Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1866-11-20
Revolutionary Plot--The Radicals Convoke
a Force to back Congress-


ond or third-rate men of their turbulent faction,
to whom the leaders have left this bold work Of
calling together and organizing the force that is
intended to sustain the revolutionary Congress.
The following is their proclamation:
Being profoundly impressed with the impor
lance Of the struggle through which the coun
try is passing, and Of the necessity of preserving
the results gained by its triumphs in the field,
and more recently at the polls, the undersigned,
committee appointed by the Soldiers and
Sailors Union of Washington, ID. g., do in
their name earnestly invite their comrades, the
loyal veterans of the republic, with all other
friends of the great cause of union and liberty,
to meet in national mass welcome and council
to be held in this, the Federal capital, on Sat
urday, December the LIST, proximo.
''We ask your presence to honor and assure
protection to the loyal majority in the Thirty
ninth Congress, in whom we recognise faithful
guardians of our assailed institutions and able
supporters of the principles involved I,
"Cone IN your maightl By your presence
show how sternly loyalty can rebuke treason
Prove thereby that the threats and insults of q
branch of the Government cannot antin,adGte q
free people. Here IN the Federal capital mast
oar great struggle eliminate IN soise and eQantd
Die legislation. Here then, should aoe assemble
to encourage and strengthen Congress whose
hands the Constitution wisely entrusts the pow
er--to such just action as aoiW make peace per-
nsaaesst and liberty at,siversal.
I'D. S. CURTIS.
r. j. HINTON,
ga. J. BENNETT
'sW. S. MORSE,
81 EDWIN DUDLEY
Correspondence is invited and may be ad-
dressed, R. j. Hinton, Washington, D. c."
The National L,telhgencer referring to this
remarkable publication, states that it learns
from many reliable sources that it looks to the
establishment there en- pe,Detaence OF an organ
lied force, to be subject to the orders of Con-
gress. We observe that the same number of
the Chronicle which contains this call has an
other infammatory address "to the colored SOL
diers, sailors, and citizens of the District Of Co.
hsna6ia. This address calls the persons thus
designated to meet e., naassei'at an early date"
to consider the best means of securing their
rights assuring all persons that they know
| their rights, and knowing, dare maintain
Them AS not much daring is required for as
serting and maintaining anything they please
before the Radical Congress, we apprehend this
auxiliary colored mass meeting will be very
largely attended.
The address states that ''due notice will be
| given of the time Of the meeting" thus called !;
and every council Of the U. l.. A. is invited to
be present IN body" This ''U. L. A" is
cret order, having black and white lodges
| There are nine names signed to this paper: all
negroes we suppose. Whether this mass meet
| ing of blacks is to be timed to cooperate with
the convention of Soldiers, Sailors, and Loyal
Veterans Of the Republic, called in the paper
copied above, remains to be seen. Whether it
| be so or not, the two cannot be far apart, and
the black agitation will add something to the in
| fammable material Of the day. There promises
to be commingling of black spirits and white"
around the seething cauldron of national trou-
| bles at the capitol.
Such are the instruments with which Radi-
calism wages it's destructive war upon the peace
and safety of this country. The names Of the
| whites which appear as authority for their con-
| vention of lawless men are obscure Designing
leaders in all great plots for the subversion of
authority and unsettling all the relations of So
ciety act very much through the obscure and
| INSCRIPTIONS very outcasts Of society,"
Most of them do not like to venture so far as to
show their hands in step which may fail and
invoke the execration of mankind. They are
may follow bold and perilous movement
Should these bad men succeed in calling to the
Federal capital simultaneously avih the meeting
| of the Congress a very large number Of those
| called 'loyal veterans amongst the discharged
Federal soldiers and sailors, it is plain that their
assemblage under the fanatical and ferocious
counsels Of the ignorant and brutal men who
will direct their movements, will be full of dam
ger Their intent is certainly very plain.
OF course the President, being publicly in
| formed of this revolutionary and diabolical plot
will be prepared to preserve order and maintain
| the authority of the Government The whole
| off M ha 10 frIch fba
| President, and these men.may not expect to
| have a great assemblage Of veterans or any 9TH
| er sort ofmen to organize as a permanent guard,
subject to the orders Of Congress- Yet plots
| for revolutionary purposes are the legitimate
ofsprings of the faction and party ferocity Of
the day, and we will not be surprised if the de-
velopment of these schemes at Washington ex-
| hibit the most hideous phase of the worst pas
| sions and designs of Radicalisin. -Dispotch
BEAUTIFUL EXTRACT saw a mourner
standing at the eVentide over the grave of one