Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-09-01

found.
The correspondence of L, Etherldge,
clerk of the House of Representatives,
giving official notice that your creden-
tials as member of the thirty eighth Con-
gress, have been received and filed IN the
proper office" and for you ITO come ON,
was in the Office where these papers
Were found.
The correspondence of George Ill. Pen
dleton, which states that Etherldges
plan to organize Congress, VIZ TO elect
himself clerk and Cox as speaker, tho
he Pendleton) viii not facilitate the re-
nomination OF any man as clerk whose
programme is for his defeat as speaker"
usuggesting to you to have it whispered
in the ear of Etheridge to Teciprocate
fayors and opposition, and do this au-
thoritatively, but not as from him, &c,
was In the office where "these papers"
Were found.
These are some of the circumstances"
that led me TO believe that "these pa
pers," the ritual of the o. A. X, were
found in your office.
Among the correspondence is also
letter from Vallandigham, dated Wind
sor, C. w, May II, 1864, in which oc-
ours the following characteristic alu-
sion to the military campaign:
"Grant has been badly worsted by
Lee and no mistake. 1t is G.. who has
fallen back six or eight miles and not
| L.. who has advanced from west to east.
! T.. is not and never has been facing north
,poyd hut eastward. G. l.. V.
sherman. too, has been brought to
|
back"
We make room also for the following
| extracts from an address made by Gov.
Morton of Indiana at indianapolis, ON
the Odd inst, in~which he discussed at
length the developments regarding the
conspiracy and the recent finding of
arms and ammunition. The Importance
of the matter is our apology, if any is
needed, for occupying so much space
with it. Gov. Morton said
For eighteen months past, the people
of Indiana have been told repeatedly
that immense quantities of arms and
ammunition have been coming into the
State for theavowed purpose OF resisting
the State and federal authority. This
has been well known to me during the
time, and likewise to the authorities of
| the United States but because until
Z now the people have not happened to
o see with their own eyes the visible evil
= dence of the truth Of these things, it has
not heretofore made a very deep i'm
= preston upon their minds. There has
: been all the while one party to deny the
+ truth of the assertion that the wholesale
4 importation of arms was going on,
: and pronounced it an abolition false
t hood, a mere government lie. But now,
L the people have seen for themselves, and
,. no wonder that they begin to realize
: their great danger.
Let me tell you, Notwithstanding, that
you have not seen all. The arms and
ammunition that were seized in this
city on Saturday are but drop in the
r bucket compared to the immense guam
G tity that has been imported into the
e State in similar manner during the
last twelve or eighteen months. The
e seizure amounts to this Some four OF
!" five hundred revolvers and one hundred
and thirty-fve thousands rounds of am
II munAtion that is to say, one hundred
IS and thirty-flve rounds for a regiment o
e one thousand men. Evidently this large
" amount of ammunition was not intended
simply for the use of the four or five
c hundred revelvers. The revolvers seizeo
e are but part of a lot of thirty thou
sand yet to come, and the large amount
II of ammunition captured is but portion
le of lot of forty-two boxes, containing
,e altogether about two hundred and tel
thousands rounds.
MI cd n
h the perilous condition of affairs, he sale
Ii further - ..H
d Some publications have been made to
,e day of portion of the correspondence
of these men-their secret political cor
l. respondenee. Look at some of thes'
e letters for moment. AS an example
lie take one written by the present Audito
he of the State, and candidate before thu
Is people for reelection to that high ant
re important position. This letter was
written three years ago, not long aftel
e. the beginning of the war, and befor
le the Inauguration of Mr.. Lincoln's anti
IA slavery war policy which these mel
t. now assert to be the great source of dis
" comfort and dissatisfaction to them
al and what does it say to his friend MI
ly Voorhees, "Our salvation is in tn
of success of the Southern arms. If the.
re are crushed down, then woe betide us !
What think you, my fellowcitizens o
n, that, coming from the Auditor of you
" own State ? How do you like his as
is sertion that his salvation and that of hi
ID political friends depends upon the sue
o, cess of the rebel arms If these wer
le his sentiments three years ago, and if h.
1t entertains the same sentiments now, a.
l. is sufficiently evident from the fac
re that he is one of the prominent member
of the Order of the Sons of Liberty
10 would it not be reasonable to infer tina
l. from that time to the present he has
W been assidiously using all his efforts t.
in avert the terrible calamity of havin:
the rebel arms crushed? And let m
n, say to you that the sentiments of MI
th Ristine are the sentiments of the me-
IN with whom he has associated himself il
st a political capacity.