Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-04-24
From the New York Herald.
THE GREAT RADICAL CONSPIRACY.


cutite and the Supreme Court to b'
Abolished-The Terms OF Office of Gran,
| and the Senators to be Extended TO Ter
| Years-A Combined Military and Sena.
| torial Dictatorship Contemplated.
WASHINGTON, April IA, 1S6S.-History
records numerous instances Of conspiracies
to overthrow existing governments or tc
change ruling dynasties, but they have gen
orally been the work of few restless spir
its, who have kept their real designs con,
cealed from all but their Immediate associ-
ciates, and thus have led their followers
bllndly on the path of revolution in igno.
rance OF its ultimate goal. The Jacobins
of France were bold in their action but
even with them when their revolutionary
fires were first kindled only the men who
applied the match knew fully the extent oi
the destruction that was designed to follow
the confagration. The Radical conspiracy
now under full way at Washington is pro-
badly the most reckless that ever sought to
strike at the life of a strong and benefi-
cent government and to reduce a happy
| people to state of anarchy.
Events have occurred here within the
past two or three days which render it GER
| tain that the ultimate object of the men
who are now striving to control the Repub-
lican party in Congress is to effect all entire
change in our republican form Of govern
ment, and to substitute in it's place die.
tatorship more absolute and arbitrary than
that of Robespiere and the Commune de
Paris. The apparent triumph of the i'm
peachers on Saturday last, when the Senate,
after giving the broadest license to the
Managers IN regard to the admission of
evidence against President johnson, re-
fused to the latter the privilege of examining
General Sherman on points vital to the de-
fence to hn
radical conspirators as to tempt them to
cast aside all caution and to 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 prin-
ciples were avowed which, under other
governments, would speedily consign their
exponents to felon's cell. The objects of
the revolutionists were declared to be the
entire overthrow of constitutional republi-
can government, as @ failure, proved to be
such by the war of the rebellion, and the
substitution in it's place of a so-called
Government of the People," under the
delusive Jacobin cry of "Liberty and
Equality" The means and process by
which this end is to be accomplished are
set forth as follows -
The conviction and removal of Andrew
Johnson, and the installation of Ben Wade
in the Presidency for three or four months
before the commencement of the next Pre-
sidential term
The election of Grant as President and
Ben Wade as Vice President 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
constitutionality of any act of Congress re-
lating to reconstruction or to the business
of the government.
The extension of the term of office of the
President. Grant, the Vice President,
Wade, and the present United States Sen
ate to ten years from the 1st of March,
1869, on the plea that constantly recur-
ring change in the government 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 nation
al banks, so as to throw upon the country
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 prosperity.
This is the end and aim of the Radical
conspiracy, to which impeachment is only
one of the preliminary steps. The dlcta-
torship of Grant will be nominal only, and
the real power will be in the Senate, with
Ben Wade at it's head. The appointments
made by him during his brief term of
power will be carefully selected from the
tools of the conspirators, and the patron
age and influence of the Office holders will
stand at the back of the revolutionary COM
mune. Grant will not have the power, if
he had the disposition, to change single
feature in the programmes single crea-
ture 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 latter out of the Presi-
vetoes to expose the true character of Rad
ical legislation, and acts will be passed
which will strike down what little of pro-
lection yet remains to the people in the
barriers of the Constitution. With pa
per currency flooding the country specula-
tion will run wild, stocks of all kinds will
rise, railroad schemes, land schemes and
allthe widest projects that ingenuity can de-
wise will find ready votaries, and in the gen
eral fire and smoke of the great revolution
the radical dictatorship will be made per-
petual. The united power of Grant, the
Senate and the national banks is relied
upon to crush out all opposition and to en-
force Reign of Terror to which the ex-
perience of 1862 and 1868 will be but a
trife. The conspirators cite the case OF
Louis Napoleon in support of their argu-
ment that boldness only is required to turn
into an absolutism rule commenced under
the guise of republican liberty.
The Immediate admission of the South
ern States, with their negro constituencies
and negro representatives, will follow the
first successful steps of the conspiracy, and
then the vote of New York in the House ot
Representatives will be nullifed by that ol
South Carolina. The real object of the
radical conspirators is no longer q secret
Men may shut their eyes to the truth, but
the revolution will not go backwards, anG
its last acts, which are here foreshadowed
! will come as surely as military rule, negro
supremacy, the usurpation of the consti
tutional powers of the Executive, the de
struction of the Supreme Court, and finally
the impeachment of the President of thu
United States, have one after another fol
lowed the close of the war of the rebellion
A Reasc. for Grants Election.
Cory O'Lanus met q member of the
Methodist Conference from New England
and he says this happened
| "How is it, my sanctified friend saiC