Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-10-21
Desperate Revolutionary
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The Washington correspondent of the
Boston Post thus refers to the revolutions
ary designs of the Radical party
"The Radical leaders now here are boast
ing confidentially among their friends of
the completeness of their plans for the fu
ture. They say Gen. Butler has already
prepared joint resolution declaring that
any officer against whom articles of imz
peachment shall be preferred, shall be sus-
pended from Office during trial upon the
charges preferred. Immediately following
the passing of this-resolutien, articles Of
impeachment will be rushed through the
House under call for the previous ques-
tion. and Mr.. Wade will be sworn into
office as Acting President of the United
States. Your correspondent inquired OF
one OF these gentlemen how they proposed
securing to Mr.. Wade the Presidential chair
after he had been sworn in at the Capital.
On that point he said there was some doubt,
as General Grant had given them no as
surances as to which of the two Presi-
dents he would recognize; but in the event
of refusal on his part to espouse their
cause, they had the militia of the North
ern states to fall back upon. as well as
their own powerful organiZation,t the Grand
Army of the Republic, a large portion OF
which will found in Washington. 1 sug-
gested that the success of the Conserva-
cause change in their programme. He
replied, No, it aoiU only necessitate the
greater fi,naness and the quicker action He
also remarked that it was believed Mr..
johnson would resist, but that the little
power Of resistance which had been lett
him by Congress would not be difficult to
overcome. Such IS the desperate programme
OF the revolutionists, and have positive
assurance from those who know, that it
will be strictly carried out"
The National Intelh1encer commenting on
these significant indications, remarks: The
artful and incessant effort of the Washing
ton Chronicle to write up panic on the sub
j .ct of the Maryland militia, has naturally
provoked the derision of such papers as the
Ne,o York Herald and Neao York Times-the
latter Radical sheet, but not insensible in
this instance to the comic aspects of this
bugaboo story. But as we construe these
articles, there is something more in them
than the evidence of dearth OF topics or
the partisan unscrupulousness which is
ever ready to distort facts or fabricate
purpose. 1t resembles too much the prac-
tices of the European despotisms, who,
when about to wage war, begin by imput-
ing to their neighbors military preparation
and demanding instant explanations. The
Radical papers themselves inform us that
tho militia of Maryland, whether peace
fully or otherwise disposed are no match
for the militia of Ohio, Pennsylvania, New
York, an other loyal States, added to the
large regular army OF the United States,
and we thank them for the Information.
Na"*
THE subject of the Maryland militia
having now been pretty well ventilated
and discussed, we should like to have some
information about the splendid organiza-
tions" to which our opponents from time
to time refer. One of these termed the
"Grand Army of the Republic" is asecret
and oath-bound military organization, and
numbers, as we hear, some two hundred
thousand members. We should be glad to-
have some account of this force; how many
are-its actual numbers, what are its de-
signs, and why, if its purpose be not
revolutionary and unlawful, it is DEEM
e essential to preserve secrecy. These
queries answered satisfactorily, we might
be willing to wait before ascertaining the.
truth of the report now extensively cur
rent, that large portion of this force is to
be brought here at the meeting of the Con-
gress in November next. in order to be
ready to overthrow the Executive branch
of the Government at the word of COM
m ind from the revolutionary leaders. That
this conspiracy only waits upon the chance
of Radical triumph in the great States to
be Matched into full life is sufficiently
probable to alarm every man in that State
who owns Government bond, or has a
dollar to lose by the hazards of revolution.
"The late elections, in our judgment,will
compel the Republican party to make
General Grant their Presidential caLdi-
date. They dare not nominate anybody
else."-N. Y. Times lRepublican).
DOM PIATT, in his Mac-a-cheek Press,
more than intimates that the nomination of
GRANT is to be made for the purpose of
making him carry the Republican party
safely through the next fight. On its
own merit it would be badly beaten.
Should these leaders happen to elect
GRANT, and GRANT fails to carry out their
programme, they would denounce him as
they did TYLER and JOHNSON, and again
swear that they would never again trust a
Democrat with office, just AS if they ever
did nominate q Democrat, except when
the chances of success were doubtful, or
that in some way or other they expected
to gain by so doing.
Gen. GRANT was born Democrat and of
stock. He was made West
Point cadet by THOMAS L. HAMER, then
the Clermont and Brown
District in Congress, who selected him
from the young men of the district as a
youth of the young De-
mocracv. While it is true that Gen.
GRANT has taken but little part in politics
and that he lacks the political information
TO make him a statesman, as do all men
whose life has been passed in the Army,
yet still. if elected President, the Republic
can leaders will find that his early preju-
dices in favor of Democratic principles.
which he owes to his patron, HAMER, and
to his early associations, will prove bar
rier to their using him for their disunion
purposes, and make him JOHNSON and a
TYLER on their hands. If he is nominated
and is successful in the struggle, the lead
ers had better get an ''lnsurance Ticket"
in order to provide against accidents.
The Eighth Senatorial District.
The following is the official vote for
Senator in the Eighth (Ohio) Senatorial
District:
Homer G Jones. II. NJ. Onderdonk.
(Radical) (Democrat.)
Gallia a..........l.l,g7 1878 i 899
Lawrence e...........1,9 9S5 2,267
Meigs. ,747 2,l96