Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1864-09-02

COPPerheRd POrtrRit Gallery-A string o
Northern Peace Traitors.


ICOPPerheed P0rtrait GaIlery-A string O
Northern Peace Traitors.
Our readers will remember the recent tele.
graphic announcement of the capture at the Of
flee of Voorhees,, OfIndiana, of quantity ofth,
ritual of the ''Sons of Liberty" VOORHEES,, i
seems denied that it was his office, and wished
the Federal officers also to make public the fac
of such denial. Thereupon Gen. Carringtol
complied with his request and gave detail o
the facts which induced him to suppose the rit
ual of the IS. l." were ia his own proper pos
session. Gen. CarringtOns letter is dated In
dianapolis, August 18th, and except in prelim
mary statements, is as follows: .i.t.l
Hon. d. W. VooRHEEs.-The papers referret
to are liz copies of the Ritual of the o. A. h
reasonable order, aiming to Overturn the GOV
eminent of the United States, of which you
are member. r,.-.-.. s,.,.. --.. .tiie7 -
The gentlemen who found '.these papers
told me they were found in your office -
! The following are ''some of the circumstan-
ces that led me to suppose they were correct
IN the supposition. ~ s.,- 6s#fs .-
Your law library and Office furniture were IN
the office where s'these papers were found
1ou had declined denomination for Congress,
and the office was reported as not for rent as late
as April, 1864 l. -s...,.l.,
The Ritual had been issued in the autumn ol
1868. Your Congressional documents were in
the office where these papers were found.
Your speeches up to March, of your entire
Congressional career, with the stJOhn Brown
speech We're in the office where these papers
were found ...,,.,-...l. -
The correspondence of Senator Wall of New
Jersey, under his frank, indOrsing proposition
to furnish you with 30 900 stand of Garibaldi RI
fies Just imported, for which he could Youeh, y
was in the office where these papers were found.
The correspondence of G. l.. Vallandigham,
from Windsor, G. W., assuring You Sour peO-
pie will fight, . and that she is ready" and
fixing point on ''the Lima road at (which
to meet you, was in the office where these pa
pers were found. .,.- Isl. f-sff f..-.
The correspondence of Joseph Ristine, Aud
itor of State. declaring that ''he would like to
see all Democrats unite in bold and open re-
sistance to all attempts to. keep ours united
people by force of STEEL y and that s'this was a
war against the Democracy, and our only hope
was the successful resistance of the South ,,
was in the office where these papers were found
The correspondence of E. @. Hibben, who
assures you that the Democracy are fast stffen-
ing up when this war is to be openly declared
as being waged for the purpose of freeing the
negro, (Which will arouse another section Oi
the country to arms, = and declaring ''that Lin
coin bayonets are shouldered for ''cold-blooded
murder, was in the office where these papers
were found. ts-
The correspondence of j. Hardesty, who
wants you to have hundred thousand men
ready as we do not know how soon we may
need them, were in the office where this Ritll-
al was found.
of I L,
asks you ''if you think the South has resources
enough to keep the Union forces at. bay, - and
says that you must have sources of informa-
tiOn which he has not, was in the office where
these papers were found. ,,,asa..
The correspondence of John G. Davis, infOr-
ming you that ceatain New York journal 'sis
wonderfully exercised about secret anti-war
movements, and tremble in their boots in view
of the terrible reaction which is sure to await
them," was in the Office where these papers
were found, .-. sssa-i -
The correspondence of w. s. Walker, who
''keeps out of the way because they are trying
to arrest him for officiating in secret societies.
inclOsing the oath of the X. G. C.'s, prior to
that of the o. A. r., was in the office where
these papers were found.
The petition of G. L. Vallandigham, d. W.
Voorhees, and Benjamin Wood in favor of two
Republics and a united South, was in the Of
fee where these papers were found.
The correspondence of Campbell, who says
the Democracy were once not afraid to let their
purposes aout to daylight" but that ''now it is
deemed best to work in secret, and asking your
consent, was in the Office where these papers
were found. 49, -
The correspondence of E. Etheridge, Clerk of
the House of Representatives, giving official no.
tice that "your credentials as member of the 3eth
Congress 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 Geo. II. PendletOn
which states that Etheridge's plan to organize
Congress, viz; "to elect himself Clerk and Cox
Speaker" though he (Pendleton) will not
facilitate the here-nOminatiOn of any man as Clerk
whose programme is for his defeat as Speaker" {"
suggesting TO you have it whispered in the ear
of Etheridge to reciprocate favors and Opposi-
tion" and do this duthOritatiUeLy but not as from
him, etc, was in the office where these papers
were found '.. t''
The correspondence of j. Mcdonald, who had
an interview with Perkins "in one of his (Per-
kins') lucid intervals, with regard to "the dis
cOyery of the Northwest passage" by Perkins,
for which he claimed the credit ETC., was in the
Office where these papers were found.
And so of B. w. Hanna, who wants good
place IN the regular army; and so OIL dannegan,
and so of W. J. Pierce, who ''Will show that the
Beasts that Lincoln has turned out to be mon
SterS in 1864" and so of Bigger and Develin and
Dodd, etc, whose said correspondence was in
the office where these papers were found.
These are some of aLhe circumstance" that
led me to believe that "these papers, the Ritual
Of the o. A. X, were found in your office.
i looked upon these circumstances as plain
Juror might he supposed to do, and not as a
statesman, and innOcently supposed that such
papers as these, if spared from the fire, would be
in the possession of the owner, and that the Of
fee of the owner would be the place where
these papers would be found.
And yet with Col. Thompson, cheerfully
accept your denial, and so respond as you re-
quest shat the people may know the truth"
Your wek-wisher, b;s 'ae -.t .a
es -iEl HENRY B. DARLINGTON.
If that does not expose string of copperheads
and traitors, we do not know what would
Men who choose such men for partners during
a crisis like the present, are ready for an em-
brace of JEFF. Davis and all the red-handed-
traitors of the South. Let honest men weigh
and consider well before they allow their griev-
ances, their fears or complaints to make them
in any sort the cO-workers with such a nest of
traitors as was exposed by the discoveries at
the law office of ID. W. Voorhees,, the Vallandig-
han, of Indiana