The Arkansaw traveler., 1882-12-10
OR pRouoHTs. AND WHICH

n { sa..da. opposite tou Niagara, ref.,- sat lo have anything to de with Morgan left hi, "k,dnappes" greatly perpiesed. op oppor,unels Ro,ai Arch chapter vas installed A, Lewiston The oesas.on brought large nunte, ai enthusiastic Masons together "Afsss labor m Ma son,' language, the, retired ,o rrare~lsr nen, tnsic, the eshltara,on oi ehasa- Tsyne and ashes yiands, the chaplain (the kee-k- IL Cummings of Rochester gas alled on for A toast. He fespondesi w,th peculiar cmphas.s and in the language of then ritual '' The cnemles of our order Ma, they hnd grave ais feel deep. kIH icet long, and six feet due cast and west. Immcdiaiel, afses that toast. which was received with great enthusiasm. Col. W,l- liam King, an officer in our var of tsi,, and then A member ol assembly from >l- agafa county. called Whitney of korhc~- ,et. Howard oi i;uffalo, Chubbust ai Lewiston. and G.arxide of Canada out oi the noom and into carriage furnished b, AaDor Bafton. They were driven ,o For Niagara, repaired to the magazine. and informed Morgan ths, the arrangements for sending hum to Canada were com pleted. and that has famil, would s,on follow hum. Morgan received the ,nlor mation eheerfuli,. and walked with sup posed friends to the boat, which was rowed to 4hc mouth oi the uscs, whesc A rope vas wound around has bod,. to each end ni Ahilh s,ubef was attas he'd. Nor gan vas then thrown oeerboasd. He grasped the gunwale of the boa, eonsai- sivcly .arside. ln forcing Morgan to re. A.sfI
 wh,,ne, in conc lud,ng h,s nan ai,yc. sad he was nov relieved from a heavy load: Ina, for four years he had not heard the window rustic of any other nose a, n.ghl without thinking the sherih was aftes him Col. Je~ct,. looking ssedly al Whitney. sa,d. Weed can hang you now. I.u, hc won't was Whitney, prompt reply. oi course A sesTet thus oopi,ded to me was tss.olabl, kept. and twenty nine years sffeTward. while attend ing national sepubilean convention at Chicago. John Whitney. sbo then resided there. czned to say that he aanssd me tn wrsse but what he once told me abont Morgan tale, to be signed b, him m the presenec of~iinesses, o be sealed up and published after h,s death. promised to do sp before leaving Chicago. There @as Ho lessure. however .sdufing the sitting os the convention. and even before jis hnai adjournment. forgetting shat l had told Whitney, hurried to Iowa. returning by way oi SpTsngheid to sssli gr. Lincoln In the excitement of the canvass which fol- lowed, and the sceessson of the souihern states apon Mir. flneoln's elersion, neg leeted the lmportan, duty of securing the
 ss.
 make. h ISbi went to Europe and
 while in London wrote letter oWhitney
 asking him to get Alex. $. Williams, then res,dess of Chicago, to do what ! had so unpasdonably neglected. That letter reached Chicago one week a5tes whi,nsy's death, closing the last and only chance for the revelation of thzt important event.
 Whitney was . masos by trade, honess. 1ndustrloux, sobey, but exfifabie. In all the early ssages o( the Morgan alzir he believed hs vas doing his dusy. The knsl crime w1s committed under the ciscam- saAsces have related.
 now look bark thsosgh n interval of 6ify-six yeass with ccnse;ous sense of having been governed through the .An4i- Sk&1Sssb SsSss<sts~1t& osks-<sS S0s%s fra, to viudicaae the violated lsws q my country. ssd nex, to arrest the great power and daageEous inhoenres of -se- cre4 sociesies.T We iaborsd under ses,- ous disadysnfsges. The people were an-
 wiling to believe that n isssitssioo se
 ancient. to whsch so many of ous best and
 most distinguished men belonged, was capable of nos oaly yioiaaing the lays
 bat of fsussaiaing and psosecfing o6ending
 men of ths order. 4 vast majority of the
 Amerieas people believed dat Morgan
 vas concealed by our cemnitsss fps pc iiticzl sGeu. While ve were beng 6eroely dssoaaced as incendissy spisbs, Judge
 Eses T. Throop. is chasGnG tAe eraad jury q Caaan1aiguA. sps4s sf Asd-na- seasy e . shisesod sp6it {" . spisjs vAicA hs ksped vsslA sse rssa sseii 6vay mss hplicn1pd in d. sbduraioe ef AesRns was u3ed, coavic1ed, an1 Deoanhols
 k b p1enannt xiso e ona1onp1n1e the ehsszrtes ef these wish vtso vns thsn