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
Who is S. Corning Judd, who testifies before the Commission that _"the
organization_ (Sons of Liberty) _was being used in Indiana and Missouri
for improper purposes"?_ Who is he that says the organization in Chicago
"was looked upon by many of the leaders with great distrust; many of
those connected with the order in Chicago were radical, extreme men, and
understood to be men of little standing or character"? that one of the
delegates from Missouri stated his belief that the order in that State
was in favor of "giving aid and comfort to the Confederates"? When Judd
made these statements upon the stand, all loyal papers, with one accord,
declared that the evidence fully warranted the arrests, in the manner
and at the time they were made. No fair-minded man _then_ could come to
any other conclusion. Who, we ask, is S. Corning Judd? Stump-speakers,
last fall, would have said that he was the "Democratic" candidate for
Lieutenant Governor--and so he was. The Gubernatorial ticket bore
the name of James C. Robinson for Governor, and S. Corning Judd for
Lieutenant Governor--the former a man who, in Congress, voted against
"fighting, crushing, and destroying" the rebellion. Both Robinson and
Judd were Sons of Liberty, and to them Copperheads fondly turned, and
had they carried the State, anarchy and bloodshed would have been the
consequence; and, indeed, in the expressed opinion of Judge Morris, "had
they carried the State, he cared not who might be President, for they
would possess the reins of the General Government." S. Corning Judd
sought to serve his own ends by controlling the Sons of Liberty, and
failing in this, he gave the cold-shoulder to his Brig.-General (Walsh),
when, in consequence of executing the edicts of the order, he found
himself a close prisoner for the horrid doctrine of secession; _he_ must
be tried and convicted, but the Grand Commander, S. Corning Judd, and
the Supreme Commander, C.L. Vallandigham, and the Past Grand Commander,
or Major-General, Amos Green, each, severally appear upon the stand
against him, and they permitted to go scott free. O, cursed doctrine of
secession!
"So stretch'd out huge in length the arch-fiend lay,
Chain'd on the burning lake; nor ever thence
Had risen or heaved his head, but that the will
And high permission of All-ruling Heaven
Left him at large to his own dark designs;
That with reiterated crimes he might
Heap on himself damnation, while he sought
Evil to others."
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