St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1872-06-14
VOLUME 35---NUMBER 1920.


diatlon of the public debt in any form
or disguise as national crime. We
witness with pride the reduction of the
principal of the debt, and of the rates
OF interest upon the balance, and conf
IDENTIFY expect that Our excellent nation
al currency will he perfected by spec
dH resumption of specie payment
Fourteenth The republican party is
mindful of its obligations to the lOval
women OF America for their noble devo-
tI0n to the cause of freedom. Their
admission to wider fields of usefulness
Is received with satisfaction, and the
honest demands of any class of citizens
for additional rights should he treated
with respectful consideration.
Fittecnth-We heartily approve the
action of Congress in extending amnes-
ty to those lately in rebellion, and re-
joicc in the growth of peace and frater-
nal feeling throughout the land.
Sixteenth - The republican party
proposes t" respect the rights reserved
10y the people to themselves as careful
ly as the powers delegated by them to
the state and to the federal govern
mcnt. 1t diSapprovcs of the resort to
unconstitutional laws for the purpose
of removing evils, by an interference
with rights not surrendered bv the peo-
pie to either the state OF national gov
ernment.
Seventeenth 1t is the duty of the
general government to adopt such meas
uleS lis will tend to encourage Ameri-
can commerce and ship building.
Eightccnth-We believe that the
modest patriotism. the earnest purpose,
the sound judgment, the practical wis
dom, the mc"rIuptihlc integrity and the
illu>tlious services of l'lysSes ). Grant
have commended him t" the hearts of
the American people, and. with him at
our head. We start. to-day. upon ii new
march To victory.
Letter from Richard II. Garrett in y. Y. Herald
Last Hours of Wilkes Booth.
>rATEMENT on THE Man WHO Shell
TERED HIM.
To the editor of the Herald: saw it
stated III Il Washington paper. upon the
presentation of my petition by John L.
Lewis to Congress for payment for my
losses sustained in the burning of my
tobacco house and contents 10y the or
der> of Col. tnm%cr. who commanded
the forces that were endeaNoring to
capture j. Wilkes Booth and ID. {.
Harold. in April, l>G5. "that it would
be rccollcctrd that Booth and Harold
were concealed in this house, and il
had To- be burned to capture them,
leaN ing the inference. it appears to me,
that Booth and Harold were concealed
in this house 10y me OF some of my fam
ilv. If this inference is intended to be
made 10y the editor of said paper. there
Is nothing more erroneous, and to set
the matter right and show that neither
nor any of my family Intended i'll any
way to conceal them or was ut all ap-
priscd ol had amy suspiSiom Of who
these men were. ! will make Il true
statement of the whole transaction from
the time that Booth WAS brought to my
house to the time of his being shot by
one of the soldiers when the house was
on tire. On Monday. the 2lth of April,
lc65. about / o'clock p. m. three men
rode up to my ward. and when | went
ont to them | found they were all
strangers to me. The one in front i'll
uoduced himself as Captain Scott: he
then introduced the two others to me
one aS Lieutenant Ruggles and the
other aS his friend. Mr.. Boyd. He
stated that Mr.. Boyd was Il wounded
confederate soldier; that he belonged
to the former command of Gen. A. =.
Hill. and that he was wounded before
Petersburg Just before the close of the
war: that he and Lieut.. Ruggles were
/, ,,A
scout toward Richmond. and asked me
to keep and take care of his friend Boyd
until the next Wednesday morning, as
he WAS suffering too much to travel
with them. and that they would call for
him at that time.
As ii had always been one principle
of my religion ITO entertain strangers,
especially any that seem to he suffer
ing" | consented that he should remain
and that would take as good care of
him as | could. did not promise this
because he was Il confederate soldier,
but because he seemed to he suffering.
| had before this administered To the
wants of about - wounded federal sol
dier>. who had been captured and
brought To my ncighbOlhOod in Il suf-
tcring state. and ii WAS comforting to
my feelings to see the gratitude eX-
pressed 10y them to me, and to feel that
had helped to relieve the wants of
some of my fellow creatures. Never
shall forget this circumstance it is
craven deep upon my heart. This man,
whom and all my family looked upon
as Mr.. Boyd, wounded confederate
soldier. WAS taken at once into my
house he >uppcd with my family, and
slept that night in one of my upper
rooms. i'll which my SONS, John NJ. and
William H.. and two smaller children
slept. He brcaktIStcd with my family
the next morning and remained in the
house and yard, most of the time re-
clining upon the grass i'll the yard, my
little children being often with him
He had very little To SAY and seemed to
h" suffering. We thought. from his
wound. After breakfast that morning.
my eldest son. John NJ. rode To IL shoe
makers. about one mile from my house,
to have his boots repaired, and while
there he met with Il gentleman of the
nrighhorhond VIII" had gotten 10y phi
waite means il newspaper from Richmond
(thcre being no mails 10 oIr Sectlon)
and this papol had IN II an advertise
ment offering Il large reward T. 10000,
think. J. fnl the capture of Booth. the
murderer of President Lincoln After
my sons return. and while at the din
ner- table. he spoke of having seen this
paper containing the advertisements .-
This man, who Was al the table. re
marked that h, would not have been
surprised if SJUU.U had been offered,
bat he had heard that the man that
committed thr HcG had been arrested
between Baltimore and Philadelphia
and WAS nov III Washington. He hav-
ing before this told me that he was d