Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-01-19


washington Correspondence Ss.,.s of the Baltimore
The Practical OverthrOw OF the
GOvernmenI--PrOg OF Radi-
cnIIsnl--A General Democratic
COnvent:On Called For.
WASHINGTON, january l3, 1867.
| In the course of these letters i have fire.
uuently asserted the inability OF Congress,
as at present constituted, to adopt by the
required vote those measures necessary to
practical overthrow of the Government
namely: The displacement OF the Presl-
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
| itinerant political mountebanks who intest
that unfortunate portion of the United
States. / have now no doubt OF the entire
correctness of these assertions. The ditfi-
Guilty in the accomplishment of the unholy
ends of the revolutionists has been, and
still Is, IN The Senate. But 1t 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 Foster
in Connecticut, Harris In New York, and
of others l need not name. 1t was also the
overshadowing influence that prevailed In
the admission Of Nebraska and Colorado as
States. On the 9th of March next, then,
day selected by the conspirators by an
act of Congress recently passed, The people
of this country may expect TO see the initiation
of means faliy adequate to c0nStinindte their
nefdrio,ts purposes. It Is as certain as any
future event can be, that unless decisive
measures shall be taken TO arouse the entire
country to It's imminent danger, the "ldes OF
March, will witness the total subversion of
the substance and the very forms OF this
Government. 4
It 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
sentiment is entertained that, II Constltu-
tional 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 unreststiRgly
submitted 10. 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
NAV fully comprehend the awful precipice
to which the Radical leaders have been,
step by step, conducting then. | well
know that the country is in such frenzied
condition that words of warning like these
have nearly, If not quite, lost significance,
to say nothing of their influence. They
are not, however, my, words, but those OF
the ablest, most prudent, aud purest men
the nation can boast of. ..a r' Il Hiss
The momentous questions now pressing
upon public attention are not those in which
the South, Gs such, are especially interested.
1t suits the purposes of the conspirators to
veil their latent intentions and to couple
their measures, designed for general subiu-
CATION, with an apparent purpose of ven
Reance, only against those whom we have
lately regarded as enemies. They thus
seek to appropriate the passions of the peO-
pie of the Moth to their own ruin. AT
time propitious to calm reflection, when
the public mind remained unbiased by
prejudices the effect of warysuch gigantic
strides to despotism as have been already
made would have been altogether impossi-
BILE. The attempt to impeacl the President,
| or TO overthrow the Supreme Court for
the causes pretended, would have consigned
| the projectors to eternal infamy. Nor could
an appreciable minority of the people, for
single moment, have been brought to sec
ond the insane project of elevatlng 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 judg-
ments, however illiterate, have seen in the
fancied advancement of the negro only their
oton 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 sup
poses 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 familiesP The
African cannot be eleUated-but we. have
lamentable proof that the white man can
be debased TO his leUeL, and this is precisely
what is aimed at and is essentially necessa-
nv 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 except by
the exact means now in use to subjdgate
the frenzied masses of the American peo-..
pie. ~. x. !