Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-01-22
Correspondence of the Baltimore Gazette.
The Practical Overthrow of the Govern
ment--Progress of Radicalism.

WASHINGTON, Cdu 10, 1000.
In the course of these letters have frequent
ly asserted the inability of Congress, as at pres
ent constituted, to adopt by the required vote
| those measures necessary to a practical over
throw of the Government, namely: The dis
placement of the President; the corruption or
adjustment of the Supreme Court, and the sub
mission Of the Southern country to the rule of
the negro population, in conjunction with the
few itinerant political mountebanks who infest
that unfortunate portion Of the United States.
have now no doubt of the entire correctness
of these assertions The difficulty in the ac-
complishment of the unholy ends Of the revo-
lutionists has been and still is, IN the Senate.
But it need be no longer disguised that very
shortly this impeachment will have been removed
This, in short, is the key to the defeat of Eos
ter in Connecticut, Harris in New York, and of
others l need not name 1t was also the over
shadowing influence that prevailed in the adj
mission OF Nebraska and Colorado as States
On the 9Th OF March next, then, day selected
by the conspirators by an act Of Congress re-
Gently passed, the people Of THIS country may er-
poet to see the initiation of means FULLY adequate
to cOnsunlnadte their netarious purposes 1t is
as certain as any future event can be- that an
less decisare measures shall be taken to arouse
| the entire country to ITS imminent danger, the
'ldes OF March will witness the total subver-
sion of the substance and the very forms of this
Government ....--..-
1t is in full view of the transcendent impor-
lance OF this great emergency that many con-
situations have been recently had in this city
by distinguished gentlemen from all parts of the
country and the universal sentiment is enter
| tanned that, if Constitutional liberty is to be
preserved in this land, no time is to be lost in
| assembling true representatives of the two mil
lions 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 infamous purposes to deprive the people of
their liberties will not be INCREASINGLY submitted
to. 1T is high time, in the opinion Of wise and
cautious heads, that the magnitude of the pres
ent peril should be markedly set forth, in order
that the people may fully comprehend the aw-
full precipice to which the Radical leaders have
been, step by step, conducting them. I well
know that the country is in such frenzed con-
dition that words of warning like these have
| nearly, if not quite, lost significance, to say
nothing of their influence. They are not, how
ever, my words, but those Of the ablest, most
prudent, and purest men the nation can boast Of
The momentous questions now pressing upon
public attention are not those in which the
South as such, are especially interested. 1t
suits the purposes Of the conspirators to veil
their latent intentions and to couple their meas
ures, designed for general subjugation, with an
apparent purpose OF vengeance, only against
those whom we have lately regarded as enc
mics They thus seek to appropriate the pas
| sions Of the people Of the North to their own
| ruin. At a time propitious to calm reflection,
when the public mind remained unbiased by
preudices, 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
overthrow the Supreme Court for the causes
pretended, would have consigned theprojectors
to eternal infamy. Nor could an appreciate
minority of the people, for single moment,
have been brought to second the insane project
of elevating the negro to political and social
equality, if not seduced by their thirst of ven
geance against an imaginary foe They would,
if left to the unbiased exercise of their judg-
cied advancement of the negro only their own
debasement. Who is the negro to jostle 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 white wife?-
Where is the fool who supposes that the Rad
ical leaders mean that the negro herd shall be-
come their equal in any of these respects, or
that negro blood is to be incorporated in their
families? The African cannot be elerated--but
we have lamentable proof that the white man
mag be debosed to his leuel and this is precise
ly what is aimed at, and is essentially necessary
to the revolution contemplated by the arch
conspirators in Congress. Nor is this pro-
gramme In the least new In any GIFTS aspects. =
Universal history proves that no nation ever
lost their liberties except by the exact means
now in use to subiugate the frenzied masses of
the American people. x