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THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE
PRESIDENT.

- 90 Connect tAae ErestOeHt WIN the
/ Assassination of LfneOIn-rhe Gem
vfeted FeIon, ConOyer, she TOOI of
AshIey, Batter and Ofhers-A Mon
| strOEs PIef 10 DepOse and Destroy
| the President thrOugI Perjury and
CORRUPTION - UnexAsDpted Ytllaiay
/ Of the EmpeReltmeuE Cabal.
We yesterday gave Geographic synop-
sis Of the disclosure Of a plot to suborR
witnesses to testify to the completely Of
President Johnson uith the assassination
Of Mr.. LineolA9s Below we give the dis
closures Of Conoyer, alas Dunham, in full,
showing The steps taken, aud by whom,
which are without PaFelIel in our nation
al history. They come to US in the form of
an official report, from John NJ. Binckley,
Assistant Attorney General, on the appli-
cation Of Dunbau to de President for par
don, on conviction Of perjury, which he
is now expiating in the penitentiary.
STATEMENT OF DUNHAAI.
'WAsHINGroE, July 20, 1S67.-T6 His
EDoeliencg Andrea johnson, President of The
! United States: In applying to your Excel
lency for pardon, had not intended to offer
any disclosures concerning the plotting of
4 your enemies against you, which could be
regarded as an inducement for granting my
| application. instructed nv wife, in pre-
j senting the petition, to refer 10 the conspi
racy Of Ashley q Co, SO far only az might
appear necessary to remove any unfriendly
feeling that might have been engendered
within you toward me by the newspaper
reports that had engaged to assist your
enemies in their nefarious designs. / adopt
ed this reserve IN the belief that the servi-
ces had rendered the government, as GER
| tilted by Judge Holt, the Hon Mr.. Riddle,
and Mr.. Ashley, would in your view and
| judgement, render me deserving Executive
| clemency, and because / desired that it
should appear on the record, and on the
face Of my pardon, that clemency had
been extended 10 me solely in consideration
Of my services to the government, and ex-
clusively on the recommendation of prom
inent Radicals, to the end that when /
should come to expose the atrociOus plot of
Ashley & Co, the Radicals would not be in
a position or able to charge me with doing
SO in consideration Of pardon, or that the
President had pardoned me on condition
Of my duplicating his enemies in an infa-
nous conspiracy.
From the moment I was forced into as
ISOLATION with these traitors and conspira
tors, determined, as soon as l should be
released, 10 place in the hands of your Ex-
cellency, orllay before the public a COM
plete exposure Of their diabolieal designs
and most astounding proceedings This, /
believed, would be my sacred duty, for al
though accused of crime, am not so des.
titute of honor and patriotism as not to
feel some interest in and obligations to my
country.
The interest these persons have felt, and
the efforts they have made, (which would
have succeeded ere this but for the blum.
der Of them and which they still propose
to make formy release, Of g. know were
prompted by the most selfish motives, in
order that they might use me as an instru-
ment to accomplish their devilish designs,
and / shall not therefore be guilty of in
gratitude in abandoning and exposing their
yillainy.
| Ny wife has, believe, explained to you
how Ashley, first through his man Fri.
day, Matchett, and alterward in person
managed TO make known to me his wishes
aims, and purposes, and enlist meas fal
as forced promise would go-in his en-
! terprise. / shall, therefore, only adver
/ here to some things which have been said
and done by the conspirators, which arr
. susceptible of being proved against then
by the most irretragable evidence.
After obtaining nay promise to rende
all the assistance in nay power, Mr.. Ashle,
e ! explained to me the kind of evidence b.
| thought it most advisable to present agains
I | YOU. II must be very brief) He though
7 itwould be very plausible TO prove:
LIST. That Booth had on several occasion
paid you familiar visits at the Kirkwood
This, it was hoped, i might be able TO in
duce some of lie old female servants &
testify to. If this could not be done, the
it should be proved by some of my friend
, who happened to be at the house at th
time, who knew Booth, etc, and saw tn
visits.
ID. That you corresponded with Boott
which should be shown by one or NOR
persons who had taken notes from Boot
to you, and your replies contents unknown
thereto to Booth. The witnesses should b
persons who profess to have been intimat
!, with Booth, and TO have been enlisted b
him to take part in the assassination. 6
81. That the placing of Atzerodt wit
l weapons at the KirkwoOd was only shan
: although Atzerodt was not aware ofit-t
= make il appear that you we're intended as
= victim, and thus distracta all suspicion fror
You Of conniving at Lincoln's murder
I This also, it was suggested, could be prove
by persons who could testify that they ha
been induced to enter into the conspirac
with Booth, and had performed part j
: organizing il, etc, which persons, it was
be understood, were induced to testify unde
an assurance from the government that the
should not be prosecuted for any part the
had taken.
The resolution under which Butler's con
4. mittee was appointed, il will be observe,
n. provides for the protection of such persoI
who are furnished with good excuse Il
not coming forward before-by offering in
\. munity 10 all who were connected with u
y conspiracy who will now come forwal
eif and disclose their knowledge on the su
ject.
4th. That Booth, just after the 4th
It March. stated 70 an intimate friend in Ne
York, whom he eudeavored 10 enlist IA u
conspiracy, that he was acting with q
knowledge OF the ' ice AIenl0Sht3 that
had been arranged to kill Lincoln on u
day of the Inauguration, which would
count for Mr.. Johnson's strange condu
on that occasion, which had provoked
much comment in the press; that You e
u pected the tragedy 10 be enacted then, al
had taken several potations 20 compose al
nerve you for that event and that you We
not so much intoxicated as nervous "a
excited.
/ feel much delicaey in referring to su
,opIos but cannot inform YOU Of 70
enemies plans and projects without bei
4 plain, and am obliged to write in
: great haste to be choice in my language.
} i assured Ashley that | should have
5, difficulty in finding persons of good stau
;" ing and moral character 10 prove tbs
k. matters, and il was agreed that should
IA so as soon as released, A, T, G. -.
~. As an earnest that Possessed the abili
u, 10 d. what engaged, and in order TO 8
~ isfy some Of their party who doubted
80 existence Of evidence TO connect yon vi
"a, the assassination conspiracy, Ashley q
Butler desired and pressed me TO send