Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, W.T. [i.e. Wis.]) 1843-1844, 1843-04-22

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could not have achieved the conquest
of national ship. A confederacy
was necessary; and band Of conspira-
tors could not have been formed with
out disclosing to them the object of the
conspiracy. If to Mr.. Wales, with
whom he was not on terms OF special
intimacy. Mr.. Spencer divulged the
existence and contents of the Greek
paper, it would have been strange had
he withheld it from Cromwell; the
companion of his secre. hours, the
sharer of his bosom thoughts. But
there is no need to resort 10 inference.
Three witnesses have sworn before the
Court to the exhibition OF the paper by
Mr.. Spencer to Cromwell, on three diff
ferent occasions. and that Cromwell,
on having the paper explained to him,
expressed his concurrence and satisfac-
ton. These three witnesses could not
have been mistaken as to the identity
of the paper, marked as it was by the
peculiar form of the Greek characters.
They say that the letters were not COM
mon English letters and one of them
states THAT they looked like crosses,
and that the paper had on its back ge-.
ometrieal figures
The testimony of these three wit
'nesses amounts to demonstration that
Cromwell was not only a conspirator,
but rngleader in the Conspiracy
His knowledge and approval Of the
Greek paper, utterly precludes the pos
sibflity of his innocence. BY know
ing aad approving the paper, he in eff
feet Subscribed his name thereto; he
virtually affixed his own proper sigma
ture 70 the reasonable and murderous
league. We need not pause to enquire
whether he saw or had read to him
both pieces of the paper; tor each part,
and every sentence of each part, be,
trayed the existance of conspiracy,
having for its object murder and pira-
cy.
That the name of Cromwell does
not appear on lha Greek paper, sub
tracts nothing from the proof of his
guilt. He was too adroit and wary to
have his own name registered without
disguise. on the guilty record. He
wanted the benefit of the omission Of
the name Of Cromwell, in case the pa
per should be discovered- Doubtless
the name Of Andrews, no where to be
found in the ships papers, but stand
ing in the Greek document next to
that of Mr.. Spencer himself, was inten-
ded't TO designate, not a ficticious per-
son, but his own real and efficient lieu
tenant in guilt. IfCromwell had been
by turns pirate. and SLAYER, it was
probably not the first time that he had
found it convenient to have two names
in use, The'averment Of Mr.. Spen-
Ger that the name of Andrews on the
Greek papar was intended for Small,
was maniiestly mere pretence.. If
il had been designed for Small, the in
sertion Of Smal's own proper name
afterwards on the paper would have
been needless dropping the disguise
SO warily sought; and the suggestion
that Andrews might have been. bis true
name, and Small only the assumed one,
is repealed by the unimpeached witness
who has sworn that he knew him from
his infancy, and his frther and grand
father before him, and tina; he never
went by the name Of Andrews, but al
ways by that Of Small, That no par
ticular post in the medtated massacre
was assigned in the Greek paper to the
person designated as Andrews, while
Mr.. Spencer, Mckee, Mckinley and
Wilson had special stations assigned
them by name, strengthens the cow ic-
ton that Cromwell. and no less char
acter, was the real person thus designa-
ted. Cromwell was. the eldest, the
strongest, and the most cunning of the
conspirators; and their policy required
that he should not be circumscribed;
when the outbreak should occur, by
any particular limits of place or of SER.
vice. He was TO be not only officer Of
the deck, where the main struggle was
expected, but was 10 act throughout as
the master spirit of tumult and of death;
and, clothed with sort of evil ubiqui-
", was to intefpose his malign COUNSEL
and gian, strength wherever they
should NEST be needed. His persIst.ng
IN the declaration of his innocence at
the same time Of the execution, only
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