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: "
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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 Rebelli
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