New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-07-24
THE RADICAL CONSPIRACY.

THE RADICAL CONSPIRACY.
Whatever may be the general estimate of
Mr. Raymond, the public will thank him for
exposing the design of the radicals to plunge
the country into bloody civil war. Mr. Ray
mond was member Of the recent Republican
caucus, and he therefore knows all that took
place in that extraordinary conelave. He is,
or at least has been conspicuous member of
the Republican party, the chairman of its
national executive committee, and one of its
representatives in Congress. He, therefore, is |
very apt to know the reconcile purposes of
the chiefs and leaders of the party. When he |
tells us that the radicals are actually prepar- |
ing for war, that is to say for an appeal to
arms, should the country decide against them
on the issues now presented and when he
fortifes the assertion by publishing the pro
ceedings of the Republican caucus. we cannot
but dismiss the incredulity with which such a
statement might otherwise be received.
The ostensible object of the caucus, as an
nonced by Mr.. Hotchkiss Of New York, was
to arrange some plan by which the radical
Office holders might be kept in their places
and the information was rendered that it was
the duty of Congress to make 'tany sacrifice
to accomplish this purpose. Among the
speakers were Bromwell, Farnsworth and In
gerson of Illinois, Boutwell, OF Massachusetts,
Stevens and Kelley Of Pennsylvania, Lane OF
Indiana, and Wilson Of Massachusetts, These
gentlemen entered intoa vigorous competition
in denunciation of the President, and lavished
upon him an amount of opprobious epithets
which would have done ne .eisereditto the ira
ditional fshwoman Of Bilingsgate, Mr. Farms
worth declared him traitor to his party
which, in MFR. Farnsworth's opinion is equi-
valent to unliEited turpjtude, Not satisfied
with Ehis, he discovered that the President
had gone a stsp beyond the limitless in being
20 traitor to the country and ready for any
desperate measure to put the government into
the hands of the rebels" Mr. Boutwell, de-
clared ''Andrew johnson to be just as thor
oqghly a traitor as Jefferson Davis, to be or
ganizing conspiracy to put tie government
in the handsof rebels, andto be contemplating
aresort to force" This may seem toreach
the summit of invective, but Mr. Ingersoll was
prepared to go still higher. He asserted that
the President is not only traitor. but he is
Gin league with rebels and copperheads, and
is horrible to relate, g mailman and "bull
in china shop" All of which for vigor and
anti-cliinax cannot, we take it, very easily be
excelled
Ia the midst Of all this fury that which Mr..
Raymond declares to be the rsal object at
bottom of the proceedings, was exposed to
view MIR. Boutwell, solenlnly announced that
the contest had already begun that the Phil
adelphia convention was scheme "to force
the rebels into Congress- and that if resis-
lance We're not made the President would take
possession Of the capitol. Resistance, he pro
claimed, must be made by force, to which
Pennsylvania Kelley responded I" amen"
All of this may seem to be the mere fury of
yindietiye and malignant politicians but Mr..
Raymond, himself spectator and an auditor
in the scene, declares that it means organized
civil war armed resistance to the will of the
people in case the elections go against the
radicals a war not Of sections but of parties:
not Of States, but of counties, cities and neigh
borhoods. The Z" first step of the radicals is |
thus disclosed in Mr.. Raymonds letter to the
Times:
q You may have noticed the passage in the House
a few days since, of resolution offered by Cen
Paine, of Wisconsin, calling on The States to
organize, discipline, and equip their militiasand L
directing that two thirds Of the arms, ordinance I
and ammunition now under custody of the general
government, be distributed among the iStdtes-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 from the committee on mill.
tary affairs, and was pushed to vote, without de-
bate or delay, under the previous question. 1t at
tTaeted little attention in Congress- al it has in
lie will
with lncreduity the assurance that it was intend
ed, by those who secured its passage, as The first
step totgdrd preparation for another ciua lCdY.
Although no debate was had upon it. members
were urged to vote for it by direct conversational
appeals on the floor on the part Of the few who
were priyy to its introduction. Some were told
that it was necessary to enable the Southern low
alists to protect themselves; others, that it was
simply matter of detail in the war department:
others, that the arms must be taken ont of the
hands of the Presidents and others, that it was
proposed at the instance 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.
What was Mr.. Boutwell's proclamation, in
the caucus, of a coming tissue of force" is
here revealed. It is "the determination to
arouse the North, and prepare for resort to
force upon the assembling of the fortieth- Con-
gress in extra or in regular session and this
determination is aoo,oed. And the resolution to
which have referred for an organization of
the militia and distribution of arms in the
Northern States, is the initial step to its exc
cution"
/ 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
politicalparties and ofneighborhoods. 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 incrednlous
Of their existence. That the extreme radicals
entertain them, however, there is not the slightest
doubt.
Robert Bruce Blackburn, of Blaekburns- t
boro', scotlapd-one of the wealthiest man
ufacturers in Europe few months
SINCE, leaving an estate estimated at over !
w 100000 The heirs-at-law are said to re-
side in Georgia and Arkansas /
. - {
In Richmond, the gentlemen composing the !
Bell, Bfeekinridge and Douglas State Com
nittees in the Presidential campaign Of 1860
AVE been called on to elect on the 14th !.
'roximo, delegates to the Philadelphia con .