The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-04-18

NATIONAL BANKS TO RULE THE NATION.
The Washington correspondent OF the New
York Herald writes, under date of the 14th
inst:
Events have occurred here within the past
two or three days which render it certain that
the ultimate object of the men who are now
striving to control the Republican party in Con-
gress is to affect an entire change in our re-
publican form Of government, and to substl-
tute in its place dictatorship more absolnte
Commune de Paris. The apparent triumph OF
the impeachers on Saturday last, when the
Senate, after giving the broadest license to the
managers in regard to the admission OF eVi-
dence against President johnson, refused 70
the latter the privilege OF examining General
Sherman on points vital to the defence, i'm
parted such confidence to the radical conspira-
tors as to tempt vhem to cast aside all caution
and 10 boast openly of their power and OF the
manner in which they are resolved to exercise
it. In the barrooms and over the dinner
tables principles were ayowed which, under
their exponents to felon's cell. The objects
Of the revolutionlsts were declared to be the
entire overthrow of constitutional republican
government, as failure, proved to be such by
the war of the rebellion, and the substitution
in it's place of so-called Government OF the
People," under the delusive Jacobin cry OF
"Liberty and Equality" The means and pio-
cess by which this end is to be accomplished
are sci forth as follows:
The conviction and removal Of Andrew john
son. and the installation OF Ben Wade III the
Presidency for three or four months before
the commencement OF the next presidential
term.
Wade as Vice-Presdent and President OF the
Senate, by the aid of martial law In doubtful
States, if necessary.
The virtual abolition of the Supreme Court
Of the United States, by stripping the judiciary
Of the power to pass upon the constltutlonal-
ty of any act of Congress relating to recon-
struction or to the business of the govern
ment.
The extension of the term of Office of the
President, Grant the Vice-President, Wade,
and the present United States Senate, to ten
wears from the 1st of March, 1862 on the plea
that constantly recurring change In the gov
ernment is harmful in the existing condition OF
the country, and was one OF the main causes OF
the late war of the rebellion.
The unlimited imitation of the currency,
through the instrumentality Of the national
banks, so as to throw upon the country all
enormous amount of paper money, by means
of which the people are to be kept in state OF
excitement and good humor, and to be amused
and made satisfied with an apparent pros
perity.
This is the end and aim OF the Radical con-
spiracy, to which impeachment Is only one OF
the preliminary steps. The dictatorship OF
Grant will be nominal only, and the real power
will be in the Senate, with Ben Wade at Its
head. The appointments made by him during
his brief term of power will be carefully select
ed from the tools of the conspirators, and the
patronage and influence of the once holders
will stand at the back OF the revolutionary
commune. Grant will not have the power, Ii
he had the disposition, to change single Tea
ture in the programme-a single creature IN
the action OF the drama-for the Senate Will
hold him in vice stronger than that they have
prepared for Andrew Johnson. With the lat
ter out Of the Presidential Office, no voice
will be raised IN yetoes to expose the true
character of Radical legislation, and acts VIII
be passed which will strike down what little
of protection yet remains to the people III
the barriers of the constitution. With pa
per currency flooding the country specula-
ton will run wild, stocks OF all kinds will rise,
railroad schemes, land schemes and all the
widest projects that ingenuity can devise WILL
find ready votaries, and in the general ire ana
smoke of the great revolution the hadlcai dcta,
torshlp will be made perpetual. The united
| power of Grant, the Senate and the national
banks is relied upon to crush out all opposition
and to enforce reign of terror to which the
experience of 1862 and 1868 will be but a trihe.
The conspirators cite the case OF Louis Naps- 9s
leon in support of their argument that bold
ness only is required to turn into an absolut-
ism rule commenced under the guise OF re-
publican liberty.
The immediate admission Of the Southern
| States. with their negro constituencies and ne
gro representatives, will follow the fret sue tSo
vote of New York in the House of Representa-
tiyes will be nullifed by that of South Carolina.
The real object of the Radical conspirators is
no longer secret. Men may shutthelr eyes to
the truth, but the revolution will not go back
wards, and it's last acts: which are here fore
shadowed, will comeas surely as military rule,
negro supremacy, the usurpaticn OF the con-
stitutional powers of the Executive. tAe de-
struction of the Supreme Court, and finally, the
impeachment of the President Of the United
States. have one after another followed the
close of the war of the rebellion.
Pears are said to be successfully shipped
from California 10 New York BY way Of the
Isthmus OF Panama. Grapes are also shipped
in this way, and the California fruit growers
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