The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-09-03
special Correspondence Of the Cincinnati Gazette

Special Correspondence of the Cincinnati Gazette.
IEDENAPoLIs, August 90.
Some time since copies of the ritual of
the 0. A. K. were found in the Office of D.
w. Voorhees,, at Terre Haute, which nat
urally led to the inference that they were
the property of D. VOORHEES,. He has made
a.denial to General Darlington, which occa-
stoned the following reply. That ''the peo
pie may know the truth and Judge for
themselves, We lay it before our readers
LETTER FROM GENERAL H. B. CARRINGToN TO
D. W. VOORHEES,.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND, Aug. is, 1864.
Hon. d. ". VOORHEES,, Member Q. s. Con-
gress, Terre Haute, Ind.
I have received from you copy of your
letter to Colonel R. w. Thompson, Provost
Marshal, and his reply. The following la
comic note accompanies them:
GENERAL CARRINGToN AS you pub
lished this falsehood in the newspapers, l
shall expect you to correct it as Colonel
Thompson has done. D. w. VOORHEES,"
The assumption in the above is ground
less. Your name in not mentioned by me
in my reports, neither have published any
thing about you whatever
You insist upon my answering your note
70 Colonel Thompson.
! You desire this, ''that the people may
know the truth, and mot that you attach
any particular mpcrtauce to the document"
The papers referred to are 112 copies of
the Ritual of the o. A. K, reasonable
order, aiming to overturn the Government
of the United States, of which you are
member.
The gentleman who found "these papers"
told me they were found in your Office.
The following are "some of the circum
stances" that led me to suppose they were
correct in the superstition:
Your law library and Office furniture
were in the Office where ''these papers"
were found.
You had declined denomination for Con-
gress, and the Office was reported as not for
rent, as late as April, 1854.
T The Rit al had been issued in the au-
tumn of u q, Your Congressional docu-
ments VI, \ .'glote Office where ''these pa
Yo, toW let US Ii. 10 March, of your
, entire sword and nc GER, with the ''John
Brown rIaEand .Fere in the Office where
"these ~ were found.
The cor 5pondence of Senator Wall, of
New Jerst under his frank, endorsing a
f proposition to furnish you with 10000
stand of Garibaldi rifles just imported, "for
which he could vouch," was in the Office
where ''lhese papers" were found.
The correspondence of G. L. Vallandig-
t ham, from Windsor, G. W., assuring you
sour people will fight" and that che is
road" at (Which to meet you," was in the
| oHS ibaen oorars v,A~o fo,nJ
+ The correspondence of Joseph Ristine,
Auditor of State, declaring that che would
] like to zee all the Democrats unite iu bold
3 and open resistance to all attempts to keep
ours a united people by force of STEEL" and
that 'this was a war against the Democra-
4 cy, and our only hope was the successful
! resistance of the South" was in the Office
: where these papers were found.
g The correspondence of J. Hardesty, who
/ wants you to have that hundred thousand
B.; men ready, as we do not know how soon
> we may need Them was in the Office
where this Ritual was found.
s The correspondence of j. J. Bingham
: who asks you ''if you think the State has
= resources enough to keep the Union forces
! at bay" and says that "you must have
sources of information which he has not,
s was in the Office where these papers wer,
Y found
! The correspondence of John G. Davis
4 informing you that certain New Yorl
It Journal sis wonderfully exercised about Sc
i cret anti-war movements, and tremble il
o their boots in view of the terrible reaction
t, which is sure to await them was in thu
e Office where 'these papers" were found.
d The correspondence of w. S. Walker
y who ''keeps out of the way because the,
Y are trying to arrest him for officiating il
J. secret societies." inclosing the oath of th
K. G. C.'s prior to that Of the o. A. K.
was in the Office where ''these papers, wer
found.
lie The petition of C. L. Vallandigham. D
of W. VOORHEES, and Benjamin Wood in favo
sr of two Republics, and upiIed South, va
y in the Office where "these papers" Wer
t found.
Is The correspondence of Campbell, VIII
OF says ''the Democracy were once not afrai
Of To let their purposes out to daylight" bu
r that 'snow It is deemed best to work in sc
t. cret, and asking your consent" was in th
a. Office where ''these papers" were found.
G. These are some of 1.-the circumstances
s, that led me- to believe that these papers
In the Ritual of the o. 4. K, were found j
y your Office.
y looked upon these circumstances as
is plain juror might be supposed to do, az
PIT not as a statesman, and innocently suppose
ut that such papers as these, if spared fror
t. the FIRE, would be in possession of the OWL
ly er, and that the Office of the owner woul
ct be the place where these papers would b
be found.
Z And vet, with Colonel Thompson,
ut eheerfully accept your denial. and so re
be spond, as you request, ''lhat the people ma
r know the truth"