Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1862-06-18

NEW PLOT OF THE CONSPIRATORS-ATT TO
| REeRGANIzE THE BUCHANAN DEMOCRACY BY
! CERTAIN CoNGREssalEN-BE ON YOUR GUARD
We have been intending for some days to
notice very remarkable movement Of certain
Democratic Congressman, well known as al
lies and sympathizers with Breckenridge Cobb,
Floyd and Humphrey Marshall. A meeting
was held the other day, by these old party
hacks, whose regulations are as battered and
soiled asan old harlot's and addresses sent forth
to the people of the United States. This for
midable pronunciamento, after circulating five
or six weeks, got just thirteen signatures.
Unavoidable absence, we presume, on pub
lie business, prevented the names of Howell
Cobb, jefferson Davis, Jesse D. Bright, Hum
phrey Marshall, Gustavus A. Henry, Wigfall,
and Neil Brown, from adding their lustre to
this newly risen galaxy of patriots.
Vallandingham and his crowd want to con-
tinue in Office, and get their old friends back
again. and for this purpose "there must be
opposition" to the present Administration.
We thought that as the Nation was struggling
with a mighty rebellion, it was the duty Of
all citizens, without distinction of sect or par
ty, to fly to the support of the officers who
had been put in command Of the l4boring ship
of State, in order to rescue her passengers and
save her precious cargo, mo" say the thir-
teen, "The first thing is to settle the question
as to what sort of a Gag the ship must carry.
And next we must have the Offices. Nobody
has confidence in US. We were turned out
of Office for bad conduct, but the ship shall
perish unless we are restored"
But the address tells monstrous falsehood
when it says that in all its civil acts and ap-
pointments, the Administration has recognized
its fealty and obligations to party 1t is an
impudent, glaring lie Whom did President
Lincoln offer to appoint Secretary Of War?
Joseph Holt, Southern Democrat, who is in
deed worthy of the name of Democrat
Whom did he appoint Secretary of War?
Hon. z. NJ, Stanton, another lifelong Demo-
crat Whom did he nominate as Maior-Gen-
eral of the United States armiesH George B.
Mcclellan, another firm, unwavering Demo
crat What are Gen. Dumont Gen. Buell
and Gen. HalIecI? Democrats nominated by
President Lincoln, and confirmed by Sen
ate overwhelmingly Republican. The sign
ers Of the Address, to make out the ainteSt
shadow Of a pretext for the plot, were com
| PEELED to insert falsehood. Had we space
we could enumerate hundreds of other ap-
pointments-Andrew johnson, as Governor
Of Tennessee, for example.
Not one ,yOrd does this address sag Of putting
do0n and crushing out the Southern Confede-
racy. 1t utters no rebuke against the rebels.
It depreeates neither bridge burning, nor wire
cutting, nor guerrilla marauding, nor destroy
ing railroad cars, nor any Confederate out
RACES. It is dumb as the grave on the hor-
rors now sweeping over devoted East Tennes-
see, the home of martyrs and patriots. It
condemns not the barbarity Of the rebel Gov
eminent towards our gallant prisoners. 1t
has no condemnation of the infamous con-
scription act nor whitening invectiye to pour
out like melten lava on the heads of the reb-
els who are burning the cotton and sugar
! crops, and desolating the South. Then it
speaks no cheering word of congratulation for
our gallant and heroic soldiers who have left
their fans, and shops and pleasant fresides to
save the Government, and keep step to the
sublime muse Of the Union under the flag of
the Republic. 1t does not even hint, what
every intelligent man knows to be the fact,
that the prime and moving cause, the fountain
head and source of this rebellion is dcterm-
nation on the part of Southern oficc-holders
and corrupt aristocrats to destroy free govern
ment and build up a monarchy or aristocracy
on the ruins Of Democratic institutions The
man who is ignorant Of this, Is ignorant Of the
speeches, addresses, resolutions and newspa-
pers of the Cotton States for the last twenty
years He is ignorant of the speech of Hon.
L. w. Spratt, one Of the leading men Of South
Carolina who declared that SLAVERY
CANNOT SHARE A GOVERNMENT
WITH DEMOCRACY" Slavery having
achieved one victory to escape the Democra-
cy at the North, must acEiere another TO escape
1t at the South P' He must be ignorant of the
declaration of Vice President Stephens, as re-
ported by the Savannah Republican, that
SLAVERY, NOT Democracy, mark you,
or the right Of man to rule himself-but
" "SZaUsy is the chief corner stone of our Gov
ernment. The ideas of the trainers of the old
Federal Constitution acre Fundamentally
lgro,,g"
In these declarations of the leaders Of the
rebellion, which we are obliged to cut short
for want of space--lor they could be extend
ed indefnitely-we find the true cause of this
hellish rebellion. 1t was enmity to free Gov
ernment. It was the determination on the
part of an aristocraGc clique not TO submit to
the people, and be controlled by an Ignorant
majority" as we heard John c. Breckinridge
say. at Hopkinsville, Kentucky, in the sum
mer of 1861. As further proof of this, the
Democratic party was hopelessly split at Bal
timore year before Lincoln came into pow
er, and split by the very men who issue this
address. It is also to be remarked that on the