The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-01-23

We make the following extract from the
Baltlmore Gazette. The times are sadly
out of joint" We apprehend, unless the
Congress should act promptly and firmly,
our troubles will increase, and we may be
involved in another civi. war. We shall
look closelyinto public movements, whether
the result of secret conclaves or open meet
ings, and keep our readers fully posted in
friends to organize themselves in every neigh
borhood as rapidly as possible, and to be
prepared for any emergency that may arise.
Special Correspondence Of the Baltimore Gazette.
The Practical Overthrow of the Govern.
ment-Pr0gress of Radicalism--A Gem
eral Democratic Convention called for.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.-In the course Of
these letters have frequently asserted the
inability of Congress, as at present constitu-
ted, to adopt by the required vote those mea-
sures necessary to a practical overthrow of
the Government, namely: The displacement
of the President, the corruption or abolish
ment of the Supreme Court, and the submis-
sion of the Southern country to the rule of
the negro population, in conjunction with
the few itiI1erant political monntebanks,
who infcst that unfortunate portion of the
United States. have now no doubt of the
entire correctness of these assertions. The diff
fculty in the accomplishment of the unholy
ends of the revolutionists has been, and still
is, in the Senate. But it need he no longer
disguised that very shortly this impediment
I, rThic .oho fc
the KEY to the defeat of Foster in Connecti-
cut, Harris in New York, and dothers need
not name. 1t was also the overshadowing
influence thar prevailed in the admission of
Nebraska and Colorado as States. On the
5th of March next, then, u day selected by
the conspirators by an act of Congress recent
ly passed the people Of this country may expect
to see the initiation Of means fully adequate to
consunsnsate their nefarious purposes. 1t is as
certain as any futurecvent can be that unless
decisice measures shall be taken to arouse the
entire country to its imminent danger, the
"Ides of March" will witness the total sub
| version of the substance and the very forms
of this Government.
| 1t is in full view of the transcendent 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 universal SEN
| timent is entertained that if constitutional
liberty is to he preserved in this land, no
time is to be lost in assembling true repre-
sentatives of the two millions Of voters who
recorded their suffrages on the side Of the
Constitution at the late elections. in solemn
council, there to make known that the infa-
nous purpose to deprive the people of their
liberties will not be unresistingly submitted
to. 1t is high time, in the opinion of wise
and cautious heads, that the magnitude ofthe
present peril should be nakcdly set forth, in
order that the people may fully comprehend
the awful precipice to which the Radical lead
ers have been, step by step, conducting them.
Iwell know that the country is in such a
frenzied condition that words of warning like
these have nearly, if not quite, lost signif-
canoe, to say nothing of their influence They
are not, however, my words, but those of the
ablest. most prudent, and purest men the ma
tion can boast of.