Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-07-30
gAsTOUNDING DEVELOPMENTS
: Terrible Conspiracy !---ss OchOne,
OchOne, Och0neI"

The, .'loyal" papers of yesterday came
freighted heavily with terrible and terrific
idevelopments--far more astonishing and
astounding than the ''reliable information"
generally brought to them by intelligent
contrabands!' They declare that there is
Secret Society known as "The Order Of
American Knights" with its passwords,
ritual, manual signs, grips, etc. The afore-
said Society wickedly proclaims q ''War
Policy 1" in New York, Pennsylvania, and
other States, while in the Western States it
is for "Peace." The ''grand object of this
Organization, say the Christopher Column
bus Abolition discoverers of it, is to ''estab-
lish Northwestern Confederacyr' They
say the Grand Commander OF the Order is
VALLANDIGHAM-who to Abolitionists is
what dark closet is to timid child! PUGH,
Coz, PENDLEToN, and all prominent DEM
ocrats are charged with being connected
with it. The oaths are given, and the trolls
and records are kept as if they were regis
ters, of Literary or benevolent Societies"
Thus, JOHN SMITH is marked down as taking
one copy of The 50. Louis Republican, and
Tow JONES two copies Of The Union, and so
on; but a KEY to this register shows that the
copy OF the papers signifies rifle or two
revolvers, &c. The members obligate them
selves, to each operate in his own State, but
case offarrest or detection, not to divulge
his membership, on pain Of death by torture!
The rules of the Order declare that JOHN
6MITH--the plagued rascal!-must stand to
have his legs twisted, his teeth knocked
down his throat, his hair pulled, his fingers
displaced, his eyes bored out--in short, suf-
fer all manner of malpractice rather than
'1et the cat out of the bag!" And Tom
JONES isexpected, if he gets into tight
fix, to follow the suite of JOHN SMITH ar
uThe password of the first degree is said
to be ''Nuohlac'! The signal of distress is
given as-"Ochone, Ochone, Ochone'i 'How
are We, me boy?" Members are to wear
certain kinds of cravats, with certain kinds
Of pins, and other paraphernalia. Every
man is expected, at least, upon all occasions
TO wear shirt! Rebellion in the North is to
be precipitated; the persons of Governors
to be seized! just think of some bloody
member of "The Order of American
Knights'' taking into his arms the precious
little person of our gay and festive Chief
Magistrate, and running away with him,
perhaps two thousand miles above Cairo,
on the White Nile, in Africa-to the land
whence comes the gigantic Hippopotamus,
which is one of the unique attractions in
the Cataclysm of Wonders! s-soe l5a-ta
And such stuff as this is telegraphed
over the country by Administration
knaves to be swallowed down by Abo-
lition fools! The "loyal" papers say these
developments .leaked OUT too soon Bah |!
The whole thing is one of the humbugs Of
the aworking uppersv of the Abolition
party. The people may look out for such
nonsense as this, from now until after the
Presidential election. The Bleeding Kan
sasngame Of 1856 is to be re-enacted; the
secret Vaccinations of the Secret Societies
Of Abolitionism are to be covered up by
raising smoke about pretended Secret So
cieties in the Democratic party. The De-
n1ocracy can protect themselves, and will
do II at all hazards, against any infringe
meht upon their just rights; but they will
not 60 believing around-"O "Ochone, Ochone,
OckoRei What silly asses, what senseless
gudgeons these Plot Discoverers are!
There Is a Plot--a deep-laid Plot-a de-
termined Plot-secreti in the Abolition ranks
and public in the ranks of the Democracy
tydefeat the reelection Of ABRAHAM LIN
COIN through the ballot-box. One of the
public commanders of this horrible Plot il
Major General JoHN CHARLEs FREMoNT
The other leader Of the Conspiracy to de.
feat the aBlundering Blackguard" to use
GREELEr's language--will be the Nomines
of the Chicago Conventioni The entire
people are In this Conspiracy, and the only
Nsignal of distress manifested, is by th,
ofllce-holders and public plunderers-
alone WIN shout ochone ochone, Ochonel'
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