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The Daily Dispatch: August 26, 1864., [Electronic resource], The Great Northern conspiracy. (search)
eets, on the 25th of May, a Major Harris, of Cooper county, formerly a rebel officer, but now an inmate of Gratiot street prison, made a speech, in which he stated that he had been traveling through Illinois and over the district of North Missouri; and gave a glaring account of the prosperous condition of the Order wherever he had been. He regarded its condition in St. Louis as rather lethargic, but spoke in high terms of praise of its energy and activity in the counties of Callaway, Boone, Howard, Chartton and Cooper. The greatest difficulty experienced by the officers in those counties, he said, was to restrain the members of the Order from rising before the proper opportunity should arrive. He had found the same difficulty to exist in the State of Illinois, and appealed to those present to take no hasty steps, but to await the official call of their Grand Commander. He spoke of General Price in the most eulogistic terms; said he had been in constant communication with him, Marma