Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-07-01
A CONSPIRACY TO DECLAREGRANT
PRESInRNH.

PRESIDENT.
The Washington correspondent Of the
Louisville Courier states that There is
Radical authority for asserting that the
revolutionary conspirators 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 committing
any outrage, to throw out votes sufficient
to elect Grant There are fears that
such conspiracy exists, and the Ma
tioaal htelligenccr Of the 9th ult de-
nounces it in the following fitting terms
Some time since certain leading Radical
papers, as if by coacert, and certainly With
out occasion in the way Of provocation on
the part Of the people, startled The country
with the declaration that congress counted
the uOtes Of electors for President and Wee
President of the United States" 1t was de-
| signed, in the first instance a. an intima-
ton to the weak and timid that it was not
worth their while to exert themselves in
the campaign against the Radical party.
But it was designed mainly as an audacious
notice in the way Of menace TO the country,
by the Radical conspirators of their fell
purpose Of counting in whatever electoral
votes they shall see fit to count, and also to
count out others, If necessary, TO compass
their ends 10 political scoundrelism. Who
supposes that they will hesitate at any step
in fraud and force 10 carry out programme
to defeat the popular choice, if the subject
of il should be Democrat or Conserva-
tive? Under the pretence of questions
about the loyalty of electors, or that Of their
constituencies, or Of frauds in the elections,
will they stop moment at proposition 10
treat popular choice Of electors who shall
be obnoxious to them, as if it had not
taken place ?" This was what Mr.. Thad-
deus Stevens attempted in Pennsylvania in
1888, for which act of real treason Colonel
torney, then young man, with
out the guile in politics that has
since stained his name,) denounced Ste
yens AZ " a villain at heart" who could not
escape the penalties Of the violated laws Of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Who
supposes that the party of which Stevens
is and was at the head, with such subor-
dinate satraps as Butler, Schenck, Logan,
ETC., will not undertake to defraud the peo-
pie Of the country of their rights as voters
aud citizens, if the election should 90
against them Has not the House con-
stantly set at naught the will of the people
in The elections? Suppose the election
against them by close vote willthey not
certainly attempt to defeat it? Again, is
it for a moment to be supposed that the
bayonet created negro despotisms in the
South over the PROSTATE rights of white
men, in fraud ofthe Constitution, is to deter
mine a result adversely to the voice of the
great North? Resistance 10 tyrants is
obedience to God" That sentiment, which
was graved deep upon the old rocks of
New England by British regicidea,
shoald ever be law to white men
when the usurpers and revolutionists
in Congress dare to cast down the Con
stitution for the purpose of raising ne.
groes to despotiC sovereignty over the
whites of the South By such desperate
steps as unconstitutional negro rule in the
South backed by the sword, by fraud in
counting electoral votes in the infamous
| House of Representatives, and by the
probable design of General Grant to carry
ont such atrocious purposes at the lannon's
mouth, do the Jacobins count for their
success in what is TO be a rebellion against
| the elective choice in November. Their
motto ia: Peacefully, if We can forci5ly,
| il zoe must"
When the trying hour shall come for
them to initiate such despotic steps to de-
fraud the people of their rights in the re-
spect Of their choice for the Presidency,
then there will be need on the part Of or
candidate Of an exhibition Of JserUe equal 10
The emergency, and Of men as hackers, tcho
hare not glIaiied at danger, and will stand up
like men of iron for the rights of Ameri-
| can citizens. Then will be there wanted a
man of the nerve of Jackson, who, when
assaiied mnrderously at the Capitol, and
urged by his friends to go back, saying
there are sssassins about you, replied, az
| 90 This wdy, or 90 no ray"