The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1863-08-19
The secret Meeting of the *. G., C.,s in
ChicHgO-EHpose Of the Plot 20 Inau-
Eurate Civil War IN tlre North.

The secret Meeting Of the *. G.. C.,s in |
ChicagO-EIpose Of the Plot 20 Inau-
Rurate Civil War in tlfe North.
Correspondence Of the Chicago Tribune
SPRrSoFiELD, Aug. 5, 1863.
On the 10th Of June last secret meet
ing was held in this city Ivy The extreme
head leaders Of the Democratic party At
that meeting, | learn that it was resolved !
TO oppose the war at all hazards, even TO |
resistance TO the Conscription and that it |
was decided thereat that peace should be |
made with the South, the Confederacy ac-
knowledged, &c The men who attended |
and took part in that meeting were CON-
posed (many, If not all of them) of delegates
from tho various K G.. C. lodges in the |
state. They resolved not only to bring !
the people up to the revolutionary standard,
but to control the Democratic party by
committing It to their programme. On the |
18th Of June. at the mass meeting here, they |
succeeded in the latter, under the lead Of
Singleton, Mahoney and others The reason
they did not succeed in the former was
only on account of tho defeat of Lee at Get
tysburg, the capture Of Vicksburg Port Hud-
son, &c. in fact, the placing of the rebellion
in dyticUlo mortis But everything had been
prepared the arms had been obtained to as
great extent as possible the lodges or cas-
ties held stated meetings, and even in somo
parts of the State the horse and foot which
were to take part in the great rebellion of
the North held meetings for drill, &c.
But this was not all. Alliances were
formed with the wouldbe revolutionists in
various other States delegates, &C., wore
sent to their lodges and wherever Demo-
! cratic Governor reigned, ambassadors were
appointed to sound him. In this way q
committee was dispatched to Gov Seymour,
Of New York, who so boldly announced in
his Vallandigham letter that revolution was
already inaugurated. | had a conversation
with one of the gentlemen who composed
that committee. 1t was found that Sey-
mour, although with the peace Democracy
in principle was behind them in action. He
! refused openly to take their position. From
! him the committee called on Fernando
Wood. He, OH the other hand, como up
to tho work, and agreed to the proposed
plan of action. New York was to take the
initiation in open resistance to the Govern
ment, tho conscription, which was de-
nounced in advance as unconstitutional, to-
be the pretext for commencing the rebel.
! lion
The plan was for each State to throw it.
self upon its independent sovereignty.
| New York and New Jersey were to do this
through their Governors the other States
were to follow their example through the
X. G.. G. societies aud the armed Democracy
Tho ground to be taken was that the Ad-
ministration having failed to conquer the
South, the Union was virtually dissolved
into it's original elements, and thus each
State was at perfect liberty to enter into
new combinations. There was to be formed
a Northwestern Contederacy. New Eug-
lzca .f.
&c. New York was to be an Empire in
itself, &c, &c. But the future status of
the country was to be settled by a cOnven-
ton, of which the leading peace men and
K. G. C.'s of course, would have supreme
control. Seymour was expected to announce
the revolution in his inaugural. Storey,
Richardson, Merrick, Goudy, Fuller, and
O'Melvcny, (properly spelled OMelvanyD
who were nearly all here at the time il was
issued, could scarcely wait it's appearance.
They wanted to commence the bloody work
at once.
Richardson acknowledged to gentlemen
here at that time, that the party had got
beyond his power to urge it forward or
stay its course in the direction of open and
armed opposition to the Government; that
Seymour was too timid. He wanted
General Floury, who (says Kinglake in
his History of the Crimean War; held a
pistol to the head Of Louis Napoleon, when
the latter showed symptoms of backing
out of tho coup d'etH. 1t will be recol-
lected that our Legislature endeavored to
naugurato this peace Convention, to which
X G. G. s and others, to be used as blinds,
were to be delegates from this State.
This programme was no, doubt, a mag
niticent one. All it needed to insure success
was the defeat of our armies in the field.
And, indeed, If prayers, predictions, asscr-
tions, encouragement to the enemy, appeals
to the soldiers to desert, announcement Of
negroes as soldiers and laborers, eulogium
of the enemy, their cause, their Generals,
&c, could assist this defeat, it would have
been accomplished,
On the battle of Gettysburg hung the
fate of this Government and the hope of re-
pUbicanism on earth. There is no doubt
of it. The horrors of a rebellion in the
North, such as the world never before wit
messed, would have followed our defeat on
} that occasion.
Was there ever before woven in the
history of the world such devilish plot
rs this? Or was there ever ono that came
so near success and failed of it?
But, as will be seen by the meeting in
Chicago, the conspirators have not yet given
up their designs, They are still as busy
as bears weaving their network of treason.
, They and their papers (cide Chicago Times
and State Register still hope for French
intervention, or British, or both. They
thus whistle to keep mp their courage, and
that of the co-consprators of the South.
They catch at every straw that floats They
, even clasp their hands with JOY when jeff
Davis arms his negroes.
Bu. their most potent argument at pres
ont is that we are now nothing but a des-
potism that it will be impossible to hold
, another Presidential election as things now
stand that the people will be overawed
&c, &c. Having also brought their party
: up to the fighting point, having their bat
tlions armed, and four Brigade Generals
, appointed for this State beside Major
General and Commander -in.C Chief, they must
either fight or he irretrievably ruined, polit
ically, morally and socially.
Some of the delegates to the secret meet
ing being held in Chicago at this writing
were also commissioners to confer with Sey
q mour and Wood on the project of inaugur
. ating the revolution, of which New YorI
d City was to give the signal
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