The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-05-01

to exercise it. In the bar-rooms and
over the dinner tables principles were
avowed which, under other governments,
would speedily consign their opponents to
felon's cell. The objects of the reyolu.
tionists were declared to be the entire
overthrow of neutrality-suspicious. gov
ernment, as failure, proved to baasuch
by the war of the rebellion, aud the SUBJ
stitutiou 10 its place of a so,calle1 "Gov-
eminent of the People," under the delu.
sive Jacobin cry of "Liberty and Equal
ity." 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 Presidential term.
The election of Grant as President and
Ben Wade as Vice President and Presi-
dent of the Senate, by the aid of marital
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 constitutiouality of any act of Con-
gress relating 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 first Of March,
1869, on the plea that a constantly recur.
ring change in the government is harm
full 10 the existing condition ofthe country
and was one OF the main causes of the
late war of the rebellion.
J The unlimited initiation of the currency,
through the instrumentality of the nation
al banks, so as to throw upon the coun-
try an enormous amount of paper money,
by means of which the people are to be
kept in state of excitement and good hu.
NOR, and to be amused and made satisfied
with en- apparent prosperity.
This is the end and aim of the radical
conspiracy, to which impeachment is only
one of the preliminary steps. The dicta-
torship of Grant will be in tho Senate,
with Ben Wade at its head. The ap-
pointments made by him during his brie
term of power will be carefully selected
from the tools of the conspirators, and the
patronage and influence of the office
holders will stand at the back of the revo-
lutionary commune. Grant will not
have the power, if he had the disposition,
to change single feature in the pro-
gramme--a single creature in the action
Of the drama-for the Senate will hold
him ip a vice stronger than that they
have prepared for Andrew Johnson
With the latter out of the Presidential
office, no voice will be raised in vetoes to
] expose the true character OF radical legis-
lation, aud acts will be passed which will
strike down what little Of protection yet
remaiust to the people in the barriers of the
constitution. With paper currency food
ing the country speculation will run wild,
stocks of all kinds will rise, railroad
schemes, land schemes, and all the wild
est projects that ingenuity can devise will
fad ready votaries, and in the general fire
and smoke of tho great revolution the
radical dictatorship will be made perpetu.
al. The united power of Grant, the Sen.
ate and the national banks is relied upon
to crush out ell opposition and to, enforce
a Reign of Terror to which the experience
of 1862 and 1868 will be but trife.-
The conspirators cite the case of: Loui:
Napoleon in support of their Argument
that boldness only is required to turn into
an absolutism rule commenced under
the guise of republican liberty.
The immediate admissitn Of the South
ern States, with their negro consttuenci
and negro representatives, will follow the
first successful steps of tho conspiracy
and then the vote of New York in the
House Of Representatives will be nulli6ed
by that of South Carolina. Tue real OBJ
ject of the radical conspioators is no lon
ger secret. Men may shut their eye:
to the truth, but the revolution will no
60 backwards, and its last acts, which are
here foreshadowed, will come as surely a,
military rule, negro supremacy, the usur
patton Of the constitutional powers of the
Executive, the destruction of the Suprem,
. Court, and finally, the impeachment Of tn,
President of the United States, have on,
after another followed the close of the wa
of the rebellion.