Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1862-06-13

part toward me, and have violated theil
pledges and faith. Their perfidy anG
treachery are absolutely disgraceful tC
their bogus government, if indeed suct
government can be disgraced.
Some hostile Renaissance of the past
as between other cowardly, mean and
murderous men of this city and myself
will appear in the documents / leave
behind and l request my sons to publish
them, even at the cost Of their lives.
desire to bear my testimony, even in q
dying hour, to the perfdy, doublo-dealing
and cowardly course toward me of that
prince of hypocrites and great embodi-
ment of human deceit, Campbell Wallace
the president of the railroad, and one of
the great lights of secession. Iwarn all
men present, and who may hear of this
statement, never to confde in that man.
He is supremely selfish. notoriously insin-
cere, and would sell his interest in bis
God-which fear is not very large
one-for money
must also bear witness to the treach-
cry and insincerity of William G. Mac
Adoo, who, while meeting me with
smile and protesting friendship, stated to
John Black that l ought to be kept in
prison during this war. This man was
on the verge of starvation, and without
credit, when took it upon myself to
attend the sitting our legislature, some
years ago, and help make him District
Attorney. He since lost one wife, and |
married another owning a gang of ne
groes and a rice plantation in Georgia |
and has turned over to secession. | warn
my family and friends never to confde
in him.
Fellow countrymen, am shortly to
be executed-not for any crime punish
able with death, but for my devotion to
my country, her laws and constitution.
l die for refusing to espouse the cause of
this wicked rebellion; and l glory in it,
strange as you may think it. l could
have lived if | had taken an oath of al
legiance to this so-called Confederacy
Rather than stultify myself and disgrace
my family by such an oath agree to
die l never could sanction this govern
nent, and | trust that no child of mine
will ever do it, Look at the past history
)f the leaders and originators of this re- I
Jellion. There is not a man of unstain- a
ID character to be found among them, I
fancey is a convicted murderer, who
killed his uncle, (Dr. Earl, of South a
Carohna), and instead of going to Eng +
and to intrigue against this government,
lie would have been in prison bad he not .
'een pardoned by the governor of that y
State. Wigfall, Confederate senator b
nd general, fled from bis native State n
# South Carolina TO Texas to escape the s.
Iorrors Of assassination, became a col Il
ecting attorney for large amounts, and n
hen swindled his employers out of their e.
ues, numbering as many as two men in
Texas. Floyd, while governor of my st
ative State, was guilty of swindling the "
tate out Of some thirty thousand dollars 10
f the Washington Monument Fund in Ii
'usted to his care while in Buchauan's u
abinet, in violation of his oath, he stole,
esdes large amounts of bonds, the guns, Ut
'rts and ammunition of the Federal "
Government, to aid in carrying on this u
famous rebellion. Slidell, another in hf
iguer, who never had an honest emo
on of soul in his life, assisted, while in
Ie United States Senate, to pass through u
ongress that great swindle of the age, III
e Houman's Land Grant-a swndle Ill
gigantic and cheat so enormous thai re
e next Congress revoked the grant. nc
enjamin, your Secretary of War, and a
le Of the men engaged in deceiving me, Sc
as expelled from New England col ca
ne for stealing money and iewelry out -
the trunks of his fellow-students he Int
got into the Senate from ID
ouisiana by turning from a Wbig to a DIR,
emocrat, and became the partner of an
idell in the Houmans swindle. Thomo- fro
n, the Mississippi member of Bucban- irr
s Cabinet, while Secretary of the In &c
'ior, was a partner in stealing some Lo
dian Trust Bonds, and when about to tiol
dismissed for the offense, fed from the ma
deral capital by night to avoid pros ant
ltion. Cobb, the Georgia member OF anC
Ichanan's cabinet, speculated in stocks, exI
ng government money, and was de- see
ted in it-and all this was at time Da
en- he was acting under oath, at the thir
I'd of the Treasury department. Da-
, your President, after his State had an
'rowed millions, led the way in the an
rk of Reputation, and in defrauding the
ssissippi's honest creditors. Toombs, and
big man of your government at sole