, 1864-07-30
Chicago Qrtbn&re.
SATURDAY, JULY 50, 1864.


SATURDAY, JULY 80, 1864.
THE GREAT CONSPIRACY.
The readers OF the TRIBUNE cannot have
failed to give due attention to the revela.
tions touching the scope and purport OF the
secret organization within the Democratic
1'arty. copied By Us from the .Ai.,ourt Demo
( at yesterday morning. The lateness Of the
"ur 1T which the Democrat came to hsud,
a'.d the incalculahle importance Of the sub-
Ssct that 1t opened, forbade any extended
comment In o1r paper Of that date hence
we rccur to the matter again With tue nope
not only Of warning and arouslng inc mem.
hers Of our own party, and all othef loyal
citizens who wish their country success in
its efforts for liberty and unity, bat Of point
ing ont to the honest men Of the opposition
The tmmtnencc Of the peril to ali that Amer
5c.ns hold dear, that their treacherons and
tra,torous leaders have been inviting. And
We commence By saying TINT VIC hare not
shrdow OF doubt that the plot, a small por-
tiou of which the Government has seen fit
to reveal In the columns Of our Missouri con-
temporary, does exist In the formidable as
pect there pictured, and that 1t
Is the real but secret object Of the managers
Of the opposition party to effect sudden,
forcible and bloody revolution for the over
throw Of the order that the people, through
the Administration, have instituted and
mtintained in the loyal 6tates-a revolution
to tho end that that wicked rebellion and the
rank and into1erAble atheism upon which 1t
Is based shall be triumphant In this land
We say that ne do not doubt this. The evil
dtnrc upon which our belief rests has been
gradually but steadily accommodating, and
counttymen Of tn intention to perpetrate 60
horrible q crime for 60 infamous a
purpose, VIC hare been unable to re-
sist the conviction that the worst
OF the treason BY which our own lber-
ties are threatened i6 not In the South, and
that the most dangerous and malignant Of
the traitors arc not those who stand in bat
tie army over against us. Revelations made
to Us in the profoundest confidence, By par
tisaps Of the other side who have not ceased
to be patriots; testimony laid in mas-
ses before ths constituted authorities
Of this State and Of Indiana; the
confessions Of the Democratic leaders them
selves, backed mp by knowledge Of the ae.
cret assemblagcs Of the consp{rators for the
furthe1sDce Of their ohjects, s,--these, accu-
mulating for the year past, have, independ-
entity Of The more positive and direct proof
which the Government now furnishes, shut
Off all hope that our fears were unfounded,
aud have chilled that leniency not unmixed
with pity with which we have regarded those
who have thought that opposition to the war
and hence to the Government Was their duty.
Ne Eco before us not merely an organized
party pursuing what We regard as mistaken,
and, II Triumphant, a fatal policy, but band
OF conepirators and asesssIae whetting their
knives not for use upon the foes Of the
Union and Of liberty, but for cutting the
throata Of those By whom, for the interests
and honor Of our dear country and the vel
fare Of mankind, the ancient order Of things,
in the Republic, Is upheld. And unless the
President and lis subordinates aided on the
ope side by the military, and on the other
by the efforts OF an aroused and In
dignant people, shall put forth their full
strength, and 60 to the EXTREMIST limit Of
Constitutional authority, for nipping this
treason in the bud, and arraigning those who
hare invented and promoted it, the picture
that Democratic orators have often drawn,
with, - We have thought, grossly exaggera-
ted coloring, will be realized, and the falr
fields aud peaceful homes Of the North will
smoke with Efatficldl blood, shed In the vain
endeavor to make Humsn Slavery the corner
stone of the edihes eoneecrated to Hum In
Liberty!
But let US not be too comprehensive in our
denunciations ot tbs criminals whom we ar
raign. ThoI sands are = part Of this vast and
widespread eonspiracy-insnumeuts to be
finally used in the work Of overthrow aud
slaughter-who ars as ignorant Of the rea]
purposes for which they are intended, a
Of the true character. Of those who, undel
the spcciops prete1ts Of patriotism, are dup
ing and betras ing than. They neither know
nor suspect the deep infamy Of the plot
They src not admitted within the penetralia,
where the treason is coucocted, and
whence 1t viii march forth to
blacken and destroy. Dcluded By false
hoods which touch the purpose Of the Union
Leagues; made to believe that these purely
political societies are maintained for aggres
sions upon Democrats and Democratic
mense depots Of arms in al the larger cities,
from which, when the hour comes, thf
Lesguers arc TO be fitted out; told, and
believing also, that the authorities wait only
the day Of decisive victory to put the cher.
ished plans OF the Republican party in exc,
cution and to elevate the negro to the place
OF the Democrat, whose privileges Of man.
hood ard citizenship will thus be overborne
or destroy ed; fearing that the end Of our
institutions ie approaching, and that it is the
well defined but unavowed purpose Of Mr.
Lincoln to perpetuate his power and consoli-
date the States into an empire or monarchy
-is it any wonder that they, possessed Of the
spirit that must animate all Americans when
dangers like these are foretold, arc ready
to embrace anything which promises
exemption from or cure Of such GOV
ernmeutal disorders? Falsehood is thE
weapon that has been most poteptly used
falsehoods 90 infamous, SO glaring and ST
easily exposed that We hesitate which mos
to wonder at-tht audacity Of those by whom
thev are invented and spread abroad, or tn
crcanlity Of those whom these nonstrou
fctions have led into disloyA psths. It
not true that tho Union Leagues are armed
1t is not true that they expect to be, Or. i
o,v ,rohah1e contingency, will be armed
Tha, ar political Notwithstanding
merely and probably not the acme Of huna
s.s.ac,n a,ther In their ,nceptfon or fhe]
rorr;.r Whatever they may have beer
t,c;r nnrnose il eeryed and they are. in moi
nar. of the countr. dead CT diving fast; an
roth,nr INIT IN imminent danger arisln
+ror tbe effarts nj had and treaso,
.s,a .sn ~ bsme ran rr-ra1van;ze fher
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