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
"_I was on a Committee of the Democratic party to receive, at the Alton
Depot, some bogus voters that were to be imported into Chicago to vote
at the Presidential election_; they were part and parcel of the tribe
that came from Egypt, and I was one of the _Committee appointed to
escort them to their boarding houses_."
OBADIAH JACKSON, JR., ESQ., Grand Seignior of the Temple, who had been
arrested and sent to Camp Douglas, and while there had written and
signed a "statement," was called for the defence, but it neither helped
him or the defendants.
COL.B. M. ANDERSON--Was born, reared, and educated in Kentucky. He was
a young man of education, ability, and fine personal appearance, and
had he not been a rebel would have been an accomplished gentleman. He
possessed many fine points of character, and was, in our opinion, a much
better man than any of the Northern Copperheads who have been arrested.
He had been in the Nicaraugua expedition, under the fillibuster, Walker.
Col. Anderson was the dupe of others. He committed suicide at the
barracks in Cincinnati, during the progress of the trial. He leaves a
wife and many friends to mourn his death. His history is a sad one. In
any other position than a rebel, he would have been a most useful member
of society. He was not of the material of which the Sons of Liberty was
made up, but aside from that deadly fanaticism which ruined him, he won
warm friends wherever he went. Nature did everything for him, but the
accursed doctrine of Calhoun, consigned him to a suicide's grave, "after
life's fitful fever" of war upon the land of his birth.
CHARLES TRAVIS DANIELS--One of the prisoners, is a native of Harrison
County, Ky. A lawyer by profession, about 26 years of age and very
prepossessing in appearance. He is somewhat remarkable for a rather
strange and singular expression of his eyes. Belonged to John H.
Morgan's command, but never served in any other capacity than as an
enlisted man. He was captured with Morgan during his raid in Ohio, and
confined in Camp Douglas, from which he escaped; was captured at Charles
Walsh's house, on the 7th of November, and escaped again from the
military authorities in Cincinnati, Ohio, while being tried by the
Commission. He has not been recaptured, but has been found guilty by the
Commission.
CAPT. GEORGE CANTRILL--Is a native of Scott County, Ky. Is about the
same age as Daniels. There is nothing remarkable in connection with him,
and of no more than ordinary intelligence. He also belonged to Morgan's
command, in which he served as Company commander; was in Morgan's last
raid in Kentucky, and at his defeat at Cynthiana escaped to Canada. He
was with the other rebels at Chicago during the Convention, and went
with them to Southern Illinois for the purpose of drilling Copperheads.
He was captured in the house of Charles Walsh, on the morning of the 7th
of November last. On account of severe sickness he was not tried with
the other conspirators.
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