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What would Booth and Davis say to each other?
05-22-2013, 09:56 AM
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RE: What would Booth and Davis say to each other?
Found it. Here's how it reads:

Davis and Booth. J. B. Van Dien, who says he was a clerk in the rebel War Department, writes to the Cincinnati Commercial that last February he was present at an interview between Davis and Booth in Richmond. Benjamin introduced Booth to Davis, and two other young men were in his company. Booth commenced by saying a plan was on foot, formed by parties in the Northern States and Canada to capture or assassinate Mr. Lincoln, and that all they desired was an official recognition by the Confederate authorities, when the project would certain.....(1 line unreadable)...Davis and Breckinridge, says this Van Dien, condemned the plot, and advised Booth to think no more of it. They were willing to leave Mr. Lincoln "to the Providence of a just God to suffer for his great crime." (What pious and conscientious scoundrels!) Benjamin said nothing. Booth's last words on retiring were, "He must die." After he had gone, Davis said "Those fellows came here merely to see the Richmond sights, and their assassination plot is a mere fudge." - Breckinridge and Benjamin laughed, the latter saying "I think so."

Maybe someone who has access to one of those sites that carries old papers can find the original article.

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RE: What would Booth and Davis say to each other? - J. Beckert - 05-22-2013 09:56 AM

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