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
If Vallandigham, if Judd, if Green, if Barrett, and if the many equally
guilty persons released from custody go unpunished, then "Justice, thou
art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason." Not that we
would contradict Judd in the least in aught that he has said against the
Chicago temple, but we would tell him that we know the Chicago temple,
so far from taking the lead in radicalism, was behind the order in
Peoria, in Bloomington, in Dubuque, in St. Louis, Louisville, and many
other places. Give the devil his due. In some places the boldness
of Copperheadism induced prominent members of the Sons of Liberty to
approach members of Congress, with their base proposals to enter the
order.
CHAP. XIX.
EXTINCTION OF SLAVERY--NO CONCILIATION WITH TRAITORS--DOWN WITH
COPPERHEADS AT HOME.
In a publication of this character, it will not be expected we should
review either the causes which led to the great rebellion, with its
hydra heads and its sad consequences; but in closing, and especially
in view of the terrible tragedy which has plunged a nation in deepest
grief, we cannot refrain from saying, that the last most diabolical deed
was not the act of individual madness, of personal hate and passion, it
was the culmination of the hatred by the slave power of the principle
of liberty, and the champion of freedom. It was not because the assassin
felt in his heart a hatred of Abraham Lincoln, but because he, and the
people at whose instigation he acted, hated the apostle of liberty, and
the instrument in the hand of God for the accomplishment of a great and
mighty work. Although it was the purpose of this band of murderers
to assassinate the President and the whole Cabinet, it was not from
personal malice against them as men, but the enemy sought by the
destruction of the exponents of a free government, to give new life
to the expiring representation of the slave power. So antagonistic was
freedom to slavery that it was impossible to permanently embody the
representatives of these principles with a republican government, which
should be perfect in its formation, wise and just in its action, the
hope of the liberty loving people throughout the world, and the pride
and glory of American citizens. Every year since the adoption of the
old Constitution, have discordant elements cropped out, and incidents
transpired, which demonstrated to every rational mind, that as time
rolled on, the accumulation of combustible elements would ultimately
explode, and shake the civilized world to its center.
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