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The Daily Dispatch: August 26, 1864., [Electronic resource], The Great Northern conspiracy. (search)
me are instructed by their officers how successfully to pass through the lines without being molested. With these instructions, they start for the North, and upon reaching the nearest Union post, represent themselves as deserters and take the amnesty oath. They then commence their operations as spies and smugglers, and at the same time it was the understanding that they should join in the rise with the members of the Order, which was expected to take place about the 4th of July. The M'Clellan Minute men. Of the real character of the "McClellan Minute Men," in New York and some other States, and its identification with this Order, there is abundant evidence. Its signs and rituals have been obtained, and its workings and objects are well understood. Its National Secretary frankly admitted — supposing himself to be speaking "on the square" to a member of the O. A. K.--that it has assumed a support of the war policy only because "people are full of gunpowder and light," and t