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When, just a month ago, I had the pleav.re of making your acquaintance here, through a disiinguishe'd Democratic friend, ^'ho 8PVj« ^? me, in'hi^h terms, of yo">^ '=''"'*»''' Jfl'^jit ness and liberal views, you were kmd enough to tell me of an information, t«ken and fo - warded by you to Attorney- General Speed, m Xch the^reature Hyan.s insinuated, though he did not directly charge, know edge and ap- proval, on my part, of certain villamouseoheraes which he p?of-8sed to hava executed for Dr. Blackburn. It was the same story published in the I'^^rmt Tri6un« of the 19th May,-^re. affirmed by Hyams, with essential otnissions and contr/diciions, at the evauiinat.on of Dr Blackburn, the week after, in Toronto--. and Tgain re-affirmed, with new vanations and con- tradictions, before the military court at Wash- ingtOQ- I suggested to you the danger of disgrace, both t» yourself and the government, by »he use. as a witness, of a notorious f«lo". jl'«>^ the authorities here had strangely allowed o. go unwhipped of justice; and pom ted out to vou the di8credita»>U; pos.tmn into which the law officers here were bring.n- themselves be- fore the pubiic, in holding a prisoner already rtis- charged by the less subservient courts of Mon- ti-eal as men will say, ou the oath of a villaio. who within their knowle.lge, had been caught with the implen.enlsof murder in his posses- sion as the lackey of certain rail ers upon the U S bmdei-had%hainelessly offered his cmth for sale to native Americans who needed Brilish papers, or an o,.th m.^.iufaclured t. order for Jny other purpo«e-a.ul had actually sworn a native American pris -nepout of Fort Lafayette n "tee of the suspicions of both Lord iyous an the 20th Jaa- uaJy. 1804; never had seen h.mbultwice- eich time ior only a few minutes-sub-equeat- Iv never had twenty minutes convei.iation wi'ih him in my life, nor communicated with him in any other way except onee-anaui&t, aJthe entreaty of Uyam's half crazed wife, to prevent his getting aid from Dr. Blackburn to Seserthis family ^nd go back, as -^J^e tlK^u^ht and I thought, to the i«outheru army. II at i uever knew anything of Hyams save as r. beg- car. to whose staiving family I was requested, Ma Christian minister, to dispense a strangers charity, and added a little of my own dunag the three months of the winter of 1864; an4 never spoke to him before or after, nor duuog the three months, except on maUe» QOBOeobea with relieving bis destitution. I relieving^ "»^ **■••-*- »/ ■'•'.'_ ^.; *v 1 showed you. also, that beyond ilVdSflbtlie had lied to you in all the particulars of h« re- fereni-e to me. That he could not have applied ^rr Soufedeiate agent to be seat U^^ t^^the I mjtl I n I ■V4 2 »»my in 188S, since there was no such ngcnt till Mr. Holcombe came id June, 1864. That he never did appl^ for aid to be sent back at all, but for charity ; for I showed you his letter which he told you contained the applicotion— dated Jan'y. 15th, 1864,— and its terms are: "My wife and children are with me — she near her confinement— without a cent to help her — in my state of destitution I rely on your benevo- lence." That he did not receive aid from me on account of Dr. Blackburn— for I showed you his note asking me to be his surety for $40, sixty days, and pleading ; •' the benefit "you gave nie I expended on my wife and child for clothing for her confinemeut." That I diii not in- troduce him to Dr. B. as a soldier wishing to re- turn, but as he claimed already to know l^lack- born, though I did not, I went with him to ascertain from Blackburn whether he was what he pretended to be, and wort y of the stranger's obarities. That he lied in telling you that either I or my generous host, Mr. Preston, gave him money to go to Montreal, as for Blackburn, for he borrowed it — as Mr. Preslon was in the habit of loaning him charitably small sums — and gave a memorandum or " due-bill " for it as for other loans, which "due-bill." by the ■way, not having been paid, is still in Mr. Pres- on's hands to speak for itaeK. As the result of this exposure, you e-ipressed to me and to others your entire confidence :a my representations, and you purpose to avoid using such a witness. You appealed to me to tc use my acquaintance and influence with southern gentlcnen 're to secure their pre sence as witnesses, ney appeared— some of them voluntarily, some by climpulsory sum- mons, bei'ore Magistrate McMicken, who, by the way, committed a breach of official faith yet unexplained, in allowing the publication of two of theae compulsory affidavits in the Globe, contrary to his pledge, in your presence, that they should not be publicly used at all. As I predicted to you, our evidence here amounted to very little — Dr. B., having never been among us, except as a passing traveller for A few hours— but that littie went to show, contrary to your theory, that neither the Con- federate Government, nor its agents, nor its friends here had any responsibility for Dr. Blackburn's schemes, nor any faith in his the- ories. The truth is, Mr. Emmons, that but for the madness of the times, sensible men must have perceived at once that Dr. B's theory of trans- planting yellow fever, irrespective of climate OP condition of the atmosphere, must be a vision- ary dream, as ninety-nine out of a hundred phy- •icians say it is, and as the recent evidence of the sate of infected clothing at Washington city last summer without infection proves it to be. That in the next place, even if it were possible thus to transplant it into the Fedaral army, it must kill just as many, or more, in the o|)po»ing Confederate army— for when it rages within the Federal lines at Newbern, it rages also within the Confederate lines at neighbor- ing Wil(nington~and therefore, no possible advantage could accrue to the Confederates from it. That, in the third place, it is practical atheism, as any christian perceives, to believe that Providence has put the millions of the earth's population at the mercy of any medical theorist, and given him control f the " pesti- lence that wallicth in darkness." I suggested to you the glaring injustice, in general, of allowing si-.ch r, creature as Hyams the opportunity of associating with his infamies in the public mind the names of innocent pri- vate persons ; and the special injustice done me in this case by allowing these lies to go uncontradicted into the hands of Attorney General Speed— a man Avhose " odium theolo- qicum" I had incurred by the discharge of my ministerial duty in exposing the infidelity of Unitaiianiam and of the humanitarian theories of slavery ; and whose special personal h .tred I had been forced, in self defence to incur, by an exposure of certain falsehoods concerning me as a public teacher in his speech before the Kentucky Senate in 1862. I stated to you that— having buen in the habit of communica- ting with the American public, and they in the habit of believing me— I felt no fear of being able to defend my reputation ; yet I depreca"- ted the necessity which should force me into a controversy with the agents of the secular government, and especially into a controversy in which I might even seem to be irnpairing the confidence of the people in the efforts of the government to prosecute crimes against hrman- Uy. I understood that you would take such steps as, in your wisdom, you thought needful to protect my reputation in this matter, and gave over, for the time, all concern about it. Of course it surprised me to find the Detroit Tribune publishing and other journals copying, a week after, the Uyams alias Harris, " yellow fever " story, evidently derived from your office. And still greater was the surprise that again the week after Hyams should be called to repeat it here and the following week to re- peat It once more in Washin^^on. It is true, as he repeated his story at the exiiraination of Dr. B. here, he so modified wiiat related to myself and my friend Mr. Preston, as, if cor- rectly reported, to implicate neither of us. Yet he re-swore a string of the old falsehoods— as that he had applied to go back south— that I introduced him to Dr. B. ns such — though he swore also that he himseh had known Dr. B. before; he swore also some new falsehoods— as that he had never made any previous state- ment, such as that made to you— and had never received aid or compensatiou from cgents of the Federal Government— which, as you are aware, I knew to be falsehoods. Yet for some cause, uuaocountable to me save on the supposition of some kind remonstrance of yours against his treachery toward the char- ity that had kept his family from starving, on the same day he went to the American consul saying, with hio ancestor and patron saint Judas, " I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood ' and left with him the fol- lowing recantation : Toronto, Mny 2351'd, 1866. I, Godricy S. Hyiims, never Ftated to nny per^^on lliat Dr. Stuart Robinson know nny thing of the expedition connected with Dr Luke P. Blackburn and niyfelf lefpecting in fecting the clothes with yellow fever or smiill pox. That w'.'.en I applied to him for rnorey to go away he said he would nul loan or give nny money to commit an overt act against the United Stiites. Tiuit he never done any thing ngaiiiSt the Government or never would help him do Fo. (This, though not snid to Hyams, was, no doubt, heard by him from scores of otlicrs, as having been said liy mo to them, for my careful avoidance of nil hostile nets was noto- rious to everybody). He, Dr. Robinson, fui iher stated he did not know what I was going lu uppippsed witnesses it, from fimt to last, mi itvmitiqnted lie f And what is worse ptill. for the ci'edii, of our country, that it imist hiivc heen, or oiij^hfc to have hi>pn within thi^ knowU'df^e of Ihu " Burenu of Mili tary JiKitice," thiil the testimony on which Mr. Joimson wn» advised to issue the terrible pro claiuniion was thin an unmilitriiti'd lie! Yet, so iwlpiible lire ihu facts, that I freely risk mv arn;unient on a mere outline of ihem, in the few paragraphs of a letter. For, while the low, ignorant, JewChristian-Atiicist Hyam*, bad ini^ei'uily el\ol.^h so to weave the slender est thrend of a fact into his cable of fiction, as to give it the glosR of plausibility, these more jjretentious liaru— i>o(<"r Merrit, Correnpondeiit ConoTer, and Covfiilenl a' agent Montgomery — seem to have been given over of God to the stupidity of lying in the teeth of public facts and lime and space, and that, too, in reference to every point of importance in iheir evidence. L^t me give you a few illustrations, following the order of the published testimony. Ilichard Montgomery swears to the astound ing conversaiii^ns with ilr. Thompson, in Mon- treal, during several days in Jimuary, 1865, concerning the assas.'^i nation. Now, it is within your knowledge, Mr. limmons. or that of your neighbor and co-official, Mr. Russel, that Mr. Thompson was in Toronto, 300 to 400 miles from Montreal, duiiug January, 18fi5, watch- ing the trial of the famous " Burley Extradition Case;" it is within the knowledge of judges and lawyers here that be was iu consultation with some one or other of them during the whole month, and within the knowledge of fifty peo- ple here, and confirmed by the hotel books, that he was nolor.t of Toronto during January, 1865 I This Montgomery also swears to all the de- tails of conversations with Mr. Cleary about the assassination, and destroying of papers, at Montreal, after the assassination. It is within your knowledge, Mr. Emmims, that Mr. Cleary was in Detroit, consisUing with you about his return to Kentucky, on the 26ih of April, ten dnys after the assassination. It is matter of public notoriety, that, witli Mr. 1 hompson, he started from Montreal, to leave the couutry finally, on the lOih of April, and was at Itiv ifere du Louji. hundreds of miles olT, when the news of the assassiuati«in came, being detained there by the impassible roads. Thence, chang- ing his purpose, he staited, on the 23rd April, directly for Detroit, near a thousand miles off, and was there in consultation with you on the 26th. So, Mr. Emmons, you need not be told that Montgomery "s stories of conversations with Cleary, in Montreal, ar^ very stupidly devised lies; for it is impossible he should IJave been there long enough to have had such interviews with any body, or have thought of returnins to ii.gnuu-j4.jr l^ ua usin Vhus plu!>u;({. The witnecB Merrit swears to t1;e stupid in- vention of a conspirator's conclave over a lette" of Jeff, Davis to Sanders — looatim; it in Mon- treal, during February, 1865 — mentioning, half a dozen times, the name of Col. Steele, a? hav- i: g been there, imving read the letter, having sat at the hotel table with Booth and Sanders; though it is a fact, well known, that Ool. Steele wa» never in Mmitreal in hixlife, and a hundred people, within sight of your resii ence. or. at least of your city, Mr. Emmons, will swear that Ool. Steele was not outside the limits of Essex County during the winter of 1 864-5 I The same stupitl individual swears to seeing Mr, Clay in Montreal in February, 1865, thoun;h it is well known Clay had finally left Canada about the last o*" November, 1864. And now, as I write, I am pointed to indubitable proof that this liar, out of the whole cloth, was /liniHelfnot in Montreal in February, 1866, nor outside the Township of Ayr !! The witness Conover swears to discussions of the assassination plot at Mr, Thon pson's room in the St. Lawrence Hotel, Montreal, not only every day during the month of February, 1865, but fixes very particularly the special conversations "in the early pirt of February or it might have been iu the latter part of Jiinuary." I h.ave already shown that, as a f.ict partly within your knowledge and Mr. Russel's, Mr. Thompson could not have been in Montreal in January ; now as the hotel books show, and as scores of persons here will swear, Mr. Thompson did not leave J'oronto and go to Montreal till the middle of February I This same witness swears, among his lies about the blank commissions, signed at Rich- mond and filled up in Canaua, that B. H. Young had such commission, and " never wan in Rich- mond at all.'' Whereas scores of persotis — his fellow students in the University — ladies and others who received messages by him from friends in Richmond, and Young's " personal " from Richmond standing several days in the New York News, all demonstrate that he went to Richmond and returned thence early in the summer of 1864. This witness Conover swears also to a string of conspiracy conversations with Mr. Cleary in Montreal "on the day before or the same day of the assassination," Whereas, as I have already shown you, Mr. Cleary had le(t Mon- treal near a week before the assassination, and was not there subsequently at all except as he passed through, as rapidly as the means of con- veyance permitted him, on his hasty trip from Riviere dn Loup to Detroit, between the 23rd arid 26th of April. From these specimens you will now be pre- pared to appreciate the value of the appendix to Conover's testimony either as corroborative of Hyams or as proof of additional crime— in which, having apparently never before thought of me 8S among tlie conspirators — or beciiuse*it is so common a thing to find preachers engaged in such villinoies that it made no impression on ijis aiipq-~-5Jr, Soifg geniusi re-jc6pire«i ihei witncBs's flogging imngiimtiou to dcviao an " Exponent of Dmnily " (iu Mr. IIoll r .mppy phrase) to quiet tlin consci.ncos '^f these eon- spiratofH ill thi-ir yelh.w fevci- or Cioton poison- ing project?*. ,, . . 1 This viiUMiM Conover ewcnrs that Binoo lie came to Montreal m Oct., 1S64. ho " imi.le the i.cquftinlftiice of Dr. Stviut Hobiiipon, a re ii- li.iii of ihe BieLkinritlgL'ts of Kentucky '—(why | did'nt he suy a favoiiio boh in hiw. or adopted , son of old Dr. Robert?) that he "Fav/h.mm intimate a*»ociation willi 'I'lionipson and Blaek- burn;" that Roliinson lia* been present when the proieet for inlrodueing yellow fever was di8Cii>^8ed," or when it was proiv-scd to pois'on the Ciotou water;" that ho "approved th*? scheme and pronounced, as an exponent of i Divinitv, the very expre-^sion— any lliin-,' under , heaven 'would be justifMble ?" 'Hiis i-i the sum and substance of the fanioua revelaliou about Rev Stuart Robinson. To be sure on cross examination, the skill and large experience of Detective General Holt ilid ferret out of the witness the secret, known l»efore to fee outside the iiaU uiillicn of readers of llev. Stuart Robinson's letter to President, Lincoln— that Robiuson'a paper the True, J'rcs(,>itcnan had been suppressed ! But this is only an incidental polat . . ., t c Now unfortunately af;ai'i for the story ot this perjurer bv wholesale, he dates and locates it in the fatal ■January, 18C£, at Montreal. I have already shown you th.it Mr. 'lhoinp«on lhe"lieiid devil" of this imagined pandenio- uium. wsB not within three hundred miles of Montrea'. during January or the flfrst half of February ; and indeed it can be proved that ho was not in Montreal between the important e-a of Mr. Conover's arrival in Oct., 1864, and the middle of Feb., 1865. Nor could it have been possible for Dr. Robinson as chaplain, " Exponent of Divinity." and soother of these diabolical consciences to have been pre>ent at any such time and place— nor to have hiid iiitr mate assoriation with Messrs. Thompson and Blackburn, in Montreal, nor even to have bad the liigh honor of Mr. Couovei's acquaintance. Yoa are doubtless aware, Mr. Kmmons, that the moveme;its ol the minister of a large eou- gregatiou, involving a journey of some seven hundred miles, going and coming— and Umi! between to have "intimate associations' — is apt to be a matter well known to a good many people. Now, within the knowle'lge of a thou- sand people in Toronto, I have not b-en absent from inv pulpit— save Christmas Sabbath at Hamilton— since I re-commei.ced preaching in Sept., 1864, until late in May 1865 ; and there- fore I could not have travelled three to lour hundred uiilos to Montreal, and had much inti- mate association with any body there. Within the knowledge of a hunuied people / have not been in Montreal shice the time of the. arrivnl of the Southern Agents in Canada in June. 1864 1 And therefore I could not possibly have seen Mr. Thompson uor Mr. Conover there, nor have been at any oonelave there, nor have pronounced an "exponent of divlmW there. Nor, as it is well known, on the other hand, has Ur. Blackburn, since October, 1864, been in Toronto, till three week* fince at hn trial, so that it is impoMible I should ever hav« seen him and Mr. Thompson together; ns it i« a fact that I never did see Dr. B. but the iwioe before his trial, as already stated ;— once to ask him if Hyams was what he pretended to be or a swindler— the other time to ask If h« had prevented Hyams from deserting hu stiuving family. , 1 his the miserable fictions of this villain « nppoiulix, under thft manipulations of Mr. Holt, like the whole work in chief of the three wit- nesses, is seen to be not only an unmitigated lie, but a stupid lie, so contrived that the whole structure of falsehood drops to piece* by reference to place and dates; thus easily makiu'' tho perjurv manifest to the hurableet capacitvof the people by the very short and conclui^ive method o' proving an alibi. But not to waste your time and patience further upon this monotonous recital and expo- sure in detail of these silly fictions, I prjxje^ to remark that what is far more discreditable to the country than the perjuries of these vil- lains, is the fact that the " Bureau of Military Justice " ami the law adviser of the President should have called for such a Proclamation of infamy against such men, upon evidence which, if they aid not know, they ought to have known to be the evidence of perjured witnesses. And therefore any apology in defence of their i hcuesty in the matter is necessarily at the ex- ; pense of their common sense and shrewducis, which, next to honesty, arc the fundamental re- nuisites in such officers. As to the perjured character of Hyams tea- ' timony, I had demonstrated it to you three j weeks previously, and he in fact had, in part, ' confessed it one week before Mr. Holt intro- i duced him as a witness at Washington. Be- I vojid doubt, therefore, through you, the Judge ; Advoi'Httjmust have been aware of the character of thi^* Jew-Christian- Atheist perjurer before taking and publishing his falshoods to the world. . . , .1 r 1 As to the scoundrel Merrit, beside the JaUe- , hood pal liable on the face of his bungling story, i and especially hi^ bungling apology for failure I to inform the' government of the danger on ac- i count of Esquire Davidson's refusal to hear I him, there was nothing more wanting than a ! simple telegraphic despatch to Esquire David- ) son to Lave revealed on the spot the fact that ' Merrit was lying-had never been to Esquire Davidson— nor indeed out of the township of Ayr during the period covered by his Mon- tieal conclave over the pretended Davis- Sanders letter. . , • t. As to Richard ilontgoniery, who claims to liavc been confidential counsellor and be^irer of dtspalches for Mr. Thomp ^n, which despatches he exhibited, in passing, to the Federal Govern- ment, a reference to the secret records of the dppartnient would have shewn th^ h^ fbpwe.q / •«'». ■^m^mt ; I I no mich despntohea .-vf Mr. Thompson, unlegs they were bogus dfspntches. It is within the know- ledge of vftrioos persone licre, and of Jiotin- guished Ameiican tinvellera at the (incen'H Hotel, Toronto, in August last, thiit this Mont- gomery, though he may h.-wo deceived Mobsis. Clay aud Holcombo when pnsning tlie Falln, yet immrdiat«ly on hia arrival at Toronto lie W89 " sp )tted " Bb not James Thompson, t'ut Riehnrd Montgomery, detective and spy, from Marshall Murray's office, New YorU, pointed out us such to Messrs. Tlionipson and Cleary, untnnsked by a young man herr, whom lie now lyingly Bays was I'ayne — nnd iueontinently de- camped 1 You may judge, Mr. Emmons, liow likely Mr. Richard Montgomery was, after that, to carry despntthes for Mr. 'I'hompson, o.' to have confidential revelations from Mr. CItary, alter Au(ruBt, 18641 But my concern ia chiefly with the villain Sanford Conover, alias James Watson Wallace, who, at Mr. Holt's instigation, extemporised the tissue of lies concerning me. Now, the proof that he should have been known by iho " Bureau of Military Justice" to be a reckless Sierjurer, is unanswerable. Tliia will appear rom a simple comparison of the depositions of Sanford Conover in Washington, May I'Jth, with the deposition of S.anford Conover as James Watson Wallace in Montreal, ])ieci8ely th ee months before, ut the trial of the St Albans raiders. Ist. Conover, as himseil', at Washing- ton, May 12ih:— Stuiford Conover, duly sworn, saitli, — "I have resided in Montreal since October last. I resided in Baltimore a short time ; be- fore that resided in Richmond. I was con- scripted ar.d detailed for a clerkship. I was conscripted in South Carolina, when residing near Columbia, S. C. / am a native of New York — born and educated in New York. Left RIshmond lo come north in December, 18G3. I testified at the trial of the St. Albans' raiders to the genuineness <'f Seddons' signature. I went in CaunJa by the name of James Watson Wallace." 2. Now Conover, as J. W. Wallace at Mon- treal, February 11th (see ''St. Albaus Raid," p. 212). "James Watson Wallace, of Virginia, saith on his oath : / am a native of Virginia. I re- bide in Jefferson co. in the said State, /left that Stale m October, 1864, I never was in llie Confederate army. I was commissioned »s n major to raise a battalii'U. I never served ; I ■was incapacitated by an accident aud then kid- napped by the Northerners. When I lived in Virginia, I lived in my own house until I wns burned out and my family turned out by the Northern soldiers." Just conceive of the same man eweariog to both these stories within three months I But what ia still more astounding as illus- trative of the sort of evidence on which old sepaturs are proclaimed felons, and Ministers of the Gospel pubhsh.ed .is fn!!gjiir.".tnvs, ia tli.it, %til ;;»-ii copying these two contradiotory perju- riea, a friend hands me etill another--8 third solemn oath of this Conover aliai Wallace— > just fresh from Montreal, and a month later than the Washington swearing ! In this, daled Montreal, .fiine 8lh, 18(i5: — "James Watson Wallace doth depose and aay, I am the same James Wat8(m Wallace who gave evidence on the subject of the St. Allans raid. I have seen and examined the report of what is called the "suppressed evidence." Have look- ed carefully through the reports of the evidence of a person calling himself Sunford Conover. Said S.inford Conover evicently personated me before the said court-martial at Washington. I never gave avy evidence whatever before the said court tnarshal. I never had kiiowleilgo of Booth— never wns a correspondent of the New York Tribune. Never had any confidential cor- respondence with Sanders, Tucker, Thompson. &e. The evidence of the said Sandford Cono- ver, personating me, is false, untrue, and uii- lounded, in fact and in form, from beginning to end, a tissue of falsehoods." What may be the explanation of this new ])hi\8e of the Conover perjuries it matters not 10 my -vrgunient to enquire I simply eu 1 yout attention to the fact that the " Bureau of mili- tary justice," accepted, without question, this oathofM^y 12th, in face of the eontradietory oath of the same witness at a public trial in which the United States Government was u party at Montreal, Feb. 11th. Either Messrs. Holi and Speed knew of this previous oath— officially published as it had been — or they did not. If they were aware of it, then they ad- vised the proclamation on the testimony of one whom they knew to be a perjured man. Tf thoy were not aware of it, then surely the law offi- cers at Washington, must be extremely negli- gent of the Government law business abuut which they au . 1 Do they know so little of the St. Albans raid cuse to which they were ft party, and the testimony and proceedings of which had been laiil before the world in a large volume 1 Taking either horn of the dilemma il is plain that the use of such a witness by Mr. Josepe Uolt, for the purpose of defaming, with- out responsibility for the falsehood, an humble minister of the gospel, is a deed so dastardly at justly to exposo him to the execrations of hon- orable men. I have not yet exposed to you, Mr. Emmons, by any means, the whole of the meanness of Air. Holt's conduct in this case. Bear Avith me a little, for I wish to imnresbvou with the risk of becoming implicated, as a public mau, with these disgraceful tricks in high places, now, if you have any aspirations for future honors from ihe American people, after reason and law shall again have assumed their coutiol. Re- member you will be compelled to appeal, as I desire to appeal, " fioin i'hilip drunk to Philip sober." 1 know little of either the peraoiml or public character of Mr. Holt, not having been much '11, .11 ,!..«.„., I of a po!!tiei,",n, '! hs; i:',\',y v.'o!! (!e.p.ni'(! '.vii' pressious J have had of his ])erBoual character ii from two remarks conccrtilnfc l<'n^ 'i 1861-2. The first, that of a venerable Clirislinn larly of the old-fashiotjfrd, country typo made to me :— "Joe Holt, »ir, i» the only young man I ener knew thai t./< this county without leaving a fritnd behind him in it" Tlio other, the fierce retort of the venerable Crittwnden.to a eiibinet officer, reportetl to me by Gov. Moreheiul :— '♦Joseph Holt, of Knituoicy, did you say, pir ? I tell you, sir, by heaven! there is nonuch tnan ks Joseph Holt of Kentucky I" I think, Mr. Emmons, you must agree wiih me that more than all liie liltlenesa aud malignity of char- acter indicated in these speeches, \^ involved in the very questions <>f Mr. Holt to this pliant Conover coiicernin? me, laying out of the ac- count, at present, all the outrnge and meanness of introducing my name at all, whicii I have already exposed. Let me call your special attention to these questions, put by him to the Eliant Conover:—" Did you see this Doctor of Ijvinity in ataociation with these tnen of whom you have spoken f" Now X nave already exposed the manifest lie told "n answer to tliii* question; I couh' hare little association with those of them wLi resided out of Toronto, as did all of them but Messrs. Thompson and Cleary, beyond suuli asfc oiatioQ as perhaps a hundred leadin,' .nen of the United Slates had with them Whiu;j, Dem- ocrats, and Rppublicans— when mectinL; them at the Falls, where I went occasionally, and at hotels, elsewheri', as I and they p:isst'd about. With Messrs. Thompson and Uleary, resident here at a hotel, where 1 had frequent occasiun to call and see friends, I had frequent associa- tion as gentlemen. And it is in proof of their delicacy of feeling as gentlemen, and their ap- pi'ecialioa of my position, that not until since you were here a «nonth as;o, did I ever know the nature and purpose of their mission, except as I might vaguely guess at it as other citizens of the United States. But why this insinua- tion that it was criminal in me to iisdociatc with men, as gentlemen, with whom I saw scores of leading men of the United Slates cou- stanly associating ? Why what will you think, Mr. Emmons, when I tell you that I saw, my- self, in intimate association, here, with Messrs. Thompson and Cleary, and elsewhere with Messrs Clay and the others, a distinguished jurist whom I uaderstood to ha'^e come directly from Secretary Stanton himself, to consult, during the alarm about tl.j prospective break- down of the Republiban party in August last, and his reported fears of personal violence to the Cabinet from the excited populace of the North? And yet within less than 12 months, I, DO politician, but a minister, for venturing to do what I saw such examples of loyally smd duty doing am by insinuation held up as a con- spirator by the " Bureau of Military Justice." Still more remarkable is the effort of Mr. Holt to get for his judgment of me the weighty endorsement of this ubiquitous, patriotic per- the most intense of th" traitors who have taken refuge in Canada t " Now with rejtard to the dastardly falsehood hero sought to be uttere-i by Mi*. Holt, through this perjurers lips, it i . ecarcely necewary to repeat what you anu -he public already well know, that I came to Canada voluntarily, simply to avoid the annoyance of the Speeai and Holts of tlie lower cluss. who would not suffer me to continue preaching and teaching the trutnrf I had preached for ten ye.irs past, of the non-secular cn;iracter of the Church of Ocd and of my office, without perpetual annoyance. I therefore came away an I had a perfect Hght to como ; and staid ns I had a perfect rijjht to stay ; will return « hen, by the restoration of civil law and order, the way is open to me, to preach the truth without annoynnce, as I have a perfect right to etum, and be with my fam- ily and flack whore I have a perfect right to be. 1 have discharged my obligations as a citizau jur€ rur 1*^ " Is not he (liobiason) regarded as one of -as m»' duty to no; hav3 paid all toJtes '• ,^overnment to my own impwrerish- was my duty to do ; h ive borne hie calmness the plundering and '■ the military, as it was my duty -e, at the same time, pretested . the wrongs done ine, as it was au ' lo. So . the "refuge" in Canada. Now ns to »ai; iu...n9Uy of my treas m h^ro. I hap- pen to have the .neaus at hand, Mr Emmo'w, of demonstrating that, during my voluntary exile in Cana la, I have fuithlully maintained iny integrity a-* a citizen of the United States, and as the minister of a non--ncular goapel With little personal acquaintai.ee, indeed, the American consul here, as fierce as the fiercest for the admistratiou, yet a just man, will bo doubt declare to you, as he bus voluntarily de- clared to me, that though in a position, aa the g'eat ear-trumpet of the government here, to hear everything, he has never before heard ray Lame associated with any violent speech or hostile action against the United States Gov- ernment. Th" large oongregutiou that attended upon my ministry, especially every Sabbath eweniug, composed in large part of those who sympathised with the North, and a slill largev part of those who are utterly out of sympalhy with my opinions touching the Bible and sla- very, ut long since presented me with a strong testimony to my faithfulness, candour, and moderation as a minister. And, appended to this testimonial, is thj following very clear declaration touching the "intensity" of my treason from a man whose own synapathles have been "intensely" with the North, and whose business is of a character which makes him, next to the American consul, best ac- quainted with every man's reputation in Ca- nada. " Ilev. Stuart Robinson,— Dear Sir,— I have heard of the testimonial presented by your pre- sent hearers in Toronto; and as one who for two yertV'i enjoyed the rare privilege of pei'BOOol aud pastoral relationship with you in Toronto, ^ \ i-sv* 1i I denire to arid ray testimony to yooi* fidelity i Witli many apolo((iea for thi« use of youf M a roiiiiiit«r of the gospel to yciir principlus of | r:aiue ; m my thiuikd for your KCiUlomiuily kind- uou-interferfMice of the Chuicli of God wi(b thi- ne!■«<, Very gtnr, rally, pronounced "the luppreiied teitlniony" a tinue of Ilea Yet no explanation or apology from the ' Bureau of Military Ji'itlce' la vouchiafed, for having made itaelf the channel fur circulating, under gulie ot tworn te^tiiuony, falae' ~ >da ao Infa- mously libvlluua, and yet falaehoodaao patent to the Intelligence of the couniiy. On the contrary, nut only are the Hvania per- Jurict cunningly inalnuAti'd, ihrouiih '.eirgraphic an.iouneemcnta of pardon, as already accrpted vrrillra, but the "Bureau of Military Justice" shamefully rcparadea Ita loatheaome tcarihtti before the Military Court, and pcri>l.ita lit th.' attempt to fore* i their nausenut and cnurmoua Ilea down the ibroat at an *•««• I tating public. I To say nothing (aa It docs not concern me personally; of th« impudent attempt to corroboraf the Impoasible lie of Merrll, libel of ni thi- part of perjury No ♦, rather than to his preposterous >tury of eonvtrrfatinns with Cleary, who was that I knew not." I prayed with David, under hundreds of mlles Irom Montreal atthatdate; ir hissillystmy ... . e M.i t 1 ' r i of a consoiraey of a!it»assins, Added 6y a fefidirir fi't'risA JuieNer 0/ Similar experi?nce of the murderous lying ^n\"^,^';J^lly^,^l„^,,„,s,,.tot\-a untu' ^ Pevolufinniirv times- "Jud'e me. (joil. in 1 his head, to »we*f the denial of hUoatli at Washlngiun- because reVOlUllOUUry nmes- •'"•J.;« ""''>' ';""• | u e.tablishea, bey.md question, the fact that Judge Advocate thy righteousness", e i.Jti.u, ut ,^,„j, ,,^j ^is evidence had been mi.ed up with th.u ..f the telegraphed, be-humbugged, betrayed American Kemucknn, w. v. waiiace, c-i page :-ui-the only other wniiact nnonlp tihnnlrl he mnTle in these mveterioU^l V "'•» f»l"l>:'»- f^orco • d Oen. ;.olt help knowing that he lied iu people, SnoUlU oe niaoe m lliest, mjft,i«,Muu>ijf | p„,,i.n(i,ng („ niakc the reporter of the Montr. *1 Teti/rapk re- BUDDreSSed and mvsteriously rnblislied perjlir- i sponsible for tUe additions to his testimony, tdken liuwnbyUit • '■'^m^M . ' ■\r •. i/~i I »i rjficer ill court, and llieii ligiitd til/ the 'filMahimte'/l les of Montgomery, iVlerrit, anilOonover, by tlie -"^Miat a satire, Mr. Kinmons, upon the American civlllnatlon of " Bureau of Milita-y Justice ?" These aimed a |^''«J^'|[.;;-";-V:;tee'L^'".^^^^^^ tragedy now enacting bel'o-. the Military '. ourt at Washington 1 That they should piesuiiie upon an imbecile citJulity among tiie people, to which even the days of witcn trials and witch burn- ings, and of inqu'sitorlal heretic trials and burnlngt, /urnish no parallel What a terrilic sarcasm on the moral condition of the country is involved in the mysterious silence of the press, touching the character of these enormitiei, even after uttering the fact of their exiitencrtl ... ,, For, remember, tliis is no mere blunder of incompetent poli- ticians and lawyers, nor a harmless farce to relieve '.toe gloom of a public tragedy. Uy every principle of ethics, this proi'titu- tion of official functions, and the sacred forms ot'justice-miii- tary or otherwise-to the libelling, not oolj; of public enemiei, but of unoiTending cituens and inioisiera of religion. Is a crime siarcely less eourmtus than the ciimes which they falsely charge upon utiitrs. . . . , ,,., _,. Judge Advocate Holt, sheltered under the technlcaliUes of the law, and " clothed in a Utile brief authority," may "now play tucU fantast'c tricks before" the Military Court; but the day Is coming when an aipeal may be taken to the august tribuiial of public opinion, and that, too, with the certainty of a just judg- ment, unless God lias »i>en u? ov r tu ratii^nai rum. lyr ii.er.? is no piincipal more clearly taught by natural relii!ion-tbe gieai guide of civil guver.iincnts - than that a just Providence will not . old guUtlesa the people that hold guiltleai their pub- lic servants, who thus pervert th>. aacred tiaiuei of Iruih avt JutUce to bate pertuDal and )/uii an eaU). death blow at the oersonol honor and charac- ter of defenceless men, whom, whatever their political sins, the American people once honor- ed and trusted, and whose personal dishonor therefore disgraces all who were their hero- worshipers. But singularly enough, raaligriiy, a littl« too greedy of more prey, indirectiy as •ails and compels to a self defence which in- Tolves the indirect vindication of the honor ot the defenceless, me, a man whose peculiar posi- tion puts within his easy reach the fuels, ilates, circumstances and personal history which, ap plied to the stupendous structure of malignity, perjury aou s.-auu, us mc luutu vi luiui ici ^ spear, causes it to reveal its real character to the view of the moat credulous, and vanish as a filthy exhalation. Is there not sometLing Providontiai iu this providing for them, at least, a stay of public judgme&t, till they can viudi- cate ihemMlvesi lae of yuur nil Illy kind- ■ Wll'lt WBl protect my IINSON. >H lent ta tlM iir In p*rl, k^ uri tiliim of tk» my rrieh, ini >■«<, Trry |ine, a tliiuc of lit* etu of MllUsry he chanDel fo* e' Ida to Infft- thelnflllicnc* thi- Hvtnii pel- iniiounccmcnU lis " Bureau of nciome tcarihiti ttempt to fore* oat of an ci««* 'sonally; of \h» e lie of Merrit, concerninir tb« y, I86&. JudKt ConoTcr, (Ui'a> lift iiialigoant ,0 cover up the I three, rxpoieil )f Insult to the rtof thif iwear- hi> held In bii the uuHO (if the cr hii evidence '*'V hii, but i.wy. , What was read TtUiiruii.i I thi. a» correct," He. rather than tu leary, who was r hisslllyst'iy BfUith taui'jfr 0/ , with pi'tuli at lngi.ni- because ludje Advocate nd the prcis to |ierjurle»l For ;hti book »hows> ume," With hij td "J W. Wal- lou'd not ha^t to him, in pre- with th.it .'f the y other Wallaci IS thM he llud iu dl Te-tynnfh re- riAen down by the '/I n civilljcation of I per'^ptrate luch of relief to the at Waihingloa I ulity among the md witch bnrn* Initi, /Ornish no condition iif the e of the press, a after utterInK ^competent poli- lieve '.he glooin CM, this pro:'titu- jf justice— niilU publlc enemies, llgion. Is a crime ey falsely charfc inlcalltles of thi; may ''now play irt; but the day iigust tribunal of ^ of a Just judg- ruiii, F'.if ihrre ral religion— the just I'rovidenee Itlesi their pub- e» of Trutb »-\'t APPENDIX. VLlfXL QtrXETOa TO JODOK HOLT'3 rUAKT PERJCRER, C^iTOVER. project which, if executed, will e\re tM- ene- mies 1 bitter tnsteof war, at their own hm^.es, and iiiiliot diinm^es which can only be com- pUteJ by iniliiniiH. Cj. ». / ; ,,t . t1,„ •>...,..* .-, " AlthoUlfh I HAVE NOT THtFLEASrr.K or TOUE " '^ 1 1 A( QUA'.NTANdB, yoii Will ptxibably lemember roe righteoui Piovidance iiaa ciiiH..'(i i<. 1 >• t.Motighi ^,^ ^^ witnesiin behalf of the raide"! toprovJ the id light auothev document^ whieb leave* eo i(enuineness of Lit' • . >ur'« eommUtion, old senators and cabinet ministers be proscribed as felons, tod ft minister of the gospel proclaimedi the associate of felons and conspirators. It Is nothing less than » letter of this Conover, bimseIC shewing : First, that^ •o late M the 20th March, tSKS, this villain Admits that h« bad no acquaintance with Col. Thomson, when he bad swcm to hiving confiden- tial intcrTiews with him io January and Febru- ary, 18^6, io (reference to the assassination an J the destructioa or poisoning of th« Croton Waterworks ;»nd, Secondly, that he, himsely, so late as Hstrcb 20, 1 80. 5, proposed, as a ntxp project hithertu unheard of, the destruction of thj Cio- ... ■ , , , - , -, ,. ,„ , ., u ». a. J »• » •» f .... of time and labor, to seek a supply elsewhere, too Works, though he had sworn tnat. m Jantt- } ^.^^^ ^^^.^^^ daily and nightly called into requi- nary and February, be bad bfeo in conclaves j jjtj,,^ jq gupp^g^g firej, will become useless, and with Thompson and Blackburn, at which Rev, Stuart RcbinsoQ gave his assent to the destruc- tion or poisoning of these works. That tais letter iz the authentic letter of CoDover, aliai James Waisou Wallace, any one may satisfy himself by reference to the Amcrieau Consulate at Montreit. If any one supposes (hat I have judged Mr. Holt uncharitably ic making him particeps criminit with this villain Conover, whom he re- parades and assists io the work of lying himself out of his previous contradictory pcjuries,- by •till more preposterous lie»; noticed in the pre f ious postscript, let them carefully ponder this lette? :— " MomaiAt. March 20, 1665. "Coi. Thompton:—' ' SiB,— Believing you to be an officer, or an agent of the Confederate Government, author itcd to direct enterprizes of a warlike character, I beg leave to subout to yoiur consideration a th»i 'ueai parts of the town, without the aid oi incendiaries, would soon fall a prey to confla- gration. Water, in New York, wouhl become as scarce and expensive as whiske" 'n Ri( h- mond. Thousands of poor devils, wi,.i will be otherwise seut to the Yankee armies, ""ill be required to reconstruct the Dam — a work which will require six months to complete, and cost upwards of $5,000,000. ••But this is ni' all. The Dam which is seven miles above the mouth of the river holds back 600,000,000 gallons. Below it are sev- fial extensive voliing mills, foundries, manu- factories and bridges, including the great bridge of the Hudson River Railrnaa By the sud- den destruction of the Dam all these woiks would be swept away. In 1841, when the Dam was less than half finished, the presturo of the watf-r forced it away, and all the bouses, mills and mHnuf.iOtcries below were swept off, together with many persons, and a great many cattle aud swine. ]jet the water loose at the present tim- ^nd the destiuction will b^ thrice as great ilie people ol the Empire state, by , visiting the banks of the Croton, would re- * f-W ceive some conceptions of the devastation their mercenaries have spread along the She- nnnduah. This echetno is not only practicable, but may be executed with very little trouble and ex- pense. One of my aunts, a Virginia lady, and au enemy to every thing Yankee, owns the land upon which the Dam is built, and her residence and out bmUlings are only a few rods from the abutments of the rork. This will afford you some idea of the facilities wo can cominand to accomplish our object. The necessary men for the business are already engaged. I do not deem it necessary, at present, to enter into the details of our plans; but ify'ou entertain our proposition I shall take pleasure in laying them before you in minutiae — and of giving you an estimate of the sum requisite for their execution. "Respectfully your obedient servant, V "J. WATSON WALLACE. " P.S. — If it would be preferable to you or our gcvernmenti.the LiStter of the destruction can be effected in such a way as to appear acci- dental. J. W. W." To this letter, Cameron, the bearer, swears Col. Thompson — already having ceased his functions as Conlederate agent — made the emphatic response, " The man is a fool ! '" Yet this is the man who swore to confidential inter- views with Col. Thompson, in January and February, 1865 ; and who swore that this pro- ject to destroy the Oroton works or poison the water, was diwcussed in January, 1866, in a conclave at which Rev. Stuart Robinson was present ! And yet this is the man whom Judge Advocate Holt, after his perjuries have been exposed, brings back to the stand and assists in his attempts to force his lies down the throats of the American people ! Who now is the base criminal— Judge Holt, or the men whom he seeks by such base and impudent perjuries, under the garb of sworn fcestimony to defame % I IP wm' fp^mm. iiiiSBateswsi