Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-08-16
THE GREAT CONSPIRACY.

of the plot, made such effective prepare
tons against the hellish scheme, that the
leaders came to the discreet conclusion
not to spring the mine. The conspiracy
embraced the plans Of a grand Democratic
uprising in Chicago, the cooperation Of
FIVE thousand Canadian refugees, the
loosing Of the 5000 prisoners at Camp
Douglas, the firing Of Chicago, the imme.
diate release of all other rebels confined
at adjacent corals in Illinois and Indiana
the almost instantaneous raising IN this
manner Of an effective army OF lOo'ooV
armed men who would be differed by
competent disciplinarians from the South;
and thence the sacking of every northern
city and the indiscriminate slaughter o.
the inhabitants of the land. No whit less
gigantic and fearful was the scope of the
conspiracy. And at its head in the wesI
stood Vallandigham-the man whom Tom
Williams used to describe as the Grear
Doctor Of Democracy, last Fall, at thu
rery time ,ehen these plots pere in nursing
And A. c. Bradford, the head of an order
in Nevada exactly corresponding to the
vallandigham project Of murder and
rapine, had an eulogy for that great mas
ter of Democracy" in every stump ha'
rangue.
It not being deemed advisable to pre-.
cipitate affairs" on the occasion Of the
Democratic assemblage at Chicago on the
29th Of August, "a, the outbreak was SET
for the 7th November following. Not
~withstandins the authorities got wind Of
this and arrested the gang-leaders just in
time to stop their bugle-call for the ma.
tional riot, We can definitely gather from
events what would surely have followed, in
spite of all notice and precaution, If George
B. Mcclellan had been elected President,
Verify" one will say as he reads the &C.
count Of our preservation as against this
conspiracy, show has the Almighty be.
friended the loyal people of this land =
For, except He put the keenest suspicion
and the most ~scrutinizing inventive
thought into the minds Of some men-His
agents for our saving-all had been lost,
and lost in the fury Of unheard Of atroci.
ties. The Colonel in command at Camp
Douglas who discovered and frustrated,
or prevented by his precautions, the first
set outbreak, was on the eve, soon after
the Democratic Convention adjourned, OIL
leaving the camp, when an inpression
drew him back to his old quarters and
stirred him to fereting work again: and
again through his fundamentally the
country is preserved from the destruction
of nearly all its wealth and its literal
drenching in blood. When men make
the assertion that you can shake hands
with a subjugated rank and Ale rebel with
less computations Of conscience than you
would or do feel in going through a for.
NAL greeting with a copperhead, you are
quite right in your instincts and emotions
for, note the fact: q Texan Major, when
the conspiracy was revealed to him; was
willing to become a spy on the enemy,
that he might cover his former connection
with a TREASON Of which he had not sus'
pec,ed the damning depth and purposes
He had been deludei with the idea tha'
he was actually fighting for States Rights
for Liberty. But when the general demo
lition and massacre intention was revealed
TO him, he readily consented to enter as
detective and exposer into any "uap'
that promised success against the merci'
less cut-throats who had the Fawkes
bands in training.
Talk of the lack of honorable leniency'
on the part Of our Government! Where
are these devils in human form, who wer'
surprised and captured on the instant the,
were to give the word that would havC
set the entire Nation in flames? Hav'
they been hung Are not the vast ma
jority Of them now out on parole: ane
their prime confederates who were at tina
particular ~juncture uncaptured are nov
living u~ndisturbed BY fear Of the law, in
their homes in the West. This, indeed
has been a "~magnanimous war; a
Secretary Seward desired it should prov,
to be on the part of the United States.
Had the outbreak occurred OF the At
lantic side of the continent the plot was
perfected for similar riot and rapine here
II was claimed in the select Democratic
circle which the Texan Major gained wei.
come admi,tance TO, loon after his effected
escape from Camp Douglas, that in Cali.
fornia and Nevada and Oregon the "co'
operators" were posted and were of sufa.
cient force to overpower all available loya'
strength that could be brought agains,
them. And the Mormons were represent.
ed TO be fully enlisted in the righteous
plot" We have, indeed, ourselves stood
on the brink of an awful precipice. And,
yet, the wresches who here plotted our
murder, and the seizure Of all these rich
mines,-they are among US to-day many
Of them rich; some Of them practicing law
in our Courts all of them still insolently
talking Of the glOriss Of Democracy
The day of positive danger may be past
the time when liberty's vigilance is re.
quired remains for continued telling on
our dial. We have a list of members OIL
the knights at Virginia Lodge; and when
ever n Of the captains ofthe sleuth.hounds
howls up for Office or public place Of any
sort we shall call hia name from the roll
of infamy wherein he wrote it. It is re.
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