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The Daily Dispatch: August 3, 1864., [Electronic resource], Additional from the North. (search)
sident Lincoln is a usurper. A meeting of the grand commanders of the different States was held in New York on the 22d of February for the purpose of organizing an outbreak on the 10th of March, the day fixed for the draft, but no definite plan was resolved upon. The names of these conspirators are also known. The same commanders had a general consultation with the supreme commanders at Windsor, Canada, early in April. Amongst those in attendance were McMasters, of New York, Charles L. Hunt, St. Louis, and Lafayette Devlin, of Indiana. The programme adopted at those meetings was, that Vallandigham should represent his District of Ohio in the Democratic National Convention, and there proclaim the doctrine of the Order, viz: Pronounce the existing Administration of the Government a power usurped, which the people had a right to expel by force, if necessary. In fact, to inaugurate a rebellion in the North, in which he was to be supported by the Order. Each Grand Comman
The Daily Dispatch: August 13, 1864., [Electronic resource], Additional from the North. (search)
ss if his orders had been obeyed. The springing of the mine, he said, was a complete surprise to the rebels, and it only needed obedience to his orders to have routed the entire rebel army. Miscellaneous. Green B. Smith, Secretary; Charles L. Hunt, Grand Commander, and Charles E. Dunn, Deputy Grand Commander of the "order of American Knights," have made a full confession of its secrets to the Provost Marshal at St. Louis. There is now going on a grand fraternization and re-union at the Clifton House, Niagara Falls, between the following parties: Clay, Holcombe, Sanders, and other Confederates, and Dean Richmond, Ben. Wood. Butts, of the Rochester Union; ex-Governor Hunt, ex-Governor Weller, of California; ex-Governor Noble, of Michigan; Ross, Stewart, of the Nineteenth Ohio district, delegates to the Chicago Convention; three delegates from Pennsylvania; two from Iowa; two from Missouri, and five from Kentucky. There are now nine thousand rebel prisoners in the b
The Daily Dispatch: August 26, 1864., [Electronic resource], The Great Northern conspiracy. (search)
assembled are, however, known. They are watched, and may be taken care of in good season. Failing to arrive at any definite conclusion, an adjournment was had for the purpose of having consultation with this leader, in exit in Canada West. A convocation of the Grand Commanders of the different States was accordingly held at the headquarters of the Supreme Commanders, at Windsor, in the beginning of April last. Among those in attendance was the celebrated Abbe McMasters, of New York; Charles L. Hunt, of St. Louis; Lafayette Develin, of Indiana, and a number of others, whose names will reach the public at the proper time. The degrees. The programme agreed upon at Windsor, in the beginning of April, will be given, after adding some further remarks with regard to the character of the organization — its degrees, the first being published in one pamphlet, the two next in another, copies of which have been obtained, and the contents of which will, no doubt, at the proper time, fi