Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1865-07-07


agents employed to commit crimes in the in
terest ofthe rebellion within theUnited States,
and by George N. Sanders, Beverly Tucker,
Jacob Thompson, William c. Ceary, c. G.
Clay. George Harper and George Young
lie maintains that when the fact Of conspiracy
is proved, whatever is done by any one Of the
parties equally affects all, and quoted numer-
Gus authorities 70 support this position. The
fact Of conspiracy he considered fully estab
lished. The remainder Of his argument is
thus sketohed
"The Judge Advocate then reviewed the
testmc ny affecting the Canadian conspirators
and contend that their implication in the
conspiracy was clearly proved. He then pro-
eeeded to show that there was positive proof
on the record to show that the rebel chief,
JEFF. Davis, sanctioned these crimes commit
ed, and attempted, through the instrumental
ity Of his accredited agents in Canada Thomp-
son, Clay, Tucker, Sanders, Cleary, &c, up
on the houses and property Of the people Of
the North, and that Davis, the procurer of
arson, and OF the indiscriminate murder Of
The innocent and unrfending, necessarily re-
sultant therefrem, was culpable also ofendeav
oting TO procure the murder, by direct assss-
inatic n, o the President Of the United States
and others charged with the duty OF maintain
ing the Government Of the United States and
Of surpTessing the rebellion, in which this
arch-tfaitor and conspirator was engaged.
The official papers of Davis, captured un-
der the guns OF our victorious army in the
rebel capital, identified beg ond question and
a shadow Of doubt, aud placed upon your rec
oid, together with the declarations and acts
Of his conspirators and agents, proclaim TO all
the world hat he was culpabe of attempting
to accomplish bis reasonable procuIatiou of
the murder Of the late President and other
chief officers If the United States by the hands
of hired sssassins. He said that the Court
must be sausfed that the several parties nam
ed in the record did combine and conspire to-
gether in Canada to kill ano murder braham
incoln, Andrew Johnson, VIM. h. Seward
and Ulysses s. Grant, and that this agree
ment WIS substantially entt ed into by Booth
and the agents Of Davis in Canada as early as
October, there could not be any doubt
Whatever may be the convection of Others,
my own conviction is that ferson Davis is
as clearly proven guilty Of his conspiracy as
is John Wilkes Booth, by v hose hand Jeffer-
son Davis inflicted the oIal wound upon
Abraham Lincoln
The evidence shows that All of the accused,
save Mudd and Arnold, wee in Washington
on the l4th of April, the day of the assassin
alton, together with John Wilkes Booth and
John II. Surratt that on that day Booth
had secret interview with The prisoner Mary
n. Surrat that immediate ~ thereafter she
went to Surrattsvile to perform her part of
the preparation necessary to the conspiracy,
and did make that preparation that j ohm II.
Surfat had arrived here from Canada, notify
ing the parties that the price to be paid for
the great crime had been provided for, at least
in part, by the deposit receipts of April 9th,
1865, for $3.50 900, procured by Thompson,
of the Ontario Bank, Montreal Canada !;
that he was also prepared to keep watch or
strike blow, and be ready for the contemplate
ed flight; that Atzefdot on the afternoon Of
that day, was seeking to obtain a horse, the
better to secure his own safety by fight, after
be should have performed the task which he
had voluntarily undertaken, by contract in
the conspiracy, the murder Of Andrew John
son, then Vice President Of the United States !;
that he did procure horse for that purpose
at MAYORS, and was seen az o'clock in the
evening to ride to the Kirkwood House, where
the Vice President then was, di mount and
enter. Alta previous hoar Booth was at the
Kirkwood House and left his card, now in ev-
dencc, doubtless to be sent O the room Of
the Vice President, and which was 10 these
words {: Don't wish to disturb you areIyou
at home j. Wilkes Booth Atzerdot, when
he made application at Brooks's in the after
noon for the horse, said to Wechman, who
was going to ride in the country, that he was
going TO get horse and send for Payne
Tie did get horse for Payne, as well as for
himself, for it is proven that on the 18th he
was seen in Washington iding the horse
which had been procured b. Booth, in com
pauy with Mudd last November, from Gardner.
similar horse was tied before the door Of
Mr.. eward on the night Of the murder, and
was captured after the hight Of Payne, who
was seen TO ride away, md which horse il
now identified as the Gardii er horse Booth
also procured horse on the same day, took
il to his stable, in the rear Of the theatre,
where he had an interview with Spanger,
snd where he concealed it; Harold. too, ob-
tanned horse in the afternoon, and was seen
between nine aud ten o'clock riding with
Atzerodt down the avenue from the Treasury,
then up Fourteenth and down + street, pass
ing close to Ford's theatre O'Laughlin had
come to Washington the day before, had
sought out his victim, General Grant. al the
HNuNt u thu HtbItNhI( VI w ar, lnaL ne WlHhl
be able with certainty to identity him, and at
the very hour when these preparations were
going on, was lying in wait at Rullman's on
the avenue, keeping watch. and declaring as
he did a, ten P. M, when told that the fatal
blow had been struck by Booth Il don't
believe that Booth did it, During the day
and night before he had been visiting Booth,
and doubtless encouraging him, and at that
very hour was in position at a convenient
distance to aid and project him in his flight,
as we'll as to execute his own part of the con-
spiracy by INJECTING death uponGeneralGrant,
who happily was not at the theatre, nor in the
city, having left the city that day. Who
doubts that Booth, having ascertained in the
course Of the day that General Grant would
not be present at the theatre, O'Laughlin,
who was to murder Gener,l Grant, instead of
entering the box with Booth, was detained to
lie in wait and watch and support him. Judge
Bingham minutely detailed the circumstances
in connection with all of the accused to show
that they were clearly co-conspirators."
LIE STILL, SoNNY,-A Parkersburg(W ".