Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-05-04
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been occapied by you, nor by any one
connected with yon, or been in any way
under your control since last November,
~Second-You ''desise to ascertain
whether the circumstances connected
With the discovery of those papers in
your office led to the eupposition that
you pluced them there or was eve n aware
OF their existence"
You desire this THAT the peopJs NAV
know the truth " and mot that Won at
taoh any particular Importance to the
Documents"
The papers referred to are 112 COPIES
OF the ritual of the y A. H. treason.
able document aiming to overthrow { 9
government of the United States. of
whlch You are o member.
The gentlemen who found these
papers told me that they were found in
your office.
Ihe following are some of the cIrcum-
stances that led me TO suppose that they
were correct in the supposition:
Your law library and Office furniture
were fonnd in the office when these
papers were found.
You had declined denomination for
congress, and the office was reported as
not for rent as late as April, 1854.
The ritual had been issued in the an
tumn of 1868 Your congressional docu-
ments were found in the office when
these papers were found. Yonr speeches
up to March, of your entire
sional career, with the John Brown
speech, were found in the office when
these papers were found. The cores
%pondence OF Senator Wall, of New
Jersey, under his frank, ENDORSING a
proposition to furnish you with 20, 600
stand of Garibaldi rifles, just imported,
"for whicn he conld vouoh," was in the
office when these papers we're found.
The correspondence of O. l.. Vnllan.
digham, from Windsor, Canada West,
assuring you "onr people will fight" and
that ''he is ready" and fixing q point on
the Lima road, at (which to meet YOU
Was in the Office when these papers
were found,
The correspondence of Joseph Restine,
auditor of state, declaring that she
would like to see ali democrats unite In
an open and bold resistance to all at
tempts TO keep ours q united people by
"force of STEEL and that ''thIs was o
war against the democracy and our only
hope was the successful resistance of
the SOUTH was in the office when these
papers were found.
The correspondence of e. q. Hibben,
who assures you that "the democracy
are fast s%tiffening up when this war is,
TO be declared as waged for the purpose
OF freeing the negfo," (which will
arouse another section to arms,' and de-
claring ''that Lincoln bayonets are
shouldered for cold bIooded murder"
was in the Office when these papers were
found.
The correspondence of j.. Hardesty,
who wants you to have that LOT, GOO
men ready, as we do not know how soon
we shall need them ]" was in the office
when this ritual was found.
The correspondence of J. J. Bingham,
WIG ssks you IF you think the south
has resources enough to keep the union
forces at bay and says that You
he has moi, was in the office when
these papers were found,
The correspondence OF John Ct. Davis
informing you that a certain New York
Journal sis wonderfully exercised about
secret anti-war movements, aad tremble
in their boots in view of the terrible re-
action which lie sure to await them, was
In the office where these papers we're
The correspondence of w. s. Walker,
who "keeps out of the way because they
are tryiGs to arrest him for officiating
in secret societies." and inclosing the
oath of the x. g. C.'s prior 10 that of
the O. A. T., was in the office where
there papers were found.
The petition Of O. Il. Vallandigham,
d. W. Voorhees, and Benjamin Wood,
in favor of two republics and q united
south, were in the Office where these
papers were found.
The correspondence of Campbell, WHO
says the democracy were once not
afraid to let their purposes out at day
light but that NOV il is deemed beat
to work in secret and asking your con-
sent }" were in the office when these
papers were found.
The correspondence OF E. Etheridye,
clerk of the house of representatives
giving official notice that your craden-
tisls as member of the SSth congress
have been received and filed in the pro-
per office" and for You ito come on" was
IN the Office when these papers were
found.
The correspondence OF George 81.
Pendleton, which states that EtherIde's
plan to organize congress, viz: ITO elect
himself clerk and Cox as speaker"
Though he (Pendleton) will not facili-
| tate the denomination of any man as
clerk whose programme is for hls defeat
as speaker, suggesting to you to have
1t whispered in the ear Of Etheridye to
reeiprooate favors and opposition and to
do this authoratively, but not from him.
| etc. :, was in the Office where these papers
! were found.
The correspondence OIL. Mcdonald,
| who had On interview with Perkins in
one of his {Perkin'e) lucid intervals with
regard to the discovery of the northwest
passage, by Perkins, for which he claim.
| ed, etc. was in the Office when these
papers were found.
And so OF B. 81. Hanna who wants o
good place in the regular army, and so of
/ w. j. Pierce, who will show the beasts
that Lincoln has turned out to be minis
ters in 1854" and so Of Bigger and Devlin
and Dodd, etc., whose o-orresrc.denee
was IN the office when the papers were
found.
These are some of the circumstance
thatiled mo to believe that these papers
the ritual of the o.. A. K. were found In
your Office.
looked upon these circumstances as
q plain juror might be supposed to do,
and not as o statesman, and inn ocently
supposing that such paper as these, il
spared from the fire, would be in pos.
session OF the owner, and the Office Of
the owner would be the place where
these papers would be found.
And yet. With Dol. Thompson; 1