The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-01-18
THE DICTATORSHIP CONSPIRACY.

From an able article in the Chicago
Times, under the above heading, we CHI
the following:
The New York Times republican
| charges that measures are now before con
gress, which, if carried out, will overthrow
the government. It also says, I" it seem
impossible that sagacious minds-sueh a.
are possessed by many republican congress
men-should not perceive this result ;" W.
charge that they do perceive it, and, because
| OF this, they press the adoption of those
measures. They do not 60 to work blindly
They have definite object in view. and
have, moreover, agreed upon the agencies
BY which that object shall be attained 1t
Is necessary for them, in order to carry on,
their schemes, to cripple the power Of the
President. This they have done, and have
given portion of his constitutional prerog
atives to. General Grant. They propose to
proceed further in this direction. The SUI
preme court is in their way. A majority OF
its members are republicans, appointed BY
President Lincoln ; yet the conspirators pro-
pose to render the court impoteut to obstruct
their reasonable projects, by placing a veto
power in the hands Of the Jacobin minority
of the eodrt. They intend further to invest
Grant with absolute power in ten states OF
the Union, that he may, through fraud and
despotism, get what they will claim to be
the electoral vote of those States. To assist
IN this, they have concocted plan to de-
grade Gen. Hancock-one of the most &C.
complished and gallant officers of the Union
armies during the late wsr-from his we'll
earned rank as Major General and thus af
ford Grant pretext for his removal as dis
trict commander.
Grant, dictator in ten states, and pretences
advanced for extending his office to Eve
overwhelmingly, Missouri, Tennessee, Ma
ryland and Delaware, the disturbed condi-
ton OF which, notwithstanding the loyalty
OF two of them, affords a prete 1t for striking
down their state governments,-will have q
power IN his hands which, considering its
concentration in a single individual, the
other states will find it difficult to overthrow.
Suppose him installed as President with
such power, and the army and navy to back
him, what will those who adhere to the con-
stitution as the supreme law of the land do
about the matter? The hope of the Jacobip
conspira,ors is to carry enough of the north
ern states in the nextpresidential campaign,
with the count of the electoral vote of the
south, to obtain majority.
We charge it to be the intention of the
Jacobin leaders controlling congress, to
elect Grant to the presidency by any agen.
cles, however lawless, criminal, and traitor
Gus. which may be found necessary for that
purpose. The supreme court bill, the dicta-
tor bill. and the bill declaring the fourteenth
amendment to the constitution ratified by
the requisite number of states, are all in
tended to affect this object, and are as
clearly reasonable as were the ordinance of
secession ; and the men sustaining them are
as much traitors to the government as were
II neey, Mason, Slidell. and the most vim
dictVe OF the confederate leaders. This ia
cooln leaders intend to hold on to power by
: permanently revolutionizing the whole
framework of our form of government