New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-10-28
THE NEW Conspiracy.


"In the excitement Of political contro-
versy," says The Irtniag Post Of yesterday,
" the passions of men are very apt to take The
lacd Of their judgment" To this striking aud
original assertion we give our most hearty a.
sent. mary cling. al the same time, that our
contemporary should have been inspired TO con-
dense 30 much wisdom into few words. l.
may well hug itself for It's sagaciiy when %
opens this morning. TRIBUNE, Ia mako up It's
evening paper. TO find how it il justified by
events In The further revelations Of the i'll
famous plot whereby the Democrats proposed
10 cheat our brave soldiers out OF their votes,
and by forgery aud theft elect MCCLELLAN
President, il may excan, with renewed EN-.
phais, that ain The excitement Of o political
controversy the passions Of men axe very ap, To
lako the lead Of their Judgment" The very
madness Of passion and Of desperation could
alone have moved any set OF men
among q people so intelligent as ours to resort
TO a scheme so stupendous in it, imiamy 10 gain
political power. The chances Of its discovery
were so many and the certainty that, if disccy-
cred, it must cover ts perpetrators with disgrace,
and perhaps bring them TO deserved pun
ishment, while it would utterly destroy the
party they represent is 80 unquestionablc,
that il il q marvel that sane men should take
so tremendous risk. But then We are what
The Post for once forgots, living in revolutionary
times and the "worst passions Of men" not
only take the lead Of judgment" but hurry
them into tho maddcst md most wicked deeds
If the editors Of that paper have read the late
report Of Mr. HOLT on the great conspiracy Of
the West, the wonder is that they should
find anything incredible in this latest de-
yclopmcnt Of Northern treason. II would,
il seems to us, better serve the cause il means
TO support, by holding Up such political base
ness and frauds as the Demosatic leaders are
guilty OF, TO the horror Of its readers, than by
prefcrring to doubt information which, by being
permitted to come over the wires, had an official
sanction, and It's aid 10 cover up this enOr-
nous wrong. Whatever may have been
its moving impulse, never has journal
30 permitted it, own judgment to be-
warped in thus making haste to afx the
stigma Of political passion to a contemporary.
with which it assumes to DO working in the
same great cause.
Du enough of this. We published yesterday,
exclusively, tho first reports of the latest vii
lainy to which the Copperheads have resortcd
in the hope Of carrying The Presidential election
To-day we give second chapter, and more az
founding disclosures. The whole plot il not yot
unrayeled, but enough is known to show that il |
was not a conspiracy of fellows Of low re-
pute, of the common villains to whom the
dirty work Of electioneerng frauds ore
usually entrusted; but Of men Of respecta-
bic position, the heads of party who, through
the officials Of the Executive Of the largest STATE
n the Union, have contrived and systematically
,arried on the most remarkable fraud ever yet
attempted by any political party. One Of these
men has turned States evidence, and 10 save
himself has betrayed his associates The dctails
Will be found in our telogrophc columna. and wo