Historical Newspaper Articles abt KGC

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150 Years Ago Today: Captain marches his command toward Sturgeon
By RUDI KELLER

This article was published on page A2 of the Thursday, December 29, 2011 edition of The Columbia Daily Tribune with the headline "Captain marches his command toward Sturgeon: "

http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/...oward-sturgeon

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ST. LOUIS — A new secret society with members sworn “to do whatever may be necessary” was recruiting adherents in western Missouri counties, the St. Louis Daily Missouri Republican reported.

Two men — Robert Dunn and Nathan Kouns — had been arrested in St. Joseph with 20 pamphlets about the organization, the newspaper reported. The pamphlets, “Constitution of the Emmanant” authored by the two men, actually bore evidence of having been written by fugitive editor Joseph Tucker, the newspaper claimed.

Tucker, formerly publisher of the St. Louis Journal, was wanted on an indictment for treason and was with the Missouri State Guard publishing the Missouri Army Argus.

Another Southern secret society, the Knights of the Golden Circle, was known to have had a chapter among members of the General Assembly, the newspaper reported.

“Soon it became evident that legislation was controlled by it,” the Republican reported. “The infection spread, and similar organizations took place all over the state, and to its secret workings may be traced much of the desperation which has marked the conduct of the secessionists in Missouri.”

The society accepted white males older than 18 known to be honest, truthful, sound in body and mind, and “a believer in the being of One Just, Eternal, and Omniscient God, who will infallibly reward virtue and punish vice.”

The oath required of each initiate was to “yield prompt and implicit obedience to all the official commands of my superiors in office, even unto death; and that I will not seek from them favor or affection to shield any who shall incur the vengeance of the Order, from just punishment; and I will make the good of the Order the highest consideration, and will not hesitate to do whatever may be necessary for its security.”

Compiled by Rudi Keller SOURCE: State Historical Society of Missouri; Official Records of the War of the Rebellion
Reach Rudi Keller at 573-815-1709 or e-mail rkeller@columbiatribune.com.

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In Womble's Blue Shadow

By Gary DeNeal
Jun 16, 2012

Flatrock, Beartrack, Thackers Gap — across the hills and hollows of southeastern Illinois.

Springhouse (Vol. 29 No. 3) reprinted an article about Saline County that was first published in 1934. That article includes the following about Dr. John W. Mitchell of early Harrisburg.

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"…Saline County did not declare for secession; but the Knights of the Golden Circle, a semi-military organization which favored the Southern case, were well organized and active. Their methods were similar to those used later by the Ku Klux Klan;"

Dr. J. W. Mitchell - Flora, IL - The Clay County Advocate-Press

CCC: Just noting that by 1934 the KGC was already being compared to the KKK.

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San Angelo Standard Times
SAN ANGELO, Texas
Calendar of upcoming club meetings and events


The Sons of the Confederate Veterans (SCV), General Tom Green Camp 1613, will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Fort Concho Historic Landmark Living History Center, 236 Henry O. Flipper St.


Ray Theiss, Fort Concho volunteer and Angelo State University student, will present "To Rival Rome: A History of the Knights of the Golden Circle". Visitors are welcome.


Information: 325-944-9681


Club calendar, 6/17 » Standard-Times

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What we thought: 150 years ago
By From the editorial archives of Sauk Valley Media
Monday, May 20, 2013


The Gazette
May 16, 1863


Bishop dared to do his patriotic duty


Disloyalty rebuked


Bishop Symit, the Roman Catholic bishop of Dubuque, a week ago last Sunday afternoon openly denounced the secret order of the Knights of the Golden Circle.


In his character as a confessor, he had learned of its existence there, and that its object was evil towards our government. He at once exposed it, and told his hearers that those of them who had been duped into joining this conspiracy should come forth from it immediately.


He gave all such members of his church two weeks to leave it. All who then continued in it, would be excommunicated. The bishop then appealed to his hearers to stand by the government, and not to be led by the wicked politicians in any schemes for its overthrow.


Dubuque is the headquarters of the Knights in Iowa, and this blow from a quarter whence they little expected it, is a crushing one on their schemes of wickedness.


All honor to the bishop who dares to do his duty and openly rebuke the doings of this treasonable organization.


Serves him right


[Clement] Vallandigham, the great Copperhead mogul, has been sentenced to the Tortugas for two years by Gen. Burnside. He can there talk treason to lizards and tadpoles to his heart’s content.


The sentence is a just one, and all loyal men will endorse Gen. Burnside for it; but it shows he has little respect for the natural inhabitants of that pleasant locality.


Good bye, Val; our love to your future comrades.


P.S. – The Philadelphia Inquirer of the 14th says that the president has changed the sentence by sending Vallandigham south during the war. Conscientious Lincoln.


The original


Copperhead


The first Copperhead, without doubt, made his appearance in the Garden of Eden.


The first, however, that made his appearance in this country was Benedict Arnold.


On the 20th of October, 1780, while the war of the Revolution was progressing, he issued a “proclamation to the citizens and soldiers of the United States,” appealing to them to turn against Washington, Hancock and their compatriots, just as certain politicians are now appealing to the people to turn against the government.


Meagher bows out


Gen. Thomas Francis Meagher, the renowned Irish orator and gallant commander of the Irish Brigade, has tendered his resignation. The brigade has been so reduced by repeated conflicts in the Army of the Potomac that it now numbers less than one thousand men, and the general does not wish to risk the lives of the remaining few by asking them to follow where he may choose to lead.


He does not, however, withdraw from the service, but offers himself to the government in another capacity.


Stonewall’s death


Late Richmond papers confirm the reports of the death of [Confederate Gen.] Stonewall Jackson. He died on Sunday last, from the effects of the amputation of his left arm, and pneumonia.


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