The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-01-29
The Grand Conspiracy.

s0~ine personal ana party use' W NV
ns the Executive Department and bis ioF
lowers, then the signs are delusive. IL Inc
peonle do no. construe those signs to inds-
cate this settled purposc-t,is conspiracy
aeaiust the nstion-then Is It Impossible tnat
they ever can be forewarned by signs OF
conspiracy, Of a purpose to overthrow their
Government. Stronger Indications Of such |
a conspiracy never win be manifested oY 4
cnnspirators IN the prosecution Of their
plots.
Already has the Executive usurped m 4
principle al. the power that is zeeded for bis !!
supremacy over the whole Enson. The same
power he has exercised in the South secin
with equal authority exercise over every 1
State in this Uriop. He can subordinate ]
their State authorities, drum out their legal
Neglected legislators, and iii their seats with
others-hfs very soldiers, if he peases; ne
can cause bis corrupt judges to issue pis-
nigh, orders with which his minions cameo
ANYTHING in the way of ejecting Officers aad
INSTALLING his favorites in any State; and even
without such orders he may eject officersSas
In NississippD and put apybosy-negroes'
IS IN Mississippi,'er even worse, thieves or
carpet. baggers, in their places.
What other power than that WhicheTene-
raj GRANT hes exercised wocsd he waot, TO
make himself Dictator or Czsc? We know
none. Do the people rightly consider these
matters1 II they do not see in GRANTS usur-
II Il. IN ma n.
pcror of the United States, they have alto
.setber lost that watchfgtaess and -sagacity
which it would seem all znenmust iearn IN
life rs indispensable for their protection
sapainst the plots and schemes OF ambition
and corruption, which have never failed to
appear in every nation IN this'wu'id.
DO wenot remember that thediscussiou
of the,puestion of a " rhird term" has been
carried on long and patiently; that even the
charge was made that General GpSfT
yearne5 to become Gar Of this Republic;
that the wave OF this discussion has beat
upon the very doors OF the Presidents man-
sion that his host and relative, Mr. Swi,;'',
.ofWcst Virginia, publicly declared hiuse II
in fayer of the third term immediately sster
General GRANT had been sheltered UEcer
his roof and almost before the sheets IN
which he there lay had grown 'cett' la
former days suck discussions, such amputa-
tionsof designs to q Statesman in tse!pfes.
dental chair, would have been promptly
noticed and denounced as'Untrue. The peo-
pie would have denaadedit. No President
could have stood up against the pressure of
public Inquiry. lie would have been COM
PEELED to clear bis skirts OF the irnpwation.
He would have done thas or have been
damned by public opinion. Failure to
purge himself would have Deen regarded as
confession of guilt, and the whole nation
would have cried, ~.Down with him."
What now! There has's.een no denial Of
the charges; no repudiat!en ola desire for
a"third term The only notice that Presi-
dent GRANT took OF the metter was TO show
that the third-term" idea bad notkecn con-
.demned by the people; by remaFking that BIZ.
ROBERTS, Republican whe openly. opposed
the third term, had been defeated, whilst
South Carolina, whose Legislature had
passed resolutions do favor Of the" third
term" had elected the Republican ticket.
If this is not taking'up the :" third term !"
-andnaking the bestdorit out. OF the ections,
we do not know whGt to make Of it. The
.mau--especially the President. himself'Iabor-
ing under the imputation-w thus spoke
could not have been az cnemyof the "third
term"
Every usurpatioa nseessary'to assuming
imperial power by General GRAFT has been
made. Without any greGter invasion Of the
principles of our republican form Of gov
-ernment be can usurpa all authority and set
the voice of the people at defiance.
1t is amazing th2t this fearful state of the
administration of the Government has not
caused greater aiasm. Itmust be because
the people have been fami&srized with usur-
patton, and have relspsed into apathy and
indifference. There IS reasos to iear that
they will be walked up TO their danger when
it is too late.
Let US say;shat it is not the s,abit Of cor
rupt parties and usurpng rulers to hactor
over the land and tyrannize sssar q people
for nothing. Even tigers do not kill when
they are not hungry. think yoal tsRaST
Bould Cypress the South and carry fear, a;-
prehension, and sorrow to every hearth-stene
without purpose2 That puepose could
not be the promotion Of peace snd happs-
ness in the land. No, 1t is to promote his
own power; and the sectional divisions of
the land favor bis proceedings. We think
better of humanity than to snnpDse it
even worse than providing beasts. E'hey
kill because they are hungry. GRANT OPP
presses and distresses that he may teach t.he
nation Ao,o tosabtlit to tyranny.
The sectional division ia this county, as
we say, fayors the tyranny. Exercised over
only part of the country, with the approve
or acquiescence OF the other part, the means
and implements OF tyranny are learned and !
acquired, The oppressed, being helpless.
must submit. The iookers-on become fatally
familiar with usurfation and Suffrage; and
when 1t is possibly too late they fed that they,
too, are the victims of the very wrongs and
usurpations which in a reereant and cruel
manner they permitted 70 be employed !
against their own eilow-citizers-nay, what
makes their delinquency the more Sesrrible,
they permitted this oppression of their own
Caucasian race while barbsriSm was elevated
above 1t. No other suck case of faith.less-
ness Is Oh record In the history OF the |
world.
nx.~ Gu.