Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1863-08-08
Wore About The Great Conspiracy
Against the Union.


The Hon. Horace Maynard, of Tennessee
and the editor of the Nashville Union, vouch
for the character of Mr.. Alfred Hoss, of East
Tennessee, the writer of the following letter,
which is sent by Mr.. Maynard to the Union:
NASHVILLE, Tenn, June 26, 1868.
"lIon. Ii. MAYSLRD.-Dear Sir: | take
pleasure in complying with your request to
give the substance, and as nearly as possible
the language, of Mr., of Louisiana, in a
conversation which occurred between him
and myself about three weeks before the
last presidential election. ! mel with MIR.
- on the cars, some miles beyond jones'
boro, Tennessee, in October, 1850. He was
then returning to his home in Louisiana
from the city of Washington.
"By accident | took seat immediately
behind the one occupied by Mr.. -, when
he at once turned round and began to make
inquiries respecting the prospects oil the
different candidates for obtaining the elec'
toral vote of Tennessee. He expressed great
pleasure when | assured him that Breckin-
ridge could not possible obtain the electoral
vote of this state; and his reasons for 1t
will give YOU as nearly as may be in his own
words. i am glad, says he, that Mr.. Bell
will get the vote of Tennessee, although L
cannot vote for him. | am Douglas demo-
crat and am fastening home to see what
can be done to prevent my state from cast
ing its electoral vote for Breckinrldge. L
have been in Washington since the trst day
of July, and tell you now, sir, there Is at
| this moment on foot at Washington the most
damnablc conspiracy to break up this gov
ernment that was ever known in any civil
lied country. do not speak from hearsay,
sir, for | have been in their coucuses almost
| nightly tor the last three months, ana l
know the programme from y to Il. And II
is this: lfthey can by any means (whicn Is
utterly impossible), secure majority OF the
electoral votes for Breckenridge, then the
| scheme is, as soon as he Is lnauguratcd ana
put in possession of all the resources of the
/ government, to divide the country along
Mason tS DiXon's line, the Ohio river and
. thirty-sX degrees thirty minutes north to
! the Pacific ocean. In other words, they in
tend to cut loose from all the free states,
and to build up great slave coniedcracy III
! the South, and to accomplish this purpose
! they will use all the resources of the govern
mcnt proper. But should they fail in this
Gas they assuredy wild, the plan is for South
I Carolina to scccde trst-the other cotton
states arc to follow Il think he mentioned
the order in which they were to go out,
but am not positively the border states
are to be persuaded or forced to join them
in their unholy cause, and then We are to
! have such civil war as this world never
| Witnessed lie added: i had hoped, until
! month or six weeks ago, that Mr.. Breckin-
ridge was ignorant of all this matter; but
! have had evidence as clear as the MONDAY
sun that he is as deeply implicated as Yam
cey himself; and more than that, Mr.. Bu-
chanan is into their scheme up to the eyes.
II have given the above statement in al
most the identical language used by Mr.
-. The whole affair W, of so startling
n nature that it made IA deep impression on
my mind, and none of the facts have slipped
my memory
Your friend truly, ALFRED lIoss."