The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-09-24
plan Of the New Rebellion

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It will be seen that the plan of rev.
olution pointed out in Blsir's Broad
head letter is to be carried out with
literal fidelity. It is now evident that
the revolutionary programme agreed
upon among the rebels was simply
adopted by Blair, so that instead of the
traitors taking their. cue from Blair,
blair has learned the art of Rebellion
made easy from those who have had
five years. experience in the business.
The N. o. Picayune rightly assumes
that the election of Seymour and Blair
viii be interpreted as a demand on the
part of the people of the whole Union
/ for the destruction of all existing civil
governments in the South, and de-
mand also for the unconditional re-
turn of traitors to power. Read and
ponder:
PLAN OF THE NEW REBELLION.
We have at last an answer to GER
tain questions we have twice prOpound-
ed in these columns. We addressed
them at first to the Crescent, but it
warily declined to respond. We then
addressed them to the Picayune, and
tnOw receive the following reply.
/ Let the people read it carefully.
Let the lovers of peace and good order
study it with attention. Let it be
noted that when Seymour is elected,
the agency of the United States Senate
in making or repeating laws is to be
limited to a "prOtest" Let it be OBJ
served that a Democratic President
land a Democratic House of Represen-
ftatives are to ignore not only the Sen
late Of the United States, but any State
jgoveFnmentthat may have existed in
Louisiana under the constitution of
| 1864, and that which now exists un
lder the constitution Of 1868.
Let the people further observe the
bloody threat which turks under the
paragraph which we italicize in regard
to what ,the Picayune is pleased to
lcall the "de f1cto" Government of
| Louisiana.
We call the attention of Republicans
to this programme Of the new rebellion,
! We invite the "War Democrats" to
lconsider this feast of fat things in the
way of turmoil and confusion. We
ask the promoters of commerce and
the owners of property to ponder over
these preparations for violence and
revolution.
The war, then, was nothing, and
the myriad lives were laid down with
} no significance. The years that have
elapsed, with their struggles of states
manship since the war, are to go for
nothing. And from the grave Of a
dead past, from the debris of "before
the flood" Mr.. Thomas o. Moore, OF
blessed memory, with his Legislature
Of 1860, is to rise and rule this State
the Senate of the United States be-
ing squelched, and the present officers
of Louisiana being bullied into the 81
lence that gives consent.
Here are the questions we PROFOUND.
ed:
"1. In the event of the election Of
seymour, will he, as President, use
force to disperse, abrogate, or interfere
with the present State government of
i Louisiana, as established under the
constitution of 1868?
t'2. In the event of the election Of
Seymour, do the Democracy of Louis
lana propose by force to disperse, alb
rogate, or modify the present govern
ment of the State, as established under
the constitution Of 1868?
"3. In the event of the election OF
! Seymour, if force is not employed
leither by the President elected, or by
the Democracy of the State, hcR is the
4 present State government of Louisiana,
established under the constitution of
! 1868, to be dispersed, abrogated, or
modified and of what advantage will
lit be as against this government to
have elected Seymour?
Will the Picayune favor US with an
IsWers to these questions?"
And here is the Picayune's reply :
ttThe election of Horatio Seymour
will be accompanied by that of very
large majority of the representatives
of the Forty-frst Congress of the
United States, which will, or at least
can be called to meet Immediately af-
ter the 4th of March, 1869, when Sey-
mOur will take his seat as President,
The Senate of the United States, though
nominally Republican, will hardly at
tempt to act in such way as to prevent
the restoration of the legitimate gov
ernments in the Southern States when
this shall be evidently demanded by
the people of the whole Union,
Should they do so, they cos7 only protest.
They can not preUellt its being done, and
no sane carpet Dagger l0iI stay, relying
,, merely on their refusal to consent to his
expulsion from office.
"Now we presume that it will be
then necessary to have a legitimate
State government in Louisiana, legiti-
mate in a Union and Constitutional
point of view, and as there was such a
one in 1860, and as the governments
which have, since then, de- facto exer-
cised power, have had the invalid IT,
ties of secession, or military, or Con.
gressional usurpation as the basis oi
their authority, they must, one and
all, be set aside.
"The consequence will be, thai
j Thomas o. Moore. the last Governor
elected under the Constitution Of 1852
the last Constitution adopted by the
peoil of Louisiana, uncontrolled by
these usurpations, will assemble to.
gether the Legislature of that era
which will, we presume, at once call
for the election of delegates to a State
Convention to receive and propose
amendments to that Constitution.
uWhat it will be in its terms as tC
suffrage, we do not pretend to foretell
but will promise that it will be quite
as liberal as the constitutions of the
States whence Grant and Colfax hail
and its members fully as much so as
these Republican leaders have ever