 The first of the articles was printed in the December 1886 issue.However, after consulting with former Confederate President Jefferson Davis at Davis' home in Mississippi, Hines did not name anybody on the Northern side who assisted in the conspiracy.After writing the first article, Hines was attacked for not being more forthcoming regarding all the participants from both newspapers' reviewers (particularly from the "Louisville Times)" and Southern readers, which discouraged Hines from publishing any more accounts of the Northwest Conspiracy.