The Hickman courier., 1868-07-11
A Conspiracy 10 Declare Grant
President.


Tie Washington correspondent OF the
Louisville Courier states that there is
Radical authority" for asserting that the
revolutionary couspirators have deter
mined to seize the Presidential Office and
declare Gen Grant President in the
event the popular majority should be
against him in the election. The plan
is for the House of Representatives,
which has shown itself capable of com-
hitting any outrage, to throw out votes
sufficient to elect Grant. There are fears
that such aconspiracy exist, and the Ma
tional Intelligeueer denounces it III the
fliowing fitting terms
Some time since certain leEdlng Radi-
cal papvTs. a. ia ey coLcert, and certainly Y
witnv0e orcasion an tIfe way OF provoca-
ton Oh the part OF the people, startled
the country with the declaration that
= Congress counted the votes OF electors
for President and Wee President of the
United States. 1t was desigued, in the
first iustahee, az an lntlmAtion TO the
weak and tmid that il was not worth
their while to exert themselves in the
campaign against the Radical party But
il was designed maIuly as an audacious
notice in the way OF menace to the coun
try, by the Radical eonspirators, of their
ieii purpose OF counting in whatever
electoral votes they shall see lit to count,
ahd also 10 count out others, it neces-
saFy, to compass their ends in political
scoundrelism. Who supposes that they
will hesitate at any step In fraud aud
force to carry out a programme TO deiea
the popular choice, IT The subject OF it
should De Democrat or Conservative?
Under the Pretence OF Questions about
the loyalty OF electors, or that OF their
constituencies, or OF frauds IN the cleo
tions, viii they stop moment at pro-
posIti.n te treat popular choice of elee-
tors v ho Shall be oDnUxIous to them, as
i" il it had not taken placer This was
what Mr. Thaddeus Stevens attempted
in Pennsylvania in 1888, tor which act
ct real tleasOn Colonel Forney, Chen 8
young uau, without the guile In politics
that has since stained his name de-
nounced Stevens as - a william at heart,
who coud not escape the penalties OF the
violated laws Of the CommonHe ealth OF
pennsylvania VINO supposes that the
party OF which Stevens is aud was at the
head, with such subordinate satraps as
Butter, Schenck, Logan, etc, will not
undertake to defraud the people OF the
country OF their rights voters aud
citizens, Ii the election should go against
them Has hot the House constantly
set at naughl the will vi the prop.e III
the electious2 Suppose the erection is
glinst them by ciose vote; will they
not certainly attempt to defeat it?-
Again, is il ior u moment to be supposed
that the bayonet created negro despotisms
IN the. South over the prosLrate rights ot
wnIte smen, "a fraud of the CONSTITUTION,
is TO determine a result adversely to the
voice of the great North? Resistance
to tyrapts is obedience to God" That
sentiment, which was graved deep upon
the old rocksof New England by British
regicides, should ever be law to white
men when the usurpers and revolution
lists IN Congress dare to cast down the
Constitutions for the purpose OF raising
negroes to despotic sovereignty over the
whites Of the South BY such desper-
ate steps as unconstitutional negro rule
in the South backed by the sword. by
fiaud in counting electoral votes in the
infamous 4ouse OF Representatives, and
By the probable design of Gen. Grant to
carry out sach strocious purposes at the
cannon's mouth, do the Jacobins count
for their success in what is to be a rebel
lion against the elective choice in Novem
Der. Their motto is !: = Peaceably, if we
can forcibiy, if We must
When ae trying hour shall come fol
them to initiate such despotic steps tC
defraud the people of their rights in the
respect of their choice for the Presi
dency, then there will be need on the
part of our candidate of an exhibition
of nerve equal to the emergency, and o
men as hackers, who have not quailed a
danger, and will stand up like men o
iron for the rights OF American citizens
Then will be there wanted man of th,
nerve of Jackson, who, when assaile,
murderously at the Capitol, aud urge
by his friends to go back, saying ther
are assassi2s about you, replied, a &
ti.is way, go no way"