The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-06-29
Uolt,s periurers.

one of the most distinguishes
men of the country, was in Canada au,
ring the greater part of the Wag, ana
was sought to be connected WIN shU
assassination of President hlncoln':uy
the chief of tho Bureau of military JUS
lice. Joseph Holt, when he was Making
ont a case against ex-President paxis'
senator Clay and others. Lately n o.
Robinson, in q public address at p@
I.onis. referred to this matter, as foiloMs.
Suddenly liars and perjurers were a nrt
nren,ium. government agents were Y ~
In search Of them, and they became T Tbs
heroes o. .f fSe nf famous suppressed tes
t;mnny" in the Bureau OF military
tlmony ~ ~ AS a matter OF
}; asp curiosity have looked over the
I: :taacraft trials and treason trials OF
~ darL and bloody times in England
W en1 con;nare with these proceedings In the
bn reau of military justice, and fhesitate
not TO give the Judgment that gullibiliJy
more yoracious on the part of the recipl-
ents of the testimony, lawlessness more
outrageous on the part OF those who
gathered and drew out the testimony,
periuries more barefaced, yillainous and
prepostereus than the whole of the testi-
mony itself, cannot be found in all his
tory than what is known as the sup
pressed testimony" | cannot here 60
| into the question, but must refer you. 70
my letter to Mr.. Emmons, and still more
particularly to the protest of W. w;
Cleary, appended to which will be found
the "suppressed testimony" examined,
and the evidence carefully taken, in due
form of law, establishing, beyond the
possibility of question, that every, one OF
the three witnesses Montgomery, !Mer.
rit and Conover-not only gperlured
themselves in every statement, but that
iabeir periuries are of the most preposter-
fous character, and impossible to be true
that not a nam of score or more
named by them could possibly have been
NJ Montreal to be seen or spoken to by
them as they represent; that Merritt him
self was not within five hundred miles
OF Montreal during the month that he
pretended to. have been present at con-
spiracies there, and to have heard let
ter read from Jefferson Davis, ETC.; that
Montgomery, who claimed to be Ihomp-
sons messenger, never was in Jacob
Thompson's service at all, be-
ing detected as an impostor the
first time he ever met him; that Con-
over. who swOre to all the interviews
and plots with Thompson in Montreal,
during the memorable January and Feb
ruary, 1865, never saw Thompson, who
was not within three hundred miles OF
Montreal during the time, nor as Como
vers own letter shows, had he any ac-
Quaiutancs with Thompson up to March
Goth, 1865, vixen ConOyer wrote, propos-
inc himself to destroy the CrOten water
works, and was denounced by Thomp
son as a fool
1t was the last named of these witnesses
! (Conoyer, and the absurdest liar of them
| all, through whom Mr.. Holt sought to
faint ,ny reputation as a minister by
asking ifhc had not seen me assOciating
with the so.called cOnspirators at Mon
treal, and got the facile perjurer to
answer, yes" though never have been
in Montreal since in June 1864, at
tended wedding there.
And yet this bare-faced liar swore TO
seeing me in Montreal from January to
March, 1865, assenting to schemes OF
murder, though. "a thousand people knew
I cou.d not have been in Montreal after
June, 1864 This lie was the more dis
graceial to Nh Holt, from having been
suggested by his question to q peIurcr,
whom MI HOi must have known to
have Just perjured himself in swearing
directly the reverse Of what he had
sworn only three months before, IN the
trial of the St. Albans raiders-a peTju-
Ter who within a week or two, swore
that he had ne cr been to Washington
TO swear at all-that some impostor per
sonated Lim-,ud then went back TO
Washington n sWoTe that he swore
ibis in peril If his life from crowd OF
desperadOes, beaded by one of the most
prominent lawy e-s in Montreal Such
was the creature whom Mr. Holt used to
taiu' Ne GUcl laue of n gospel minis
ter.
The other logi employed was Il miser-
able Christian-Atheist, whom Mr.
Emm S knew rs be admitted o myself
and CIV MaCu'iu-before the creature
WAS 81 pped tc he bureau Of military
! j1sli to be wretch who kept bis
oath a-t safe, al I boosted rive dollars
/ h. 81 = 5wea any thing tc suit who
! bad s. una kt ,luCklaI ont OF Fort La
! G.Jc, as Bri5 ii subject, and who, Of
cuurs for the 100 which Mr.. Emmons
! gave b.w az retainer, would swear
! rI;rh lies a7 great. This miserable
! creature. whom q stranger had written
nae to assist i'm lis wretched poverty to
the amount OF so, took adyan-
! t3gc uI the premiums offered for per
| iurcr 20 turn Jenny, and finding thai
samel ng iowa is defamiDg me would
he a acceptal article in the market,
took vantage If that accidental meet
ing {. weave H. in a. one of the heroes
Of his iithy an 3eyilish yellow fevor
romance But when this poor
creature was called back TO Toronto 10
testify in q case before real court OF
justice / banded 10 the Amer
lean consul hi solemn recartati6n OF
! tho lie, 10 he q, N me And yet
remember after I'll this, the wretch was
shipped off from Toronto, where he was
about o be ind cted for half dozen
periui, ;, to fig re as a great witness
before he burea Of military justice.