The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1864-09-01
CoPPERHEAD CoNsPIRACIEs.

COUoTe0 W He oVtCe OT congressman
/, Toorhces-harp Letter from, Gener
r ri Carrington.
An indianapolis letter in the Cincia
nati Gazette says:
Some time since copies of the ritual o
o. A. X. were found in the office of d
. w. Voorhees,, Of Terre Haute, which nat
urally led to the inference that they were
the property of d. Voorhees,. He ha!
made denial to Col. r. w. Thompson
and to Gen. Darlington, which occasioneG
the following reply:
LETTER FROM GENERAL Ii. B. CARING
TON TO D. W. VOORHEES,.
indianapolis, Ind, Aug. 16, 1864.
Hon. D. ". Toorhees Member, L. s..
Congress, Terre Hdute, Ind:
l have received from you a copy Of
your letter to Col. r. w. Thompson, Pro.
vost Marshal, and his reply. The follow.
ing laconic note accompanies them:
General Carrington-As you pub
lished this falsehood in the newspapers,
shall expect you to correct it, as Colo
mel Thompson has done,
ID. ". VOORHEES,.
The assumption in the above is ground
less. Your name is not mentioned by
me in my reports, neither have pub
lished anything about you whatever.
You insist upon my answering your
note to Colonel Thompson. The points
you make are
1st. That the Office in which is said
these papers were found had not been
occupied by you or by any one connected
with you, or been in any way under your
control since last November"
"a. You desire to ascertain whether
the circumstances connected with the
discovery Of those papers in that Office
led to the supposition that you placed
them there, or was even aware of their
existence Z"
You desire this, "that the people may
know the TRUTH" and "not that you at
tach any particular Importance to the
documents"
The papers referred to are one hun
dred and twelve copies of the Ritual of
the 0. \. h, a reasonable order, aiming
to oyerturn the Government of the Uni
ted States, of which you are a member.
The gentlemen who found these pa
pers, tod me they were found in your
Office
The following are "some of the cir
cumstanccs," that led me to suppose they
were correct in the supposition:
Your law library and Office furniture
were in the Office where "these papers"
were found.
"You had declined denomination for
Congress and the Office was reported as
not for rent as late as April, 1864.
The Ritual had been issued in the au-
tumn Of 1868. Your Congressional doc
uments were in the Office where ''these
papers were found.
Your speeches, up to March, of your
entire Congressional career, with the
y ohm Brown" speech, were in the Office
where ''these papers were found.
The correspondence Of Senator Wall,
of New Jersey, under his frank, endors-
ing a proposition to furnish you with
twenty thousand Of Garibaldi rifles, just
imported, ''for which he could vouch,"
was in the Office where "these paper"
were found.
The correspondence Of C. /. Vallandig-
ham, from Windsor, c. W, assuring you
''our people viii fight" and that "hc is
ready" and fixing point on "the Lima
road at ''which to meet you," j" was in the
Office where 'these papers" were found.
The correspondence of Joseph Ristine,
Au litor of State, declaring that he
"would like to see all Democrats unite in
bold and open resistance to all attempts
to keep our united people by force of
steel, " and that ''this was war against
the democracy, and our only hope was the
successful resistance Of the South" was
in the Office where "these papers'i were
found.
The correspondence of E. G. Hibben,
who assures you that "the democracy are
fast stifening up when this war is to be
openly declared as being waged for the
purpose of freeing the negro" (which
will arouse another section of the coun-
try to arms" and declaring ''that Lincoln
bayonets are shouldered for cold blooded
murder" was in the Office where "these
papers" were found.
The correspondence of j. Hardest,
who "wants you to have that hundred
thousand men ready, as we do not know
how soon we may need them" was in the
Office where this ritual was found.
The correspondence of j. j. Bingham,
who 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 information which he has
not" was in the Office where "these pa
pers" were found.
The correspondence of John G. Davis,
informing you that certain New York
journal sis wonderfully exercised about
secret anti-war movements, and tremble
in their boots in view of the terrible re-
action which is sure to await them," was
in the Office where "these papers" were