we saw Mr. Watson, the Assistant Secretary of War. We inquired of him upon what charges I had been arrested. He said they were not in the habit of disclosing the nature of such charges; said "he would not at that time discharge his grandfather;" but finally told us the whole matter of arrests was referred to the Judge Advocate General, who could summon a Military Board to try the casé, or inquire into it himself. The next morning Mr. Usher and myself called at the office of Major L. C. Turner, Judge Advocate, and upon a statement of the case made to him by Mr. Usher, he said he would discharge me if I would give a bond in the sum of five thousand dollars. I gave the bond, and was thereupon discharged. No specific charges of any kind were shown me, nor could I learn what the nature of them were, except through Mr. Isaac Keys, one of the Deputy Marshals who took me to Washington, who told me the principle charge was, "that I was the author of an article published in the Democratic Standard, under the caption, Can a Continuannce of the War Restore the Union;' and which article assumed that war was not a rightful remedy for existing troubles, and that the Union could only be restored and perpetuated by an amicable and honorable compromise of existing differences." A copy of the paper containing the article, I was informed, had been filed with the Secretary of War, and an order made for my arrest. I had to pay my board and expenses while detained in Washington City, and my fare home. 6 Question by Mr. HANNA State how long you have known John Logan, upon whose dispatch you were arrested? Answer-I have known him about six years. Question by Mr. HANNA Do you know his character, in the neighborhood where he resides, for truth and veracity? Answer-I do. Question by Mr. HANNA Is it good or bad? Answer-It is notoriously bad. His testimony is considered prejudicial to any case in which he is examined before a jury of the county where he is known. Question by Mr. HANNA State whether he has not several times been indicted for felony? Answer-He has been indicted for felony three times to my knowledge, and four or five times for misdemeanors, some of them for malfeasance in office. Two of the indictments were pending against him at the time he sent the dispatch, and has since forfeited his recognizances and left the county. AMOS GREEN. WILLIAM H. STEWART (VIGO COUNTY) SWORN. Question by Mr. HANNA State your name, age, occupation and place of residence. Answer-My name is Wm. H. Stewart, my present occupation Mayor of the city of Terre Haute, my age forty-three years, and. my residence the city of Terre Haute, Indiana. Question by Mr. HANNA State whether you are acquainted with John J. Logan, of Paris, Illinois. Answer-I am. Question by Mr. HANNA How long have you known him? Answer-Ten or fifteen years, and probably longer. Question by Mr. HANNA What is Logan's character for truth and veracity? Answer-His character, in these respects, is uncommonly bad. Question by Mr. HANNA What do you know of him that makes him bad? Answer-I have known him for several years to be in the habit of kidnapping or arresting men, without law or warrant, and carrying them from one State to another. Question by Mr. HANNA What was his object in making such arrests? Answer-He was acting in the character of a constable or policeman, and generally made such arrests on the suspicion that the parties might be fugitives from justice, by whose delivery he might make a fee or obtain a reward. Question by Mr. HANNA What else do you know of him that is bad? Answer-Nothing except from general report, that he was frequently under arrest or indictment for the above description of acts and others. Question by Mr. HANNA Are you acquainted with Amos Green, of Paris, Edgar county, Illinois ? Answer-I am. Question by Mr. HANNA What is Mr. Green's character and reputation as a citizen and loyal man? Answer-I have known Mr. Green for three or four years, and never knew, or heard any thing of him, but what was creditable to him as a loyal man and honorable citizen, fulfilling all the duties of life in the most exact and scrupulous manner. Question by Mr. HANNA Do you know any thing of the causes and circumstances of Mr. Green's arrest in the city of Terre Haute, in August, 1862, and, if so, state what you know. Answer-About the 8th day of August, 1862, I was at the depot, in Terre Haute, when the train from Paris, Illinois, arrived, and was informed by some persons coming over in the train that Amos Green was aboard, and was leaving the country, and that there was a dispatch sent to Terre Haute from Paris to have him arrested. Soon after that the Sheriff of Vigo, or his deputy, showed me the dispatch referred to, and which, it appeared, was signed J. J. Logan, of Paris, Illinois. Soon after I saw Green in the Sheriff's custody, by whom he was taken before Judge Claypool, of the Circuit Court, by whom, I understood, he was discharged on his own recognizances. Afterward I knew nothing personally of the circumstances, except through hearsay, which did not differ from the facts as generally admitted and understood in Terre Haute, in regard to his arrest and re-arrest. W. H. STEWART. CALLUM H. BAILEY (VIGO COUNTY) SWORN. Questioned by Mr. HANNA State your name, age, occupation, and place of residence. Answer-My name is Callum H. Bailey; my age forty-nine years; am at present Recorder of Vigo county, Indiana, and my residence Terre Haute, Indiana. Question by Mr. HANNA State whether you are acquainted with John J. Logan, of Paris, Edgar county, Illinois? C. A. A.-7 Answer-I am. Question by Mr. HANNA How long have you known him? Answer-About twenty years, probably longer. Question by Mr. HANNA State whether you are acquainted with his character for truth and veracity. Answer-I have not known him for the last four or five years as intimately as formerly; but when I did know him, I deemed him a man of very doubtful reputation, and rather a bad character, and think him so still. Question by Mr. HANNA Are you acquainted with Amos Green, of Paris, Edgar county, Illinois ? Answer-I am. Question by Mr. HANNA What is his reputation as a loyal and good citizen? Answer-From six or seven years' acquaintance with him, I regard him, in all the relations of life, as one of the most upright and exemplary citizens I have ever known, and believe him to be a good and loyal citizen. Question by Mr. HANNA Do you know any thing of his arrest, and the attendant circumstances, in the city of Terre Haute, Indiana, in August, 1862; and, if so, please state what you know? Answer-I saw and conversed with him in August, 1862, when arrested by, and in the possession of, Samuel Conner, Sheriff of Vigo county, as I understood at the time, in consequence of a telegraphic dispatch from John J. Logan to the Sheriff of Vigo, charging the said Green with the crime of treason. The dispatch, which I saw and read at the time, was signed by John J. Logan, of Paris, Illinois, for and on behalf of some other person, whose name I can not now remember. He was subsequently virtually released from said arrest on a writ of habeas corpus by the Hon. Solomon Claypool, Judge of the Vigo Circuit Court, who released him on his own recognizances. Question by Mr. HANNA Was he afterward re-arrested by Sheriff Conner? Answer-I so understood by common report, but did not see Mr. Green after his first arrest until his return from Washington City. C. H. BAILEY. BURWELL H. CORNWELL (VIGO COUNTY) SWORN. Questioned by Mr. HANNA State your name, age, occupation, and place of residence. Answer-My name is Burwell H. Cornwell; am forty-four years of age; am at present in no business, having recently sold out my hardware store; and am a resident of the city of Terre Haute, Vigo county, Indiana. Question by Mr. HANNA State if you are acquainted with John J. Logan, of Paris, Illinois. Answer-I am not, except by reputation and common report. Question by Mr. HANNA Are you acquainted with Amos Green, of Paris, Edgar county, Illinois? Answer-I am. Question by Mr. HANNA What is Mr. Green's character and reputation as a loyal man and citizen? Answer-I have known Mr. Green two or three years, and regard him as a gentleman and good citizen, loyal to the Constitution and the Government, and perfectly reliable in all the relations of life. Question by Mr. HANNA Do you know any thing of Mr. Green's arrest, and the attendant circumstances, in August, 1862, by Samuel Conner, Sheriff of Vigo county? Answer-I arrived at the clerk's office a minute or so after his trial, and can only say that Mr. Bailey's statement, as read to me, is fully corroborated by all I heard or saw of the matter. B. H. CORNWELL. WILLIAM D. LATSHAW (PARIS, ILLINOIS,) SWORN. Examined by Mr. HANNA- Answer-My name is William D. Latshaw; aged fifty-three years; reside at Paris, Illinois. I am clerk of the Circuit Court of Edgar county, Illinois. Question by Mr. HANNA State what you know of the arrest of Amos Green, Esq., and the circumstances under which it was made? |