Letters of John Hay And Extracts From Diary volume 1
Letters of John Hay And Extracts From Diary volume 1
Hay John
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Men of my temperament derive advantage from them as a sedative, and as a preventer of corpu lence. " He puffed away and began to talk, in a loud, easy tone at first, which he soon lowered, casting a glance over his shoulder and moving his chair nearer. There is a secret conspiracy on foot against the Government, carried on by a society called the Order of the American Knights, or, to use their initials O. A. K. The head of the Order, styled the high priest, is in the North, V, and in the South,... S. P . Its objects are, in the North to exert an injurious effect upon public feeling, to resist the arrest of its members, to oppose the war in all possible ways ; in the border States to join with returned rebels and guerilla parties to plunder, murder and persecute Union men and to give to rebel invasion all possible information and timely aid. He said that in Mis souri they had carefully investigated the matter by means of secret service men who had taken 204 LETTERS OF JOHN HAY the oaths, and they had found that many recent massacres were directly chargeable to them ; that the whole Order was in a state of intense activity ; that they numbered in Missouri 13, 000 sworn members; in Illinois, 140, 000; in Ohio and In diana almost as large numbers, and in Kentucky a very large and formidable association.
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