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dicate as strong as language can, the purpose of the Radicals to depose Mr. LINCOLN by force, unless he yielded to their demands, and issued the Proclamation, and it is but charity to suppose that these and kindred threats, from kindred sources, forced him to reconsider his firm resolve on that subject:

ing, like any other broom stick, for the people | sertion here. The paragraphs here quoted, into take hold of him and sweep slavery out of the nation. Democracy is lifting up its fangs, and another Congress will not have the same amount of Republican and honest sentiment in it that the last had. Nothing less than a baptism of blood, to cry in anguish for a corporate, idea, that the head of the army can save us.-Lincoln is as good as the people of the North want him. In years gone by in yonder grove the Whigs fired cannons to smother the voices from the stand then occupied by the speaker, [Phillips,] and what is the result? The sons of those Whigs now fill graves in Chickahominy swamps. Let this Union be dissolved, in God's name, and the corner stone of a new one be laid, in which shall be organized forever equality in a political sense for every man who is born into the world!"

CHAPTER XX.

DISLOYALTY OF REPUBLICANS-THE GREAT
ROUND-HEAD CONSPIRACY.

Threats to Force Mr. Lincoln to Issue the Proclamation...
From "New York Independent "..." Chicago Tribune
Against the "Union as It Was"; also, its Threat to
use Bayonets in Defiance of the People... The Radical
Conspiracy of 1862... Disclosures of the Round-Ilead
Plot...Suggestions of the "Boston Courier"; also, from
an Albany Paper... The "St. Louis Anzeiger" Reveals
the Plot... The "N. Y. Observer" Gives a Clue to It...
Gov. Ramsey, of Minnesota, on "Machinations of Home
Governments," &c......" Legalized Treason ".....From

"Let any one compare the State papers, messages, proclamations and orders that have issued from this Administration during the past year and a half, with the documents which preceded and accompanied our own war of Independence. The Bills of Rights of the colonies sparkle with sentiments of humanity, of right, of liberty, The resolves of the old colonial legislatures had in them that which fed the deep love of liberty in the human soul. The remonstrances addressed to the thronethe letters of eminent men-the declarations of Congress-were all aglow with a divine enthusiasm.

"Compare with these the papers that have issued from our Government, during this infernal revolt of slave bred men against free institutions they are cold, heartless, dead.

* * * There has not been a line in any government paper that might not have been is. sued by the Czar, by Louis Napoleon, or by Jeff Davis.

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Our State papers during this eventful period are void of genuine enthusinsm, for the "Boston Courier"...The Second Hartford Convention great doctrines on which this government was

Toasted...Chas, Sumner Teaches Revolution... Mr. Seward Boasts of More Despotic Power than the Queen of England dare Exercise...Thad. Stevens declares the Constitution an "Absurdity"... Republicans Cheering for Dissolution..... Republicans for "Extermination and Damnation"...The Boston Commonwealth" Denounces Restoration a Crime... The "South Not Worth a Copper"..." Boston Commonwealth" Curses the "Union as It Was "... Bingham Don't Want the Cotton States... The Constitution Committed to the Flames by Garrison Senator Henkle and Vallandigham... Destruction of the Constitution & Test of Loyalty...God and the Negro... Beecher Declares that the Negro is our "Forlorn Hope" Republican Bloodthirstiness...Jim Lane would send all the White Men to "Hell "..." Chicago Tribune" Down on the Union as It Was "...Amalgamation and Negro Equality...Fred. Douglas and White Women...Wendell Phillips Thanks God for Defeat..." N. Y. Tribune" Defies the National Government-Ben. Wade on Dissolution... The Seceding States follow Ben.'s Advice...C. M. Clay "Spots the Union as It Was "...Beecher Ridicules the "Sheepskin Parchment"...Daniel Webster on the "Grasp of Executive Power "..." Democrats Must Not Clamor for the Union as It Was "...Moulding Public Opinion... Mr. Lincoln in 1854... Mr. Seward and Violence... Mr. Seward on the Last Stage of Conflict" ...Mr. Seward's Justification for Disunion... The Prefix "National" Stricken from the Republican Cognomen... Banks Predicts a Military Government...Carl Schurz on Revolution...J. P. Hale on Dissolution...Gen. Butler on Reconstruction...Object and Consequences of Slavery Agitation... Prophesies of Eli Thayer...General Conclusions, &c.

A THREAT TO DISPLACE THE PRESIDENT.

In the New York Independent of August 9, 1862, under the head of "A Leader for the People," we find the following, with much more of the same import, too lengthy for in

founded. Faith in human rights is dead in Washington. The Administration have faith in America, in the United States, in a united North, in a Republican party, but no faith in that invisible principle which underlies and nourishes them. The people are never called to maintain their historic ideas. The nation is never reminded of its political truths. The people not marched where their enthusiasm, like the sleeping music of the harp strings, lies waiting some touch to bring it forth, to roll over this continent such an anthem as the world never heard. and only a free people can chant. Let one of those grand old documents be brought forth which our fathers issued before this infernal slavery had made man timid of their best faith, and tolerant only of the doctrine of devils. Behold its lofty spirit. See how divine in its inclusion of the whole human family in the right claimed by its authors for themselves. How bold, wise, fearless and cousistent!

"Now lay down by its side the pale, cold, lifeless documents that have come forth from the Government of the great people striving for their liberties, and for the very land bequeathed them by their fathers. Why, their State papers of our time are the winding sheets of the old ones—the very shrouds in which to bury the noble lines and sentences of the fathers out of sight of generations whom slavery has missled, or whom a false prudence has in timidated.

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But we must cease looking

any more to Government, we must turn to OURSELVES. A time may be near when the people will be called to act with prudence [how cautious the sentence] and courage beyond all precedent. After strength has been frittered away in wooing the manhood of Border State eunuchs, and reverses have come, and our rulers are fugitives from the proud capital.Should they deem the task of maintaining the sanctity and integrity of the national soil hopeless, then this great people, running through all their States, may yet be called to take up the dispairing work, and carry it to victory!

"The people must have leaders. As yet they have not found them."

"THE UNION AS IT OUGHT TO BE."

The Chicago Tribune thus scorns the idea of the Union as it was:

"In his letter to Horace Greeley the President says:

"The sooner the national authority is restored, the

sooner will be the Union as it was.'

"There is much ambiguity in this expression The 'Union as it was,' is a cant phrase, invented by the famous Vallandigham, and fathered by his dirty tool, Dick Richardson. The meaning they attach to these words is well understood. But such a Union loyal men do not want to see restored. They prefer a Union as it ought to be."

BAYONETS TO DEFY THE PEOPLE.

In the Chicago Tribune of Sept. 17, 1862, we find the following:

"Let it be understood that the people have become lukewarm in the cause [abolition of slavery] in which they are contending, and we shall straightway behold them [the soldiers] asserting their principles in defiance of the people. The bayonets think. The bayonets in the American army bristle with ideas."

THE RADICAL CONSPIRACY OF 1862. It is well known, that following in the lead of the Hartford Conventionists of 1814, several of the New England Governors, in defiance of the spirit of the Constitution, which forbids the states to enter into any alliance, and what states cannot do the Governors of the states

cannot rightfully undertake, met at Providence, R. I., in secret, and finally adjourned to another secret meeting at Altoona, Pa. All this was done in the summer of 1862, while the radicals were attempting to browbeat Mr. LINCOLN into issuing the proclamation-when he complained of the terrible pressure" upon him. And it will go down among the legends of his tory, if even it does not yet appear in bold relief, that those most "Loyal Governors" con

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Let us trace the conspiracy of 1862 to its logical conclusions, and make up our verdict from the budget of facts before us.

The following telegraphic dispatch, issued from the very headquarters of the Government just about the time the President was compelled to yield to the radical policy, and who knows that it was not furnished to the press by his order, as a justification of the course he did pursue? At all events, take the whole affair, link by link, and does it not show we had the Hartford Convention revised?

"The Roundhead Conspiracy-Startling Developments-Conspiracy of the Radicals to Depose the President.

"WASHINGTON, Sept. 16, 1862. "Most astounding disclosures have been made here to day, by letters and verbal communications, from prominet politicians, showing that a vast conspiracy has been set on foot by the radicals of the Fremont faction to depose the present administratior, and place Fremont at the head of a provisional government; in other words, to make him military feature of this conspiracy is the proposed meeting of the governors of the northern states to request President Lincoln to resign, to enable them to carry out their scheme. The writer, in conclusion, says Governor Andrew and Senator Wilson are at work, and they are probably at the bottom of the movement.From other well informed sources it is learned that the fifty thousand independent volunteers proposed to be raised under the auspices of the New York National Union Defence Committee were intended to be a nucleus for the organization of the Fremont conspiracy. It was the purpose of those engaged in this movement to have this force armed and organized by the government, and placed under the independent command of their chosen leader, and then to call upon all sympathizers to unite with them in arms to overthrow the present administration, and establish in its stead a military dictatorship, to carry on the peculiar policy they Faildesire the government should execute. ing in this, it is stated that a secret organization had been inaugurated, the members of which are known by the name of Roundheads.

dictator. One of these letters asserts that one

It is intended that this organization shal number two hundred thousand men in arms, who shall raise the standard of the conspirators, and call General Fremont to the command. They expect to be joined by two-thirds of the army of the Union now in the field, and that eventually one million of armed men will be gathered around their standard. This startling disclosure is vouched for by men of high repute in New York and other northern states. It is the last card of those who have been vainly attempting to drive the President into the adoption of their own peculiar policy." The following, from the Boston Courier, also sheds some light, and offers some valuable suggestions on the subject:

"The Femont Conspiracy-Scheme of the New York Jacobins to Depose President Lincoln.

business of a National War Committee so conducted, that absolute exclusion of the public from all knowledge of the character of its doings is deemed necessary?

9. Has it occurred to you that the suspicions of the public might justly be roused, lest transactions of which so much has been revealed, combined with the fact of this extraor dinary privacy, might be inconsistent with the public peace and safety?

"10. Has any suggestion been made in your committee, as to a government at the north, separate from that of the United States? We do not ask you whether you have formally resolved to secede, in a certain contingency, but wheter that subject has been discussed in your committee-whether it was not discussed at the Providence meeting before referred to-whether your sub-committee did not make a report on this particular subject-and if not, what object it actually was which you wished to raise an army for?

11. When you proposed to place the army you thought of raising under the command of Fremont, did you have in mind the following Op-lauguage attributed to him, as was used by him while in the service of the United States in Missouri?

"If we published our paper in the city of New York, we should be disposed to press the affair of the war committee to all its legitimate results. The ill-tempered letter of Mayor dyke, the chairman, to Messrs. Belmont, shows the spirit of the committee, but ought they not to be specifically inquired of, as to certain points demanding explanation? For example, might it not well be asked of this committee:

"1. In what manner did you intend to employ the 50,000 men which you proposed to raise by the authority of the state government, in case the general government refused to allow of such a formidable military organization

under command of Gen. Fremont?

2. For what purpose did a deputation of your committee attend a conference of New England Governors at Providence?

3. What was the report which they brought back and made to you, after that conference? "4. Was it not proposed that the army of 50,000 men, which you designed to raise in New York should be reinforced by such recruits as you might be able to obtain in New England? And was not this proposition considered and discussed at the conference in question?

5. If your object was solely and legitimately to aid the government in the suppression of the rebellion, why did you seek to raise a sep arate military force without its authority, and if such authority were refused, so to raise it necessarily against its authority?

"6. Do you think that this proceeding could be regarded as encouraging enlistments-or, was it not rather the most direct possible discouragement, by attempting to raise a large force, not for the service of the government, but

aside from it?

7. What was the specific object of raising that military force? Explain, if you please, how it could be employed in any legitimate way?

8. Why have the sessions of your committee

been secret? We do not ask why you may have
excluded reporters for the press, or the public
generally, v
, while you were engaged in the trans-
action of committee business-but why is the

"That the people were in the field, and he was at their head, and would have done everything according to their expectations from him; that now we have only extra constitutional government-no civil rights, so to speak-all ordinary peaceful rules were to be set aside, and this thing of red tape must give way very shortly to what the people require of him; that he meant to carry out such measures as they, the people, expected him to carry out, without re

gard to the red tape of the Washington people."

"12. Are you not aware that large numbers national government, and with whom you have of persons, disaffected as to the policy of the been in political association, are providing

themselves with arms in the state of New York

and in the New England states?"-Boston

Courier.

"The New York" National War Committee.'

"The Jacobin club is not, however, idle, alIts agents though exposed and denounced. are busily engaged in gathering up secretly the names of all who are willing to enrol themunder the command of Fremont. It is a repeselves in the army of 50,000 men, to be placed tition of the Wide Awake clubs of 1860, with this difference, that the Jacobin force will be supplied with arms, which they would not probably have the courage to use.

"There is every reason to fear that this bold

usurpation is of wider extent than has been supposed. In every city or county of this state there is good reason to believe, similar secret bodies are in existence, with the object of systematically organizing a force that may be used, if the necessity should arise to usurp the power of the government."-Albany paper.

The following from the Saint Louis Anzieger

(Rep.) gives us still further evidence of the means to be employed:

"PROGRAMME OF THE REVOLUTION.-We directed attention yesterday to the approach

ing convention of the Western Governors, who, as we learn, in conjunction with some Eastern governors intend to put an ultimatum to President Lincoln, and in case of a refusal, with draw their quota of the troops.

"According to the report communicated to us, this programme will contain the following points:

"1. Immediate and general emancipation of the slaves. [Which was acceded to.]

"2. Dismissal of the Cabinet and formation of a new one from the ranks of the radicals. "3. Discharge of McClellan and all Democratic Generals [This was acceded to.]

"4. Transfer of the chief command of the entire army to Gen. Fremont. Besides, some other demands of a like character.

"Governors Curtin, Tod, of Ohio, Pierpont, of Virginia, and Morton, of Indiana, have declared themselves against this revolutionary proceeding, and invited the Western Governors to a conference on the 24th, in Pennsylvania. For the present, preliminary consultations are held at Springfield, Illinois, and the project of a revolution, with the removal of Lincoln from the Presidency and the dismissal of his Cabinet, is openly discussed. Unless further decisive victories of General McClellan stifle the project in its birth, we shall soon see the doors open to anarchy, and then woe to the Germans! They will be made the scapegoat, who will have to suffer for every thing."

More of the Conspirators in New York. The New York Observer, a religious sectarian organ, says:

"We speak what we know when we say that a calm, scholarly minister of Christ in this city declared in the house of God, four days ago, that we shall have no success in this war antil the President is driven out of Washington, and three of his Cabinet are executed. This is the revolutionary spirit that is abroad, and the foundations of government and law and society are trembling at its breath.

"It may happen, that unless proper legislative action is taken to prevent it, a day will come when our vast force of volunteers in the field will represent one set of principles, while our government, state and national, will be controlled by an entirely different set; in other words, the labors and sufferings of a patriotic army may be frustrated, embarrassed and brought to nought by the machinations of home governments, wielded by timid or disloyal spirits. No mind can estimate the horrors to which such a state of things would lead. It would be armed right contending against legalized treason, and its fruit would be a condition of fearful anarchy."

The Chicago Tribune of the 17th, said upon the same topic:

"Let it be understood that the people have become lukewarm in the cause for which they are contending, and we shall straightway behold them (the soldiers) asserting their principles in defiance of the people!"

Here, then, it was directly announced, that any opposition to the wishes of the people (and the radicals claimed to be the people) on the part of the Washington Government would be "legalized treason," and the leading organ of that faction declared the soldiers may find it necessary to assert their principles (here used in the sense of the principles of the radicals) "in defiance of the people."

THE ALTOONA MEETING

[From the Boston Courier, Sept. 27.J "The further report of the Herald's Altoona correspondent is entirely confirmatory of the first one, and there is every reason to believe it is substantially correct. The attempt to cover up the proceedings, or to conceal the designs of the active conspirators, must inevitably fail. The article of the Louisville Journal on the subject is impressive, and will command attention and respect. The country has great cause to be thankful that Governor Bradford, Here, then, are numerous links, well put toof Maryland, set down in some accounts as a gether, and forming a chain of almost irresist-war democrat," but who has always been a able evidence. But they are not all. Just leave New Englend abolitionism for a moment alone in its glory, and turn our attention to evidences of the guilt in the West. The Executive convention at Cleveland worked in harmony with the New York and New England move. Simultaneously all the Western latures were called together, with no visible necessity for the trouble and expense. They all urged substantially the same measures, which were, that the soldiers should be priviledged to vote, and that the States should arm and equip themselves, like independent war powers. Gov. Ramsey, of Minnesota, thus alluded to the voting question:

Whig, and acted with the Bell and Everett party at the last election, was present. His true loyalty and spirit were of main service at the meeting; and the action of Gov. Tod, of Ohio, and Gov. Curtin, of Pennsylvania, in concert with him, turned the tide of faction and conspiracy.

"Undoubtedly we shall have further develLegis-opments forthwith, especially as to the persistent malice of Governor Andrew and those who concurred with him in the silly and malignant attempt to press for the removal of McClellan. But he is now out of their reach, and they will suffer the usual consequence of biting files. Under the recent supplementary proclamation of the President, these men could be handily arrested at Washington, whither they are said to have repaired; for their conduct in hostility to the commanding

general is, of all things, directly to discourage, enlistments and to be guilty of disloyal practices, affording aid and comfort to the rebels, who would like nothing better than to have McClellan removed. Our own Gevernor, indeed, can be proved to have declared in New York a few days ago that the government should not have a man from Massachusetts until the change in the command of the army was effected.

er in the tyrannical usurpations of king, parliament, or judicial tribunal-whether in the exploded theories of Sir Robert Filmer, or the rampant assumptions of the partizans of the Fugitive Slave bill. The rights of the civil power are limited. There are things beyond its province. There are matters out of its control. There are cases in which the faithful citizen may say—aye,must say, I will not obey." And again:

The Herald's correspondent, who was on the spot, informs us that these "Loyal Governors" were in session till half past one o'clock at night, and that after the telegraph had informed them the President had yielded, they opened their batteries on Gen. MCCLELLAN-made it a part of their programme that he should be removed, and adjourned for Washington in a body, where, no doubt, they received the assurance from headquarters, that as soon as it would look well their wishes should be grati-mise.

fied.

This meeting of twelve Governors of twelve states, at such a time, and such an hour, for such purposes, is without a parallel in the annals of traitorous conspiracies. Even the traitorous Federal Governors of 1814, dared not undertake so bold a job in their executive capacities and the Hartford Convention was composed of a set of lay delegates. We relinquish this subject with the melancholy regret that we have men high in office that would combine in a move to coerce the executive of the nation into any measure, and that we have a National Executive that would yield to such a pressure. The precedent is one pregnant with unalloyed danger to our Government, and all true patriots will regret that we had not one in the Presidential chair who would meet all such forestalling efforts with the reply:

"By the Eternal, I run this machine-disperse to your homes, or I will hang you on the first tree as plotters of treason!"

REVOLUTIONARY SPIRIT TAUGHT BY CHARLES SUMNER.

On the 7th of September, 1854, at Worcester, Mass., CHARLES SUMNER made a speech on the birthday of the Republican party in that state. Then and there the party was christened, and Mr. SUMNER in leading it to its baptismal fount, portrayed the objects of its birth, and prophesied of its future career, as the MOSES in the Abolition bull rushes:

"The whole dogma of passive obedience must be rejected. In whatever guise it may assume, and under whatever alias it may skulk-wheth

"I desire to say that no party which calls itself National, according to the common acceptance of the word, which leans upon a slave holding wing (cheers), or is in combination with slave holders (cheers) can at this time, be true to Massachusetts (Great applause), and the reason is obvious. It can be presented so as to cleave the most common understanding. The essential element of such a party, whether declared or concealed, is compromise, but our duties require all constitutional opposition to slavery, and the slave power without comproAs Republicans, we go forth to encounter the oligarchy of slavery! (Great applause.)

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MR. SEWARD'S DESPOTISM.

To show that Mr. SEWARD Considers himself a Duke of no ordinary pretensions in a great Republican Despotism, we quote from his re

marks to the British Lord:

"My Lord, I can touch a bell on my righ, hand, and order the arrest of a citizen of Ohio! I can touch the bell again, and order the imprisonment of a citizen in New York, and no power on earth, but that of the President, can release them! Can the Queen of England, in her dominions, do as much?"

No, Mr. SEWARD, the Queen of England cannot. If she attempted it her head would

roll from the block. None but the Czar of Russia, the Sultan of Turkey, the Kahn of Tartary, the Emperor of Austria, the President of the United States, and such autocrats, could accomplish such feats of absolute despotism.

THE CONSTITUTION PRONOUNCED AN "AB

SURDITY."

When the bill for dismembering Virginia was up for consideration, in the House of Representatives, THAD. STEVENS thus gave vent to his abhorence of the constitution:

"I will not stultify myself by supposing that we have any warrant in the constitution for this proceeding.

"This talk of restoring the Union as it was, and under the constitution as it is, is one of the absurdities which I have heard repeated until I have become sick of it. There are many things which make such an event impos

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