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Other contributors to the pamphlet, which was edited by President Langbourne M. Williams of the Southern Churchman Publishing Co., were Sergeant Giles B. Cook of Matthews Courthouse, Va., only surviving member of General Lee's staff, and G. W. B. Hale of Rocky Mount, Va. They indicted Lincoln on many a charge, including the following:
That he was a "deep-grounded infidel."
That "there was nothing abnormal in his career save his well-known heretical views on the authenticity of the Bible."
That he "grossly annulled the Constitution."
That Lincoln's admirers "have produced no special act of greatness performed personally by him."
That he "adopted and favored a policy of exterminating the Southern people by the most cruel and merciless measures and means."
That he was shot by John Wilkes Booth because he had hanged a Confederate naval officer, John Y. Beall, "against all civilized rules of warfare."
That "by his misconduct and brutality in office he forfeited all right to respect from self-respecting, intelligent Southerners."