Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-26
from the Baltimore olipper,l

Chief among the conspirators Of this rebel
lion, and who are now the leading directors
Of the same, are to be found:
l. IdnceV, one Of the Commissioners to
Europe, whose public history proves him TO
have been engaged in his efforts for twenty
years to oaccomplisha dissolution Of this Union
and 10 establish an independent Southern
Confederacy, with an eye to the invasion of
Mexico and the neighboring Southern Re-
publics, to unite them in one vast oligarchy,
founded on slavery; his private history shows
him a convicted homicide, if the papers Of his
section are to be relied on, having murdered
physician at the South for some fancied i'm
suit to his son. At the Charleston Oonven-
ton, last fall, a Douglas delegate from Mary
land, anxious TO determine what the leaders
| of the South really did want, asked Ysncey
the question. The emphatic answer was,
" Cheap negroesP intimating that a great
object was the opening Of The African sLdus-
trddeI Thus cheap negroes, combined with
a slave oligdrchy, or strong military or mon
dTchiedL government, by which the lsboring
or poorer classes were to be divested Of every
semblsnce Of power in the government were
the objects of the chief agitator and his col
leagues in this rebellion.
2. JEFF Davis, the President of the bogus
Confederacy, while member of the United
States Senate, and having sworn when he
entered the Senate Chamber TO support the
Constitution of the United States, and while
in his seat and receiving his pay from the
Treasury of the same Government, tele-
Rraphed, conformity with his colleague from
Mississippi, and the Senators from Georgia,
Alabama, Louisiana, Florida and Texas, to
the Governors Of their respective States, to
seize upon the forts and ships, and arsenals
and mints of the very Government which he
hadsworn with an oath to sustain, thus COM
mittipg treason, one of the highest crimes re-
cognized among men, as well as PERJURY.
3. Slidell, another of these worthless, from
Louisiana, is now said to be on his way to
England or France, as q Minister from the
bogus Confederacy, to offer to commit their
country to the protection Of these empires,
will be remembered as the arch.v villain who
concocted and executed the celebrated Plao-
quemine fraud, by which it was intended to
cheat Mr.. Clay out of the vote Of Louisiana,
at Presidential election in which there was
some reason TO believe that Louisiana's vote
would decide the fate of the day, showing
him to be fit instrument for any deed Of
villainy which the mind of man was capable
of devising, and proper leader in such q
diabolical conspiracy as that which has
raised ite by dra head in our beloved country.
4, Floyd, General in the Confederacy
army, was Secretary Of War in the last Ad-
ministration, and connived at the robbery of
the bonds held in trust by the Government
for the poor Indians-he also sold Govern
ment property TO associates in his villiany,
ct prices not tithe Of their value, and far
less than was actually offered for the same.
He it was, while in the Cabinet, used his po-
sition to order the troops and arms and mu-
| nitions of war, to be placed in such distant
positions of the country, that when the plot
| was ripe for execution, the Southern traitors,
with whom he was concocting his schemes,
might the more readily be able to put the
| Government at defiance. A more damnable
deed of villaiDy was never known in any
| age or country, and for which, as well as for
| his other great crimes well known, but space
does not permit rs here to dwell on, the
| feHcest wrath of Heaven will, we have no
doubt, eventually rest upon his peIjured
| head.
S. Cobb, ss Secretary of the Treasury un.
der Mr.. Buchanan, was also stepped in the
! iniquity of this plot of treason, and is now
one of the shining lights worthy TO preside
in the councils of secession.
6. Mallory, their present Secretary of War,
then Postmaster Generals, and others who
have prominent positions in their govern
ment, were among that baud of Senators
who peTjured themselves by aiding and abet-
tors treason in the advising of their Govern
ment to lay violent hands on theproperty Of
the Government-before, let it be borne in
| mind, they had even the excuse for their con-
duct that their States had passed acts of Sc
cessioD, for no State but South Carolina had
at this time seeded.
The list could be extended to embrace pro.
| badly nearly all the most prominent actors
| on the public stage in the civil departments
of this Government, without taking into the
account the ingratitude of such military and
naval traitors as Twiggs, Huger, Hollins, Ma
| gruder, and others, who have beea educated
and supported by the Government upon
whom now they have turned their parricida
| hands. But mark their latter endl