The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1882-12-16

was BOW relieved from "a heavy
load. thal Tor four years be bad not
heard the window rustic or any
other noisa alnrEbg without Jhiais.
ing the sheriff W alter him. Col.
JeWetl, looking Gxadiy at Whitney,
said "Weed can Eaog .yoa now"
"Bat he won't was Whitney Is
prsmpt reply 0feourse a secret
thus eonfided TO ne was invioIably
kept and twenty nine years after
while attending a National Repub.
lleaB Convention At Chicago, John
Whitney, who then resided tbere,
called TO say that he wanted me to
write out what he once
TOLD NE ABOUT uoRGAN's FATE,
to be signed by him in tho presence
OF " lnessas, 70 be sealel up and
Published alter his death. prom
ised to do 80 before leaving Chiea
go. There Has no lei7uret howev-
er, during the SITTING OF the eouveu-
tian. and even before ITS final ad.
journment, trg5libg what / bad
told Whitney , hurried 10 Iowa,
returning By way ct Springfield to
visit Mr, Lincoln, Ia the excite
meut OF the canvass which followed,
and the secession Of the Southern
States upon Mr.. IHaeoln's election,
/ neglected this important duty Of
securing tho confession " bllney
was so anxious to make. Ia 1861 |
went 10 Z fofS, and while in Lon
don wrote leter to Whitney ask.
ing him to get Alexandria B. vii,
Ilams, then Il Resident OF Chi eago,
to do what bad SO unpardonabIy
neglected. That letter resehed Chi
cage one week after Whitney =
death. Closing the last and only
chance for the revelation of that
important event.
WHITNEY WAS AzMAsoN By TRADE,
honest, Industrious sober, but exeit-
able. In all tho early stages of the
Morgan affair, he believed he was
doing his duty. The final crime wis
committed under the CIRCUMSTANCES
| have related. | now look back
through an interval OF ifysslx years
with conscious sense of haYi0g
been governed through Hauti-Aa-
sonic EXCITEMENT" BY sincere de
sire, first to indicate the violated
laws OF my country, and next, to ar
rest the great power and dangerous
influences Of secret societies" We
lpbqred under serious advantages.
The people who were unwilling to
believe that an insult ten SO an
cient, to which so Lsoy of our best
and most distn Antn belong.
ed, was capabr only vloia-
ting the laWSD.steot sustaining and
protecting offending men OF the or
der. a vast majority Of the Amer
lean people believed thae Morgan
WIS concealed by our committee for
political effect While we were be-
ing fercoIy denounced as Ineendia-
ry spirits, Judge Z. T. Taroop in
charging the grand Jury at Canaan
daigna spoke Of ana-Masonry as Il
.''6iessod sPifit ~ 4 st sBi.lt W6iGh' Ne
hoped, "woald not rosl until every
man implicated in the abduction q
Morgan was ried, convicted aud
punished.
The affidavit was sworn aud Sub
scribeds to BY Mr., Weed before
Spencer G. Dpty, a notary pabIie in
New York City, on the 2sJa day Of
September last,
n MOUNTAIN HOME had fire on
last Saturday which resulted in the
total loss Of the Store houses Of
Truman Leonard and Coffee, DR.,
Ease, and the shoe shop. of j. NJ.
Scoggins. Considerable damage to
the goods, probably covered 10y in,
surance. No Insurance on tho store
house of Mr.. Truman, which was Il
total loss.
Professor Flee, the distinguished
deteoroIogl5' and Weather Prophet
OF 81 LOUIS mas ISSUED h'S Annual
National weather forecasts for 1888,
IN which, besides iorete.Iing the
weather for every day IN The year,
and clearly explaining The theory
ON which his projections are based.
he gives much other information
concerning atmospheric phenomenon