The papers, and
especially those of New York, are complaining of the court which is to try the
assassins, and their assault is the more severe because it is alleged that the
session is to be secret. This subject is pretty much given over to the
management of the War Department, since Attorney-General Speed and
Judge-Advocate-General Holt affirm that to be legal, and a military court the
only real method of eliciting the whole truth. It would be impolitic, and, I
think, unwise and injudicious, to shut off all spectators and make a “Council
of Ten" of this Commission. The press will greatly aggravate the
objections, and do already.
SOURCE: Gideon Welles, Diary of Gideon
Welles, Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson, Vol. 2: April 1, 1864
— December 31, 1866, p. 305
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