Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-02
GLOBE MORNING DECEMBER 1884,

lected the important duty of securing the
confession Whitney was SO anxious to
make. In 1861 went to Europe. and
while in London wrote letter to Whitney
asking him to get Alex. B. Williams, then
a resident of Chicago, to do what had so
unpardonably neglected. That letter
reached Chicago one week after Whitney's
death, closing the last and only chance of
the revelation of that important event.
Whitney was mason by trade, honest.
industrious, sober, but excitable. In ali
the early stages of the Morgan affair he
believed he was doing, his duty. The final
crime was committed under the circum-
stances have related.
I now look back through an interval of
fifty-six years with a conscious sense of
having been governed through the sAnti-
Masonic excitement" by sincere desire.
first, to vindlcate the violated laws of nv
country, and next, to arrest the great DOW
or and dangerous influences of ''secret so
vantages. The people were unwilling to
believe that an institution SO ancient, to
which many of our best and most dis
tinguished men belonged. was capable of
not only violating the laws, but of sustain
ing and protecting offending men of the
order. A vast majority of the American
people believed that Morgan was con-
cealed by our committee for political
effect. While we were being fercely de-
nounced as incendiary spirits, Judge Enos
T. Throop, in charging the grand jury at
Canandaigua, spoke of anti-Masonry as a
s'blessed spirit" spirit which he hoped
''would not rest until every man implicated
in the abduction of Morgan was tried, con-
victed and punished"
1t is pleasant also to contemplate the
character of those with whom was then
associated. judicially and politically. Than
James Wadsworth, George w. Patterson
and Philo c. Fuller. of Livingston; Trum-
bull Cary, George w. Lay, James Brisbane,
Moses Taggart, Seth NJ. Gates, Phineas
L. Tracy, Herbert A. Reed, Timothy Fitch,
Hinman Holden and T. F. Talbot, of Cen
nesse; Albert 81. Tracy, Willard Fillmore,
Noah P. Sprague and Thomas G. Love, of
Erie; Bates Cook, George n. Boughton,
Robert Fleming, John Phillips and Lyman
A. Spaulding, of Niagara; Andrew B.
Dickinson, Of Steuben; John Maynard
and William Sackett, of Seneca; Myron
Holley, of Wayne; Francis Granger, Henry
w. Taylor and Samuel Miles Hopkins, of
Ontario; William q. Seward, Christopher
and Edward B. Morgan, of Cayuga; the
Rev. DR.. Knott, of Schenec-
tady; Victory Birdseye and E. w.
of Onondaga, William
b. Maynard, of Oneida. Gideon Hard, of
Orleans; Abner Hazeltine and John Bird
sail. of Chautauqua; Samuel Work, IHeman
Norton, Samuel G.. Andrews, James K.
Livingston, Frederick Whittlesey, DR.. F. F.
Backus, A. w. Riley and Harvey Ely, of
Henry Dana Ward, of New York;
Weare c. Little, of Albany; Richard Rush,
John Sargent and Amos Ellmaker, of Penn
sylvania, and William Writ, of Virginia,
an equal number of truly good and emf
nent men cannot be found. My friends
Weare c. Little, of Albany; Gideon Hard,
or Orleans; Moses Taggart, of Genesee
and Lyman A. Spaulding, of Niagara, are
almost the only survivors.
City and County of New York, S.:
Thurlow Weed, being duly sworn, says
that the foregoing statements are true.
THURLow WEED.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
2Sth day of September, 1882.
SPENCER c. DoTY, Notary Pu bile.
II Union square, New York City.