Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-01-05
Another Marvellous DiScOveJy-The
Indiana M. r. y.

II will be recolected that, before the Ohio
State election, the Republican press made the
alarming discovery that an extensive organiza-
ton Of the Knights of the Golden Circle. q
reasonable organization, existed 10 this State,
and that its members included most of the
prominent Democrats. Distinct and specific
charges were made on this subject In Marion,
Richland, Crawford, Montgomery and other
counties. After the election the matter under
went judicial investigation, and 1t turned out
that the whole Southern conspiracy" Of the
Knights of the Golden Circle was myth; that
it had no existence save in the malevolent in
tentions of those who had Invented Il TO COM
pass base political ends. The Marion Demo
Gratis who were arrested, after being put to
great trouble, were discharged for "want of tes.
timopy," and in otbtr counties those who made
the charge, upon being brought before the
Grand Jury, had nothing TO say in defense OF
the assertion that would bear any farther legal
investig alton 8aJ s'r
But the Republican politicians are not to be
baffled in their designs.to impugn the loyalty OF
Democrats by the Knights OF the Golden Circle
failure in Ohio and elsewhere. The lndianapo-
lis Journal, sensation Republican sheet, came
out lately with the pretended exposure OF an
other secret, reasonable association, called M
l. OssU
ment and give "aid and comfort" to the rebel
lion. It charges that these organizations exist
"in Madison, Evansville, Indianapolis, Terre
Haute, Rockville, Sullivan, Vincennes, Green
castle, Indiana, and Paris and Nation, Illi-
nois." The editor avows that he knows that
such organizations, with secret signs, watch
words and signals, exist in those places, He
goes farther. He states positively that ''its
m embers are known" and gives what he calls
an exposure of the "objects of the order, u
it's "oficers" and its "signals for calling meet
ings,"
The Gazette of this city copied the Journal
article, and gave it conspicuous insertion
The principal evidence given by the Journal in
support of It's charge, was the statement that
the Hon. John G. Davis, the leader of the al
legged organization, had fled to Richmond, Va.
The strength of this point is somewhat impair
ed by the following reply from the Indianapolis
Sentinel of Tuesday 1t says: . Is
"Now, we will bring the editor of the Journal
to fair and square issue. We will wager him
one hundred dollars, to be devoted to some
charitable institution, that the Hon. John G.
Davis has not fed the State, that he has not
been outside Of the State for the last thirty days.
that when the infamous SANDER was penned
against him he was attending to his business in
Rockville, that If the editor Of the Journal will
20 to Rockville to day he will find him there,
and that if he dare repeat the charges made
against Mr.. Davis In the extracts We have
quoted, that he will be the best coWhided man
that ever received such punishment in lndi-
ana, as the evidence of the presence of that
gentleman at his home. We will not deny that
Mutual Protection Societies have been organ
lied here and elsewhere, but If they have they
are composed exclusively of such republicans
as the Jouynql man, who prefers slander to truth,
filth to decency and vice to virtue. Again We
assert that the Journal editor should substan-
tiate his charges or stand committed as "a dirty
dog and great liar The editor aforesaid, in
attempting to serve his master and screen him
from his obligations to law and duty, has put bis
foot in it, and he will find that slandere, like
chickens, will come home to roost."
The Journal of Wednesday seeks to draw
off from its charge by laying the responsibility
Of the report of Mr.. Davis's flight upon the
telegraph, which misled it in that particular.
II makes no serious effort to substantiate it's
other chargee, and we feel convinced that the
MP. S. will turn out q second edition of the
Knights of the Golden Circle lie. If there are
dislOyal men TO the Union and the Constitution
in the free States, they are not Democrats.
As the editor of the Journal states that he
knous such an organization exists, be should be
forthwith summoned before the frat Grand Ju-
ry that meets, and compelled to substantiate his
charge, or admit his libel and slaDder Gin.
Eng. Jan. J.