The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-02-05
The Abolition Conspiracy-Letter
from nm Oct0genarian.

The Abolition Conspirscy-Letter
from IN Octegenarian.
To the Editors Of the Richmond Dispatch:
The Abolition party, which came so SUD
denly, o. as per salem, into power, on .ne
election Of Mr.. Lincoln, necessarily wore,
and still wears, o somewhat intrus,se anu
out Of place character TO those VINO pear
In mind It's early history, or VINO reme'n
ber the odium and suspicion with winch II
Was so long regarded even at the North,
both ON accoun Of its foreign origin ana
n. daring interference with our domestic
institutions and in the political concerns
of the country. Yet the alarm was cary
sounded upon this subject by the more 80
~racious and patriotic conductors !, "a;
daily press. As far back as 1883 tne su
tor Of the Boston Post sougn. ~, ,he .ho.
tention to the circumstance Ia ,hamr.
lition societies of Ne" I"s'anu, s.ssa
,nsn c.w and insignificant, were receiving
s"oSs ~ mounts of money from the afili-
a.ed associations in England, which the
editor minated were much too large TO
have been collected by those then newly
formed and yet imperfectly organized so.
~cieties. He expressed the suspicion, in Q
word, that they we're obtained or furnished
from O higher source, or from the British
Government, which had used similar
means for the Illustration and final defeat,
with the aid Of the other Powers ofEurope,
of the French revolution. Colonel Webb,
of the New York Enquirer, Immediately
noticed and commented on these remarks
of the Post, and in an able-and elaborate
article commented on the dangert to when
our peace and our institutions were eS-
posed from the foreign intrigues hat might
so easily be carried on by such instrument
ta,;t;es ms these. But neither OF tnesc
p;eces attracted any notice, even ae Tue
Sontb. but were passed over $40 Siten'so py
Recurring, we say, to those times, and
turning our view to its present position, or
cnnnrifion ut the head of the Govern
ment. we may surely well wonder, as In
the case of the fly in amber, " how the devil
Il cot ,here"; and be justified in inquiring,
in the name of the great body of the peo-
Dle. who have always regarded 1t as an
crescence, or misseltoe-growth, upon the
st1tslu tree of Liberty. What right mas IL
10 be there, or to occupy, after having de-
.froyed the Union, the august and sacred
ssa,s of those who founded, and so fondly
bcned that it would prove perpetual !
Fresh and CHASTITY from the field of hat
fatal and internecine conflict, which it was
50 largely instrumental in producing, and as
unlooked-for as the ghost OF Banquo at the
BANQUET of Macbeth, it darkens a whole
land by its ominous presence, while 1t lis
tens. with eager and inclined ear, to the
laundering tread, the disappointing
steps of revolution and anarchy-of war,
slaughter, and desolation. After having
for more than thirty years kept the coun-
try in a state Of agitation, or rather OF
earthuuake-like tem0r and "restless
ccstacy"-andinal broken up the Union,
it now, with perfect consistency, opposes
its restoration, thereby lifting, at last, the
"silyer veil" which has hitherto hid its
rrcign and Mokanna features, though in
manner less evincive of q want OF caution
and disregard of consequences than OF q
reliance on the apathy OF the public, or OF
a people cowed and rendered passive by the
rciqn OF terror which 1T has established ;
by which, as in the case of the French
revolution, the majority have been de-
posed and brought under the rule OF the
minority. Having been originally organ
lied abroad, and supplied all along by a
to,eiqp press with incendiary publications
for distribution among, and designed, hrst,
10 fanaticise the ignorant and immigrant
portion Of the population OF the north on
the subject Of negro emancipation ana
next, TO incite the slaves OF the South 10
rise in instruction and massacre their
owners; and having at last succeeded In
dividing and breaking up the Union, 1t is
but fulfilling it's mission or its duties to It's
foreign abettorS IN keeping 1t divided ana
thus blowing hot and cold in the same
breath to the mystiication OF those D
are so obtuse, or still SO little aware OF It's
sinister character and objects as TO accuse
il of inconsistency in this its course, or III
thus, like the Satyr in the fable, blowing
hot and cold in.the same breath. IL Is,
however, only putting the last hand to its
works in thus opposing and defeating all
attempts to reconstruct the noble editice
which they destroyed, and to render the
second temple more glorious than the first,
which, though of Cyclopean architecture,
though more gigantic in its proportions,
and no less calculated for duration than
the temples Of Luxor and Carnac, has
been Frustrated in the dust by the hands
of domestic traitors, whose sapping and
mining arts, more powerful than the arm
and scythe of Time, have anticipated the
work of the latter and shown that treach-
cry can accomplish what open force would
shrink from attempting, and would attempt
in vain. NATIvUs.
= None but q people OF colonial origin, and
largely composed offoreigners, and the Immediate
Descendants Of naturalized subjects, could be, or
would submit TO be, thus played upon from a dis
lance, or across a wide ocean, by their enemies or