On the ninth day of May the Commission met but only to adjourn that the prisoners might employ counsel. On the same day, two of its members, General Cyrus B. Comstock and Colonel Horace Porter-names to be noted for what may have been a heroic refusal-were relieved from the duty of sitting upon the Commission, and two other officers substituted in their stead. So that Tuesday, May 10th, 1865-twenty-six days after the assassination, a period much too short for the intense excitement and wild desire for vengeance to subside-may properly be designated as the first session of the Court. On the...