The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-01-17

Especial Correspondence oflho baltimore gazotte.l
THE Practical OVERTHROW or THE Gov
ERNMENr--PROGRKss or RADfCALrsM-A
GENERAL DEMOCRATIC CoNvKNTroN
CALLED FoR.
WASHINGTON, January l3 1867.
In the course Of these letters have fre-
quently asserted the inability Of Congress,
as at present constituted, to adopt by the
required vote those measures necessary to
q practical overthrow of the Government,
namely The displacement Of the Presi-
dent; the corruption or abolishment Of the
Supreme Court, and the submission of the
Southern country to the rule of the negro
population, In conjunction with the few
ltinerant political mountebanks who infest
that unfortunate portion of the United
States, have now no doubt of the entire
correctness of these assertions. The dilh-
Guilty In the accomplishment of the unholy
ends of the reyolutionists has been, and
still is, IN the Senate. But Il need be no
longer disguised that very shortly this inn
pediment Will have been removed. This,
In short. is the key to the defeat Of FosrER
In Connecticut, HARRIS in New York, and
Of others need not name. II was also the
overshadowing influence that prevailed in
the admission of Nebraska and Colorado as
states. On the 9TH Of March next, then.
a day selected by the conspirators by an
act of Congress recently passed, the people
| g ms countTyD'dg expect 10 see the Initiation
Of medas fully adequate 10 coHsummate their
lngartous purposes. IL is as certain as any
future event can be, that unless decisiue
measures shall be taken 10 arouse the entfae
country 10 its imminent danger, the sides of
March" will witness the total subyersion
Of the substance and the very forms Of this
Government.
IL is IN full view of the transsendent i'm
portance of this great emergency that
many consultations have been recently had
in this city by distinguished gentlemen
from all parts of the country, and the uni
versal sentiment is entertained that. If Con-
stitutional liberty is to be preserved in this
land, no time is to be lost In assembling
true representatives Of the two millions of
voters who recorded their suffrage
on the side of the Constitution
at the late elections, In solemn
council, there to make known that the
infamous purpose TO deprive the people of
their liberties will not be unresfstingly sub
mttted TO. 1t is high time, in the opinion
of wise and cautious heads, that the mag
nitude of the present peril should be
nakedly set FORTH in order that the people
may fully comprehend the awful precipice
to which the Radical leaders have been. !
step by step, conducting them. l well |
know that the country is in such fren-
zied condition that words of warning like
these have nearly, II not quite, lost signif- |
canee, to say nothing of their influence. /
They are not, however, my words, but /
those of the ablest most prudent, and |
purest men the nation can boast of.
The momeutous questions now pressing 4
upon public attention are not those in which 4
the South, as such, are especially interested |
1t suits the purposes of the conspirators to
veil their latent intentions and to couple
their measures, designed for general subju-
CATION, with an apparent purpose of ven-
geance, only against those whom we have
lately regarded as enemies. They
thus seek to appropriate the passions
of the people of the North 10
their own ruin. At n time propitious to
calm reflection, when the public mind re-
manned unbiased by prejudices the effect
of war, such gigantic strides to despotism
as have been already made would have
been altogether impossible. The attempt
to impeach the President, or to overthrow
the Supreme Court, for the causes pre-
tended wOulI haVn copciuuaI tba ,,.o
jectors to eternal infamy. Nor could an
appreciable minority of the people, for a
single moment, have been brought to Sec
ond the insane project of eleyating the ne
gro to political and social equality, if not
seduced by their thirst of vengeance
against an imaginary foe. They would. if
left to the unbiased exercise of their iudg-
ments, however illiterate. have seen in the
tancied advancement of the negro only
their olcn deGdsemeht. Who is the negro to
iostle in the avenues of labor? Whose
vote is he to kill at the ballot-box? Whose |,
daughter is he to marry when he shall
choose to take n white wife? Where is the
fool who supposes that the Radical leaders
mean that the negro herd shall become
their equal in any of these respects, or that
negro blood is to be incorporated in their
familiesY The African cannot be elepated-
but we have lamentable proofthat the white
man be debased to his level, and this is pre-
cisely what is aimed at, and is essentially
necessary to the revolution contemplated
by the arch-conspirators in Congress. Nor
Is this programme in the least new in any
OF Its aspects. Universal history proves
that no nation ever lost their liberties ex-
cept by the exact means now in use to sub
jugate the frenzied masses of the Ameri-
can people. X.
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