The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1864-11-04
NoTHERN SECESSION CONSPIRACY.

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: The indianapolis Seminal announces
that Mr.. Bingham has been discharged
from arrest, and will resume his editorial
duties SIR Bingham has testified to
to precipitate the State of Indiana into
revolution against the Government. and
the State authorities, and to plungeit and
the adjoining States at once into sea of
bloodshed Now he goes back to edit
the journal in which he has continually
denied the existence of this secret order,
and has denounced all the measures of
The authorities to prevent its design
unconstitutional interfere nee with the
liberties of the people He has testified
that the arms procured for this conspira-
cy were for rebellion and assassination,
and the day was determined upon when
these atrocities were to begin. He now
resumes his editorial duties in the Jour
nal N which he denounced the seizure of
these arms as an outrage upo n the con
\ stituticnal rights OF the people to bear
arms, and denied that they were for any
/ illegal purpose.
We suppose that among Democrats
this will not be thought as at all impeach-
ing his character as a Democratic editor,
or his patriotism, his Democratic hon
or. tits an illustration of the utter de
moralization OF the Democratic party
1t destroys patriotism, honor and truth.
and suborns every crime to the use Of
party. The Sentinel now sets up the
pretense that Mr.. Bingham's evidence
has exhonorated him from this plot
But Mr. Bingham, with a full knowledge
of this atrocio;s design. denied its ex
isteDce. So did the rest of ''thc leaders
of the Democratic party Can they be /
SO easily exhonorated from a conspiracy |
which they tried to conceal from the |
Government, whose measures to pro |
tect the public peace against this bloody
purpose they assaulted as tyranny which
justified revolution. And as to the lea
iers of the party, who are any more
leaders than the principal officers of this
secret order? The chief was the stand
ard bearer OF the Democratic party in
Ohio, and in his speeches he justfies such
a revolution as this order conspired -
And there is no more Il leader in Indiana
han Mr.. Voorhees,, whose connection
with the order is we'll established
True, Mr.. Bingham testified that come
Of the leading Democrats advised against
he appointed outbreak. But was it be
cause they were opposed to the use of
such means, or thought the time had not
get come, and feared failure? Mr. Bing-
nam shows that he had no stomach for
desperate enterprise, but we find him
writing anxiously to Mr.. Voorhees,, in
luiring whether he thought the Confed- {
rates would be able to resist the advance
# our Western army. And their ability
D do this was the main condition of pre-
ipitating this conspiracy, He thought C
Ir. Voorhees, must have means of infor- l.
nation on this point, and he appears de n
irous Of showing an interest in affairs !,
which have so intimate a connection with {
Confederate military success. @
The leaders in this atrocious plct are f
he leaders of the Democratic Party
Zone of them can deny being implica-
ed in it by guilty knowledge of its pur-
oses, and by trying to cover them up, and ii
o prejudice any government measures of {
prevention. So in their public speeches
hey have tried to prepare the public
mind for such revolution by doct mes
'hch justified it, and by instgating
iolence against the Government. Their
implication thus established, their oppo- / h
ition appears to have been only on the a
question of time and the probability of T, g
THO Sentinel calls it. 1.-The
(uiNotic revolution coEtvu.i- a
CIV men" The order cannot be called t
CIV in number, nor will anybody now
pretend that it was organized for any :
peaceful purpose 1t is Il wide spread (
organization, which controls the Demo
ratio Party. In the disclosure of its
designs we have revelation of the
nature and purposes of the leaders OF the i
Democratic Party We can see through
What slaughter they would wade to give
,uccess to the Democratic secession,
md we can realize how vital it is TO the
,afetv of our own homes as well as To the
,asce and preservation of the nation,
hat this party should he put down by !
numbers Gin. Gaz
The first instance on record of inter
ference with the right of speech was
,ccord;ue to tradation-in the case of
one Satan. who had been trying to per
shade Mistress EVE 10 desert her hus-