Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-05-08
The Wen Tor whom Government Ike,
wards are offered.

Jacob Thompson vas born ia 1910, ia North
Carolina, Was admitted 10 the bar in 1884, and
removed 70 Mississippi soon after. where he act
tied IN the Cbickasaw region. and was in 1883
elected TO congress. In the House be was on
d ferent committees. aud in 1851 declined = re
election. Buchanan made him bis secretary OF
the i~ntetior, and In that position be worked in
conjunction with Floyd and bis fellows 10 their
plots against the government Just before the
ime OF the commencement of the rebellion. be
resigned, on the plea that Buchanan had broken
faith with the south in sending enforcement 20
Charleston Before his resignation. a relative
Of Thompson's. employed As a clerk In his de
partment, embezzled bonds and coupons to the
value of $3.50 900, and absconded Thompson
never restored the stolen property. BE entered
the rebel service as an aid de camp to Beaure
gard, in 1861, aud in June OF that year sent a
letter TO Buchanan 10 which he said he had feared
that that blunderer, Lincoln" would adopt his
IDEAS OF state rights, and so nip secession in the
bud He also remarked that be Mr.. Lincoln)
"bas not the ability and nerve to take care of his
own people, having trampled under foot the con
~stitution and lava Thompson went to Canada
about a year ago, and began his nefarious
schemes to release the rebel prisoners in the wes,
and raise an insurrection in Illinois and Ipdiaua.
These schemes failed through the vigilance OF
the officers in command at Chicago; and Thomp
son, then, no doubt, turned his attention 10 the
assassination plot.
Clement Q. Clay was born in Madison. Ala
bama, in May, 1919, and is a son of Eek Gov
Clay OF that state. he was educated at the uni.
versity of Alabama, adopted the profession of the
law, aud in 1912. "A. and As served 10 the Ala
bama legislature. he was elected United State:
senator in 1853 and 81, and in February. '6l
resigned his office aud took part in the rebellion
first at the south and subsequently as a piotteI
in Canada.
George N. Sanders. the most impudent scoun.
drel in the lot, was formerly navy agent in thi:
city. lie was born in Kentucky, and has beer
an active rebel from the first. His notoriou:
figure in the Niagara Falls Peace Convention
will be remembered He went to England il
1862. where he endeayored to get a lot of iron
clads built for the rebels, but was not success
full, aud returned to Canada. where be has sine,
remained.
Beverly Tucker was born in Virginia, and i.
an editor by profession. having been at one tim,
connected with The Washington Sentinel. II,
was our consul to Liverpool during Buchanan
administration, and in 1850 returned home ant
joined the rebel cause. 1t is stated that one o
President Lincoln's last acts of official clemency
was extended towards Tucker, whom our az
thorities at Portland expected TO arrest. Tucke
denies this, however, and SAYS that at the tim
of the assassination he was making his prepare
tons to 90 to Richmond, and was ''shocke,
and stunned" by the announcement Of the muir
der.
William c.. Cleary was born in Kentucky. ant
in 1860 was a prominent member of the legisla
ture in that state. He joined the rebellion at it
outbreak, and for the past year or two has live
in Canada, and acted as Clay's private secretary