A Reply to the Hon. Reverdy Johnson's Attack on the Administration in the Case of Fitz John Porter: Convicted of Shameful Misbehaviour Before the Enemy (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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That a document purporting to be purely legal should call for a response such as this presented to the people of Maryland, requires some explanation.

In the first place we have to say that the Hon. Reverdy Johnson's reply to Judge Holt's review of the Fitz John Porter case is not in any sense a legal document. Mr. Johnson's right, as an attorney, to appear in this case terminated when the evidence and finding passed from the Court to the hands of the President for approval. That the President should place the evidence before the Judge Advocate General for a review, in no wise authorized Fitz John Porter or his attorney to tender an argument, as the President is in no position to hear such, or act upon its suggestions. In the trial the Hon. Reverdy Johnson had not only the last word, in accordance with the usages of courts martial, but had the only word, as the Judge Advocate declined addressing the Court. Mr. Johnson's duties as an attorney terminated with the last words of his defence before the tribunal that tried Fitz John Porter.

Not content with this, however, he appealed, not to the President, but the public, and wants out of the case to make one against the Administration. In other words, the work we seek to answer is not a lawyer's brief, but a political pamphlet - conceived as such, printed as such, seized upon, republished, and widely circulated, to bring into contempt the Administration, which the author does not support.

We find charged that for some evil purpose -

1. The President of the United States packed the Fitz John Porter Court.

2. That he corruptly rewarded the members of this Court for their dirty work by promotion, for which they were not worthy, and but for this service would never have been so promoted.

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