The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1869-09-29

The Plot against V~irginia-7Hs Schemes
of Boutwell,, Butler, Sumner & Co.
-Return Of Radical Emissaries from
the Old C0mmon,uealh-IHe MdnW-
facture Of A6idav'ts and the Propaga-
ton of Lies-TKe Uork CIT out for
the Reconstruction COmmittee-Ihe
Programme to Apply to Wississppi
and 1e1as as HeH-Duty Work dmd
Duty Ho.kmen.
WAsHINGrox, Sept. %, 1869.
For some time past it has been
more than suspected that the Radicals,
under the lead of Boutwell,, Butler and
Sumner, were preparing a scheme by
which to nullify the recent election in
Virginia. These suspicious have found
their way in several of the papers of
the country, but so improbable did
they seem that they met with neither
credcnce nor attention. Recent de-
velopments. however, prove that these
suspicious were well founded and fall
far short of the facts.
Night before last two men (of the
ultra Radical type) arrived in this
city from Virginia, where they had
been on n accommodating" tour, in the
employment, as is now positively
known, of the worthless mentioned
above. Their mission to Virginia was
to organize committees of the Union
Leagues ia vari us sections of the
State (and to instruct them how to do
IT'D, to get up evidence proving frauds
i'm the election, and intimidation and
coercion of the freedmen, by which
they were forced to vote the Conserva-
tive ticket, or not vote at all. These
afidavits-for the instructions were
that the leagues should secure afiidavits
are to accompany n petition which
is to be presented to Congress early in
the session. and referred to the Recon
structiofHC ommittee, where, under the
management of Butler, and his friend
Bingham, it is to sleep until the end
of the session, which will keep Vir-
ginia unreconstructed, at least, until
the first Monday in December, 1870.
The next be ng a short session, it is
supposed there will be little difficulty
in Shaving the consideration of SAT
f irs in Virginia of until the adjourn
ment of Congress. This petition is not
t be presented until alter notice has
hen received that Virginia yielded to
t e GROWING act &C Radical usurpa-
ton imp 'sed upon her-the adoption
of the Fifteenth Amendment. Then
the mine is to lie sprung. and Virginia
Virginia, who gave TO the nation a
Washington, a Madison, a jefferson.
Il Monroe; Virginia, whose people
have complied with all the demand
which the Radicals could invent to de-
grade her, until her submission
amounted almost to dishonor is to be
subjected, two years longer to military
rule-surveilanc,, dictation and tvran-
ny.
This programme is not only to ap-
ply to Virginia, but to Mississippi
and Texas, should a majority Of the
people of those States in the coming
elections vote for the Conservative
C Indicates. Numerous have been the
crimes of Radicalism exposed in this
C Jurisprudence, but there are none
which equal this in cool, calculating
villainy. Its enormity is evidenced by
the fact that it required the united
genius of three of the most unscrupn-
lous men in the nation to concoct and
initiate it, and the agents selected by
them to do this dirty work in Vir
ginia (who have just returned here,
having competed their disreput-
able mission) were in every way lifted
for the task One is from Pennsylvan-
i'll, and WAS dismissed from Office OIL a
charge OF appropriating property OF
the Government to lis W use; the
other, who halls from Illinois, was
pcremptorily dismissed from the army
by President Lincoln for conduct I'm
an officer and a gentleman.
These mel eek severy opportunity
to try and excite prejudice against the
of Virginia by the circulation
of the basest ISLANDERS. They state
that the same spirit that produced the
rebellion is still rampant in Virginia
the people of Virginia are the
least reconstructed of any in theSouth.
Cn the frau Is committed to secure Wal
ker's election they are very eloquent,
and assert the most improbable stories.
Strange to say, they find men to be-
their lies.
The plan of Boutwell,, Butler, Sum
nr & Co, disgraceful as it is, is of
e rsy accomplishment, and will be car
ri ID out to the very letter, and neither
Virginia, Texas nor Mississippi be al
representation in Congress or
freedom from military rule, unless
they accept just such terms as these
may dictate. They have the
power during this Congaess. Will
the next be different 3? Y.
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