“With all the archives of our government in the hands of your government, do they despair of proving him a rogue, falsifier, assassin and traitor—that they must in addition guard him like a wild beast, and chain him for fear his unarmed hands will in a casemated cell subvert the government?… He is not held for the ends of Justice but for those of torture.… Is no one among you bold enough to defend him?”
—VARINA DAVIS TO HORACE GREELEY, BEGGING AID FOR HER HUSBAND.