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fir?, ALLEGES COSmtACL
Revelations Concerning a Plot to Overthrow
the Government--The Knights of the Gold
en Circle Transformed Into the Order of
American Knights--Their Forms of Initia
tion, Oaths and Purposes.
From tie St- Lout? Democrat, July 2S.
In April Mav and June, number of promi
nent citizens of St. Lonis, and other part? of Mis
souri, were arrested by order of Provost-Marshal
Sanderson, but upon what charge did not trans
pire. The matter excited considerable comment
an 2 inquiry, which abated as some were released
with assurances that the suspicions against them
proved groundless, while outers were set free oh
bond or retained in custody for future examination
Latterly rumors hare been rife that there was
much more in the occasion of these arrests than
had been imagined ; that, in fact, a cunningly eon
ceiled 'at danger r, com piracy had at nAgth
been found to exis'. the full nature and extent of
which the authorities had many difficulties in de
termining. The matter weeks aeo became a topic
of conversation in the better informed circles in
St. Louis, but evident reasons forbade public ref
erence to the subject. Within the last week the
previously indefinite reports have taken shape-,
and though no authentic disclosures have been
made it is now no secret as to what substantially,
the suspected organization is, nor who is in fail
possession of the proofs. The St. Louis corres
pondent of The Chicago Tribune, writing briefly
on the 22d fosL, first gives publicity to the princi
pal points. ,
It now appears that the arrests referred to,
some made as early as last April, grew out if trust
worthy information of the existence of an < xten
sive secret organization contemplating a distinct
and effective movement to co-operate with the
armed Rebels in the overthrow of the Govern
ment. The clue was gained by Provost-Marshal-
General Sanders*: n. as early as last March, and
has sine?, encaged his Laborious and careful atten
tion, producing an investigation in which volum
nious testimony has been taken, and numerous
additional arrests have been made, both in this
city and elsewhere.
Of the citizens arrested, a number were refused
{aroie and bound, an i continued imprisoned. —
t now leaks out that those men have been found
to he influential officers of an extensive associa
tion co-operating with a similar one in Rebeldom
looking to the establishment of a North-Western
Confederacy (! > and including as a part of the
programme the terrible ejection of Mr. Lincoln
from the executive office I The details of this
matter might rebew? the statement of any improb
ability. arising from the apparent hopelessness for
g'iod reasons thv arc- not at presence permitted
to be published CoL Sandterson has, we under
stand, unraveled the plot, without the expen
diture of £aneh time and patience, as we'll as la
bor, fe being necessary with extreme ohm ion to
gain the introduction of trustworthy Unionists
into the councils of the suspected parties. The
testimony collected, embodying the reports of his
agents and jjroceedings of the secret "Lodges"
or "Temples" cover, it is said, a full ream of
foolscap paper, has been transmitted, in a report
to Gen. Sosccrans, to the authorities at Wash
ington.
The projects of the* conspirators in this De
partment have of coarse been "headed off. " and
it is to be hoped that they will be disposed of in
like summary manner elsewhere.
The evidence is said to implicate many public
men, and proves the organization formidable and
dangerous, if undiscovered. One of the arrested
parties vainly offered a bond of $500,000 for his
release.
The gathered facts warrant the belief that the
following may be relied upon as a tolerable cor
rect exposition of a coaswracy whose numbers,
treasonable purposes and effective organization,
are certainly calculated to startle the loyal people
of this country, and to excite gave apprehensions
of a fresh pen!:
THE ORLER.
The order is a secret one. It is called by differ
ent names in different localities of Sates, and if.
known among its member? bv these initials, writ
ten thus, O. A. K. Its real object is to embar
rass and thwart the administration of the General
Government in the conduct of the war, stud over
threw the Government, if that be necessary *o
secure the supremacy of die order. Its profes
sions as well as its purposes are different in differ
ent States ; thus, while it professes and proclaims
a war policy io New-York. P nnsylvania and oth
er States, in Ohio and other Western States it is ;
for peace :so while in the eastern section of the
Union it is ckmerous for the restoration of the
"Constitution as it is and the Union as si was,"
in the W estern its undisguised object and avowed
poiky is the establishment of a North-Western
(fonfederaey.
ITS PRINCIPLE AN D OATH.
The aim and fundamental principle, if principle
it may be called, upon which the organization is
founded, and which is incorporated in the oath or
obligation qf every degree taken by any member
thereof is that the ch .w.n officers of our Govern
ment have usurped authority ; and they cimim it, !
not only as their right, but as their duty, to resist
those officers, and, if need be. to expeil them by
force ; in plain, unvarnished English, that Abra
ham LLaooia is a usurper, and that it is not oaif i
BEDFORD, Pa., FRIDAY, AUGUST 36, 1864.
their right, bat their duty, to drive him out of
the White House. It Is claimed by them and so
explained in the oath or obligation itself which
they take, thai such resistance to the existitg
functionaries of the Government is not revolution,
but only the assertion of right. To make this
point more clear, the following extracts from the
oath is given :
"In accordance with the principles upon which
is founded the American theory. Government can
exercise only delegated powers , hence if those
who shall have been chosen to administer the
Government shall assume to exercise powers not
delegated, they should be regarded and treated as
nswrvers.''
The meaning of this, to leave no doubt, is ex
plained in the same obligation still further by these
words:
"The reference to inherit power, as also to ex
isting necessity, on the part o fthe functionary for
the sanction of any arbitrary exercise of power
by him, we will not aecept in palliatigu or excuse."
ORIGIN.
The origin of the order is traced to the South
ern Confederacy, and it has teen erected upon the
ruins of the Knights of the Golden Circle,"
i which at one time was extensive among officers of
the Rebel army, and their sympathizing secession
: friends in the loyal States. That Order having
I been thoroughly exposed—its rituals, signs, grips;
! Ac., made known to the public—it became neoes
| sary to organize something in its stead.
STERLING PRICE THD CHIEF.
| The result of the effort, it would seem, was the
i Order of American knights, of which Maj-Gen.
Sterling Price, of the Rebel army, became the
chief, known by the title of Supreme Commander,
wnile a distinguished demagogue and agitator from
Ohio, sojourned at the city of'Richinond, in exile.
; He. it weuld seem, was fully enlightened in the
: mysteries, objects, and purposes of this sublime
Rebel Order, and submitted to all its rights and
; privileges as a member.
TAIJ.ANDIGHAM IN IT.
The next step was a gigantic conspiracy between
himself and the Rebel authorities, to inaugurate
another Rebellion in the Loval States, to sepenile
the Southern Rebellion. To do this, he was
made Supreme Commander of the Northern Sec
tion of the Order, embracing the Loyal States,
1 and was assisted to make his escape through the
blockading fleet to Canada, whither he fled to es
tablish his headquarters, and commence the or
ganization of the Northern section of the Order
of traitors.
HIS WORK IN CANADA.
Soon after the arrival of this infamous traitor
in Canada, he had a conference with the master
! spirit of those in. affinity of feeling and sentiment
| with him from the various loyal States, especially
: those of the V- .-st. The names of those visiting
him at the Clifton House are all known ana
preserved, to be furnished to the public whenever
occasion may require that it should be known who
the conspirators are that early met in conclave,
upon foreign soil to confer with him and aid him
1 in the organization of this secret league of sworn
traitors. It is not necessary now to enumerate,
| but prominent among those visitors may be given
the names of such men as William B. Reed of
Philadelphia. George H. Pendleton and George
i F. Pugh of Ohio, Christian Krihben of St. Lou
is, Wilbur F Surrey tod Merrick of Chicago.—
Facts fsnd evideite are at hand throwing a flood
of light on the object of the visits there, and the
results following from the conference, which in
doe tiifce. no doubt, will reach the public eye.
On the approach of Fall, and a ;er having had
ail the interviews and conference at the Clftou
House, and concluded his arrangements for "the
organization . f the order in the different jbyal
States, the supreme commander cf the northern
section changed his headquarters to Windsor.
| Canada West where he could have made free and
j unembarrassed intercourse with its members in
the Western States.
yallandigham's secret address.
About the first of January last he issued an
address to the lodges or temples ihroueout the
. loyal States, of which a published copy has been
| obtained, and which discloses freely the treasona
• hi* character of the order. It may not be out of
j place to give some quotation- from it to show the
character of the order and the treasonable pur
poses its members have in view. Here is one
extract:
' Brothers, avain renew your solemn vows!—
.Swear at your heartltstooes —at tlx stars conse
crated to your household gods! Swear in the
holy sanctuary where your fathers worshipped—
at their tombs and their sacred memories! that
[there quoting the language of the obligation of
the orderi 'I will at all times if need be, take, up
arms in the cause of the oppressed in my own
country. First of all again-1 any armed monarch,
prince, potentate, power, or Government usurp
er, which may be found in arias and waging war
against a people or peoples who are endeavoring
to establish or have inaugurated a government for
themselves of their own free choice, in accordance
with, and formed upon, the eternal principles of'
fc-nth! This Id. i promise without regard to the
name, station or designation of the invading pow
er, whether it shall arise from within or come
from without.
"Here is another quotation, also the language
of the obligation of the order:
'That I will never take up arms in behalf of
any monarch, prince, or government which does
not recognize the sole authority of power to he !
the will of the governed, expressly and distinctly
declared —nor in any eau.se or service as a mercen
ary thus have you swore at the altars of your
order, in the presence of your God and the broth
ers assembled. The time is near when these
vows must be redeemed 1 The despotism which j
has crushed us under its iron heel so long, is the I
Government usurped, which is found in arms and
waging war against our noble States, and would
degrade them from sovereignties to the rae-tn con
dition of dependencies of a centralized power."
These ••xtraefr are in themselves sufficient, but
another is added:
"Such a picture, gloomy, dark and blood
marked, the contemplation of which mantles with
the rush of shame tnc cheek of manhood, is ex
hibited upon every soot of our once bright and
beautiful land which has been pre ssed by the van
dal feet of the Federal 'anny. Brothers! You j
the noble, gallant men. citizens of the great State f
within the bonds of brotherhood which are yet j
unscathed by the flames of war, to you I appeal, i
Contemplate the picture thus but too oimly !
sketched, and say, while you HO invoke the God 1
of truth and justice to witness the sincerity of
your vows, this picture shall not be reproduced on
our homes and fair fields.
And. lastly, there is still another:
"To he prepared for this abb now approaching,
we must catch from afar the earliest and faintest'
breathings of the spirit of the storm. To be suc
cessful when the storm aomes, we must be watch
ful, patient, brave, confident, organize.!, armed." |
MEETING OF THE GRAND COMMANDERS.
A meeting of the "Grand Commanders of the
different States took place in the City of New !
York oft the 22d of February last, It* object was
to organize an outbreak oft the Kith "of March
the day which had been fix#i on which the draft j
for the raising of troop® was to be mads, but no (
definite plans or pttfptwes- -owing, perhaps most
ly to the absence of the Supreme Commander of
the Northern Section —were agreed upon. The [
names 'of the oou&ffiiatOTK tho* ssseulbied are,
however, known. They are watched, amj tnay he
taken care of in good season. Failing to arrive
at any definite oondu -ion. an adjournment was had j
for the purpose of Laving a c asultiiuoa with this
leader, tn exile in Canada tVe-A. A convocation
of the Grand Commander* of th. different States
wai aoowdicgij' hei'i M the ic&dquaptw* ofihe'
Supreme Commanders, at Windsor, in the be"
ginning of April last. Among those in atten"
dance was the celebrated Abbe M.'Masters of New-
Fork; Charles L. Hunt, of St. Louis; Lafayette
l'oveiin, ,or Indiana, and a number of others,
whose names will feach the public at the proper
time.
I
THE DEGREES.
The programme agreed upon at Windsor, in the
beginning yf April, will be given, after addtbg some
further remarks with regard to the character of
the organization—its degrees, the first being pub
lished an one pamphlet, the two next in another'
ebpies of which have been obtained, and the con
tents of which will, no doubt, at the proper time,
find theft way into the newspapers. The first de
gree seems to be a weak and diluted dose for nov
ices who may have squeamish stomachs. The
great mass of the members of the order are ad
mitted only into the mysteries of it thus far, the
leaders thus securing their support without en
dangering themselves by allowing their followers
to know too much of their treasonable conspiracy.
Once thus entrapped into the solemnity of an
oath, those of the first degree become the blind
and ready instruments of the more intelligent,
knavish, and traitorous, who are admitted to the
mysteries of the higher degree. The lodges or
temples have a list of members in the nature of a
lodge muster roll, copies of which have also been
obtained, and are in themselves a curiosity to look
at. These rolls one would suppose to be a list of
members cf a literary association, while those un
derstanding its real meaning would readily know
that a member marked down as having a copy of
The St. Republican was the owner of one
rifle and that he who was set down for two copies
of The St. Lou.it Union was the owner of that
number of revolvers, and so on.
THE OBLIGATIONS.
The obligations of this order are of a truly as
tonishing character. A few extracts from them
will show their nefarious character.
' I solemnly promise that I will never reveal or
make known to any person or persons, by sign or
signs, word or words, nor in any manner, the cer
emonies in which I have just taken a part nor the
names, nor persons who have participated with
iae, nor any single word nor thing; which I have
heard cr have seen herein.''
; ♦*•**#**
"I d' solemnly promise that I will never reveal or
j make known to any one, any or either of the
| signs, hails, passwords, watchwords, initials, ci
i f hers, emblems, insignia, nor signs manual, of
the M. E. J)—O. A. K.—Except to prove a man
daimiug to be a member of that decree.' 1
********
"I do further solemnly promise that I will at
all times, and in all places, yield and observe a
prompt obedience, without remonstrance or ques
tion. to every mandate, command, order, or re
quest, of any immediate .Grand Commander, in
all things touching or relating to the purpose- of
the O. A. K., if in my power to do so."
*******
; "Ido further solemnly promise that whenever
the principles which our ordcy inculcates shall be
assailed in my own State or county, I will defend
those principles with my sword and my life, in
whatsoever capacity may be assigned me by the
competes Authority of our order ; * * ''that
I I will never pronounce the name of this order in
the tearing of any man, woman, or obiM. exeept
to a member of this" order whom I know
to be such; that I will ever have in most
holy keeping each and every secret ef this
- order which rray be confided to me by a
member, within or without'the temple, and rath
' cr than reveal which I will consent to any torture,
Ten unto death by torture.''
*****
"I do further promise that I will at all times
f reeds be, take arms in the cause of the oppres
v.-d in my country first of all. against any mon
irch. prince, potentate, power, or Government
usurper, which may be found in arms and waging
war against a people or peoples who are endeav- j
ing to establish, or have inaugurated a Govern- j
ment for themselves, of their own free choice, in
accordance with and Founded upon the eternal
priori pics. f truth. This I do promise, without
regard to the name, station, condition, or designa
tion of the invadiiit or eoe v eir.g power, whether
it dhcli arise within or come from without."
* * # * *
"I do solemnly, promise and swear sacredly to j
i ob.-orve. perform, and ke*-p, with a full knowl
edge and understanding. and with my full assents
that the penalty which will follow a violation of any
or either of" these my solemn vows wiil be a fear
ful death.
THE SIGNS, ETT.
The signs, passwords, Ac. . being of a changeble
character, it is not worth while to describe at length.
As driginly organized, the pass-word of the first
degree was ! Nuoh-bic."beingthe word "Calhoun" j
spelt backward -. That of the second degree was ;
Webster." The signal of distress is "Ochone," (
"Ochone," "Ochone." The street sign of recog
nition is given by placing the hand of the left arm :
•n the right breast, and raising the right to angle
of forty-five degres, with the shoulder on a right
line with them.
The grip is a full grasp of the hand, with the in
dex finger so extended as to rest upon the wrist of
the person addressed. The toe of the person de
siring to be recognized is also i laced at the hollow
•it the foot of the other. Tubs order has also
badges by which members recognize each other,
which are worn in various ways and manners—in
rnanv instances as neckties; samples of these have
also been obtained, arjd the house that imports
bem.in this aty ascertained.
ACCOUNTS OF STEENGm
There are different accounts of the strength of
this organization among the-members themselves.
At a meeting not long since, held by the 'Wayne
Ijodge or Temple in this city, the Grand Worthy,
in his lecture to the newly initiated, gave an ac
count of the condition of the onirr, and its rapid
progress in numbers and strength, in which he
stated its membership to be as follows : Between
20,000 and 30,000 in Missouri; nearly 150,000 in
Illinois, of whom so.ooo are well armed and or
ganized : 100,000 in Indianna; nearly 100,000 in
Ohio, of wbs.in one-half were well armed and or- j
ganixed; in Kentucky, from 60,000 to 70,000; in
New York. New Jersey and Pennsylvania, already
very strong, and rapidly on the increase. In Mich- I
igan. lowa and other M esterr. States, not yet very ■
strong, yet nevertheless making rapid progress.— |
A principal officer In New York State, where it i;
known as the McCleflan Minute Men. has stated i
its strength tn that state to be over 200,000.
MEMBERS ARMED.
It is one of tlie requirements of the order that !
all its members should be in the possession of j
arms, and these are enumerated, as well as the j
amount of ammunition he may have on the mus- j
ter-roll of his Lodge or Temple.
THE P&OUBAMiOL
The Programme agreed upon in the Supreme
Council at Windsor, Canada, in April la-t. as
gathered from the proceedings of the different
lodges, was as follows: Vaßandirham at that
meeting announced his determination to secure
his election and represent hie old
District in Ohio, at the Democratic Nation! Con
vention, then called to meet at Chicago on the 4th
of July. Starting out with this determenatiou
the conspirators then resolved he should go to
Chicago nofen* ptdau. While there he was to
make a speech proclaiming the doctrines of the
order—in other word*, pronouncing the existing
Administration of the Government to be a power
usurped, which the people had not oniy a right
but which it was their duty to expel, and if needs
be by force : it was in fact to inaugurate a rebel
hoaia the iw ofct,.ia of whjehhe to
be sustained and supported by the order- The
Grand Commanders of the different States were
to be there, each with a folly armed and trained
band, or body guard, who, when assembled, wart
to torm an annv corps to defend Yaliifodigham,
and, byforoe of arms, resist all interference with
him. This step it was believed, would precipitate
the people of each free State into an armed con
flict with each other; and it wt,s to be the signal
to the members of the order throughout the States
to unite in bnen resistance to lawful authorities.—
ihe trained bands were thus to be gathered to
gether were to go there only in pairs or squads,
so a.% to excite no suspicions in the iocaiities from
which they came. The incredulous may regard this
statement considering the appearance oi Vallan
digaam in Ohio before the time fixed for the na
tional convention at Chicago as affording in itself
evidence of its untrustworthiness; but, so from
this being a fact, the real state of the case need
be known to make it prove conclusive of its
truthfulness. The explanation of Mr. Yallandig
hara s sudden return to Ohio to be found in the
tact that he was OD the point of being defeated as
a delegate to the Chicago Convention. A large
portion of his own friends shrank from taking a
step which they feared would involve him and
them in ruin, and they resisted, therefore, with all
i their power and might, his election to that Oon
| vention. So well was he afcare of it and so thor
j had he become satisfied of it, that nothing
j but his own personal appearance in the Conven
: tion on the day of its assembling would save him
I irom defeat, that he resolved upon the feat which
ihe performed. He appeared at Hamilton just be
fore the Convention proceeded to the election made
: his speech, and the result was his election by ac
! clamation. This is not a matter of conjecture,
j but the most indubitable evidence is at hand, such
; as cannot be gainsayed either by himself or by his
! mends, or any one else—of the truth of the histo-
Iry thus given of his return to his home. As al
ready stated, the programme agreed upon for Val
: tandignam's demonstration at Chicago, if it were
j suppressed, would lead to a general conflict between
i the people of the free States. Members of the
order were expected to raise, kill, or make prison
ers of the civil and military authorities such as
Governors, commanders of armies, commanders
| of departments, districts, posts, forts, etc., etc.;
. sieze arsenals, arms, public property of all kinds
1 and proclaim the Government overthrown and
j the revolution complete. But more of this here
i after, in its more appropriate place.
SMUGGLERS AND MAIL CARRIERS.
T. nder the auspices of these secret organizations,
| regular lines of smugglers and mail carriers have
i been established, and are now being carried on be
tween the rebel and loyal States. In it
stances rebel women—some of them of character ■
and standing in society, and not a few of them
outwardly professing to be loyal—are engaged in j
this treasonable business ; some of them have j
been ferreted out, arrested and punished in this 1
Department, and others are now in prison await-1
ing their trial.
THE GRAND COMMANDER IN MISSOURI.
The Grand Commander of the order in this
S* ate is Charles L. Hunt, a native of this city,
but for years the Belgian Consul here: Charles E. '
; Dunn, boiding the position of Superintendent of
Public Lamps of this city, is the Deputy Grand
Commander: Green B. Smith is the Grand Sec
retary, and T. Jefierson Jones the Grand Coun
selor. All these wave been arrested < ekeept Hunt)
and are now in confinement in Gratiot street pris
|on Many others who were most active and hold- i
?ng high positions in the order, have also been ar- 1
j re sted and are imprisoned or under heavy bonds
for their good behavior, and to appear for trial
when called for. But for these arrests at the
proper time, thus throttling the hydraheaded ;
monster before it could culminate in the treason- 1
able conspiracy, there would have been, in all hu- 1
man probability, sad scenes of havoc and destruc- |
tion in this already devastated Department.
A number of tho.se thus arrested have been ex- j
aminod tmder oath, and not one of theian fote te
yet so far respected his oath, as to acknowledge
any knowledge or membership of such an Order. !
though enough of witnesses are at hand and am- '
pie proof at command to establish their member- j
ship and participation in the Order beyond all !
question. One main feature of the Order is thus !
verified in the conduct of its own members, name
ly, that, it is a deliberate system of falsehood and (
deception, striking at the very root of society and I
government, taking away all props of safety and :
protection.
LIST OF MEMBERS.
A lartre list of members of the order in the dif- j
ferent States is in the possession of the Provost*- j
Marshal-General of this department and also of'
the Government at Washington, giving the names
of the master spirits and the active members not
only in this department, but in all the States.—
The publications of that list and of the additions,
which are still daily being made, cannot fail to !
create consternation among the traitorous conspir- j
ators.
ATROCIOUS CONCLAVE IN ST. LOUIS.
No attempt is made in theofficial report to give
particulars, the details being given in documents
I aoompaning it which make about a ream of legal
cap. This fact taken from one of the accompa
nying documents, is, however, specially referred
; to in the report as coming from a member of the
I order who was present is an eye-witness to the
proceeding-, at a meeting of the lodge at the cor
ner of o'Fallon street and Broadway, over which
Dr. Shore precided, who is now in Gratiot street
prison. A member named Harris, known by the
soubriquet of liVjodthinty Harris," made the
murderou- proposition to establish a secret police
to patrol the streets of ciiy every night and
kiif every soldier they should encounter. This
fiendish proposition was realy and boidly made in
the lodge, fitterded by over a hundred members,
and was deliberately redeved, considered, and dis
, cussed, without a single voice being raised in con
demnation to its atrocious character. Several ap
proved it. and it was finally passed over, not be
cause of its arroeiousness, but because the general
sentiment of those present seemed to be that such
a slaughter would be premature, and that the or
der was not yet sufficiently strong successfully to
carry out the measure. This, in itself, is referred
to as proof conclu-ive of the bloody character and
designs of the order.
ASSASSIN ATIONSS IN MISOCRL
It is further stated that numerous cold-blooded
psaasinatioßS of military officers and radical Un
ion men in the Military District of North Missouri,
especially along the western border, have taken
place, and been undoubtedly perpetrated at the
instigation of the Order and by members of it.
EXPLANATION OP MISBDCXI AFFAIRS.
Another fact is referred to to show the workings
of the order. At a meeting of one the lodges,
held at the corrt'-r of Webster and Fifth streets,
on the 25th of May, a Major Harris, of Cooper
county, formally a rebel officer, but now an inmate
of Gratiot Street Prison, teade a spe-xh. in whi ::h
he stated that he had been traveling through Illi
nois 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
ks condition in St. Louis at rather lethargic, but
spoke in high terms of praise of its energy and
activity in the counties M Callaway, Boone, How
ard, Cviariton and Cooper. The greatest difficulty
experienced by the officers in those counties, he
.-•aid, was to restrain the mcmlA-is of the order |
from rising before the proper opportunity should
arrive. lie had found the same difficulty to exist
in the State of Illinois, and appealed to those
present to take no hasty steps, but to a* ait the
official call of their Grand Com mafider. He spoke
of Gen. Price in the most eulogistic terms ; said
he had been in constant communication with him,
Manuaduke and the rebel* in Arkansas. He ex
pected and looked for a raid from Marmaduke.—
Wh<ia he eaaie all should hail tad support hixa *a
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■ a friend and favior. He referred minutely to the
> condition of North Missouri ; said that all the
1 United STATES troops had been rent off to the
front, and that the enrolled militia would amount
to nothing, and could not be trusted by the Gor
t ernraent. He looked upocr a rebel raid, therefore,
i an eaey matter. Two hundred Southern men
could, even now march from the Kansas line to
' the Mississippi, and take all the United State*
i troops in the district. He gave detailed account*
• of the posts where United States troops were sta
■ tioned, and the number at each ; also the point*
of esfey access and passage whete nofce are station
i ed ; thus showing the minute details to which the
I order gives it attention, and the- powerful lever
it Wields to interfere with SAD defeat military op
erations.
CIRCULATION OF DOCUMENTS.
T The report goes on to show that the order "m
I also used for the circulation of hooks, documents
and publications of various kiflds inculcating Reb
: el views and sentiments Agents belonging to the
I order are employed in the various States for this
: purpose, and immense numbefs are being carefully
circulated by them. Prominent among those cir
[ culated are :
Pollard's Southern History of the War ; Official
Report of the confederate Government ; Life ef
Store: wall Jackson ; articles from The Metropolis
tin Record, and a number of other documents.
THE REBSL RELIANCE.
The order, it is affirmed, is in truth the great
lover used by the Rebel Government for it army
operations. The members of the Southern sec
tion of it, under the control OF Gen. Prioe, met
and confered with the Northern section, under the
control of Vail&ndigham, with perfect impunity.
BEAUTIES OF THE AMNESTT.
The Department of the Missouri, it is alledged,
is filied with Rebel spies, all of whom belong te
the order. They come professedly AS deserter*
from Price's army, take the oath of allegiance and
then go to work te organize lodges, and engage in
aiding and abetting the Rebellion. This is stated
to be the result of a well-settled policy of the reb
el authorities. Men who so avail themselves of
| the Amnesty oath are given furloughs or leaves of
absence for the express purpose of thus operating.
This fact is, as in A subsequent part of the report
shown, fully corroborated by testimony of thos*
who belong to the Southern section of the order.
SAFE COMMUNICATION.
Another means of immense power for rebel op
erations which this order affords, is the perfectly
safe communications of important information be-
I tween the two sections. On this point Colonel
Sanderson says he has repeatedly had information,
which he obtained from his agent belonging to thß
j order, days before those not belonging to it, or
; thepubiic, has any knowlege of it
He- instances the retrograde movements of
! Steele's army from Camden to Little Rock, which
i was known to him in this way three days before
I the intelligence reached the loyal States, or was
; made known to the public. So again, the infor
mation of the contemplated raid of John Morgan
into Kentucky became known to him ten days be
fore he made his public appearance in that State.
M'CLBLLAN MINUT* MEN.
In New York this order is known AS the "ME-
Cleilan Minute Men." In its general object and
purpose it is the SAME as the O. A. K. A mera-
J ber OITLTO latter can gain admission Into the form-
I er. It is, in fact, the same thing with another
name, and only adapted to the locality in which it
exists, having for its professed object a support o
the war policy; Which profession is meant only to
catch votes, and. Laving secured them and obtain-
I ed power to be thrown -aside and exhibit it* real
j object and purpose.
| CONSERVATIVE NATIONAL CONVENTION.
It is a singular fact that the recent call for a
! "Conservative National Convention," at Chicago,
! at the Bame time fixed for the Democratic Conven
tion was signed by B. F. Stevens who is the chief
' secretary of the McCJellan minute men.
THE OATH OF SECRECY.
Charles L. Hunt, Grand Commander in Mis
souri, having been arrested and imprisoned, was
; afforded the opportunity of making a statement
under oath. Being a man of character and stand
; ing, it was believed" his case would afford a test as
j to the binding obligation of the order not to dis
- close anything in regard to it Having proof con
; elusive not only of his membership, but as to his
j befog chieftain of it in the State, his denial of it*
! existence, Cr being a member thereof is regarded
as strong proof of the weight attached to the ob
ligation taken by the members thereof.
WHAT HUNT ADMITTED.
The result of the examination was ALL that was
anticipated. He acknowledged having been at
J Windsor in Canada, in April at the very time of
! the meeting of the Supreme Commander* ; going
there in company with another whose name he de
clined to give, but who it is known was Lafayette
; Devlin, of Indiana, Grand Commander of that
, State'that while there he: was in consultation
j with Mr. Vallandigham and othera whose names
he also declined giving; that while there Mr. Val
landigham made known to himself and to a lady,
whom it will be seen that the character which EN*
gives to the ord'-r, of which she admits she is a
member, is expressly, and in the minuest detail*,
just such as was obtained from the other soiTrees
and those belonging to the national section.
ORIGIN OF THE ORDER IN MISSOURL
The'-rir-'FT of the order in Missouri is as fol
lows ; A man named William Douglas, was sent
| HY Gen. Price to this department, who in conjune-
I tion with Charles L Hunt; the BELGIAN CODSUL
introduced it under the plausible disguise of a land
association. It was first called the Corps de Bel-
HUE. HULIT himself in las sworn examination
ore the Provost General after his arrest, ad
mitted his Douglas's connection with him a* a
land agent ; that Douglas was on a land locating
'Our through the State during the Fall dif 1863
and the Winter of 1864, and that be rectrived no
pay or compensation for it. The same Douglaa
WAS early in the Spring traced by the Provost-Mar
shal-General to one of Jackm an 'scamps of guer
illas in the interior of the State, from whence he
came to this city, where he was in constant com
munication with Mr Hunt, and, after having ob
tained morey, he purchased forty-six shooting re
volvers, which he designed carrying back to camp,
lie accordingly started off on the" railroad train
west one night and was arrested on the train by
two detectives, who were sent for that purpose by
the Provost-Marshal-General, when they found
the forty revolvers 'nagly packed in a barrel in
the expresa car. Hunt employed counsel to de
fend him. Douglas has since broken out of pris
on, and is again at large.
VARIOUS NAMES.
The organizations of this order are known by
different names in different localities, but th
members belongng to them are enabled, by g
and grip*, to know and recognize each other in all
parts.
FEDERAL OFFICERS WHO ARE MEMBERS.
Proof has been obtained that there are officers
in the Federal Army who belong to this order,
and that these officer* when captured by the Reb
el army are unceremoniously turned fcoee again,
because they are believed by the Rebel* to be or
more service to them in thetr owfi line# than tb<y
could be a* prisoner*.
MEMBER* AT WASHINGTON.
Proof ha* also been obtained that person* be
longing to this order, and Rebels, m fact, are
holding positions in all the departments at Wash
ington, who act as spies and are aiders and ab*t
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