The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-08-11


Usher, however, was found in the person
of one David G. Miller. Then followed
the arrest of Morgan, his confinement In
the Canandaigua Jail, his release, and his
conveyance to and confinement in Fort Nj
agara These facts were all judicially |
proven, and are undoubted facts, but here,
we may be permitted to cay, the known !
ends and all beyond is conjecture and sur
mise. But Weed says that at certain |
meeting one Colonel William King stated |
to certain men that he had orders frorl De |
witt Clinton "the execution of which re- |
I" qured their assistance" that the party, |
in pursuance of these presumed commands,
took Morgan from Fort Niagara, told him
that they had farm for him in Canada on
which he was to reside, that he was taken
into a boat and when certain point In
Lake Ontario was reached ga rope being
" wound around Morgan's body, to either
" end of which siDker was attached, be
" was thrown overheard" This, he says,
he knows because one of the men concern
ed told him SO in 1S3l-five years after.
Mr.. Weed however, says: that "it is due
I" to the memory of Governor Clinton to
:" say that Colonel King had no such order
8" aud no authority TO make use of his
name"
We doubt not that, perhaps, Tburlow
Weed believes this story. although we can
hardly see how man of such usual good
sense can. Did it ever occur to Weed that
if Colonel King could knowingly and will
fully deceive his friends and associates re-
ativc TO an alleged order from De Witt
Clinton, one of these same men, accused of
abduction and murder, would be very apt
| to deceive Weed one of his bitterest and
most relentless prosecutors or prosecutors
If Whitney told this story to Weed in good
faith and not as jocose remarks Weed
endeavors to explain his own ugly express
| sioDs-why did he not denounce him as
murderer ? For if the story was true,
Whitney was murderer; and if Weed be-
lieved it TO be true, he was guilty of shield
| ing confessed murderer and his accom-
| plices from Just punishment, and made
| himself an accessory after the fact, did she
not ? We further disbelieve 1t, because the
most searching legislative and judicial in
vestigation utterly failed to trace Morgan
after he left Fort Niagara and if thiscon-
| fession had been true such failure would
not have occurred, and Whitney and his
associates would have suffered the just
penalty for such a crime, for tie whole ma
chinery of the courts in western New
York were in the hands of the adherents of
that, twenty years ago, the writer was IA
miliaily acquainted with two of the al
legged abductors and had frequent CONVEX
sations with them relative thereto. They
conversed freely, admitted the arrest, ETC.,
said that it was great mistake to abduct
or attempt to suppress the book as it there
by gave it undue character, most solemnly
declared that the whole proceeding was in
au gurated by few hot heads, and utterly
d5nled.all. intent 10. mprderRs wells as.ilhee
me 1t, we lave since learned, one of them
reiterated during his last days on earth.
But whether or not William Morgan
was actually murdered will probably never
be known, and is, perhaps, of little conse-
quence save as an historical problem, as no
man living can be found who would at
tempt to justify such an act. But enough
of this. Weed proceeds to illustrate the
finding of the body of drowned man,
over year after Morgan's disappearance,
upon which three inquests were held--the
first finding that it was the body of an
unknown person" the second, that it was
Morgan and the third and last, that il was
one Timothy Monroe, drowned some
twelve days before its discovery. Weed
processes to be still in doubt as to the iden-
tity of the body, but says it is unquestion-
able that it had on, when found, Monroes
clothes. 1t was relative to this body that
Weed was said TO have observed that it
was ''a good enough Morgan until after
"election, but Weed now says that what
he actually said was "This lie good
enough Morgan until you bring back the
some you brought away" and this loosely
IN reply to jocose remark. He further
admits that he said that he and another
person had fixed up the body to resemble
Morgan, but this, ALSO was said and under
stood ''jocosely," although his words were
put into the form of an affidavit, printed
in handbill and extensively circulated at
the polls. Mr.. Weed is frank to state that
an important and exciting election was to
take place in few days, that there was an
embi,tered feeling on both sides, and that
he gave provocation enough TO excuse "the
"use of such political weapons as they
" found available" Why not, Mr.. Weed,
allow Whitney the same benefit you claim
yourself, and il your remark was jocose,
why not his The interest of this matter
is fast passing away, hut it forms one of
the most exciting chapters in the history
of the country. To those few, yet linger-
ing on the confines Of eternity, who were
active participators in that contest which
rent families, disrupted churches, broke up
political parties, emptied pulpits, created
personal feuds and stirred up tho very BIT
terest elements of hatred, envy and malice.
this old story may prove interesting; and
to those Of us younger in years and expert
ence, it may serve to show how little a
thing will stir up strife, SANDER and per-
secution, and how even jocose remark
may follow man for years and cast
| stigma on an honored name
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