The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1868-09-04
Plan of the New Rebellion.

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We re-publish from the New Or
leans Republican of August Goth a
important leader on The Plan Of III
Neao Rebellion. Our attention ha
been directed to the important fact
contained in this article by one of tn
leading citizens of Louisiana.
1t will be seen that the plan of rev
olution pointed out in Blair's Brod
head letter is to be carried out will
literal fidelity. 1t is now eviden
that the revolutionary programm,
agreed upon among the rebels was
simply adopted by Blair. so that in
stead of the traitors taking their Gu,
from him, Blair has learned the art O
rebellion made easy from those wht
have h Id five years. experience in til,
business. The N. o. Picay,ln,
rightly assumes that the election o
Seymour and Blair will be interpreted
as a demand on the part of the peo
pie of the whole Union for the de
struction of all existing civil govern
ments in the land, and a demand also
for the unconditional return of trait
Ors to power. Read and ponder:
THE PLAN OF THE NEW REBELLION.
Whe have at last an an answer to
certain questions we have twice pro.
pounded in these columns. We ad-
dressed them at first to the Crescent,
but it warily declined to respond
We then addressed them to the Plea.
yune and now receive the following
reply.
Let the people read it carefully
Let the lovers Of peace and good Or
der study it with attention. Let tbe
noted that when Seymour is elected,
the agency of the United States Sen
ate in making or repeating laws is to
be limited to ''protest." Let it be
observed that a Democratic Presi-
dent and a Democratic House oil
Representatives are 20 ignore not
only the Sentate of the United States,
but any State government that may
have existed in Louisiana under the
constitution of 1864, and that which
now exists under the constitution of
1865.
Let the people further observe the
bloody threat which turks under the
paragraph which we italicize in re-
gard to what the Picayune is pleased
to call the "de taeto' government OF
Louisiana.
We call the attention of Republi-
cans to this programme of tho new
rebellion. We invite the "War Dem
ocrats' to consider this feast of fat
things in the way of turmoil and con-
fusion. We ask the promoters of
commerce and the owners of prop
erty to ponder over these prepare
tions for violence and revolution.
The war, then, was nothing, and
the myriad lives were laid down with
no significance. The years that have
elapsed, with their struggles of states
since the war, are to go for
And from the grave of a
dead past, from the Debris of "before
the food, Mr.. Thomas o. Moore, of
blessed memory, with his Legislature
Of 1860, is to rise and rule this State
the Senate of the United States be-
ing first squelched, and the present
officers of Louisiana being bullied
into the silence that gives consent.
Here are the questions We pro-
pounded:
81. In the event of the election of
will he, as President, use
force TO disperse, abrogate, or inter
fere with the present State govern
ment Of Louisiana as established un-
der the constitution Of 1868?
"2. In the event of the election Of
do the Democracy of Louis
lana propose by force to disperse,
or modify the present gov
ernment Of the State as established
under the constitution Of 1868?
ss3. In the event of the election OF
Seymour, if force is not employed
either by the President elected, Or by
the Democracy of the State, how is
the present State government of
established under the con-
stitution of 1868, to be dispersed,
abrogated, or modified; and of what
advantage will it be against this gov
ernment to have elected Seymour?
Will the Picayune favor as with
answers to these questions -
And here is the Picdy,nae's reply:
"The election of Horatio Seymour
will be accompanied by that Of very
large majority of the representatives
of the Forty first Congress of United
States which will or at least can
be called to meet Immediately after
the 4th of March, 1869, when Sey-
mour will take his seat as President
The Senate of the United States,
though nominally Republican, will
hardly attempt to act in such way as
to prevent the restoration OF the le-
gitimate governments in the Southern
States when this shall be evidently
demanded by the people of the whole
Union. Should they do so. they car
only protest. They cannot prevent
its being done, and no sane carpet
bagger will stay, relying on their re
fusal to consent 10 his expulsion from
Office.
"Now, we presume that it will bt
then necessary to have Legitimate
State government in Louisiana, legit
mate in Union and Constitutional
point of view, and as there was such
one in 1860, and as the governments
which have, since then de faeto exer
cised power, have had the invalid titles
of secession, or military, or Congress
ional usurpatlon as the basis of thei
authority, they must, one and all, b.
set aside.
"The consequence will be, tha
Thomas o. Moore, the last Governo
elected under the Constitution O
1852, the last Constitution adopted b.
the people of Louisiana, uncontrolled
by these usurpations, will assembl,
together the Legislature Of that era
which will, we presume, at once cal
for the election of delegates to Stat
Convention to receive and propos
amendments to that Constitution.
"What it will he in its terms as t
suffrage, we do not pretend to fore
tell but will promise that it will b
quite as liberal as the constitution
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