Wilmington expositor. (Wilmington, Del.) 1831-18??, 1832-03-23

ly' delegation from different committees
met Lewiston committee, as that delegation
has been called, collected great variety of
most important facts, and published them un-
: der the sanction and responsibility of their
names. This document, in all RESPECTS wor-
!; thy the notice and consideration Of people
sjealous of their liberty and anxious TO preserve
the lives of their fellow citizens, was never
'!copied. either in the whole OF ia substance, by
r single newspaper of any party, except some
two or three independent presses in the imme-
diate vicinity. But still the report received
3 some notice ffenl thcnewspaper press. 1t was
! illuminated as an e.' pafte statement of polit-
} ical zealots;--it was represented as fabrica-
ltion OF its most important facts, and distor-
Itlon and Misrepresentation of others: and its
'lalthors were lampoened as set of Knighs err
lrant engaged in an enterprise of folly. Will
llt oe believed. that this character was given,
10y the universal newspaper press, to docu-
Iment which was at the time so much entitled
to respect, as well from the facts it exhibited,
as from the calm, dignifed and respectful man.
ner in which those facts were presented, and
which has since been confirmed by judicial ev--
lidence. in every, the most minute particulars
OF its statementsf 1t is circumstance rehec--
ting the highest honor on the authors of that
REPORT thatit contains at this moment the best
account, which has yet appeared. of the Lead
ing facts in the kidnapping and removal of
Morgan. which were then known; and thst ifa
history ofthat transaction should now be COM
Ipiled from judicial evidence. its most import.
lant features could not be more faithfully or
more accurately given, than they have already
been presented by the Lewiston committee
For this reason, among others, the history Of
the removal Of Morgan from his family by the
abuse of legal process: of his being betrayed
under the guise of friendship; Of his being sto-
len in the night time. and forcibly transported
to the banks of the Niagara; of his crossing.
that river and returning. blndfolded and guard
ed; of his.r removal to a citadel of the United
States; of his confinement in dungeon, over
which Aoated that flag which is the nations
lpedge of protection to every one of its citi--
zens, and Of his foul and cowardly assasina-
ltion:--the history of these events will not be
given in the narrative which is now persecu-.
ted. 1t is confined to the purpose. first. of de-
failing. with eKactness, the judicial procee-
Idings which have been had. and OF the efforts
made to institute such proceedings. for the dee
lection and punishment of the offenders; and,
|secondly. of presenting. in one connected view,
such facts as occurred in those proceedings and
efforts which exhibit the difficulties that were
encountered, and expose to the naked eve of
lall who look at them, the radical cause of those
difficulties.
"The first grand jury that assembled in the coun-
Ity OntaflO, attcf the removal OF
Jail of that county, met in November 1926, and being
composed of citizens of the greatest responsibility,
earnestly and zealously engaged in the necessary n-
auiries Into the attrocious crimes which had been
untted The Lewiston committee had not yet assem-
bled and the only Information in possession of the
public, derived from the publication the afida-
Wits before mentioned. The witnesses examined by
this grand jury, were, therefore, those only who resi-
ded in Canandaigua, and were knowing to the single
fact of Morgan's removal from the jail. The delibe-
ratons of the jury resulted in their finding two bills Of
indir nne Nicholas O. Cheshire. Ed
ward Sawyer, Lotion Lawson and John Sheldon, for
conspiracy carry off and kidnap Mofgana and. for
Imprisonment the other was against Nicholas G,
Chesebro, Harris Seymour, Henry Howard, Moses
Roberts and John Scohed, for conspiracy to charge
and accuse Morgan Of stealing linen shirt and silk
handkerchief and subject him TO punishment there
for and prosecution of such conspiracy, the OBJ
tanning warrant from justice OF the peace The
defendants, excepting Scoheld, were arrested, and
+ held to bail for their appearance to answer. N U.
Chesebro was at the me master ofthe lodge in Can"
andagua. He was respectable mechanic, sustain.
ed fair character, had family, good business and
was generally esteemed. Edward Sawyer was asoa
respectable mechanic, with family, good charac-
ter, held commission as colonel Of militia and waB
among the most respectable inhabitants. Lotion Law
son farmer, not of much property, but OF good
character particularly among his masonic brethren,
being as is understood, quite high in the masonic de-
grees and having been lecturer OF the lodges
John Sheldon was poor and disspated man, at the
time confined the limits of the Jail for debt Har-
lis Seymour young of great responsibility.
land connected with the first families in that vicinity
he had beena merchant but had failed in business
Henry Howard was very respectable merchant, La
Itely emigrated from England Moses Roberts was
liourneyman halter, in the employ Of Chesebro as
was John Scoield. his man, Scofeld, absconded
soon after the transaction, and has been heard
of since that time, least not by the officers of jus-
tce the characters and occupations Of these men
are gwen order to enable those to judge for them-
selves whohav repeatedly inquired whether the per.
implicated in the outrages upon Morgan were OF
the lowest classes of society, and such description
thatfh committed those offences, With
out the stmulants of masonic oaths and discipline
> The materials in the of this narrative, viii be
found abundant afford satisfactory onsWer to these
n sIn the mon of December, 1926, grand jury as
= sembled in Monroe county. the county adjoining o
1 h