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
A pious man, who had listened attentively to his remarks, sang out
"G----d d----n him."
"For less offenses than Mr. Lincoln had been guilty of, the English
people had chopped off the head of the first Charles. IN HIS OPINION,
LINCOLN AND DAVIS OUGHT TO BE BROUGHT TO THE SAME BLOCK TOGETHER."
C. Chauncey Burr, editor of several Copperhead New York journals, said:
"And it was a wonder that they had a Cabinet and men who carried out
the infamous orders of the gorilla tyrant that usurped the Presidential
chair."
Capt. Koontz, of Pittsburg, an ardent McClellan leader, said:
"If Democrats catch Lincoln's bloody spies among them, they must cut
their d----d throats, that's all. [Applause.] It is the duty of every
American to vote for a peace candidate."
Baker, of Michigan, said:
"Let us hurl that usurper from power. Never till that day comes when the
usurper and his victim meet at the judgment seat, can he be punished for
his wrongs, for his conspiracy against American liberty."
Benjamin Allen, of New York, said:
"The people will soon rise, AND IF THEY CANNOT PUT LINCOLN OUT OF POWER
BY THE BALLOT THEY WILL BY THE BULLET." [Loud cheers.] Mr. Stambaugh, a
delegate from Ohio, said:
"That, if he was called upon to elect between the freedom of the nigger
and disunion and separation, he should choose the latter." (Cheers.)
"They might search hell over and they could not find a worse President
than Abraham Lincoln."
Hon. Mr. Trainor, of Ohio, said:
"He would urge the people to be freemen, and HURL ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND
HIS MINIONS FROM POWER."
Henry Clay Dean, said:
"In the presence of the face of Camp Douglas and all the satraps of
Lincoln, that the American people were ruled by felons. Lincoln had
never turned a dishonest man out of office, or kept an honest man in.
[A voice--'What have you to say of Jeff. Davis?] I have nothing to say
about him. LINCOLN IS ENGAGED IN A CONTROVERSY WITH HIM, AND I NEVER
INTERFERE BETWEEN BLACK DOGS."
"He blushed that such a felon should occupy the highest place in the
gift of the people. PERJURY AND LARCENY WERE WRITTEN OVER HIM AS OFTEN
AS WAS 'ONE DOLLAR' ON THE ONE DOLLAR BILLS OF THE BANK OF THE STATE OF
INDIANA. (Cries of the 'old villain.') The Democracy were for peace."
W.W. O'Brien, of Peoria, also threatened "to try him as Charles the
first was tried, as a tyrant and a traitor, and if they found him guilty
to hang him."
The essential unity of Copperheadism with assassination, appears in the
following remarks of Koontz, of Pennsylvania:
"Shall more wives be made widows, and more children fatherless, and
greater hate be stirred up between children of the same glorious
constitution? IF NOT WE MUST PUT OUR FOOT UPON THE TYRANT'S NECK, and
destroy it, The Democratic government must be raised to power, and
Lincoln with his Cabinet of rogues, thieves and spies, be driven to
destruction. What shall we do with him? [A voice--"Send him here, and
I'll make a coffin for him, d----n him."]"
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