The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-11-30
MoRaAN,s MURDER
Light Thrown Upon the Mystery by
Late ThurIow Weed.

6l81t AAEOAh UPON t1l9 MASTERY BY the
Late ThuFIow Weed.
NEw York, Nov. 27.-The Buffalo
Express publishes letter from the late
Thurlow Weed, under date New York,
September 9th. 1882, and attesled to by
Spencer G. Doty, notary public of this
city, as that of Thurlow Weed. The
letter was in answer TO an invitation to
the unwilling of the monument TO Capt.
William Morgan, and is thus prefaced
by the Express:
The following letter dictated by the
late Thurlow Weed but short time be-
fore his death, contains his sworn state
ment OF his knowledge concerning the
abduction and alleged murder of VIM.
Morgan, and forms a most interesting
chapter in relation to the sensational
events which IN their time caused so
great social and political CONFUSION :
WEED BEGINS BY SAYING:
his OCCASION Is one thai recalls an
event OF Startling interest, arousing =
deep popular feeling, first al Batavia,
Leroy, Canandai gua;and Rochester, IN u
perVaalng our Own anu other st4tes.
After reading the proceedings vi the
meeting at Batavia with Hon. DAVID Z.
Evans as presiding officer, l wrote a six
line paragraph for the Rochester Tele-
| graph, In which ] stated that citizen
OF Batavia had been spirited away from
his home and family, and after mysteri
Gus absence OF several days q village
meeting had been held and committee
appointed to investigate the matter, add
! ing that as il was known that the Free
| hasOns were concerned IN this abduc
ton it behooved the fraternity whose
good name was suffering, to take labor
ing oar in restoring the lost man to hii
liberty.
That paragraph brought dozens of oul
most influential citizens greatly excItet
to the Office, stopping their papers and
ordering the discontinuance of their ad
vertisements. inquired of my partner
Robert Martin, what had been done to
eXasperate so many of our friends. HI
brought me book and directed my at
teptiOn TO an obligation invoking severe
penalties as punishment for disclos.
ing the secrets of the Masons, inquirinl
what / thought of q man, who, after
taking such an obligation violated it.
I replied that l did not know any
punishment too severe for such a per
. jurer. The discontinuance ofthe paper
embraced SO large number of its pat
rons, ] saw that my brief and, as sup
posed, very harmless paragraph would
ruin the establishment. Unwilling tina
my partner should suffer, l prompt!
withdrew, leaving the establishment il
the hands of Mr.. Martin. The pape
was doing well, and until that paragraph
appeared my business future was all
could desire.
; At that time an editor was wanted a
} Utica, where had formerly worked am
f where ] had many friends, but my offe
TO go there was declined. l was equal
ly unfortunate in securing editorial EN-
: ployment at Troy. The objection il
! both cases was that had been too bus
. in getting up an excitement about Moi
j, gan"
He closes thus: 1 now look bacl
: through an interval of f1fty-six years
3 with conscious sense of having bee
: governed through the anti-Masonic eX
E element by sincere desire, first, I
. Vindicate the violated laws of my cour
I try, and next to arrest the great powe
] and dangerous influences of secret sociC
!, ties. We labored under serious disad
D vantages. The people were unWtilin
8 to believe that an institution so ancient
Y to which many of our best and most dis
r tInguished men belonged, was capabl
3 of not only violating the letter OF tn
: laws, but of sustaining and protecting
S offending men of the order. A vast ma
s iority of the Morgan people believe
8 that Morgan was concealed by our com
: mittee for political effect, while w
l were being tiercely denounced as incen
diary spirits.
j Judge Enos ]. Throop, in chargin
r the grand jury at Canandaigua, spok
8 of anti-masonry as q blessed spirit,
i spirit which he hoped would not res
|. until every man implicated in the al
!. duction of Morgan was tried, convicte
: and punished.