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
Cantrill's trial has been continued; Anderson committed suicide, and
Charles Travis Daniels escaped. The commission found a verdict against
Daniels, but it has not yet been promulgated. The findings against G.
St. Leger Grenfell have not yet been announced officially; but it
is death, at such time and place as Gen. Hooker shall designate. The
commission has been dissolved.
The Chicago _Tribune_, in speaking of the sentence, says:
The trial of the Chicago conspirators has ended, the sentences have been
pronounced and approved, and the court has adjourned. Buckner S. Morris
and Vincent Marmaduke are acquitted and Charles Walsh and Richard T.
Semmes were found guilty of the entire charges and specifications, to
wit: of conspiracy for the relief of the prisoners at Camp Douglas, and
of conspiring to "lay waste and destroy" the city of Chicago. Walsh is
sentenced to imprisonment for five years from November 7th, 1864, and
Semmes to imprisonment at hard labor for three years from the date
of sentence. The findings against G. St. Leger Grenfell have not been
officially promulgated, but it is stated that he is found guilty
and sentenced to death, at such time and place as Gen. Hooker shall
designate. The penitentiary at Columbus, Ohio, is designated as the
place of confinement of Walsh and Semmes. The trial has been long,
mainly by reason of the course pursued by the defense, whose aim
has been to protract it, so as to tire out the perseverance of the
prosecution and the patience of the court and people. The court have
performed their arduous duties with great ability and fairness. The
result will doubtless be satisfactory to the people. It is proved that
this great crime was in all its naked deformity and depravity actually
committed. It follows that the Copperhead statement, published in the
rebel organ in this city, charging that the entire plot and arrest
of these Copperhead traitors and assassins were invented by the Union
Republicans of Chicago as an electioneering trick, was the subterfuge of
conscious guilt trying to cover up its tracks and to rub out the stains
of its own attempted crimes. The same organ now impugns the "competency"
of the Court. It may consider itself fortunate that it has not had an
opportunity to argue the question of jurisdiction on its own behalf
before a similar tribunal. Its opposition to such courts originates in a
feeling of uneasiness about its own safety. For
"Thief ne'er felt the halter draw With good opinion of the law."
REV. DR. TIFFANY UPON COPPERHEADS.
At a public meeting held in Chicago, after the announcement of the
assassination, Rev. Dr. Tiffany, in an able and eloquent address said:
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