The Great North-Western Conspiracy in All Its Startling DetailsAyer, I. Winslow
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The Great North-Western Conspiracy in All Its Startling Details
Ayer, I. Winslow
Knights of the Golden Circle; Northwestern Conspiracy, 1864
The trial of the prisoner Cantril was deferred, owing to serious
illness. During the progress of the trial, Anderson committed suicide,
and Daniels escaped. [It will be remembered that H.H. Dodd, convicted
of treason in Indianapolis, some months ago, and sentenced to suffer
the death penalty, also escaped. Neither Daniels or Dodd have been
recaptured.] The evidence before the Military Commission elicited most
of the important facts embraced in this narrative, and therefore need
not be reviewed.
In regard to several of the witnesses before the Military Commission, a
few remarks may not be uninteresting. It has been observed by the reader
who has carefully perused the foregoing statement, that there were
two distinct elements which made up the great conspiracy, viz: The
Copperheads, or Sons of Liberty, and Knights of the Golden Circle, and
the rebel emissaries both in the Northern States and in Canada. The
discovery of the designs, purposes and intents of the former, was made
by the writer of this work, who was aided by Robert Alexander. With such
aid as we were able to control, we obtained and imparted the information
which resulted in the total defeat of the devilish intent of our secret
enemies--the Copperheads; the purposes, movements, ends and aims of
the _Rebels in Canada_, were reported by Maurice Langhorn, aid by
two others. The parties in charge of observing and defeating the two
distinct elements, were utter strangers, and had never met or had any
communication whatever.
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