reliably informed thatduring much of President Johnsons term of office, he wasperiodically visited in the White House and instructed inpolitical economy and the science of government by the lateFather McGuire, of the Jesuit fraternity. The well-knownsecrecy prevailing in this order, was, doubtless, the reasonof such choice of an instructor. My informant was thelate MISS EUGENIA WASHINGTON, a liberal catholic, of Wash-ington, D. C, founder of the daughters of the Americanrevolution/ and my esteemed personal friend. In order to obtain as full and reliable an account as possi-ble of the great criminals in the background in this assassi-nation, if there were any such, I mailed after the foregoingpages had been written, the following letter, addressed tomy friend, hon. henry h. wells, of Washington, ex-Provost Marshal of the District of Columbia, later Governor 92. U. S. SENATOR GEORGE F. EDMUNDS, VERMONT C I V I L - w A R Echoes — Character of Virginia, and subsequently United States District Attor-ney at Washington, D. C, now deceased: My Dear Sir: * * * i am engaged in writing a book, to bededicated to the Preservers of the Federal Union, one chapter beingdevoted partly to the assassination of President Lincoln—my infor-mation being derived from hitherto unpublished sources, and asrelated in my presence by parties witnesses on the scene. As youmay possibly know, some people were firmly of the opinion that theactive conspirators were backed and instigated by other ulteriorsources—(tVas it, as has been charged, the Jesuit order?)—andthat Andrew Johnson, Vice-president, knew of some contemplatedaction in that line, or was an accessory before the fact. * * * jknow also that you took active participation, as did Col. Baker, inthe capture of J. Wilkes Booth. I desire to add to my o
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