Charge to Grand Jury—Treason

(charging grand jury). You have been summoned and sworn- as a grand jury of the United States for the Southern district of Ohio; and, according to the tenor of the oath you have just taken, it will! be your duty to inquire into all crimes against the laws of the United States committed within the district; and, upon sufficient evidence, tq return bills of indictment against the persons accused. It is not necessary, on this occasion, that I should refer specially to all the crimes and offenses defined and punished by the various acts of congress,, and which are. properly within yonr cognizance…