Head-quarters, Department
of the East, New York City,
May 20,1804.
Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War:
I have arrested and am sending to Fort Lafayette Joseph
Howard, the author of the forged Proclamation. He is a newspaper reporter, and
is known as “Howard of the Times.”
He has been very frank in his confessions — says it was a
stock-jobbing operation, and that no person connected with the Press had any
agency in the transaction except another reporter, who manifolded and
distributed the Proclamation to the newspapers, and whose arrest I have
ordered. He exonerates the Independent Telegraphic Line, and says that the
publication on a steamer-day was accidental. His statement, in all essential
particulars, is corroborated by other testimony.
John A. Dix, Major-general.
SOURCE: Morgan Dix, Memoirs of John Adams Dix,
Volume 2, p. 100
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