Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-07-21
SATURDAY, July 81. 1856.
pREC1P1rAT1NG REVOLUTION.
RADICAL DECLARATIONS AND
MOVEMENTS.

We ask the attention Of the country 10 the
following facts which, are Of the utmost sig
nifcance:
In the Congressional Caucus at Washing
ton, which was held on Wednesday Of last
week, the following is given as a part Of the
proceedings:
Mr.. boutwell,. Of Massachusetts, said
"He believed il 20 be beyond all doubt
that a conspiracy VS. on foot 20 put the Gov
eminent into the hands Of the rebels, and
the President was party to it. He had no
doubts they con templated a resort to force,
because IL was the logic Of events that they
should do so. He believed ANDREW JoHN-
son 20 be Just az thoroughly a traitor as
JEFF. DAVIS.
Mr.. INGERsoLI., Of Illinois, denounced
President JOHNSON as a traitor mailman
in league with rebels and Copperheads,
and insisted on measures Of precautiOn
against his schemes.
"Mr. KELLEY, Of Pennsylvania, said
amen 70 Mr.. boutwell,, and said that
many as we're the letters he received from
his constituents on the tariff, they were few
in number compared with those he received
exhorting him to stand by Congress in its
measures for tke salvation Of the country.
He denounced the Philadelphia Convention
rs a conspiracy Of traitors, and said he be-
lieved the President had got it up for the
purpose Of destroying the Union party, and
Of putting rebels and Copperheads into
into power
"Mr LANE, Of Indiana, demanded the
enactment Of stringent laws 10 restrain and
curtail the power Of the Fredericksburg
he was ready 10 sit all sumner if necessary,
at the point Of the bayonet that If a victim
was wanted that he was ready; and declar-
ing that a million Of soldiers would flock TO
the Capitol 20 sustain Congress against the
tyranny Of the President"
A few days previously a Radical member
Of Congress wrote 20 his paper, the Worces-
ter Mass Spy, that possible contingency
IN the near future demanded a new presid-
ing officer Of the Senate, in place Of Mr..
FOSTER. The quality that that contingency
demanded in the presiding officer Of the
Senate was courage, which the writer charged
Mr.. FOSTER to be deficient in. Who was to
succeed Mr.. FOSTER was the question with
outsiders. The solution is at hand.
The Washington correspondent Of the
Rochester IN. " Democrat Rad. J, says:
" Senator WADE is the man" whom the
writer declares " the country can rely on, no
matter what the contingency may be"
On Sunday last, the 10th inst, Mr.. RAY
M0ND, editor Of the New York Times, and
member OF Congress from New York city,
wrote to his paper long letter discussing
the purposes Of the Radical leaders, in which
the following startling passages occur:
You may have noticed the passage in the
House. a few days since, Of a resolution Of
fered by Gen. PAINE, Of Wisconsin, calling
on n,e States 10 organize, discipline and equip
their militia, and directing that two-thirds
Of the arms, ordnance and ammunition now
under custody Of the General Government
be distributed among tbe Stdtes-the distribu-
ticn among the loyal States 10 take place i'm
mediatly, 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 10 a vote without debate or delay,
under the previous question. Il attracted as
little attention in Congress as il has in the
country: and the public will doubtless re-
c1iyc with incredibly the assurance that it
was intended, by those who secured its pass
age, as The FIRST step tOwdrd preparation for
oaoihcr r. Although no debate was
had upon u, m,.- ,ers were urged 10 vote for
il by direct conversational appeals on the
floor on the part of the few who were privy
60 its introduction. Some were told that it
was necessary TO enable the Southern loyal
lists 90 protect themselves; Others that il
was simply a matter Of detail in the War
Department: others that the arms must be
taken ont of the hands Of the President; and
Others that il was proposed at the instance
of the Secretary Of War. An appeal was
made by Mr.. kAssON, of Iowa, 10 allow de-
bate upon it, IA il seemed TO be a matter Of
importance-but this was refused.
Most Of the leading and rejecting Radl-
Gals in Congress take this view of the politi-
cal future; II the fall elections result in the
choice Of Northern Democrats enough 70
constitute, when added to the members from
the Southern States, majority Of the House,
they assume that this majority, thus consh-
tuted, will claim 10 be the Congress, and viii
act accordingly, and thai they will be recog-
nized by the President as the body 10 which
he will send his message, and whose sessions
he will, il the necessity should arise protect
by military force They assert, on the other
hand, that the Union members from the
loyal States-if they constitute a majority
from those States-will claim 70 be the only
legal Congress, and will, Unnecessary, invoke
an instruction Of the people 10 maintain
them in that position. They do not in the
least conceal their purpose, in the event OF
such collision, 90 appeal TO force, and 20
drive the rival Congress, with the Presi-
dent and his Cabinet aud supporters into the
Potomac 30 use the language of one Of the
ahlest and most sincere Of their number. lf
You will recall the remarks Of Mr.. BoUT-
WELL, Of Massachusetts, in last weeks first
caucus, you will see this movement clearly
forcshadowed- ayowed. He declar-
"a his belief that an issue Of force was rapid
~ approaching, aad that we must be prepar-
"a 10 meet IT, The acts, and all who co-opC-
rate with him in these measures profess 70
act, under the apprehension that the Presi-
dent intends TO resort 10 force, he means
60 disperse the present Congress on its reas-
sembling in December IL il refuses 70 admit
the Southern members; and Mr. FARNs-
WORTH ascrihcd 10 Mr. SEWARD the decla-
ration that this Congress should never reas-
semhle unless the Southern members were
admited-in support Of this belief
l need scarcely saw that Mr.. SEWARD
never made any remark Of the kind, nor
that the project ascribed to the President
is purely an invention, or at best the crazy
dream Of political nightmare. But in
either case il serves the same purpose. Ii
covers, and Is held 20 Justify, the same de-
termination 60 arouse the North, and pre-
pare fora resort 10 force upon the assembling
Of the Fortieth Congress in extra or in regu-
lar session; and this determination is avOwed.
And the resolution 20 which have referred
for the organization OF the militia and a dis
tribution Of arms in the Northern States, is
the initial stop 10 It's execution.
do not propose % comment upon the re-
snlt Of such a movement Il is obvious that
il any such contingency should arise, the
the war would not be sectional, as was the
last: il would be war Of political parties
and Of neighborhoods. Not only have the
great body Of tie Union party in Congress
no sympathy with these views and purposes,
but they are in The main ignorant and in
credulous Of their existence. That the eV-
IRENE Radicals entertain them, however,
there Is not the slightest doubt and we
know from the experience Of secession in
1861, how few men IL sometime requires TO
plunge great party or a great nation into
war"
"WmI, my child said Mr. OsGooD 20
his little daughter, after church, what do
yoa remember Of all the preacher said =
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