The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-06-03
AENOuNCEHEETs
The Injured Innocenfs.

The question has been asked whether
there really is such a thing as a hypO-
critic, in the common acceptation of
that word The combination of thor.
Ough abadbonment with q sanity ex-
terror, or OF utter want Of principle
with outward responsibility, it has been
claimed, is as monstrous and impossible
- those fabulous compounds, the mer-
maid, the sphinx and the griffin. It is
felt that man cannot assume q fair out
side without some real prediction for
Il, and that If he is absolutely vicious,
he must have lost both the power and
the taste for disguise.
We should ike to know what such q
doubter would make of the gentry who
have been managing the outside con
spiracy work of the rebellion-such
specimens as Mrs. Surratt, George Sam
ders and Jacob Thompson. Mrs. Sur
ratt according 10 the evidence in the
assassination trial, was rigid in her
church o~bservances through Lent, at
the very time when she was ~concocting
the murderous plot with Booth, Paine
and Atzeroth. When arrested at her
house, she knew him. Raising her
right hand, she replied, Before God, /
DO not know him and have never seen
HIM, and directly afterward asked the
officer 10 wait while she knelt down
and prayed q little" Ii is proved by
several witnesses that Paine had re-
Gently slept in her house, had taken
meals at her table, and been seen in IA
miliar conversation with her. George
Sanders, when the reward was first Of
iered for his apprehension for compiled
~ in the assassination, wrote from
Montreal 10 the Herald Of this city,
thst he had known nothing Of Booths
plans, and had never even seen the
man Yet il has been testified on this
trial by the witnesses that they saw
this same George Sanders converting
and drinking con6dentially with Booth
In Montreal last Autumn.
Jacob Thompson, in his letter to the
7H5lHc, which we have published, |
styles himself "a prosecuted man,
talks about his honor" and exhibits
"a great deal Of virtuous indignation at
the fact that he has been thought ca
pable Of privity with any attempt upon
the life OF President Lincoln. In the
trial of DIR. Blackburn, which has Just
taken place at Toronto, for tho yellow
fever conspiracy, the main witness,
Hyams, testified hat among the goods
dispatched to communicate the yellow
fever. was a trunk full of infected
shirts. 20 be sold at an auction in
Washington, and a valise designed as
o. present 70 President Lincoln That
certainly meant murder. Hyams also
testified that after taking the articles
60 Washington, and returning 10 Cana
Ga, he asked Blackburn for money,
and was sent by him TO Jacob Thomp-
son, who would not pay until he had
received satisfactory evidence that
the goods had been disposed of"
Soon Efterward he received from
Thompson q check Of fifty dollars on
the Ontario Bank. All this occurred
about q year ago. Cleary. the man for
whom our government has offered a
reward Of ten thousand dollars, on
account Of his supposed connection
with the assassination Of President
Lincoln, makes affidavit that he roomed
with Jacob Thompson, in Montreal,
from January TO April last-that DR..
Blackburn boarded at the same hotel.
snd that Blackburn told him that he
expected 70 get..money from Thompson
To mBke smother attempt to communi- |
cate the yellOw-fever injection. Thomp-
son started for Halifax, togo to Europe,
on the 10th Of April, four DAYS preyi-
ous 10 the assassination Of the President
sud blackburn was then told by
Thompson that he would not furnish
b dollar for any new attempt Now,
whether Thompson declined further
ing this second attempt because he
knew that the assassination Mot was
about 10 be contaminated. and that IL
would render the yellow fever enter.
PRISE superhuous, OF whether il was
from a feeling, as he told Blackburn. /
that persistence in this e~nterprise
would make him and his family infa-
NOUS, is OF very little consequence. II
BE- proved conclusively that Jacob
Thompson was cognizant Of the FIRST at
tempt 20 intest Washington and t1e
White House with a deadly disease a,d
hat he furnished money to ltbe msn
who had been employed by Blackburn
90 do the work. The man who would
once lend himself to such business
could scruple at nothing, however dia-
bohcaL 81 this Jacob Thompson IA
oes the world with protestations about
hs responsibility and honor
Thus do al traitors.
Their rurfaion dad consist m void.
lh~ are as uuoceut a. grace ftsef"
The virus Of this rebellion seems ~
have rotted the entire moral nature 81