The Conspiracy Organized in Canada
WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, April 24,
1865.
Major-General JOHN A. DIX, New York:
This Department has
information that the President's murder was organized
in Canada, and approved at Richmond.
One of the assassins, now in
prison, who attempted to kill Mr. Seward, is
believed to be one of the St. Albans raiders.
EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary
of War.
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