Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination

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I just always assumed Booth cursed The Government for suppressing his letter in the newspaper because he believed Mathews would have delivered it. If they were friends or even good friends he must have thought he would have followed through and delivered it or at least handed it over during questioning. I am sure Booth would have had expected everyone in the theatre to be questioned after the assassination.
Booth would naturally distrust the Government, as a Confederate sympathiser he would have heard about all of the arrests that happened during war time. A huge complaint was that Lincoln was a tyrant because of his war time powers and Marshall Law had been in place for years. "Inter arma silent leges." Latin for, "In times of war the laws fall silent." Perhaps his diary entry was written in case he was caught and killed but his diary went public. If the Government had suppressed his letter, robbing him of an explanation to the public, than his diary might cause public opinion to demand more information.