All persons harboring or secreting the conspirators or aiding their concealment or escape, will be treated as accomplices in the murder of the President and shall be subject to trial before a military commission, and the punishment of death.

government of vast tracts of land of considerable value. In popular media
In the 1930s a book written by Otto Eisenschiml accused Stanton of arranging the assassination of Lincoln.

After Lincoln's assassination Stanton remained as the Secretary of War under the new President Andrew Johnson during the first years of Reconstruction. Edwin McMasters Stanton (December 19 1814 – December 24 1869) was an American lawyer and politician who served as Secretary of War under the Lincoln Administration during most of the American Civil War.