THE GREAT NORTH-WESTERN CONSPIRACY IN ALL ITS STARTLING DETAILS.

_The Plot to plunder and burn Chicago--Release of all Rebel
prisoners--Seizure of arsenals--Raids from Canada--Plot to burn New
York--Piracy on the Lakes--Parts for the Sons of Liberty--Trial of Chicago
conspirators--Inside views of the Temples of the Sons of Liberty--Names of
prominent members._

ILLUSTRATED WITH PORTRAITS OF LEADING CHARACTERS, ETC., ETC.


By I. WINSLOW AYER, M.D.

[Illustration: I. WINSLOW AYER, M.D.]




INTRODUCTION.


The trial before the Military Commission in Cincinnati, just concluded,
was in many respects one of the most remarkable events of the war. The
investigation has elicited testimony of the most startling character,
showing conclusively 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 discovery and judicious
action, would have resulted most disastrously, not only to the particular
cities and towns specified and doomed to destruction, but to the whole
country. None can contemplate the danger through which we have passed