The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-07-21
Grenina Telegraph
SATURDAY, JULY q, 1866.
who nre Threntening RevoIution

Who are Threatening Revolution.
THE Copperhead papers are just now shouting
in full chorus that the country is in imminent
danger of revolution and civil war at the hands
of the radicals. Taking advantage Of the
letter of MIR. RAYMOND, who has turned 80
many political summersaults lately that his
head has become dizzy, and whose stories re-
mind one of the horrible tales of retreating
and cowardly straggler from some sernly con,
tested battlefield, they have gone TO manutac-
turing bugbears and scarecrows with an in
dustry that is truly surprising. 1t would be
quite mild to say that this is humbug, gotten
up solely for political effect. Giving to RAY.
MoNDs apocryphal revelations the very small
basis OF fact upon which they stand, and they
amount to simply this-that in the Republican
caucus there were some members who expressed
a belief that the Copperhead plan of revolution,
which has been so busly and perseverngly
urged, of inducting Rebels into Congress by
force, would be attempted This was ALL Perhaps
there was undue sensitiveness to these threats
OF the Rebel sympathizers; but they have be
come so bold and frequent that it was not un
natural that some notice should be taken Of
them. 1t has been impossible TO take up a
COpperhead newspaper for the last three months
which was not full OF the grossest indictments to
violence and revolution. The President has been
urged over ard over again by these mlscreants
to Gisperse Congress at the point of the bayonet,
and to put the Rebel claimants in possession OF
seats in that body by force. These papers
habitually speak of the Congress OF the United
States as the "Runlp" by way of alusion 10 the
celebrated trump Parliament" of history. Even
in the resolutions adopted by the CLYMER Con-
vention at Reading the other day, there are at
least two which, if they mean anything
at ALL are direct suggestion to the
President to use force against Congress-
And at that same meeting, the most prominent
speaker threatened civil war, ''the battle.felds
of which would be in the North, while the
South would be unit" if the Union ticket
should be elected this fall 1t was in view of
these uniform and persistent suggestions and
threats of revolutionary violence, on the part of
the Copperheads, that the statements in the
Union caucus were made.
We have no idea that these Rebel threats will
ever be executed. They show what is passing
in the hearts of certain class in the commu.
nifty, and what they would be glad to do. We
have no doubt that the New York Daily NeocS,
and the World, and the Age, et id Oneae genus,
would be rejoiced to see violence used against
the peoples representatives, at Washington, and
a conflict precipitated between different depart
ments of the Government. They would doubt.
less love to see the New York riots of 1868
repeated. But they do not expect these things.
They throw out these suggestions of violence,
these threats of civil war, for political effect.
They hope thereby to intimidate the people,
and to prevent the free expression of their
choice at the ballot-box. 1t is the old game
which they used to play of threatening disso-
luton of the Union, and then turning round and
bemoaning its horrors.
The idea that the Union men contemplate
revolution is preposter ous. They constitute
vast majority of the people. They appeal un-
fiinchingly 20 the ballotboX. They stand for
law and order, and the Constitution and the
Union. They have no motive for revolution.
While all this is SO, we may say, by way of
warning to these Rebel blusterers, that the peo.
pie are in no mood to tolerate such revolu-
tionary schemes as they are constantly urging.
This Government is the Government of the
people, and they know how to protect it in all
its departments. They have Just put down one
rebellion of these disunion Democratic leaders.
Should another one be attempted they will make
mighty short work of it.