The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-08-14
The radical Revolution:
THE PURPOSES AND PLANS OF THE REVOLUTION
AIRY LEADERS.

Senator Garrett Davis, of Kentucky, con-
cludes letter to political meeting with this
vigorous exposure of the plans and purposes
of the revolutionists:
Twelve months ago General Grant was op-
posed to the whole revolutionary conspiracy OF
Congress, and particularly to its investing the
negro population with political power. de
then had no sympathy with the revolutionists,
he condemned their policy and purposes, and
they denounced him. But as it became appa-
rent that their mountain OF political CRIME
was Too huge for one of the original brother
hood to carry in q Presidential canvass, they
got their reluctant consent to make General
Grant their candidate for the Presidency.
They reasoned, that the strength which his
bloody laurels gave him with the masses, his
comma I'D OF the army as The General, Con-
gress having virtually deposed the President
as commander-in-chief, and his co 'sequent
ability to control the whole negro vote OF the
Southern States, aided as he would be by the
Freedmen's Bureau, would enable them to
elect him; his utter ignorance Of oil states
manship and the afflirs Of the government,
would necessarily place him, il elected, under
their pupilage. They concluded he was a
marvellousy proper man for their purposes,
and they made overtures that he should be-
come theix candidate for the Presidency, and
Grant fell, rs did the angels Of heavenly the
PRESIDENT Il candidate Of the revolutionists.
All the States are entitled to choose an ag-
gregate of three hundred and seventeen Pres
fdential electors. The whole number Of the ten
Southern States is seventy; and the revolution,
lists expect their elections to be 30 controlled
that the negro vote will choose them, and all
for Grant. One hundred and ffty-nine cleo
tors would be a majority OF the whole num-
ber, and would elect President. The revo-
lutionary leaders boldly proclaim that Seymour
may receive one hundred and fifty-eight cleo
toral votes, oil chosen by white men and the
State governments OF white men, and Grant
have but eighty-nine electors chosen by white
men and their governments; yet, II he receives
the seventy electoral votes from the ten negro
governments of the Southern States, he shall
be inaugurated into the Office OF President at
the canon's mouth. Then, not the constitu-
tional constituency would make the President
Of the United States, but the negroes, the
army, and Gen. Grant would make himself
President in defiance Of the constitution, and
would move over it's broken fragments to in
vest him, not with the first office OF free peo-
ple, but with the American people.
The revolution then sweeps on, but it ls not
yet accomplished, and will not be until Gen.
Grant is carried through the mockery OF an
election. and installed into the office OF P1esi-
dent. He will then be Imperator and sway
an empire, but because OF his own ignorance,
necessarily by plmps and parasites. Con-
gress, like the Senate Of Rome, will become
Cesar, @ ar % Tmperator; and when he is incompe-
tent, % but has Seianus for his favorite, sejan-
us viii rule in fact. When Gen. Grant is thus
elected and inaugurated President, then will
the revolution Of our government be complete
and permanent. and along, dismal night Of des.
potism brood over our country. The defeat OF
that election and inauguration will not only
arrest the revolution, but defeat it forever, in
what portends to be the day Of it's final tri-
umph, and to restore to our whole people their
constitution and liberties. The greatest, hoi-
est service that true patriot can render his
country is, to use all the means in his power
to prevent the revolutionists from completing
their work, by such an election of Grant to the
Presidency; and 100000 OF white patriotic
ireemen will give their Lives, their fortunes
and their sacied honor" to the performance OF
this duty, important beyond all estimate.