New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-09-14
THE RADICAL CONSPIRACY.

PASP'hinS 1O4 an utts1npN 10 4npeaCn Tie
President in order that they may seize
/ on the executive department, and thus bring
that branch of the government into harmony
with Congress in consummating their grand
design of converting the federal Union into 9
consolidated despotism with the view of per.
petuating the supremacy of vindictive and
| tyrannical party. The bitterness with which
the President is assailed by the radical jour
nails and orators has in it something more
than mere partisan opposition. tits the out
pouring of the same kind of spirit which
prompts persistent ISLANDERS on the Southern
people; and that enyenomed hate which car
scarcely find adequate expression even in the
truculent rhetoric of Summer, or the blood.
thirsty blaekguardism of Brownlow
1 The New York World thinks that if the
radicals carry the Congressional elections
this autumn, they will attempt the impeach-
ment of the President and his forcible ejec-
ton from office as soon as they can settle
among themselves the grounds of proceeding.
That paper refers to number of indications
of this design, which, although singly they
might be deemed merely phrenetic outburst
ofindiyidual passion, yet when taken in the
aggregate, may be considered to illustrate the
tone and to suggest the designs of the radi-
cal faction. At the so-called "loyal" con-
yention in Philadelphia, Mr. Thomas J. Sizer,
of Buffalo, offered the following resolution
| ReSolUed That in view of the probable i'm.
| parchment of high officer of the United States
government, it would be exceedingly improper
unconstitutional and dangerous to have twenty
members of the Senate designated, in effect by the
President Of the United States.
It is here declared that the Southern Sena-
| tors must not be admitted, because their adj
mission would obstruct the success of sthe
probable impeachment of Mr. johnson. The
resolution, says the World, was not passed,
only because the Republican leaders are too
crafty to alarm the country by SO formal an
aYowal Of their intentions
The World thinks that, if they be beaten in
the autumn elections, the courage of the rad
icals Will be broken and they will not dare to
prosecute their scheme Of impeachments.
They would still command sufficient.
strength for the purpose in the existing Con-
gress but the sentence Of deposition would
hardly be passed before the new Congress
would be summoned together by the Presi-
dent, OF course that body, if anti-radical,
would not recognize the revolutionary pro-
ceedings of their predecessors, and they
would, therefore, treat as null, any impeach-
ment found by a Congress from which the
of ten States had been ex-
Guided.
Another radical scheme for getting rid Of
the President is to pass law forbidding the
Southern States to participate in federal cleo
tons, and then depose the President for re-
fusing to execute the law
This scheme is disclosed by Mr.. Tremaine,
the president Of the Republican New York
State convention, who said, in his speech at
Syracuse:
If the South reject the others of the Union
party, assume that the Congress of 1868 will, |
IKE the Congress of 1864, pass a law declaring |
NAT the nsurgent States shall not have their cleo.
oral votes, nor will not be counted. | assume
urther that while this law remains in force it will
1e executed, and that, if the Southern States
mould attempt to vote in defiance of it, the Presi-
lent, who Will be bound to execute the law, will
irrest such an illegal and revolutionary proceed
n.y.. From the Presidents haste to denounce the
louisiana convention an illegal assembly, al
hough it was not held in violation of any law. /
annot doubt that ne will prevent any election or
I
e prohibited by act Of Congress. IT, contrary =
} my assumption, President johnson shall refuse I
perform this plain duty, assume further that i
ther constitutional means will be employed to
Necate the laws. Again assume that any at
'mpt by the South to trample such law under .
rot would unite the North and that the Soutb /
anqing alone, would not obtain that majority o
men would be wanted as pretext for taking +
ossesslon Of the government, and in either Of "
eSe cases the scheme would fail; and as 10 II
cond rebellion why, if these gentlemen are not II
ushed with their experience in the first let them
the second Yes, let them try it.. Al the first 9
POT the drum, an army, composed of veteran Al
oops capable of overcoming all opposition u
)uld come to the rescue, and adopting the Pre- +"
Tents opinion that traitors must be punished 81
ldiers would proceed to punish them And I n
same further that this time it would be ciiectu.
y done-done without the intervention Of Presi-
mt or Congress, court, jury or military com.
sSion, We tenderthese people the olive branch, 81
4 they will not have 1t so, they can have the p
ord =
But there is another purpose in this plan. +
le design of the radicals is TO maintain = :.
wer, at all hazards and by any means i
ley know, of course, that the Southern :,
ates would vote against Them and hence :,
IS nice little scheme to get rid of inconve- !,
emit opposition by legislating away the right ;,
participating in the election. There is no i
arrant IN the Constitution for any such law,
I'd there would be no power to enforce it,
cept the power Of brute force. But consti-
tional restrictions are no more regarded by G
e radicals than eclipses of the moon; and b
ute force seems to be their favorite method d
accomplishing political objects. But, after il
! the ingenious simplicity of this method of ID
FRYING an election, and thus insuring per- il
tual supremacy to one party, cannot be
admired. All that it is necessary
! a congressional majority to do, is to pass pi
aw prohibiting the opposition States from e
ting and the thing is done. Nothing could W
simpler and at the same time more effec- h
e. Moreover, it is strictly congruous with i'll
e prevailing radical and loyal method Of h'
tting possession of State governments-that nj
to say, by DISTINGUISHING everybody that ia
es not vote the radical ticket--a method til
nch has been practised with eminent sue
IS in Tennessee, Missouri and Maryland SO
which the patriotic "1oyalists" of the su
ayeAtiop of 1864 attempted, with inferior vi
ecess, to introduce into Louisiana in
Senator Yates, of Illinois, in one of his W,
eeches at Philadelphia also made threat tn