Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-08-21
The History OF the Great OonspirROy.

The History OF the Great Conspiracy
Almost every week there comes to iignt
some new proof that certain leaders long
ago formed the plan of dividing the coun-
try, and setting up slave empire. Papers
discovered at Beaufor, s. c., when we cap
tured the town, showed that the sHbbject
had been fully considered by some OF the
South Carolina fire eaters.
Mr.. Conway writes from England that
Thomas Carlyle, whose apologies for sla-
very had won him the favor and confidence
of the southerners, had received letters
from prominent men of the south months
before the outbreak of the rebellion, an
nouncing their intention to take up arms
if their requests were not granted by the
North.
The Nashville Onion publishes a letter
from Mr.. Alfred Hoss, of East Tennessee,
"a gentleman, for whose veracity Mr.. Hor-
ace Maynard vouches,) narrating CONVEX
satiou which he had in October, 1860, in
the cars with Mr.. 49, of Louisiana,
who was then, three weeks before the Pres
ideutial election, returning from Washing
ton to his home. Just see how accurately
the plan was formed rs it was carried
out:
"He began to make inquiries respecting
the prospects of the different candidates
for obtaining the electoral vote of Tennes-
see. He expressed great pleasure when
assured him that Brgckinridge could not
possibly obtain the electoral vote of this
State; and his reasons for it will give
you as nearly as (aay be in his own words.
Il am glad,' said he, shat Mr.. Bell will get
the vote of Tennessee, although cannot
vote for him. am Douglas democrat,
and am Fastening home to see what can
be done to prevent my State from casting
its electoral vote for Breckenridge. 1 have
been in Washington since the first day OF
July, and tell you now, sir, there IS at
this moment on foot in Washington tho
most damuable conspiracy to break up this
government that was ever known in any
civilized country. 1 do not speak from
hearsay, sir, for have been in their eau
cusses almost nightly for the last three
m onths, and know the programme from
A to q, And it is this II they can by any
means, (Which is utterly impossible secure
a majority of the electoral votes for Brock
inridge, then the scheme is, as soon as he
is inaugurated and put in possession of all
the resources of the government, to dI-
vide the country along Mason Dixon's
line, the Ohio river, and thirty six degrees
thirty minutes north to the Pacific ocean.
In other words, they intend to cut loose
from all the free States, and to build up a
great slave confederacy in the South; and
to accomplish this purpose they will use
all the resources of the Government prop
err But should they fail in this, as they
assuredly will, the plan is for South Car
DINA to secede frst-the other cotton
States are to follow II 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. He added: Thad hoped, un-
til month or six weeks ago, that Mr..
Breckenridge was ignorant of all this mat
ter; but have evidence as clear as noon
day sun, that he is as deeply implicated as
Yancey himself; and more than that, Mr..
Buchanan is into their scheme up to the
eyes,
' have given the above statement in
almost the identical language used by MIR,
-. The whole affair WAS of so startling
a nature that it made a deep impression ON
my mind, and none of thGsfacts have slip
ped my memory"
A pamphlet on Mexican affairs recently
published in London, furnishes some i'm
Iportant statements respecting plan form
ed as lorg ago as 1866, to divide this ma
ton. 1t is written by one Senior Losada,
who was then on confidential terms with
Santa Anna. A French gentleman called
in the year named on Senior Losada to in-
vite him to an interview with ga diplo-
matte parsonage representing the o. 81"
limiting that it might be the making of his
fortune. The conference took place
on the 25th of June. The American
gentlemen represented that an immense
army could be set on foot for the separa-
ton of the south from the north, and that
the separation would be hastened, if the
south had States to throw into the balance.
He proposed that Yucatan should be one
of the States given to the south. Losada
was to have some millions of dollars, San
ia Anna some millions, and "the cursed
libe rails" were to be hanged. A revolution
drove Santa Anna from Mexico six weeks
after this, and ended the matter. But the
idea of the great southern slave empire
was evidently formed then, ifsener Losada
is to be credited. By ana by, when the
great history of the rebellion is divulged,
we shall probably find that some scheming
and ambitious spirits conceived the idea
longer ago than we have imagined.
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