The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1866-03-09
The New Party Plot-Iis Various Steps
The Present Plan of Operations.


%, writes as follows:
Thcplot to establish party which should
gather ia strength from all parties, and
number among its leaders The ablest op.
pOnents OF the war, has often been referred
to W these columns. II is well, however,
to keep the successive steps of the move
ment in mind.
It was ealy talked over at the While
! House. 1t was not broached publicly until
it had been fully discussed there, and all
/ through their plotting the movers have been
sure of Presidential support. The matter
! was discussed IN all It's bearings when par
\ dous were first issncd, aud Washing ton was
| full of those who needed them.
Meetings were held all over the country
| to indorso Andrew Juhnson-aud the
country saw no meaning in it, and could
| not understand how Democrats could praise
u man who, with great display. declared
/ that his mission should be to make treason
/ odious. These Democratic Endorsements
| were only Tie mastering Of the forces. A
few men had sold themselves out here as
workers in this cause, as Mr.. Doolttle and
| Mr.. Raymond, and others like them did.
The next step was to prejudice the people
| against Congress 10y representing it as n
crazy crowd of radicals blndly following
/ the lead Of Sumner and Ste yens, Instead Of
saying trUthiully Tint il is one of the ablost
bodies which has ever gathered here, and
at the same time most deliberate in all thtt
| il does. True, it called the previous question
often, but this was not to force legislation
that could not stand the test of argumenti
| it was to prevent factous minority from
blocking the wheels Of legislation alto
gelhor. If debate could do it, no measure
I ~ tri ipf mn 10
| Southern States coul pass the House the
Democrats would debate the first one till the
session ended. But through few lea.ling
papers which lent themselves TO the work,
aud the smaller journals which col led them,
a wide spread feeling OF dissatisfaction with
Congress was rred mp in the country.
An OCCASION was now needed to make
the people believe that this politicalrevola-
tion had been brought about by their will
that it was but the response to universal
desire to DO delivered from the Radicals.
So to create this occasion, the Democrats
and their fellow plotters, who call them.
selves Conservatives, watched the course
of the measures of reconstruction before
til g House, and seizing upon the suffrage
que ston az tho one that could be made to
appear the most Objectionable to the peo-
pie, they concluded that thoy could break
the Union party on that, by voting TO cut
off all conditions and forcing vote on the
question Of unrestricted, universal suffrage.
This scheme ard its unexpected failure has
! been before exposed. The same thing was
again attempted, when the subject of tho
basis of representation came up, and with u
fair prospect of success, because of the
fact that the interests of the various sec.
tions in the North conAictcd in this matter.
I,,NgI al Tf,,s..
| their objections rather than peril the country
/ by break in their party.
But one other plan of working remained:
Congress controlled by that firm majority,
was unmovable. The only chance of sue.
cess was in the President. AT the same
| time, no effort was to be spared to create
dissatisfaction in the public mind with Con
gress, so that when the President should at
! length set himself against Congress The
people would rally to his support. The
stake which the President was playing for
was q second term lle weighed the mat
ter carefully, and looking to the future said,
These States must come in shortly. II J
bring them IN will they not support me ? -
SO soon as the question began to turn upon
the support ot traitors then traitors began
to throug the White House, and shape
Presidential action. So it came to pass that
the President sought for an occasion TO
break with Congress upon the whole plan
of reconstruction which it had adopted.
This being known, in order TO take away all
occasion for breaS from Mr. Johns IN, the
Reconstruction Committee prepared an act
for the admission of the Tennessee mem
bers. This the President knew, and the
very day when the Committee proposed to
make their report the veto message was
sent in to forostall it. This explains why
the veto was not confined to the f eedmen's
Bureau bill alone, but covered the whole
! ground Of reconstruction If the House by
its vote had admitted Tennessee, the Presi-
! dent could have found no excuse for making
q break with Congress. 1t may have seemed
q small thing to the President that no had
led those having the bill in charge to be-
! lieve most firmly that he would sign it; and
not only this, but that he was pleas ed with
! its provisions. That he did convey this
impression in the most emphatic manuer is
certain; that he made no objection, except
in a few minor matters, to the bill, when il
was submitted for his object ni previous
to its presentation in Congress, is also true
From tho moment that message was read
he was complctclyin in tho hands of the vilesi
Copperheads in this land. He intended
his message as declaration of open wal
upon Congress; and the step from that
message to the harangue over which the
nation hns blushed was very short one,
The roar Of condemnation which has
come from the North has astomded these
plotters. They seem TO have believed thai
the spirit which seut our armies into the
field, end bent the knee of the nation r
prayer for their suooess--that followed then
there by those gigantic charities which
however administered were ths glory ol
our land-thlt this spirit was dead in the
hearts of the loyal millions aud that the
people would be hut as clay to be nodded
by their Vaccinations. 1t was straug,
tatuity.
Yet, in the face OF this great storm of in
dignation sweeping over the North, the
scheme is by no means abandoned. The
people Oi the North are to be conquered by
? fair speech-trom man whose lips are pol
, lutod by the dslonoring haraugue. Soo
words, from such a source, are to turn
: away tho just Indignation of the North, anC
make th0ir war useless, and the graves o
, their soldiers an everlasting reprOach
Fau words are to conquer the warlik
, North, Fair words --drossed mp in tn
smooth language Of 0hio's Chief Exocntiv,
framed into false dispatches 10 leadn,
b papers telling the people that all aluson
= tot national disgrace arc but tricks of tn
Radicals 80 retain their hold upon power
Upon this last effort those men now has
S their hopes, and nothing that can he wri
n ten to deceive the people in regard to III