Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-10-25
Knights of the Golden Circle
Again.

splratofs is widely spread over the State
! Of Ohio, is no longer to be denied
. The developments being made in Cleve-
land in the progress of the trial of
COURT, of Marion County, is bringing
out the facts. AS none but Democrats
are admitted into the OF der, the revela-
tions are all made by Democrats who
| will not fetray their country, even at
the command Of the Chiefs of the con-
spiraey. The oaths, which bind the
members ''to wade in blood to their
knees to displace Lincoln from his seat
as President, and to place JEFF. Davis in
his stead if probability of success
should appear" has been divulged in
Court by witnesses to whom they were
administered.
These revelations have stirred up an
awful >commotion in the Democratic
camp at Columbus. There are three
Democratic papers published in that city
- the Capital City Fact, which, during
the last years campaign, was the Breck-
inridge organ; the Statesman, which is
the old central organ Of the Dem ocracy;
and the Crisis, edited and published by
Sam. Medary '.@
Ever since the rebellion, the Fuct has
been hot Union paper and has de-
nounced, without mercy, both the States
man and Crisis as accomplices of the
Rebels. The Statesman has, with equal
bitterness, denounced the Crisis for its
attempt to supplant the old organ in the
affections of the Democracy. And the
Crisis has been down upon the Statesman
as only Mcdary could-he; Medary,
claiming, Of right, the sole leadership Of
the party. This triangular war Of these
several Democratic organs has been ra-
ging for the last year.
While the Fact has been charging
that the editor of the Statesman be-
longed to this secret order of conspira-
tors-the Statesman stoutly denied that
there was any such order in Columbus.
But N the trial now progressing at
Cleveland, witnesses testify that the
order numbers nine hundred in that city,
and that the Marion Castle got the OBJ
legations from Sam Medary. When
this revelation was made, Mat Martin,
the editor of the Statesman, called upon
Sam. Medary, the editor of the Crisis,
and told him he was going to publish
the testimony in his paper. Medary
asked him t. say that he, Medary, did
not belong to the order But Martin
refused to do this, and published the
testimony as given in court. Thereupon,
Medary comes out in card, in which
he says, that ''until few days before
the election, never heard of said secret
organization existing in Columbus or
anywhere else, and at first believed the
existence of such society in this city
impossible"
But the richest part of the whole
thing came out the next day. In a
street fight between Medary and Martin,
caused by Martins refusal to comply
with his request, Medary collared
Martin in the street, and an immense
crowd surrounded them. While in
this position, Medary, in his rage, let
cut some valuable secrets. He declared
that Martin ,oas the first Knight erer
made in Columbus, and that the States
man office aoas, for long time, the head
quarters Of the order, anI that he, Me-
dary, toould hare the leaders arrested for
Treason, &c. The whole scene is
graphically delineated in the Fact of
Saturday.
Here We have Martin, the editor of
one Democratic organ, vociferously de-
nying the e:cistence of the order in
Columbus. Then the testimony of
leading Democrats, in the U. S. Court
that there were nine hundred of them
in that city, all sworn conspirators
against the Government. Next the card
Of Medary denying that he had any
knowledge, or even belief, in the posi-
Jifty of the existence Of the order in
Columbus. Then the fight between
Medary and Martin, in which Medary,
in the presence of crowd of citizens,
reveals his perfect knowledge of the or
der, and that the innocent Mat Martin
was the first "Knight" in the city, and
that the sanctum of the immaculate
Statesman was the inner temple of the
precious crew. .a
1t is to be hoped that these revela-
tions, and the due punishment of few
of the leaders, will finally open the eyes
of the honest men who have been led by
party prejudice, to the very verge of
Treason against their country. This
timely revelation of a widely extended
conspiracy will, We trust, make the sue
cess of the order, and the fulfllment of
its horrible oaths impossible. But
who can tell what unholy conspiracies
may be Matching in these secret deus of
traitors?
While the evidence is conclusive, that
none but we'll known Democrats can
possibly gain admission to the order, it
would be the greatest injustice to charge
all Democrats with sympathy in the
movement. 1t was never, probably, in