. Civil War echoes : character sketches and state secrets . ke and John B. Henderson; the former, a little, fierydebater, intensely in earnest and radical, and whose sharp,penetrating voice almost invariably emptied the Senate floorand gallery, but withal a man of great legal ability, andmost kindly temperament—subsequently the Chief Justiceof the U. S. Court of Claims; the latter senator, a tall,quiet, conservative, dignified statesman, very much after theorder of Sherman, and who seldom inflicted speeches uponthe Senate; he subsequently married the beautiful and ac-complished daughter of Sen
. Civil War echoes : character sketches and state secrets . ke and John B. Henderson; the former, a little, fierydebater, intensely in earnest and radical, and whose sharp,penetrating voice almost invariably emptied the Senate floorand gallery, but withal a man of great legal ability, andmost kindly temperament—subsequently the Chief Justiceof the U. S. Court of Claims; the latter senator, a tall,quiet, conservative, dignified statesman, very much after theorder of Sherman, and who seldom inflicted speeches uponthe Senate; he subsequently married the beautiful and ac-complished daughter of Senator Solomon Foote, of Ver-mont, who was concededly the ablest parliamentarian and 67 Civil-war Echoes—Character President pro tempore that the Senate has ever had topreside over its deliberations. There were altogether during the war of the rebellionand up to the readmission of the first seceded Southernstate but forty-eight members of the United States Senate. [The biography of Senator Jacob M, Howard, ofMichigan, appears elsewhere in this book.] 68. PRESIDENT LINCOLN AND J. WILKES BOOTH CHAPTER TWO President Lincolns Assassination, and Vice-president John-sons Complicity Therein authors first call upon LINCOLN RECEPTION AT WHITE HOUSE—INAUGURATION IN 1865—LINCOLNS APPEAR-ANCE—WAS ANDREW JOHNSON AN ACCESSORY BEFORE THE FACT ? NEW EVIDENCE OLD SENATE DOORKEEPER GOVERNOR SALOMANs THRILLING ACCOUNT—WILKES booths CARD LEFT FOR JOHNSON SECRETARY STAN- TONs SIGNIFICANT SHRUG tHE FIGHTING ILLINOIS PARSON; HIS TETE-A-TETE WITH MADAME SURRATT DID THE JESUIT ORDER HAVE TO DO WITH THE CONSPIRACY ? OPINION OF PROVOST MARSHAL GENERAL H. H. WELLS—WAS MRS. SURRATts HANGING JUSTIFIABLE? HE most dastardly crimes committed againsta nation or its chief magistrate since the cruci-fixion of Christ on Calvary, were the cowardlyand unprovoked assassinations of PresidentsAbraham Lincoln, James Abram Garfield,and William McKinley—each of whom itwas my great honor and privilege, in per
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