The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1866-09-08

lie SAID tnat Wn1le In Canada nc went Dy
the name Of James Watson Wallace.
! Mr. Thompson had told Conover, he
says, that he thought the assassination Of
Mr.. Lincoln and the Cabinet would meet
the approval of the Government at Rich.
mond, that was in February, and in April
when Surratt arrived from Richmond,
Mr. Thompson, says Conover. referred to
the dispatches brought as having fur
nished the assent.
Having thus testified to u connection
between the Government at Richmond
and the assassinating in Washington, via
Canada, Conover next testifies to the in
fection plot.
lie says one DIR. Blackburn packed q
number Of trunks with infected clothing.
Blackburn represented himself as an
agent Of the G. S. A., as Thompson did.
Blackburn offered, according TO Conover,
to pay several thousands Of dollars to Mr..
John Cameron, if he would accompany
him 10 Bermuda TO take charge Of goods
infected with yollnw fever and bring
them TO New York city. Cameron, fear.
ing the fever for himself, refused Jacob
Thompson was the money man furnishing
the funds. Jacob Thompson and Mr.
Cleary, Couoycr knows, approved Of and
were interested in this design, and he
thinks Lewis Sanders was present when
Blackburn spoke Of the enterprise.
In June Tor rather January, according
to the correct report Of his testimony,
the idea of poisoning the Croton rcser'
yoir was discussed. Blackburn knew the
capacity thereof, and had calculated the
amount Of strychninc and other poison'
necessary. Thompson thought they
could not get enough poison together
without exciting suspicion. Blackburn
thought he could. DR.. Pallin, Of st
Louis, DR.. Stewart Robinson, Lewis
Sanders, aud Cleary were present at thii
discussion, approved it, aud DIR. Pallir
and others thought it could be managed
from Europe.
Conoyer says he saw Surratt in Cana
da three or four days after the assassina
tion, when, hearing officers were on hi
track, he fed.
Then says Conover:
when Mr. Thompson received the de
spatch from Richmond in April asserting
to the assassination, there were prcscD
Mr. Surratt, General Carroll, of Tcnnes
see, | think Mr.. Castleman, aud bcliev'
there were one or two others in the room
sitting farther back. General Carol
participated in the conversation, and ex
pressed himself as more anxious that Mr.
johnson should be killed than anybod,
else. lie said f the damned--
was not killed by somebody he would xii
him himself His expression was "A wor
Of contempt for tailor, SO | have Away
understood. At this interview it va
distinctly said that the enterprise of a
assassinating the President was fully cor
! frtned by the rebel authorities at Rich
mond"
Booth, says Conover, went By tn
nickname of Pet, and Conover adds, thu
he saw him in conversation with ThomI
son and Sanders, and heard him SO callc
} by Cleary.
/ Conoycr, on the 9th of June, bein
, sworn, was asked if the following test
mony was given by him on October l9tl
=. 1865, in the st. Albans case.
i, lie said Yes, but that it contained tl
testimony of other Wallaces who testifet
, James Watson Wallace on his oath te
, tifies and says:
~ am a native Of Virginia, one Of ii
Confederate States. resided in Jeffc
} son, in said State. | left that State
October | know James A. Scddon W,
Secretary of War last year, &c. &c. =
: "When / was in Virginia lived
: my own house until / was burned ou
: and my family were turned out by Il
4 Northern soldiers.
9 [Signedl j. WATSON WALLACE"
The counsel for the United States ol
jected to the whole of this evidence
: illegal, irrelevant, and foreign to the
sue, and consequently declined to eros
: examine.
The testimony of Merritt was not,
already stated, accusatory Of Mr.. Davi
, but of those persons who, according
Conover, acted for Mr.. Davis, or with h
assent, in Canada.
Merritt says he was introduced to &c
n, Sanders by Colonel Steele; that
: = [Steele] said of Lincoln, that the -
l old tyrant never will serve another ter
if he is elected, and that Sanders the
: said he Lincoln] would keep himse
: mighty close if he did. serve anoth
term.
= "About the middle of February NEE
: ing of rebels was held in Montreal,
which l." says Merit, was invited |
! Captain Scott. Ishould think there we
= ten or fifteen persons present. Amor
: them were Sanders, Steele, Scott, Geory
, Young, Byron Hill, Caldwell, Ford, Kir
= Benedict, and myself. At that meetil
letter was read by Sanders which
said he had received from the Preside
J of our Confederacy,' meaning Jeffers'
, Davis, the substance of which was tn
7, if the people in Canada and the Sout
- erners in the States were willing to su
g nit to be governed by such tyrant
d Lincoln he did not wish to recognize the
y as friends or associates, and he express
u his appreciation of whatever measur
Is they might take to accomplish this obje
u The letter was read openly in the me-
le ing by Sanders, after which it was hand
to those present and read by them, 0
s after another. Colonel Steele, You
d and Hill, and, think, Captain SEQ
le road it. I did not hear any objecti
raised"
Merritt goes on to say that Sand'
then named a number of persons W
"a were willing and ready, as ne said, to