The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-01-08
q CONSPIRACY.

\ startling, out not altogether iuiPI"'a-
bic theory as to the motives which have
governed the administration and its sa-
traps in the Louisiana affair.
II ia neither more nor less than
that deliberate effort has been made
10 fan the cmbcrs of civil
war into blaze for personal aggran-
dizrment The idea j. that the Loui-
.isna people should be goaded on to "
spirit of desperation, which would over
come the almost super human forbearance'
they have hitherto shown, and driven
into collision with the United
States forces. Then, without much
trouble, the entire body of enraged citl-
zrns would overcome and drive out oi
the State the troops now tyrannlAng
over them, and then, the President
would assume command in person
and. with all the power
a, his disposition, attempt to take
the city of New Orleans. WhereupoA,
thinks the Hcro5d. all the people of Ala
bama. Georgia. Mississippi, Texas and
Arkansas, would rally to the rescue, and
the President would ut once demand of
Congress vote of money and hundred
Thousand men to report to him. This
being done. war would b" inauguratcd
and war Mt this time. with GRNNr in com
mand of one hundred thousand men
would enable the next Presidential cleo
ton to be held whenever Iii, Excellency
pleased. or should ne SO determine, not at
all. Now. We do not agree with the
Ha.qH for the following reasons:
First-Thc article alluded TO- bears de-
cidcdly, the stamp Of the inventive gen
Jus who originated, so cleyerly, the Cen
trial Park Menagcrie hoax but as that
hoax was built upon circumstances which
m.igAt occur, SO this idea stands on the
same foundation.
Secondly-The Southern States are
impoverished, and bitterly and sadly do
they know and feel this fact. Therefore,
even if they had the inclination. they
would be unable to maintain such II scri-
ou. conflict. They know that the result
would be to them either exhaustion or
absolute misery, and they would not at
tempt the struggle.
Thirdlv-Thc citizens of these States
huv. not shown themselves to be deficient
in wisdom; the world kJ,or> they do not
lack true manlinrsS and bravery. They
fully appreciate the necessity of bearing
their misfortuncs like men, and they will
RELY on the magnanimity of their fellow
countrvmen to work out their deliver
ance. Neither do we believe they will
RELY in vain, for just as surely As the OPP
portunitv offers, SO surely will the vast
majority of the American people express
their Indignation Mt the ballot-boy, and
rcbukc in tho most emphatic manner, this
most unwarruutablc and uniustiiablc
tyranny.
For these reasons We do not agree with
the Hrrald: but that such an idea has
existed in the mind of GRANT We have
SIMPLE cause to believe. He has been
aa,tcred and cajoled into thinking that
he owned the country and had Il lifelong
claim upon the Presidency and its salary.
No wonder then that he was inccnsed to
madness when he saw the popular mind
di.carding him, and no wonder he deter
mined to do his utmost to secure hls prl-
waite purposes despite the will of the peo-
pie. If he did not mediate such u
gigantic scheme rs to thus invest himself
with the imperial purple, he undoubtedly
intended to So control Louisiana, and IN
turn, other Southern States, as to own
their votes for himself in 1876.