The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-12-07

llbel Mr. box testified That " "chWlty
mnd" had been Entrusted 10 General lould,
1Dhn whitney va called ~ prove that 10
received paft ~ Tho lund, with whiohl "
o0mpany with liurfage Smith, he leit
Rochester and was absent nearly yrnr'
General Goulds counsel objected ~ wit.
nesss testimony until II had been shown
that General GOULD knew that the money
furnished was 10 enable Smith aud Whit
ney 10 escape from Justice The court sus-
tanned this objection, aud Whitnoy's testi-
mony was excluded. As II wa impossible
~ prove what was known only
TO General Gould himself the trial
ended abruptly. Judge Nanderpoeel
in charging the nry dwelt
al length upon the RIGHTEOUSNESS OF the
press, and called upon the jury. to give eX'
empary damages to the injured aud inno-
cent plaintiff. The jury, thus instructed,
but with evident reluctance, found YER
dict of 800 against me. My oiIense con-
sisted in asserting a fact, the exact truth OF
which would have been established IL the
testimony had not been ruled out by u
monstrous peryersion OF Justice. 80
Colonel Simeon b. Jewett of ClarksoD,
Major Samuel Barton, OF Lewiston, and
John Whitney, of Rochester, passed that
evening at my house. Jewett was prepared
| to testify that he furnished a carriage for
those who were conveying Morgan secretly
from Canandaigua to Niagara. John
Whitney was one of the party. MAJOR
Barton would have testified that he tur-
nished the carriage which conveyed, the
party from Lewiston to Fort Niagara, John
Whitney being one of that party. Whit
ney would have sworn that Gould supplied
money to enable him to escape from JUS
tice." In the course Of the evening, the
Morgan affair being the principal topic OF
conversation, Colonel Jewett turned to
Whitney with emphasis and said: John.
what if you make clean breast OF itF'
Whitney looked inqniringly at Barton, who
added: "Go ahead"
Whitney then related in detail the his
tory of Morgans abduction and fate. The
idea of suppressing Morgan's intended ex.
posure of the secrets of Masonry was first
suggested by man by the name of Johns.
1t was discussed in lodges at Batavia, LIE
Roy and Rochester. Johns suggested that
Morgan should be separated from Miller
and placed on a farm in Canada West. For
| this purpose he was taken to Niagara and
| placed in the magazine OF the fort until
arrangements for settling him in Canada
were completed but the Canadian Masons
disappointed them. A fter several meet
ings Of the lodge in Canada, opposite Fort
Niagara, a refusal to have anything to do
with Morgan left hi- "kidnappers'N greatly
perplexed. Opportunity Royal Arch
The occasion brought large num-
Der OF enthusiastic Masons ,togethe"
After labor" in Masonic, language,
they retired to refreshment" Under
exhiaration ofchampagne and other viands
the Chaplain (the Rev. +. II. Cummings
OF Rochester) was called on for toast He
responded with peculiar emphasis and in
the language of their ritual: THE enc
mics of our order-May they find a grave
six feet deep, six feet long and six feet due
east and west" Immediately after that
toast, which was received with great enthu-
siasm, Colonel William King, an officer in
our war of 1872, and then member OF AS
sembly from Niagara county, called whit
ney of Rochester, Howard OF Buffalo, Chuo-
buck of Lei iston, and Garside, OF Canada,
out of the room and into carriage furnish
ed by Major Barton. They were driven to
FORT NIAGARA
repaired to the magazine and informed
Morgan that the arrangements for sending
him to Canada were Completed and that
his family would soon follow him. Nor
gan received the information cheeriully,
and walked with supposed, friends TO the
boat, which was rowed to the mouth OF the
river, where rope was wound around his
body, to each end of which sin rer was at
tached Morgan was then thrown over
board. He grasped the gunwale of the
boat convuisigely GRrside, in forcing
Morgan to relinquish his hold, was severely
bitten.
Whitney, in concluding his narrative
said he was now relieved from a heavy load;
tut. for four years he had not heard the
.rindow rustic or any other noise az night
without thinking the sheriff was
after him. Colonel Jewett, looking
fixedlv at Whitney, said: "Weed can hang
Won now" "But he won't" WAS Whit
ney's prompt reply. OF course q secret
thus confided 70 me was inyiolably Kept,
and twenty-nine years afterward, while at
tending national republican convention az
Chicago, John Whitney, who then resided
there, called TO say that he wanted me 10
write out what he once told me about Nor
gan's fate, to be signed by him in the pres
ence of Witnesses TO be sealed up and pub
lished after his death. promised to do so
before leaving Chicago. There was no Ieis'
ure. however, during the sitting OF the con-
vention, and even before its final adjourn
ment, forgetting what | had told Whitney,
hurried to Iowa, returning by way OF
Springfield, to visit Mr.. Lincoln. la the
excitement OF the canvass which followed,
and the secession of the southern states
upon Mr.. Lincon's election, neg
lected the important duty of secur-
ing the confession Whitney was so
anxious to make. In 1861 l went to Eu-
rope, and while in London wrote letter 10
Whitney asking him 20 get Alexander b
Williams. then a resident of Chicago, 10 do
what I had so unpa' donably neglected
That letter reached Chicago one week after
Whitney's death, closing the last and only
chance for the revelation OF that important
event.
WHITNEY WAS A MASON
by trade, honest, industrious, sober, but
excitable. In all the early stages OF the
Norpan affair he believed he was doing his !
duty. The final crime was committed UNI |
der the circumstances have related.
now look back through an interval OF
fiity-six wears with conscious sense OF
having been governed through the anti |
Masonic excitement" bv a sincere desire,
first. 10 viudicaie the violated laws OF my |
,ountry, aud next, to arrest the
great power and dangerous influences
n Usecrpt societies." We labored under |
serious disadvantages. TIE people were |
unwilling TO believe that an institution SO
ancient 10 which 20 many OF our best aud
most distinguished men belonged, was
capable Of not only violating the laws, but
NJ sustaining and protecting offending men |
II the order. A vast majority OF the Amer
can people believed that Morgan WAS con-
,aeled by our committee for political effect.
While We were being 6ercely denounced as
spirits, Judge Enos T. Throop.
n charging the grand jury at Cananiaigua,
spoke OF anti-Masonry as a blessed spirit
, spirit which which be hoped would not
rest until every man impiica ed in the ao-
iuction OF Morgan was tried, convicted,
md punished"
Its pleasant also 10 contempt ate the
he character Of those with whom ! was
hen associated judicially aud politically.
Then James Wsdsworth, George w Pat
sTs0n and PhiioC. Fuller, of Livingston;
rrusabull Cary, George W. Law, James
Ii-isbane. Moses Tagrari, Seth NJ. Gates,
-s,,fu.as Z. Tracy. Har,art A. Read. limo /
Inv Fitch. Human Holden aid I. + Tai
,of. Of &C ,asea; Albert II Tracy, Millar,l
Fillmore Nash z Spragu- and Thomas z.
,gve. NJ caa. 3 T.. & ok. george " BJugh-
IN. 4 ,bef1 Fie ne. John PniiliDs AMI
,vman A S8su ormg Of NIAGARA; Andrew
3 Di-siu-1n. ~ Steubeu; John Maynard
I'D william sacteii. Il senecai My-on