The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1868-03-11
THE GREAT CONSPIRACY.
Shall our next Presidency be De-
termined by Fight or an
EIeotion2
Shall our next RuIer be Presi-
dent, the Lord Protector, or
his Imperial Majesty
From the New York Citizen.

4
FIt 500 WASHINGTON, Feb. Is, 1868.
| Two questions are fast being thrust be-
fore the country by the high banded course
Of Congress: First, shall we remain Re-
public or become an Empire? and Secnni.
as corollary tc the first, shall our next
struggle for the Presidency be decided by
bullets or ballots--shall it be the successful
champion o. fight OF of an ell ction, who
will be declared or declare himself our next
National Chief Magistrate2 This statement
may startle, and certainly should startle,
all quiet people Of the non-political class,
who either have no access to what is going
on behind the scenes in politics, or who are
| too much absorbed in private pursuits to
devote due attention to the highest interests
of the country. Nevertheless, that these
questions are now up for debate-e debate
which may either be constitutional and pa
cifc, or re volutionary and bloody no intel
igent observers, at this central focus of po-
litical information, can any longer disguise
from themselves.
Every day we find the dominant majority
of Congress more openly finging off the
last vestiges of pretending to submit their
action TO any constitutional restraint =
Every day they are more widely separating
themselves from the people. And yet the
confidence with which they speak of retains
ing their usurped authority for the next
fur year>-aye, and forever, if they so
please-becomes more audacious!y manifest
Behi d thu confdence--lor it is thoroughly
real, and not assumed, and the men who
express it are veteran party leaders--there
must be some substantial, though as yet se>
cret foundation. And wi at can that foun>
dation be? 1t is very simple when We ex-
anime the matter from proper Standpoint
and thus it reads: An alliance between
the congressional and military power, each
to support the pretenslons of the other in
perpetuity. and to crash down by whatever
MEANS and at whotever cost, may be nee
essary, ard opposing forces-the Executive.
the Supreme Court yea, and the will OF the
people to the contrary notwithstanding
1t is difficult for our quiet folk to realize
that we stand in danger of coup d etdt,
which may, before the lapse of this present
its Republican to an Imperial character; but
unless that danger can be promptly realized
and acted upon, the event will certainly
take place A Congress flushed with the
unlimited control which was given to it-of
necessity, and cheerfplly by all loyal men
during four years of civil war, refuses to re-
sign its power, 1t has usurped from the
Executive all his civil patronage, thus
grasping a corruption fund of not less than
Five Hundred Million dollars per annum.
1t holds all the financial interests Of our
country under bail bonds exceeding Two
Thousand Five Hundred Millions OF nation
al securities 1t has terrorized the supreme
Court into disgraceful abandonment of
that restraining jurisdiction which the
Court was specially created 70 exercise. IL
has organized mutiny in the Army, by VIC
lently deposing the President from his con-
situtional authority as commander in chief.
1t has created ten military satrapies, under
the irresponsible rule Of Dictator, where
ten Sovereign States once existed. 1t has
endowed the ignorant negroes Of the >outh
with absolute control in their own section,
and expects by negro votes-and by negro
bayonets, if necessary--to dominate the
whole political system of this once free Re
public. 1t has stripped from the President
every substantial power Of his office-even
10 the miserable right of his choosing who
shall. or who shall not be, members Of his
helpless Cabinet; and finally, by its decision
in refusing his seat to Senator Thomas, of
MARYLAND, it has established an example
which places all its usurpations and their
indefinite continuance high up, beyond the
reach of any popular verdict, The People
are ''played cut" in word; and Congress,
with its shoulder-strapped janisaries, is
everything. ~. ..eE ,. -
With SO much already achived by Con
gress, what further usurpations can be con-
sdcrpd beyond its reach? What further
outrayes upon public liberty may it not
nay, must it not, for its own safett---be ex-
pectcd to dare? 1t has advanced breaking
Gown all bridges behind it, cutting itself yet
further and further eff from the People; and
making any retreat impossible. 1t has pro,
gressed so far in the direction of Revolution
and Tyranny, that to halt where. it now
stands, would be equivalent to sell lfimmola-
ton. 1t does not mean to immediate itself
-ot that, we hare good assurance! 1t does
not mean to accept any popular verdict that
may be given against it. And in its act
striking down the constitutional Command
in Chief of our Army, and in its decision
rejecting Senator Thomas of Maryland, we
| see fully revealed the two agencies upon
which it now gloatirgly relies, both for the
continuance and yet further aggrandizomeni
of its Jacobin supremacy. We are hurry
ing fast to Military Dictatorship, unless
the free and intelligent ma ses of the Ameri
can people can be at once aroused TO take
action. Their is no sign of The time hall
so bad as the contenrtuous pooh pooh
ing, with which our non>political citize ms,
even with all these monstrous facts before
them, still continue to receive and suggestion
that revolutionary coup detot on the par
of Congress may be imminent.
Establish dictatorship here--an empire
| Wby you must be mad to think OF it!' L
was thus all Paris cried about twenty years
ago: and Just so all Paris kept crying, ever
while Louis Napoleon was writing his or
ders of arrest for every opposition membel
of the Legislature; and while his artiller,
and carbineers were getting their weapons
ready for the slaughter of the French Re
public, which took place, as by order, mex
morning. THE South rebel, indeed! Th'
South array itself in a violent attempt It
disrupt our Unionl Why you must b.
crazy to believe such nonsense!" So criet
our American wiseacres about seven year
ago. Nor could they be convinced to tn
contrary, until Confederate Government
with all the modern improvements, held ses
4 sion al Montgomery in Alabama; and tn
flags of a Confederate army, threatenin
; Washington, could be seen from the roof Q
our Capitol. What. one generation Q
Americans have done-what one generatio
Of American politicians have plotted an
attempted-may not yet other America
conspirators, of the same generation an
with larger experience, now attempt to re
peat?
The attempted revolution of the Sout
was improbable, because we had enjoye
: seventy years Of peace; were more prosper
Gus, more law-respecting, more free frol
passion; had tawer material causes to excit
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