The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1866-08-16

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it into the hands Of four State officers,
three of whom were members Of the
reasonable society known as the ''Sons
of Liberty"
They are themen, who, having failed
to overturn the State. Government by
selling the military power, determined
to defeat its operations and bring about
anarchy, by locking up the epublic treas
me and. thus Withholding the money
necessary to carry on the Government.
They are the men who Gorthe purpose
of private speculation, and to discredit
the State before the world, conspired to
prevent the payment of the interest on
the public debt, by Withholding through
a fraudulent lawsuit the money received
from taxes, paid for that very purpose;
This lawsuit was fraudulently smuggled
through the Circuit Court and lodged
in the Supreme Court before the Min
utes of the case had been read and sign
ed by the Circuit Judge, or he had been
made acquainted with its character-and
was hastily decided by the Supreme
Court against the credit of the State.
They are the men who introduced and
organized in this State that dangerous
and widespread conspiracy first known
as the "Knights of the Golden Circle"
and afterwards as the "Sons of Liber-
ty," which had for its purpose the over
throw of the State and National Gov
emments. Not all of them, it is true,
belonged formerly to this infamous or
der, but such as stood on the outside
had knowledge Of its existence, purpo-
ses and plans, and carefully concealing
their knowledge was ready to accept its
work. '.
To accomplish the hellish work Of this
conspiracy, military officers were ap-
pointed, military organizations created,
arms and ammunition purchased in i'm
mcnse quantities and smuggled into the
State, correspondence opened with reb-
el commanders, and military combina-
tons agreed upon, rebel officers and
agents introduced into the capital and
concealed in hotels and boarding hous-
es, and it was deliberately planned and
agreed that upon day fixed, they would
suddenly uprise and murder the Execu-
tive, seize the arsenal and its arms and
ammunition, and releasing 5000 rebel
prisoners in Camp Morton, put arms
into their hands, and with their combln-
ed forces effect a military and bloody
revolution in the State. This dreadful
scheme necessarily involved murder,
conhagration, robbery, and the commits
sion Of every crime which makes black
the chronicles of civil war, and yet its
authors and abettors, with the proofs o.
their guilt piled mountain high, are
again struggling for power and asking
the people to put into their guilty hands
the government and prosperity of the
State. Some of these men who art
high in favor and authority in their par
ty, and are largely entrusted with it
management, have heretofore occupied
offices of great trust and responsibility
in which they proved to be recreant ant
corrupt.
They are the men who, in the Legis
lature of Indiana bitterly opposed an(
denounced every effort to confer tht
right of suffrage upon soldiers in th'
field who could not come home to vote
They are the men who wrote letter.
to soldiers in the army, urging them tt
desert, and assuring them of supper
, and protection if they did.
They are the men who labored will
, devilish zeal to destroy the ability o
the Government to carry on the war b,
depreciating its financial credit. The.
g assured the people that "greenbacks'
: would die on their hands, and warned
s them solemnly against Governmen
e bonds, as a wicked device to rob then
of their money.
e They are the men who refused to con
tribute to the Sanitary Commission 70
the relief of sick and wounded soldiers
upon the lying and hypocritical pre-
. tence that the contributions were con
f sumed by the officers of the army.
They are the men who excused them
! selves from contributing for the relief Q
soldiers families at home by the infa
, nous slander that they were living bet
ter than they had ever done, and by fou
: imputations on the chastity of soldiers
;. wives. ... ...rr 49,.
(, They are the men who declared /
4 speeches, resolutions, and by their vote
: in Congress, that not another man no
4 another dollar should be voted to carr
on a cruel war against their Souther
IS brethren. III r,z
They are the men who in the midst
d the last great campaign of 1864, at tn
v time when Sherman was lighting b
q = way, step by step, from Chattanooga
l. Atlanta, and Grant was forcing Lee bac
v into the defenses of Richmond, in de'
y !. perate and bloody battles from day
,e day; when the fate of the nation hun
I in the balance, and the world watche
e. with breathless interest the gigant
" struggle which was to settle the que'
" y ton Of Republican Government, assen
q blcd in Convention in Chicago and n
70 solved that the war was failure; tn
nt our cause was unjust, and that we ougI
- to lay down our arms and sue for peac
n 1t was throwing mountain into IL
: Confederate scale to make the UniC