Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-04-27
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The knights of the Golden Circle

If our information be correet-and we have
every reason to believe that it is-there is in this
city an organization of 400 men, who call them
selves Z" The Knights of the Golden Circle" and
who are portion OF a similar fraternity In tho
Southern States. Their purpose is to establish
Slave Confederacy, of which Havana is 10 be the
center. If the geographic student will procure
chord of suitable radius, aud sweep q circle
from the Havana harbor as u center, he will ia
clude the Cotton States, aud portion OF Kansas,
New Mexico, Arizona, Mexico aud South Ameri-
ca, together with Cubas magic Golden Circle =
not quite compete-and other West Indian Is
lands. This is the Circle until circumstance SHAH
have included Central Americal The fraternity
is secret association pledged by oath, and Sc
cured 10y the penalty of death. The organization
was perfected six years ago, with the purpose OF
destroying the Federal Government aud estab-
fishing Slave Conlederacy. AS we have said,
there are 400 of this association in this city;
they do not meet twice in one place, or all in
body but seek privacy with all possible precau-
| ton. A considerable number of the members
| are now absent, at the South, and others are
travelling in the Interior of this State 1t is even
intimated that they have journal in their inter-
est which is ndustrously advancing their pro-
gress, with the aid OF several members Of tho
| Legislature.
| Now, with these assertions we deliberately
confront the "Knights of the Golden Circle"
with the assurance that their treasonable purpo-
ses have been most indIlerently concealed. We
know that the assertions foregoing will create
some consternatioR in the camp but u society
with such momentous intention ought to know
how to better preserve secrecy. They ought to
be more discriminate Wh the knVe! Do they un-
derstand that observation
We have, as we fully believe. strong eircum-
stancial evidence that the late President was u
Knight Of the Golden Circle. His expressed
fears of assassination are fresh in remembrance
as we'll rs his pusilanimous and ineXplicable in
action in the most critical juncture of the Repub-
lic The intelligent reader has, also, remarked
the recent Secession movement in Arizona, where
Phil Herbert and Ned McGOwan are conspicuous.
McGowan is now in Washington, in conference
with the principal conspirators, while Arizona is
elamor0us for Secession. Moreover, the agents
of this society are in the Cherokee and ChOctaw
nations; and recently the latter has passed Coun-
Gil resolutions declaring adherence to the seced
ing States. There are, also, agents in Mexico.
Kansas aud every portion of the defined circle.
! Now, with the action of the Southern States in
view, of Arizona and New Mexico, will any ra-
tonal person fail to observe the maehinations of
this organization Like skulking c0nspirators,
they are all around US, meeting in their midnight
cabals walking side by side with patriotic cti-
zens in the street, and insidiously spreading the
venom Of their treason. But they had better be
admonished to choose the darkest sables of night
under which to conduct their orgies, for, IL the
people OF this State or the South fully understood
the purposes of this organization, its members,
wherever discovered, would become acquainted
with popular resentment. There is no doubt
whatever that the agents of this body of conspir-
ators have been the mansprngs of the trouble
at the South, where they have driven the people
to frenzy, and where, if the people understood
their selfish and Infamous purposes, they would
be strung up by the neck. few months ago
some observation was drawn to this subject, but
by cunning management public attention was
soon diverted. In the meantime, the enterprise
did not thrive rapidly in a soil inbosptabe to
treason the Pacific Republic" didn't fructify,
and the Knights Of the Golden Circle were com
PEELED to lie very low But laxty of discipline
enabled the cat TO get partly out OF the mealtub;
aud IL will not be our fault if the entire animal
does not come forth DO these vaorous aud
patriotic" Knights" understand II Is very true
that dead men tell no tales, and that The Coroner's
Oerdi sometimes unintcatiOnaly conceaLS ne seork Of
murder bit HOing men, experimenting death, some
tp,ss prepare q record Which IS useful and ai0niory
TO Moreover science and The body snaeler
are sometimes enabied 10 iearn the effects of deddiy
drpgs from The paiIid people Of Me cemetery. Died.
suddeaiy, a knight Of the Golden Circle g'--S.
+. EUening JouRai.