The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-09-12


conveyed thence upon the Ridge Road to
Lewiston. Hero he was transferred TO a third
carriage. and carried down to Fort Niagara,
and confined in the powder house. Corydon
Fox, the driver ofthe carriage from Lewiston,
states that this was on the evening OF the 18th
Sept that he drove to Col. Kings at Youngs-
town, and thence down near the burying
ground, about halfa milo from Fort niagara,
where he left Morgan, and the persons by whom
he had been taken, and returned.-The last wit
ness states also that the only persons whom he
knew in the carriage with Morgan at that time,
were Col. King, and MIR. Bruce, the sheriff of
Niagara.
In relation to this subject, we find the fol-
lowing article in the Roeheator Telegraph, one
of the most respectable papers in the western
district of New York, for the correctness of
which, the Senior editor pledges his personal
/ responsibility:
We have for some months abstained from re-
marking On this painful subject, waiting the is
sue of trials that we were well assured must
vindicate the material fact which we asserted
last January, that William Morgan was taken
to Fort Niagara, murdered and thrown INTO the
riyer The evidence of this appalling ca;as-
trophy are full, convincing and unleniable
/ We speak advisedly. The trials which are
!
( disclosure Of facts which have been known
some iifae to those who are concerned in the
investigation Of this most unhappy transaction
/ So much, however, calculated TO Increase the
/ Impatience of the public, has been developed,
I and much anxiety is manifested to learn the
fate OF Morgan, that we are induced to give
brei relation of what passed, from the time of
his departure from Canandaigua, until the ter
minati9m of his life, at fort Niagara.
! MORGAN wac decovod in fIo afro, IL,
related, from the Jail, ind forcibly put into a
carriage, which was driven with all expedition
to daniord S tavern whore 4 relay of horses was
! IN readiness to receive him. 4 person went
ahead of the carriage furnishing facilities for
passing the captive along to his immediate des-
htination, Fort Niagara. Fresh horses, owned
rand drIyenby men who could not have been
lglserapt OF tie enterprise, were in readiness at
| reasonabe stages upon the Ridge Road From
4 LeWiston he was conveyed to the Fort in the
manner related by Corydon Fox, the young
man who drove, and upon whose testimony ev-
cry reliance may be placed. To render Nor
gan quiet and passive during this jaunt, he was
pied with liquor and laudanum He was TAX
en- TO the Fort and lodged in the Magazine
which had been prepared for his reception. In
the course OF that night he was taken across
! me river and remained in charge, by the shore,
tor an hour and half or two hours, until some
J Ilien
was remanded to Fort Niagara. On the night
OF the 18th, number of gentlemen assembled
at the tavern near the Fort, to concert some
measures for his safe keeping or disposal. One
OF tins number proposed to put him TO death,
ana one or two others concurred. but after a
long debate, it was overruled Other and nr;-
merous projects were submitted, discussed and
rejected; one OF whichwas that he should be TAX
en- over TO Canada and set at liberty The ulti-
mate decision of the council was, that a messen-
ger should be despatched to Rochester informing
the persons who sent him to Niagara, that they
must take the responsibility of disposing of him.
and advising that he should be set at liberty
Upon the receipt Of this message, person was
despatched to Niagara, but we are ignorant OF
=, that persons intention or Instructions If pa
cific they were overrulcd by an individual who
seems, from the beginning, to have resolved to
imbrue his hands in Morgan's blood. At any
rate, on the 10Th September, the miserable man
was murdered and thrown into the river
Facts and circumstances have been combin-
ed, which indicate, unerringly, the number and
names of those who assisted in perpetratino
this deed of darkness. We are not now how
ever called upon to disclose either Time will
soon develope all.
Morgans murder as we have always believed
was the result of accident rather than design
or rather, we mean TO say, that those who took
Fort, contemplated nothing beyond his confine-
ment, or perhapstransportation The arrange
ments, for hurryng through the country, were
briefly made, and few, if any concerned as
agents knew what was intended. When the
! Canadians refused to receive him those who
found him thrown back upon their hands. were
seriously embarrassed. They could not adj
vance and dare not reccde; and at an evil
hour under the influence of strong delusion.
A. hOxy 1aft % -ioJ 10 4
It is some consolation, TO know that this foul
deed was not authorized deliberately. as was at
first represented, by eight Or nine respectable
men. The Macbeth Of this tragedy, had his
two assistants only, and they were very weak.
deuded men But for tho folly and madness Of
of one individual, not a hair of Morgan's head
would have been injured.
The first conspiracy to remove Morgan from
| Batavia, only had, for its object, the disgrace
which attaches TO conviction for larceny
when acquitted upon that charge, knowing
that it would not DO to let the man return to
! his purpose, with the ability TO excite sympa-
/ thy, by tale ofwrongs and expressions, CHEESE
/ bro got him imprisoned on the civil process.
merely to give time for them TO mature the
1 conspiracy, which progressed and concluded in
! the manner We have related
] Thus it will be seen, that, though there re-
mains but little doubt that Capt Morgan met
with 4 violent and unlawful death, vet the
opinion we have heretofore expressed is con-
Grmcd, that the guilt of blood rests not on the
masons of any lodge as body, but on few
misguided individuals, who alone should be
held responsible for this most unjustifablc act.
Farther particulars-Since the above was
written, we have received the Canandaigua
Repository, containing the report of the trials
above alluded to. On the subject, the Editor
(who has heretofore held a neutral course)
makes the following remarks, which we give
just as we find them:
We have for long time believed that
Morgan was dead but we were unwilling
to believe that men, who ever had char
acter in human society, were capable Of the