The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-08-10
"A GOOD ENOUGH MORGAN"
ANOTHER LETTER FROM MR.. THURLow WEED
SOME ADDITIONAL FACTS.

ANOTHER LETTER FROM MR.. THURLow WEED
SOME ADDITIONAL FACTS.
To THE EDITOR THE HERALD
The kindly editorial with which you accompanied my
letter this mornings HERALD is suggestive OF ante
pated criticisms 10 which induced to submit
brief reply That no adequate cause" existed for the
murder OF Morgan will TO other minds as It
did to yours My reply to this is that no such
intention existed in the minds of those who
were connected with his abduction. have prepared
for publication at another time and in another form
full and impartial account of the abduction and murder
OF Morgan far the facts developed by investi
eating committees or established judiciay, together
with history of the origin progress dissolution of
the anti Masonic party. Meantime it due to the
question in It's present aspects say that what orgi
mated in desire 10 suppress book which 1t known
Morgan writing progressed step by step becoming
more and more intricate, until 1t assumed aspects
foreseen by all the individuals who became involved
in it,
After Morgan's manuscripts seized at Batavia
became necessary in the judgment of those concerned
separate him from Miller his publisher That object
effected by Morgans charge of larceny,
on which he taken to Canandaigua and confined in
the Ontario County Jail. Here assurances were given
by Canadian that if Morgan was taken TO Niagara
Captain Brandt, an Indian chief would provide home
for him in far West fur company. Conhdng in this
Morgan secretly conveyed from Canandagua
TO Fort Niagara, distance OF 120 miles BY this time
many of the most influential citizens of Canandagua,
Rochester Clarkson Gaines Lockport and Lewiston
were necessarily let into the secret After Morgan was
confined in the fort those who brought him there
crossed the attend the meeting of lodge
by which it expected that Morgan would be received
and sent west but after long and anxious consideration
the Canadian lodge refused to become parties to,
complicated in, the affair This occasioned serious en-
barrassment They could go further and it seemed
dangerous to recede Two three days of bewlderng
anXieties brought large number Of high in the
Order TO lewiston where knights Templars Encamp-
ment was inaugurated All knew that Morgan was
fined in the magazine at Fort Niagara and all were
greatly disquieted by that knowledge. While the
table after dinner the chaplain and of the day
gave sentiment significant that all eyes and
thoughts were turned toward Fort Niagara Immedi-
atey afterward Colonel King, stated in my letter,
driven in carriage to the Fort, accompanied by
John Whitney, Of Rochester; Mr. Chubbuck,
of lewiston; Mr.. Garside a Canadian, and
Mr. Howard of Buffalo. Colonel King
had been officer of the United States Army. Whit
ney stone mason, Chubbuck farmer Garsde
a butcher and Howard a bookbinder; all men of
rect habits and good character, and all, doubt not
were moved by an enthusiastic but most misguided
sense OF duty. knew Colonel King and John Whitney
intimately. Both would have shrunk from the
mission OF known crime and yet both, mpelled by the
delusive idea that they were discharging duty
participated in the commission of the high
est crime. OF all the persons connected with
the abduction, arrest Imprisonment and subsequent
fate of Morgan there not within my knowledge
who did not possess and enjoy the respect and conf
dcnce of his fellow citizens 1t strange there
fore, that facts subsequently established beyond denial
first very generally and Indignantly rejected.
The people would believe that respectable citizens
guilty Of open and gross violations of law and yet
but reputable citizens thus complicated
of whom, however intended apprehended catas-
trophe Nor would that catastrophe have occurred but
for the unforeseen and nfcitous conjuncture Of Difficult
ties and circumstances which have related T.W
AUGUST g. 1875.