The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1863-06-18
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NO NORTHERN DEMOCRAT ADMITTED INTO TEE
INSIDE PLOT.

The following communication, from the
Cincinnati Gazette, is worthy of careful
reading. The writer resided in the midst
of the plotters, and what he states are his
own personal observations. lie is now
sojourning in Kentucky
Eds Gazette: It may reasonably be
supposed that one who was born and bred
in the South, who resided in the Gulf
States for fifteen years, including Mr..
Buchanan $ Administration, and the first
few months of Mr.. Lincoln's, and who
was more or less intimately acquainted
with many prominent and influential men
in the South, especially of the Democratic
party, to which he himself belonged. has
had opportunities for obtaining informa-
ton, and forming opinions, respecting the
origin and objects Of Secession, such as
have not been afforded to perhaps any
Northern man, whatever may have been
his personal or party relations to South
ern politicians. Such opportunities have
been mine; and the impressions which,
more deeply than any other, have been
made upon my mind partly by clear and
candid statements of acquaintances and
friends partly by guarded or unsuardcd
intimations from various sources-and
partly by facts falling under my own
observation, connected with others of
general notoriety-I will venture to give
to the public, for what they may be
worth fully persuaded, as [ am, that the
view here presented is, in all respects;
substantially correct, and is of. especial
IL
more particularly, to the Democratic pol
:ticians-of the North and West.
Among the public men of the South
who planned and set on foot the Secession
movement, were, .tfrs:, those who looked
upon it as means to an early reconstruc-
ton of the Union upon new basis, q. e.,
with additional guarantees to the Slave
Power,) and 20 the restoration of the
Democratic party to the control OF the
General Government; and, secondly, those
who were in favor of Secession per Sc,
and meant that there should be no recon-
struction in any cvent-being resolved
upon Confederacy of Slave States, the
acquisition of Mexico, and a change from
a democratic to an aristocratic form of
government. These two classes were
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former were not acquainted with the
plans and purposes of the latter.
The former class, embracing many of
the leading politicians of the South-all
those who were deemed not quite fit to be
taken into the deeper plot of the latter
was, as class, of comparatively recent
origin. Looking to the perpetuation and
extension of Slavery, in and by means of
the Union, and to the triumph of the
Democratic party, its birth dates no far
ther back than the time when the terri
torial growth of Slavery and the Demo-
cratic power began to be checked by the
rapid rise of the Republican party
With this class, Secession was merely a
sectional and party maneuver by which
the Republicans were to be bluffed from
the fruits of their victory and intinidated
into concessions to the Slave Power and
the Democracy.
The second class has much older
history. 1t began, as all know, with the
adoption Of the Federal Constitution,
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