Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-10-04
The Great Conspiracy.

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The Republicans have a great deal to
say about "conspiracies. The Golden
Circle" was lying and cAlumuious charge
against Democrats which did our opponents
effective service during one or two cam
paigns but at least, so well did all the
people come to understand it to be utterly
without foundation, that it was abandon
cd, aud wo now hear little or nothing of
it, Bnt these base defamers have Matched
another conspiracy" which they parade
in all their papers. under big headlines
as the "Dodd Conspiracy" BY dint of
peljury, aided by tho force Of tsrTible
military despotism, Mr.. DoDD has been
arrested, and is undergoing trial in Ind
ana, before a dram head coult Ali that
lac oattually did. so far as reliable evidence
goes, was TO act as the agent of certain of
his fellow citizens, who chose to exercise
the legal right-a right conferred by the
Constitution--to hear arms for sell-de-
fence
But this is not the GREAT CoNsPIRAcY,
to which we REFER and to which we desire
TO cali the attention of every men, before
he exerts the privilege of voting at the
State and Presidential elections
The GREAT Conspiracy was devised
aud Is now being carried into practical
execution, by the leading Republicans of
the country embracing its most influential
members. not only in the several States,
but in every county. township, aud ward.
Its pu' poses were to change our system of
Government, by destroying the Constitu-
ton, and insiitutng the iron despotism of
one mans will, backed up by more than
a million of bayonets +; to annihilate the
civil law, by the substitution of military
orders, and to supersede the civil courts
by dlum-head tribunals, to impIisOn,
exile, and slaughter every citizen, who
did not acquiesce in all the measures of
the conspirators; and to suppress, with
uurelenting rigor, free thought, free speech.
and free press.
In the execution Of this Great Con-
spiracy, two millions of American cit-
zens have been slaughtered, MANNED, or
disabled. Thousands more are falling
every day in the same bad cause Others,
by the hundred thousand, are being con
sCripted, to take their place in the ranks,
where slain men had stood before; aud in
the nsar future, other conscriptions loom
up, as sure to come, rapidly as our sons
reach the age which will enable them to
bear the musket.
This is the Great ConSp,ra y, the snc-
cess of which is almost contaminated, and
whicn will need no element of complete
ness, If ABRAHAM lINCoLN is elected. If
Abraham Lincoln is elected, the people
will hencefol III be slaves the born thrals
OF despotism. There will be no hope for
them. The opportunity to redeem them
selves will have passed away forever.
The chains will be riveted on their limbs
too strongly ever to be broken. The force
OF a bloody revolution, even, world wholly
fail, and it would be the frenzy of mad
ness to attempt it. Let them rise up like
men, then, and redeem themselves while
they have an opportunity. Otherwise let
them crouch like slaves. Let them kiss
the fonl hand that hmites them let them
prepare to surrender oil their property to
the tax-gatherer, aud citizens no more,
let them assume their plac c's in the ranks
of conecripts. obedient 20 the will of their