The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1864-08-25
D. w. VOORHEES, AND THE O.
A. K.
SPICY LETTER FROM GENERAL
CARRINGTON.
VERY SIGNIFICANT DEvEL-
OPMENTS.
TRRAsoNABLE CORRESPONDENCE VEN
TIIATED

Especial Cor. Of the Cincinnati Gazette. !
| INDIANAPOLIS, August 30.
| Some time since copies of the ritual oi
the o. A. X. were found in the Office oi
ID. w. Voorhees,, at Tcrre Haute, which
naturally led to the inference that they
were the property of d. Voorhees,. He
has made a denial to Colonel X. w.
Thompson and to G neral CarriDgton,
which occasioned the following reply =.
That "the people may know the truth.
and Judge for themselves, We lay it be-
fore our readers:
LETTER FROM GEN. II. u. cARRIsGros TO
D. W. VOORHEES,.
IxpIAsAPoLIs, Ind, Aug. I6, 1864.
Hon. ID. w. VOORHEES,, Member u. s.
Congress, Terre Haute, Ind
l have received from you q copy o
vuur letter to Col II. w. Thompson
Provost Marshal, and his reply. The
following laconic note accompanies
them:
GEN. CiRRIsaros: As you published
this falsehood in the newspapers, I shall
expect you to correct II as Col. Thompson
has done. r.-
d. w. VOORHEES,.
The assumption in the above is ground.
less. Your name is not mentioned by me
in my reports, neither have l published
anything about you whatever.
You insist upon my answering your
note to Col. Thompson. The points you
make, are:
LIST. THAT the office in which il ID
said these papers wero found, had not
been occupied by you, or by any one con-
nected with you, or been in any way
under your control since last Noyem-
ber."
I'd. 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"
You desire this, "thst the people may
know the truth" and mot that you attach
any particular Importance to tho docu-
ments."
The papers referred 10 are II2 copies
Of the Ritual Of tho o. A. K, u treason.
able Order, aiming to overturn the Gov
ernmenl OF the United States, Of which
you are o member.
The gentlemen who found "these
papers," told me they were found in your
Office.
The following are "some Of the cir.
cumsta,ces," that led me to suppose they
were correct in the supposition:
Your law library aud Office furniture
were in the Office whero "thcsc papers
were found.
You had declined denomination for
Congress. and the office was reported as
not for rent, as late ss April, 1864.
The Ritual had been issued in the Au-
tumn Of 1868. Your Congressional docu.
ments were in the Office where "these
papers" were found. ,
Your speeches, up TO March, of your
entire Congressional career, with the
"John Brown" speech. were in the Office
where "these papers" wers found.
The correspondence Of Senator Wall
Of New Jersey, under his frank, indors.
ing a proposition to furnish you with 90.
600 stand Of Garibaldi rifles just imror-
ted. ."for which ne could vouch," was in
The ofhce where these papers were
found.
Tho correspondence Of C. L. Vallan-
digham, from Windsor, c. w.. assuring
you sour people will fght," and that
she Is ready" and fixing q point on "the
Lima road" at "which to meet YOU" was
in the ofice where these papers were
found.
The correspondence Of Joseph Ristins,