Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-07-27
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'--'''' TIE RTBTI ARcH1TEs.
The official records of the JEFF Davis
administration are now in the hands OF
the administration at Washington. Por-
tons Of them are being published. They
disclose the atrocious means employed by
JEFF Davis and his agents to bring ruin
ard desolation upon the North and destroy
the government. and the connection, close
and intimate. which existed between the
rebels and the democratic party of the
North. One of the most important docu-
ments is an official report from j. Thomp-
son to the Confederate Secretary of War,
J. p. benjamin, detailing his proceedings
as agent of the rebel government. This
report is dated at Toronto, c. W. Decem-
Der Sd, 1864, and the original bears upon
its back the official endorsement OF its re-
ceipt in the hand writing of Mr.. Benia-
min. ---
Much of the report says the Boston
Daily Globe, sis devoted to narrative of
movements Of rebel emissaries. in the EN-
ployment of Mr.. Thompson, to stir up in
surrection in the Northwestern States. and
to carry Illinois, Indiana and Ohio out of
the Union. Mr.. Thompson's report shows
that he had very large amount of gold,
a million or more, 10 be expended in this
and kindred work. In the course Of state
ments as to his efforts to operate upon the
anti-war sentiment of the Northwest, he
speaks of the appearance of that corre-
spondence between ourarends and Hor-
ace Greeley The public would like
very we'll to see the correspondence refer
red to, about this time and if honest
Horace has got copies of any that has not
already been printed, he had better pro-
duce them, and not leave the world TO
conjecture.
Another interesting feature of this re-
port is the account which Mr.. Thompson
gives Of the piratical efforts to capture the
Michigan on Lake Erie, and of the sue
cessful burning of several steamboats, at
St. Louis, by his hired incendiaries. But
the most outrageous scheme disclosed is
the systematic efforts which were made
to burn the cities of the North and West.
Thompson says he advanced money to
Mr.. Churchill Of Cincinnati, to organize
a corps for the purpose of incendiarism
ia that city also that he sent one Col.
Martin TO organize a cerps TO burn New
York city; and he notifies the Secretary
of War that there are rival claimants OF
the incendiary work at St. Louis. New
Orleans, Louisville. Brooklyn. Philadel-
phia and Cairo He says his general pur-
pose is to burn whenever practicable,
and thus make the men of property feel
their Insecurity, and fire them out of the
war
aa The disclosure of these yiperons acts of
the rebels who hid beneath the shelter of
Canada, shows what kind of men Mr..
Greeley went to visit and confer with on
his famous Canadian trip. There he found
the notorious George Saunders, whom he
is now hand and glove with, and who was
present before he Greeley committee in
New York the other day, making his
gasconading boasts of the large MAORI
ties by which Greeley would carry Indiana
and Ohio. Can any true patriot, or any
man who has property ut stake in the
country. be he Republican or Democrat,
look upon Greeley's candidacy at the pres
ent time, the way it was brought about,
and the men who sustain him, and yet
vote to make him President 81