Nor did he.
He who conceals a murderer giving him aid and comfort, is himself a party to the crime.
What legal principle is older and sounder than that?
The fanatics overlook it.
The President did not.
Nor will those who consider the facts without passion and seek to judge the case without prejudice.
Apparently, the fanatics intend to convulse the Congress and the country over this matter of the Negro Troops.
Let it not be forgotten that even now the fanatics do not propose that the originally innocent negroes shall be required to point out those originally guilty.
The fanatics demand that the President back down, and that the order for the dismissal of the negroes be countermanded.
Thus, the originally guilty will be forever screened, and the crimes they committed will forever go unwhipt of Justice.