The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1868-11-26
THE ASSASSINATION PLOT.

! accept them without fear"
THE ASSASSINATION PLOT
During the memorable dark April. days
OF 1865, it will be remembered that some
thing was published about it having been
the intention of Cen Grant to accompany
President Lincoln to Fori's Theatre on
the fatal night of April 18th In all
probability, the desperate assassin intended
to commit double murder, and perhaps
| the nation does not know that it was by
the decision of Mrs. Grant that such an
udented calamity was averted. Mrs.
Grant detailed to me the circumstances
which determined her to proceed that
night by the train to Philadelphia. She
said further
1"A messenger called with note from
Mrs. Lincoln requesting us to accompany
the Presidential party to Ford's The
| ater. | informed him that we were
going to Philadelphia. But said the
messenger, you are announced in the pa
pers to be present tonight In more
emphatic manner | responded, You will
Please deliver my message, with my re-
grets.' He returned to Mrs. Lincoln, and
we took the evening train for Philadel-
phia."
Thus, by sacrifice of pleasure to duty,
she doubtless saved the life of her husband
and averted additional horror from a dis
trcssed people.
GRANT AND RADICALIsM.
During my several days sojourn in GA
lena, and not unfrequent interviews with
Gen. Grant, l have learned much con-
corning topics of great public interest -
The country has grown familiar with the
fact that the ''young and indomitable De-
mocracy" are utterly unscrupulous in
means and ends, and we are now led to
know, bitterly for the nations peace and
prosperity, that for powers sake they stand
aghast at no desperate deed or pusillani-
nous humiliation. 1t has been their boast
that if the Radicals elected Ulysses S.
| Grant, a schism will soon appear in our
party, and like poor Andy Johnson Grant
will go off with a segment of Radicalism-
the segment denominating itself Conserva-
tive Republican-squarely into the embra-
ces of the young indomitable Democracy.
Every effort will be made by the defeated
aud routed rebels to accomplish by st: ategy
and diplomacy what they have failed to do
by bullets and ballots. They could neither
conquer nor coax U. S. Grant-can they
capture him ?
The correspondent, in order to throw
light on Grants political views, quotes
from an article in the Galena Gd@ctte,
published in 1866, nominating Grant for
the Presidency, which contained the fol-
lowing sentence, and received his unqual-
flied approval and Endorsement:
''We know that all his hopes and SYM
pathies are with the great and patriotic
Union party of this country In feeling
and sentiment, he is thoroughly identified
with the millions of loyal people who, in
the long years of war and carnage, gave
their hearts, their blood, and their treas
ure to their country. He has neither
sympathy with nor toleration for any party
or any set of men who were against the
country in its terrible time of trial and
peril through which it has passed"
| General Grant stood upon that platform
more than two and a half years ago No
word or deed of his from that day to this
can be distorted to mean anything differ
ent. He is committed inhexibly to the
war party of the nation, and he has no
liberation for the copperhead wing of the
Democratic party. Whenever he has oc-
casion to refer to the Democracy at all, he
applies the term ''coppcrhead,' y for he only
recognizes two parties in the land, one
with the rebels, and the other with the
loyalty of the nation.
On the financial and reconstruction
questions, both growing directly out of
the rebellion and as inseparable from each
other as from it, he is heart and soul with
the Republican party He said in my
hearing: s:It is wickedness and folly to
talk of repudiation in any shape. The
debt was contracted to carry on the war,
| and it is as sacred as the war itself"
THE SOUTHERN PEOPLE.
Magnanimity and generosity are largely
| developed in Grants nature. He Is pune
tilious about observing the terms of the
parole given the surrendering rebels, so
! long as it is not broken by them. Hence
his unyielding opposition to any interfe-
renee with Lee by Andy johnson while
Lee kept the plighted faith. But Gen.
Grant feels keenly concerning the diabol-
ical course of the Ku-Klux Klan, compos
ed as it is almost wholly of paroled
rebels, and countenanced and led by rebel
officers and he is not insensible to the
palpablc fact that rebels in editorial places
can easily break the terms of the parole by
advocating lncendlary doctrines ana 10
menting turbulence and bloodshed. The
day following his election he said to me !:
''Pd like to see the tone of the rebel pa
pers now. 1 imagine they will quiet down
as they did after Lees surrender"
This intimation, taken in connection
with further remarks, was as much as to
say, Continued reasonable teachings and
violence there will and must be suppress
sed."
Gen. Grant certainly regards the terms
of the Reconstruction laws eminently