Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-06-22

his testimony and disproye the fnal tes
timony Of Campbell. tIV9l4SA -ais s1'
A Deputy Marshal went to New York
with Conoyer, to keep watch of him, but
Conoyer soon gave him the slip, and he
has not since been seen. tits not likely
that he win ever appear again volunta-
rily, and his escape goes to confirm
Campbelrs disclosures There is now
little room, to sdoubt What has always
been suspected by those who carefully
read the assassination trials, that the
principal witnesses for the Govemmeut
were perjured scoundrels.i 4 .Aeh' q
| From the st. Louis Republican, a-'s''si'..i
| The above states the matter as tenderly
Ms possible for the perjured wretches,
whose lying affidavns have been made
the basis of the most terrible charges
against not only Mr., Davis, but a large
.eumber of other persons, all of whom
|ere, equally innocent with him The
|scoundrel Conover, so.called, though
that name is an alias, tried TO implicate
some half dozen innocent men in n
plot to, assassinate President Lincoln.
We believe it was he, or, if not, twas one
of his confederates, who .swore that DR..
Montrose A. ,Pallen, of this city, was en-
gagged in plot to poison the Croton
water at New York. This infamous
SANDER had such an effect on the Amer-
can Medical Association, Of which DIR.
Pallen was member, that he was ex-
PEELED from it-and upon the testimony
Of villains who are as yet unhung, per
haps only that they have not quite filled
the measure Of their iniquities OF the
Infamous character of these vile wit
nesses. the Medical Society in question
became in a short time so well satisfied
that Dr. Pallen was restored to his mem
bership by an unanimous vote, which
testified 10 the adherence felt at rhe per-
jury Of which he was the victim
1t was by such testimony, as is now
generally believed, that Joseph Holt, the
Judge Advocate General, created q wide
spread impression that Mr., Davis and
others had been engaged in plot to as
sassinate President Lincoln. 1t was on
his representation that President John
son was induced to issue the proclama-
ton duplicating Davis and others. Mr.
Holt probably believed these WITNESSES
but It does exceedingly little credit to
his discernment that he did so credit
them. There are those, who are quite
willing to believe Mr. Holt as bad as the
miscreants who swore falsely; but we
are by no means Of opinion that his ma
Lightly is Of so fendish nature as such
charge would imply.
These charges of assassination and
kindred charges bottomed on the same
rotten basis, have done our Government
no credit-looking at the opinion of even
the present distempered times no less
than at that of future and more calmly
and justly Judging era. Upon the shout
ders of no person rightly rests the odium
of bringing this discredit upon our Gov
eminent and people so heavily as upon
those of Joseph Holt President johnson
cannot now reflect without modification
upon that manifesto which he was in
dnced to sign by Mr.. Hollis representa-
tons Nor can he but feel that he has
been made by the same counsellor to
sanction terrible injustice The best
acknowledgment of such truths would be
the dismissal Of Mr. Holt from place
which he fills so embarrassingly to his
superior and SO discreditably to himself