L.C. BAKER
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It was the voice of Caleb Cushing,Freemason/KGC,associate of Albert Pike.
The Knights of the Golden Circle: Albert Pike, Freemasonry and the KGC
Cushing was also the 1861 campaign manager for John C Breckinridge in his run for the Presidentcy against Lincoln.
Plots and schemes within schemes and plots.
Not so much the Freemason connection i would look at the hardest. He became an associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in 1852, and during the administration of President Franklin Pierce, from March 7, 1853 until March 3, 1857, was 23rd Attorney General of the United States. Cushing, a "doughface," i.e., a Northerner with Southern sympathies, supported the Dred Scott decision and to such a degree that Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, who wrote the decision, wrote Cushing a letter thanking him for his support.
This is an angle more suited to cast light onto the K.G.C. side of Mr. Cushing. Just my two cents.
Great information to post about the political vertebrae that made up the backbone of the Knights of the Golden Circle!
Thanks for posting it, L.C. Baker