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To have proclaimed ihat a scheme tad been jnidable a chumcter, so its details that it had found favor and support I ndiana, Mi Bsonri, Kentucky, Ohio, I owa, Tirr frial Tjeforo the Military Commission in Cincinnati, jaat concluded, was in many respects one of the moat remarliable events of the war. The investigation Las elicited testimony of tha most startling character, showing eonelasively to the minds of all reasonable men who have given to it careful, earnest attention that there was a most formidable, deep and well arranged conspiracy, which, but for timely disocvery and judicious action, would have resulted most disastrously, not only to the particular cities and towns specified and doomed to destruction, but to tie whole country. None can contemplate fie danger through which we have passed without a shudder and witiout a recognition of the hand of a merciful Providence who has guided our beloved country in its darlteet hours and who has crowned our struggles for liberty and union with glorious the public, even a few short months ago, ncocted in Richmond, of so rast and foraidj Oous in ila operations so complete in ail the great ci es and towns n Illinois, Eeotions of olhir States that tcarcely a village was esempt from its corruption, that it numbered in its ranks mor aggregate than the number of brave men in the combined armies of the ga laut Grant and Sherman, and that all who had thus united recognised hnt one common ca le the destruction of our country, the defeat and humiliation of our people, and the tr uniph of the Eebellionthe author of such a proclamation would have been written Jown a madman or a fool, by most persons in the community ;and yet the developments before the military tribunal have established the fact, to tho eternal infamy of all who were leagued in the conspiracy.
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