Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1863-08-11
GEORGE Rickley.

and league of Honor, apd rfesioent y Tue
order, was captured at Louisville, KY,
with all his letters and papers. letter copy
ing books, official seals, roll books, keys tol
passes, degree books. blank commissions
! for organizing lodges, &C. Near ton
of documents were found in his private
quarters, in which are letters from distin-
guished CopperheadS Of every state, all Of
which acquiesce in the plans for breaking
up the union. BY special order Of govern
lnent the names Of reasonable letters are
not allowed to be made public, but, with
other matter Of the kind, will be gathe red
up and used in preparing book which
shall expose the organization Of traitors
with names of the guilty. 1t is the fear
of such exposure which cements the bonds
Of brotherhood among these villains, and
keeps them in . perpetual state Of ferment.
To eyade conviction of treason and the
stigma and sting thereof is now their chief
study and trouble.
| Speaking Of George Buckley, we have
in our possession, Majors Commission,
granted TO one w. H. Toler, signed by
George Buckley, commander in chief ofthe
American Legion Of the knights Of the
Golden Circle, and Major General and
commander in chief of the American lie.
gion and President of the Board of War; j.
is countersigned by Jas. Waldmeyer, Brig.
General and Secretary Of the Board of War
Of the American Legion. The commission
bears date, July 4th, A. d. 1859, and is
sealed with wax, the device being the same
given in the published exposure Of the or
der Of X. G. Cs. 1t bears also the flag
and device as n. ears in the exposures
stars, moon and sun.
We have also 500 Bond, granted to
said W. II. Toler, June 7th 80, No. 9o2,
capital 100000, signed by Geo. Bick-
ley, President. J. Wsldmeyer, Secretary,
with coupons payable annually for inter-
est at 10 per cent, bond payable in 5
years at Merida, Yucatan, and being one
share in inc American Colonization and
Steamship Company OF Yucatan. 1t will
be remembered that this organization was
for Selling Yucatan and making thereof a
slave state in view of holding the balance
Of power between North and South, which
scheme failed, owing to the election OF
Lincoln. Ii was denied so stouily by the
rebels and Buchanan authorities that peo-
pie dorbted the whole thing. The Louis
vile Journal says however that letters
from Buchanan were captured with Bick-
ley's papers, fully duplicating him and his
administration in the reasonable scheme.
AS Copperheads have habit OF deny
ing all such matters, especially rs t., the
existence Of the order known as K. G. C's,
we haze the above papers to show any and
all who may doubt. They are beautifully
engraved; the work must have been an
immense expense for printing these CON-
missions and Bonds.
| As to Buckley, some weeks ago he was
discovered in New York by Government
spies, traced to Pittsburgh, Cleveland, In
| dianapolis and Louisville where he kept bis
office, and where bis vast piles of records
were found in deep vaults secured by iron
1 clad work. Of late and since the war his
time has been exclusively devoted, as his
letters show, to organizing X. G. c. Lee
gions, or circles of the North Western
Brotherhood, as now generally called. He
had visited all the northern states and
cities, and many of the more popuIous
Icounties. His records show the seats of
most Of the circle Legions, with names Of
officers, all Of which will be given in due
time. The work Of disintegrating the
northwestern states and separating them
from New England, with TIE plan of utI-
mately organizing all the states of the
Mississippi Valley into a stupendous Con
federscy, was, as one Of his !otters says, ga
more thar hopeful reality in the womb of
consummatlons." by which he meant, a
fixed certainly. He is now in Fit. Lafay-
ette, prisoner under charge of treason,
where be will be closely held till the courts
have time to hear his case. At first the
Comprehend papers at indianapolis and
] Columbus raised howl over his arrest,
"without any cause but for lis being a
democrat" but they have cayed. His ar
rest was misfortune to The the Confeder-
acy equal to the loss of Vicksburg or fall
of New Orleans. both of which events ma
terially spoile,i bis Mammoth Mississippi
Valley Confederacy.
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