The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-05-23
BLOOD, IAGO. BLOOD -
try.

That the radical leaders are prepared to APP
peal, in the last resort, to violence and blood
she'd is not to be questioned. The chorus of
ferocious menaces which has lately been
raised by radical papers, radical clubs and
radical delegations, has had deeper purpose
| than the intimidation of few doubtful sena-
| tors. No one can reflect on this and similar
developments of partisan temper and design
without concluding that a concerted effort is
made to excite sanguinary frenzy that may
serve, should occasion arise, to assist in per-
| petuating radical domination by assassination
and massacre.
We could fill several columns with pas
sages, taken from radical journals, which
more or less openly advise the use of such ex-
pedients for furnishing recusant Republicans
| as well as for preventing the triumph of the
| opposite party. Referring to Messrs. Fes-
sender, Trumbull, and the other Republican
senators who have voted for the acquittal of
| the President, Wilkes Spirit of the Times
declares that mo prospect is left to them but
| to be led out along with the chief justice, be-
fore the betrayed and indignant masses now
assembling at Chicago, and ignominiously
shot" And again it says, while expatiating
on the conspiracy" the "treason," and the
''treachery OF Chase, Fessenden q Co., >" that
'tter will be wide spread feeling that the
| degenerate Americans who voted deliberately
that the President should judically suspend
the execution of all laws which do not suit
his pleasue, should be put to death"
But the New York Tribune takes the leai
in sanguinary eloquence, and in vision and
prophecy OF organized terror and carnage as
one of the fine arts of politics. "Blood, Iago,
blood!" expresses the sentiment which fills
the imagination Of the amiable and philan-
thropic editor of that journal whenever he con-
templates the possibility of Mr. Johnson's ac-
quittal, or Of the election of an anti-radical
President In a recent article he reyives
Ashley's insinuatiOn that Mr.. Lincoln was
murdered in the interest and with the COM
plicity of Mr. johnson; and he improves upon
Ashleys crude invention by weaving it into
the theory that a system of destroying Presi-
dents and congressman obnoxious to the
"Master Demon of Slavery" has been carried
on at Washington from the death of Harrison
to the death Of Lincoln. The National Hotel
malady and the recent sudden illness of sew
eral senators is referred to this system of
death "by the bullet and the bowl" Con-
GLIDING this editorial sensation, Mr.. Greeley
exclaims
Why does it happen that whenever the current
sets sgainst the Master Demon Of Slavery rand
nereT at any other tipe) we find the air and the
water, ana the whisky of Washington full of
poison! Why does it happen that when some
great deed for freedom is on the point of accom-
plisbneDt (dnd nerer oR any Other Occdsion) we
ind presidents previously in rugged health, in.
simultaneously sent to their graves, and traitors
dttr0yS O" hand TO take their places! Why is il
COW, just as should have the vote upon the
great question Of impeachment, and when-up 70
The latest moment-it had been universally be-
lieved that johnson would be convicted, why we
ask do we hear at this critical moment of the
dangerous Illness of some Of the most irm aud
conspicuous advocates oflmpeachment' Is there
anything of chances that can explain these re-
markable Kn Klux condolences?