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
double barreled guns found in his house, and thirty cavalry carbines
in his barn in the city; the latter weapons were not loaded, but those
found in his dwelling were. There were also from 14,000 to 15,000 rounds
of cartridges, and some roughly made buckshot cartridges, the number of
which I do not remember. We also obtained some arms from other persons
arrested, I mean the bushwhackers. I do not think that any arms were
found on any of the prisoners at the bar, except, possibly, Grenfell.
It will be interesting to the citizens of Chicago, if not in other
localities, to peruse the following report from a newspaper, which
has perhaps done more than any other in the United States, to aid and
promote the interests and cause of the rebels--a paper, the baneful
influence of which Gen. Burnside well knew, and would have crushed out;
but the editor of that print was suffered to proceed on his dirty and
devilish work, and most industrious has he been. The most loathsome
reptiles, as we see in the economy of nature, have their uses; "the
toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head;" the
spider, cunning and fierce, is not without his uses; the wily serpent
has his office, the viper was not made in vain, and as the mighty plan
of the Great Creator of the Universe is above the comprehension of man,
we may wonder at, but never understand why beings in the guise of men,
were ever formed, who know no patriotism, no gratitude, none of the
nobler attributes of man, and whose mission seems but destruction to his
race, and deadly enmity to his country. The Times, who in these days of
victory and triumph of Union arms, would "steal the livery of heaven to
serve the devil in," and prate of its devotion to the Union, furnishes
us some information it were well for good citizens to know, and which we
will presume is (unlike most statements in that concern) reliable.
THE LIST OF McCLELLAN ORGANIZATIONS IN THE CITY OF CHICAGO.
We extract the following from the Chicago Times of October 20, 1864. It
will do to keep for reference. The comments which preface the list are
from the pen of the editor of that delectable print. The only comment we
need make is, that almost every man whose name is upon the list, was a
member of the Chicago Temple of the Sons of Liberty, in good and regular
standing with the order:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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