The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-16

SAo oeaOo auu oWoWnoro. 1 Oou0N0 Inht
there was no time that I ever entered
Indiana that he did not know Of II. But
he had given orders that / should not be
arrested, preferring TO see with whom
l associated and In that way being able
TO mark the men whom he wanted TO capture
more than mo.
Il was staying at French Lick Springs
when the blow finally fell on Bowles and
Mnhken. Bowled learned in some way that
q detachment OF troops wa on the way
TO French Lick Springs 10 arrest me. He
warned me Of that fact and l passed the
detachment or the road. hidden In the
middle OF q wagon load Of cordwood. But
Bowles and MillIken were arrested instead
and their court martial followed.
In the course OF their trials my name
appeared In the evidence used against
Chem and Gov. Morton introduced all the
evidence he had gathered relative to the
existence Of the Sons Of Liberty n my
Efforts In founding that order. 1 did not
appear on record a. Longuemare; It was
as Henry Habicht and James Barry.
After tho whole regime Of the Sons Of
Liberty had been exposed at the trinls OF
Bowles and MillIken the order fell apart
and was no longer heard o.. Only nee.
before the cfort planned to Join with Nor
gan and Forrest, had We contemplated
q demonstration, and that was at the second
Lincoln convention in Chicago.
The lodges In northern Illinois all came
to Chicago In q body, and It was planned
TO declare ourselves there. release the Con-
federate prisoners in Fort Douglas. and
with their aid take the town, IL possible.
We had arms and everything was ready.
but at the last minute some Of h promi-
nent men secretly in league with US in
Chicago failed US and the plot fell through.
Because Of his connection with the Sons
Of Liberty Vallandighsm, In Ohio, was
arrested in May, 1883, and court-martialled.
He was sentenced to be shot, but President
Lincoln committed that sentence. TO de-
p~ortation into the Confederate lines. 1
think he went 10 Bermuda later, md thence
to Canada to join the Confederate iunta
in 81. GATHERINGS.
when the Sons Of Liberty fell apart I
wen to Mexico by order Of jefferson Davis
In the winter Of iee4-o6 to interest Maxi
milan in intervention on behalf Of the
South. l wal presented to Macmillan
and by his invitation took dinner with him.
MoMasters commented upon that dinner
in his Freemdn's Journal at the time, say
ing that it was the first time an American
had sat down at the table with royalty.
McMasters knew why 1 was in Mexico,
but Of course he did not state that fact
in his journal.
Il carried from the Confederate Gov
eminent an urgent plea TO Macmillan to
send an army across the Texas boundary
and take cause with the C~onfederacy.
Marshal Bazaine, who wa In charge Of the
French troops In Mexico, favored the
scheme, but Macmillan refused TO counte-
nance 1t. I found my mission to Mexico
fruitless and left with the empty title Of
Commissioners OF Colonization, imposed
upon me by the Emperor, who believed
that l would stay and support his cause.
This latter fact is also recorded in the files
OF the FreemdR's Journal.
Il returned to Richmond and informed
the President Of the Confederacy Of the
conditions 1 had found IN the leadership
Of the Federal armies. I I'VE him tho
names Of several officers who were secretly
in sympathy with the South, some OF them
members Of the sons Of Liberty organiza-
ton. l gave him the name, for instance,
OF one Of the ~political Generals Of the
Army Of the Potomac at whose house I had
stopped on more than n occasion when
in New York, and who knew that I was q
Confederate spy.
Mr.. Davis said to me III you can assure
me that any West Point officers In COM
mand Of Union forces are connected with
the secret movement in the North I will
! place reliance upon what they will do. but
/ / have no faith in the political Generals.
! at .z.I1 ~ nannm anA W@mf pnSnNaw -.
to my knowledge had been guilty OF any
thing ~treasonous.
But there was one Colonel who after
ward became a Brigadier-0 General whom ]
had found ready to lend q hand II every
thing were propitious. II I should give
his name, unsupported by documentary
evidence, I would ave all the @. A. r.
about my ears and I would be called an
i~conoclast. Yet l say hat In my papers
which I put in the hands Of Gen. Preston.
a Kentuckian who fed 70 St. GATHERINGS and
there burned them, I had the signature Of
this Brizadier- General TO q paper which
would brand him as a traitor could it be
published to-day.
Il was in New York a great deal Of my
time. | organized a band Of 10000 Con-
federate sympathizers in n about THU
city. One day ! was sitting In a well knowr
cafA on Broadway and a man who was
with me rose in his seat and proposed q
toast to Jefferson Davis. A dozen men
heard him and watched him drink the
toast. Not one interfered or threatened
his arrest.
AT the time when Jacob Thompson
head Of the Confederate junta in st. Cath
crimes, was engineering the scheme t.
burn New York, the story Of which il tolC
by Capt. Headley in the Army and Nov
Journal, l was staying at the home OF tb'
Colonel in the Army OF the Potomac h
whom l have referred. He knew Of tn.
plot.
Il heard Of the precautions that had beer
taken by Gen. Butler to crush any uprising
on the day Of the elections, the day selected
for the attempt to urn the city, and / ais
heard through confidential sources that III,
names Of McMasters, James Wilson McDon.
aid, the artist, and other conspirators wer'
known to Butler. and that their arrest wa
imminent. I cautioned them TO hurry VI
with the Job and leave the city as soon q
possible.
"A Capt. St~ratton, who was n Of th
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