New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-07-24
THE NORTHERN CONSPIRACY.

man identified with the interests Of the North,
living under the benign influence of its free
institutions aud enjoying the blessings of its
prosperity and lis civilization, could DO 80 rock
lessly wicked as to seek their destruction,
that such caution has hardly seemed
worth noticing till our eyes have been
so suddenly and so fearfully opened by the
events Of the last week The Government, We
know, is in possession of evidence of the COM
plicty of Northern sympathisers with Southern
Rebels, and the people at large, where not abso-
lutely persuaded of the existence OF con-
spiracy. which eliminated in the riots all over
the country, are at least possessed OF most
painful doubts. Even to those who have no
means OF learning the secret movements OF
the onspirators-movements which it is i'm
possible for them to disguise or to conceal
from persons whose business it is to command
information of every kind and from oil
sources, social aud political-eyen to those
who have 10 such knowledge, the events OF the
last few days are inexplicable upon any other
hypothesis than that there is secret under.
ern Rebels, and that a plan exists to ovsr-
awe the Free States, 10 subyert the Fed
eral Government, to insure the success
OF the Rebellion, and create a new Union
ON such terms as the jeff. Davis Confederate
and Northern Copperbeads can aiterward
agree upon, unless, indeed. they are already
fixed The advance Of Lee upon the Free
States, an invasion that seemed little less than
madness looked at from .trictly military
point Of view; the stripping of this State
Of its whole military force at moment
when the draft was imminent, and which
the Copperhead journals were constantly
predicting would be resisted; the appeal by
placards ON the 4th OF July 70 the people Of
this city 10 rise and resist "tyrannlcai Gov
ernuent;" the attempt, about the same time,
OF Vice President Stephens TO get to Washing.
ton on q mere pretense; the significant articles
Of the Richmond papers, prematurely announc-
ing the victory OF Lee, which was evidently
considered foregone conclusion, over Hooker,
and their elaborate statements Of the terms Of
peace which were about to be dictated
to the subugated North-all these events,
when taken together, considered III their rela-
tons TO each other, and read by the light Of
the late instruction, have meaning which
'he who runs may read, and which those
possessed Of more secret knowledge know ~
have been the counterparts Of great revou.
tionary plot Ii did not break out on the
Fourth of Jay for two reasons: the
Joy and enthusiasm Of the people over
the victory of Gettysburg. aud the retreat
of tue Rebel army made it impracticabe aud
dangerous ut the same time that those events.
which 30 completely reversed tho expected
&" situation took away all pretext for the in.
sarrectioD which Lees success was meant to
give. No wonder that Gov. Seymour in
bis address at Cooper Institute on that day,
had no word Of coDgratulation to offer to tho
country on the dawning promise OF n speedy
peace by the suppression Of Rebellion, but
could only use Gil occasion sacred TO Liberty
to incite his hearers by denunca.ious
OF tie Government, calculated, if they
moved them at all, to proopg the war b.
spreading 1t Northward. He and his fellow
conspirators knew that with the overthrow of
their Southern friends, their own chances Of
attaining to political power were gone forever.
The TALL Of Vicksburg, which practically ended
the Rebellion in the Valley Of the Mississippi,
followed close upon the defeat Of Lee, which
was tho beginning Of the end on
the seaboard; Charleston, there was every
reason to suppose. would presently be added
TO tho list Of Federal successes. 1t
was clear enough that the blow at the
North which was meant to DO the GROWING
glory of Rebel victory, must DO resorted to as
last desperate attempt to save the rebellion
from utter humiliation. A ready prete1t was
found in the ensuing draft, and the Copperhead
press redoubled its efforts to arouse discomfort,
to excite the poor against the rich, to let loose
in pOpulous city the dogs of havoc and of
license. trusting to guide the whrlwind and direct
the storm, and organize riots into revolution.
How well the rioters themselves understood
that encouragement TO resistance to the draft
clearly enough by the effect Of the e1traOrdi-
nary speech of Gov. Seymour. At no time
during the whole week was the riot
20 rampant in this neighborhood, at
no time were the determined efforts Of
the police SO necessary to suppress it, as
within tho few hours between noon and dark
Immediately subsequent to the time when Gov.
Seymour addressed the rioters as bis "noble.
hearted friends" Nor did tho Governor and
hi, advisers adopt any other policy than that