The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-10-01

render themselves, by one blow the arbi-
talS -of Ala -fate Of che nation. This Is the
doiign Of The Radical faction, aud the rcso-
luton of Mr.. sHER lets the light In TO the
very roots Of the conspiracy.
But there Is another part Of this Radical
impcachmcnt-conspiracy scheme which
was disclosed in a speech delivered by Mr..
rfuMAINE, the President of the Radical
State Convention of New York. That gen
tleman saidi
If the South reject the offers of the Uniu :.
party. assume that the Congress of 1868
Will, like The Congress of 1904 pass law
declaring that the insurgont States shall
not have their electoral votes. nor viii not
be counted. / assume further, that while
this law remains in force II win be execut-
ed, and that, IL the Southern States should
attempt to vote in defiance OF it, the Presi-
dent, who will be bound TO execute the
law, VIII arrest such an Illegal and revOlu-
tiOnary proceeding. From the Presidents
haste 60 denounce the Louisiana Conveh-
ton as an Illegal assembly, although It was
not held In violation of any law, cannot
doubt that he will prevent ony election or
meeting of the Presidential electors which
shall be prohibited by act of Congress. IL
contrary TO my assumption, President
JoRnson shall refuse to perform this plain
| duty, | assume further that other consti-
tutional means will be employed to exc
cute the laws. Again assume that any
lnttefnpt by the South TO trample such law
under foot would unite the North, and
that the South, standing alone, would not.
obtain that majority which would be want
cd as preteXt for taking possession of the
government and In either of these cases
the scheme would fail and as to a second
| rebellion, why, If these gentlemen are not
satisfied with their experience In the first
LET them try the second. Yes, let them try
1t. AT the first tap of the drum, an army,
composed of veteran troops capable Of
overcoming all opposition, would come TO
the rescue, and, adopting the Presidents
opinion that traitors must be punished.
soldiers would proceed to punish them.
And assume further that this time IL
would be elfectually done-dOne without
the intervention of President or Congress,
court. jury, or military commission. We
tender these people the olive branch, but if
they will not have 1t so, they can have the
sword.
According to this er cathedra exposl-
ton OF the purposes of the Radical party,
not only Is Congress to prepare the arti-
Giles of impeachment against the Presi-
dent, but they are TO make pretext for
such action by the passage of laws de-
priving ten or more States of the Union
of any right to participate in the choice
of n President. This is game which,
ifcarried out, must inure to their advan-
tage. If the people of ten or more States
are disfranchlsed then the Radical can
didate is elected and they retain their
hold upon power. If they are not, then
the President Is to be impeached and
dcposed, If not assassinated, and thus the
dominant faction seizes upon authority
by the rude hand of violence. The al
Tentative presented to the South between
citizenship and serfClom Is to accept the
"oilers of the Union party" What are
those offers? The leading one is negro
suffrage, or the loss of twenty Representa-
tives in ten States. This offer must be
accepted, or Radical Congress will pass
what laws they please, even to depriving
the people of one entire section of the
right of casting their votes at Presiden-
tial election, and If the Chief Magistrate of
the nation uses his constitutional preroga-
tive to secure to each State a constitutional
form of government, that fact is to be con-
strued into crime, and he is to be i'm
peached and deposed. Mr.. TREMAINE de-
clares this to be the purpose of the Radical
party-a purpose which must be executed
even if civil war should be the conse-
quence.
These are the flnger-posts Indicating the
direction in which the Radical party of the
country are moving. They mean to i'm
peach the President They mean to hold
power ut all hazards, civil war, strife, and
national bankruptcy included. They have
said so in their conventions, and the means
they are resorting 20 i'm order to arouse the
passions of the people and blind their
judgments, show that they are in earnest.