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particle of rhetorical exaggeration when in the
General Ewing told the exact truth, without a particle of rhetorical exaggeration, when, in the closing sentence of his argument against the jurisdiction of the Commission, he exclaimed: “Indeed, the position taken by the learned Assistant Judge-Advocate * * * goes to this—and even beyond it—namely, that participation in the Rebellion was participation in the assassination, and that the Rebellion itself formed part of the conspiracy for which these men are on trial here.”
— from The Judicial Murder of Mary E. Surratt by David Miller DeWitt


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