The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-07-21
The Radio al Conspiracy

RAYMOND 10 bho NOV 10
o damning disclosure of the revolution
airy purposes of the party with which It's
author has been acting. Coming from
another source, this revelation might De
booted at by those whose iniqulty IL
upfolds, but emanating from man VINO
from his prominent position, has ready
access to their councils and is prlvy 70
all their plans, it must silence with the
consciousness of guilt betrayed tn0
boldest of the seditious crew lha' ("
partv whose devotion to the Govern
ment is genuine and whose patrio'i,n
is real would thus conspire against the
national integrity, is too improbaDle ioi
ho1;et and the fact that con-
sniracv for subverting our institutions
has been concocted by the selfappointed
Guardians of the Union only proves
that all their affected loyalty is but
'aimsy disguise for the most infamous
treason. The preparations for an appear
TO force in case of defeat at the ballot
box, made with the secrecy OF midnight
plotting and the completeness OF an &C
complished traitors skill, are revealed
so plainly by Mr.. RAYMOND as to render
doubt impossible. Quietly, stealthlly'
and with the undue haste OF guilt, fear
full of detection, the Radical majority In
the House of Representatives passed a
resolution calling on "the States to or.
ganize and equip their militia" pror'd'ng
"for the immediate distribution among the
loyal States, of Government arms, ordnance
and ammunition" and posponing until fur
Rer orders ike distribution among
the States lately in rebellion, Inc
purpose which this warike and
clandestine legislation foreshadows,
Mr.. Raymond tells rs, is to resort to force
in case of defeat at the ballOtbox and,
in certain contingencies, Ito drive the
President, his cabinet officers and sup
porters into the Potomac" The very
men whose sublime loyalty has brooked
no questioning and whose patriotism has
been selfexalIei uusil the patriotism OF
all other men becomes grovelling trea-
son in the comparison these jesultlcal,
pharisaical, SELF righteous priests of Rad
icalism, whose boosted exploits, saori-
fees and devotion have been held up for
the admiration of Il credulous people,
these white .robed champions of upiver'
sal freedom have suddenly been stripped
of all their spotless externalpurity, and
now stand revealed as hideOus, loath.
some, fostering crew, reeking with the
stencil of innate corruption, bearing the
rottenness of rebellion i'll every joint and
breeding pestileutial treason in their
very bones. But odious and hideOus
as now appear the authors OF this daring
conspiracy, it is the nature and conse-
uuences of their act that most seriously
demand the popular attention. The IN
famy of the criminal is lost in the mag
nitude of the crime. They propose to
entail upon this land the horrors OF
another contest in which the bloodshed
agony and desolation of the strife through
which we have passed will be renewed
with ten-fold intensity, A war. not OF
sections, but Of citizens, not of States,
but Of neighbors not a manly struggle
for principle, but fierce, bitter, wide
spreading slaughter of political oppo-
nents for the sake of power Isl minister
to the unholy ambition of Radical revo
lutionists, if the popular voice declare
agains. them and their cOIruptiOus.
But We trust that the American peo-
pie standing by the administra-
tion, will forbid the Radicals to
take another step beyond this, their
first. This alton has suffered too much
in property, happiness and life, to allow
the torch OF civil var to be lighted
anew. Our citizens will surely take
warning from the lessons they derive
from the past and withhold their aid
and countenance from this mad and
reckless scheme The numberleSs wasted
fortunes, irreparable AS long as the fed
eral tax gatherer shall 1.-THE the earnings
of honest industry, the sickening re-
membrance of q thousand slaughter
fields, red with fraternal blood, the
mourning of stricken households whose
only consolation is tho memory of the
noble dead, must be too powerful in their
influence not to restrain the madness
that would again let looSe tltt demons
of civil strife. Should iG not be 50. the
ultimate result will neither be doubtful
nor long aefeUred 4 short hut awful
period of desperate and universal
conflict, a fearful era OF power1ess
laws, disorganized society, DESC
late homes, blackened fields aud burning
villages, a brief but terrible c9rnival OF
the demons of hatred Inst and death in
every city, town aud hamlet from the
Lakes TO the Gulf and from the Atlantic
to the Pacific, and fanatical ambition
will expire by the glare of its own torch
es and go down to an oblivion dark aud
hopeless as its own ruined fortunes. The
stern power OF mighty Government, |
controlling army, navy, arsenal and fort