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RADICAL PLOT TO OVERTHROW THE GOV
ERNMENT AND ESTABLISH MILITARY DEs-
RECONSIDERATION FOR ANOTHER CIV
IL WAR.
Mr. Henry j. Raymond editor of the New York
zsuss writing to that paper from his seat in Con-
gress, on the 18th instant, divulges the following
very interesting facts
You may have noticed the passage in the House,
few days since of resolution offered by Gen.
Paine, of Wisconsin, calling on the States to or
ganize, discipline and equip their militia, and d-
recting that two-thirds of the arms, ordnance and
ammunition now under custody of the General
Government be distributed among the States-the
distribution among the loyal States to take place
Immediately, and that among the States lately in
rebellion to be postponed until further orders.
The resolution came up from the Committee on
Military affairs, and was pushed to vote, without
debate or delay, under the previous question It
attracted as little attention in Congress as it has in
che country and the public will doubtless receive
with incredulity the assurance that it was intend
ed, by those who secured its passage, as the first
step toward preparation for another civil war;
Although no debate was had upon it, members
were urged to vote for it by direct conversational
appeals on the part of the few who were privy to
its introduction. Some were told that 1t was ne
cessary to enable The Southern loyalsts to protect
themselves; others that it was simply matter OF
detail in the War Department. others that the
arms must be taken out of the hands of the Pres
ident, and others that it was proposed at the in
stance of the Secretary of War. An appeal was
made by Mr.. Kasson of Iowa, to allow debate
upon it, as it seemed to be matter of Importance,
but this was refused.
Most of the leading and rejecting Radicals in
Congress take this view of the political future
II the Fall elections result in the choice of North
ern Democrats, enough to constitute, when added
to the members from the Southern States, major
ity of the House, they assume that this majority,
thus constituted, will claim to be the Congress,
and will act accordingly; and that they will be
recognized by the President as the body to which
he will send his message, and whose sessions he
wi if the necessity should arise, protect by mill
tary force. They assert, on the other hand, tnat
the Union members from the loyal States-if they
constitute majority from those States-will claim
to be the only legal Congress, and will, if neces-
sary, invoke insurrection of the people to main-
tain them in that position.
They do not in the least conceal their purpose,
in the event of such collision, to appeal to force
and to "drive the rival Congress, with the Presi-
dent and his Cabinet and supporters, into the Po-
tomac" to use the language of the ablest and most
sincere of their number If you will recall the
remarks of Mr.. Boutwell,, of Massachusetts, in
last weeks first caucus, you will see this move
ment clearly foreshadowed-indeed avowed. He
declared his belief that an issue of force was rapidly
approaching, and that we must be prepared to
meet it. He acts, and all who cooperate with him
in these measures profess to act, under the appre-
hension that the President intends to resort to
forcs-that he means to disperse the present Con-
gress on its reassembling in December, if it rcfu
ses to admit the Southern members; and Mr..
Tarnsworth ascribed to Mr.. Seward the declaration
that this Congress should never reassemble unless
the Southern members were admitted-in support
Of this belief. I need scarcely say that Mr.. Sc
ward never made any remark OF the kind, nor
that the project ascribed to the President is pure
y an invention, or at least the crazy dream of
political nightmare. But in either case it serves
the same purpose. 1t covers, and is held to justi
fy the determination to arouse the North and pre-
pare for resort to force upon the assembling Of
the Fortieth Congress in extra or in regular scs-
sion (; and this determination is avowed. And the
resolution to which have referred, for an organi-
10 81 ND b,f;o of in,
the Northern Statcs is the initial step to its
outioR.
II do not propose to comment upon the result of
such movement 1t is obvious that if any such
contingency should arise, the war would not be
sectional, as was the last it would be war of
political parties and of neighborhoods. Not only
have the great body of the Union Party in Con-
gress no sympathy with these views and purposes,
but they are in the main ignorant and incredulous
of their existence. That the extreme Radicals en-
terrain them, however, there is not the slightest
doubt, and we know, from the experience of Sc
cession in 1861, how few men it sometimes re-
quircs to plunge great party or great nation
into mar.
COUNTERFEIT FRACTIONAL CURRENCY IN THE
SoUTH.-A Washington letter to the Baltimore
Transcript says: Reports received at the Treasury
Department state that the Southern States are at
present flooded with counterfeit United States
notes, national bank notes and fractional currency
of every denomination. One of the Treasury de-
tectives, while on an official visit in one of the
Southern cities, observed that an immense guam
tity of this spurious money is circulating there