The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-04-12
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PROM ue LOUISVILLE JOurnal.
A few days ago the subject of letter writer
| by DR.. Hopkins in regard to secret league o.
traitors in the non-slaveholding States under thu
name Of the Knights Of the Golden Circle wa!
brought to the consideration of Congress To
members of the House of Represepta,:.es, Mr..
Chandler and Mr.. Howard, boil or Michigan, at
| tested the existence ~ ,ne letter. 1t has since
haen nuhlshea M tie Detroit Tribune and re.
nnh)isbrE IN some OF the New York papers. II
e,es an account of the success of Hopkins its
author, in organizing branches Of the tressona.
BILE conspiracy in several Of the States, and re.
fers in very plain terms to its object, which is to
rise against the Government Of the United States
and aid the rebels OF the South in its overthrow.
PROFESSIONALLY the letter will now be laid be.
fore the public in form that will preclude all
dispute as to its genuineness For some time
past we have not doubted the existence of a
Northern rebel rganzation-smal, to sure, in
numbers. but fierce and vrulent in purpose. -
We could name several newspapers which, be-
yond all question, in our mind, are conducted
under its influence, and for the furtherence of
its objects. Those papers profess indeed to be
loyal to the Union, for they are afraid of the
swift retribution that they know would follow
any open exhibition of treason but they dill
gently devote themselves to the selection and
publication of such matter as they deem calcu
lated to dispirit the friends of the Union and to
encourage the rebels, and they expect and find
their reward in the liberal patronage of rebels in
Kentucky, Missouri and elsewhere.
The New York Evening Post, one of the
ablest and most respectable papers in the coun.
try, says that the testimony of the two MICHIGAN
members of Congress to the existence of the
rebel conspiracy in the North was not necessa.
~ 1t says that the Knights of the Golden
Circle have for months had their clubs in New
York ciiy-that the noted rebel General. GINS.
tavus w. Smith, and his deputy, Lowell, belong.
ed to it before they joined the Southern army,
1t adds that so confden. were these plotters at
one time of success that they began to indulge
IN threats of vengeance against those who sun
ported the United States Government, and It
refers to the case of a prominent citizen, who.
speaking zealously on all occasions against the
heresy OF Secession was given to understand that
IT not more quiet, he would have his throat cut
The Post says we are on the eve of Northern
insurrection, and that there would have been one
II the popular feeling in that section had not
declared itself with irresistible energy on the
side of the Constitution.
The Michigan members Of Congress affirm that
one OF the effects Of the conspiracy has been to
get some OF the worst enemies of the Union and
Inc Constitution into the army, where they now
are all working upon that high vantage ground
with all their might, in favor of the rebellion,
Inns may account for the conduct. otherwise
nexplicable, of some of our military officers in
nigh positions, and afford some clue to the deem
mystery OF tho frequent PRONUNCIATION, among
me rebels, OF the profoundest secrets of our
military authorities at Washington and else |
where. |