National Republican., 1876-10-10
THE NEW REBEL CONSPIRACY AND ITS
ANTIDOTE,


1t may not be generally known that there
Is an organic Itlon in the South known as
The Southern Historical Society" Jeffer-
son Davis is its president, and it holds bien
nial meetings. Ostensibly it has for its OBJ
ject the preservation of the memories of
the Confederacy-its history, both public
and unwritten-but in reality it is but a
conclave of the disgruntled and unre-
pentant leaders of the South, who have
-availed themselves of that medium of pre-
serving the old rebel organization. There
are branches of the order in each of the
States lately in rebellion, every one of
which being presided over by brigadier
or msjor general of the "Lost Cause" "
Subseryient to these '1odges" are the
county and township organizations, which
report to the ''State society,"" which in
turn reports to the main organization.
Upon the rolls ofthe order are to be found
the names of all those who served the Con-
federacY. Each one hundred men are Off
cered, in many instances, by the men who
commanded them during the war. No de-
tail has been neglected 10 add to the effec-
tiveness of the order, and on ten days
notice the same men who surrendered to
Generals Grant and Sherman can be placed
in the field in fighting trim" Upon the
slightest provocation, on the limslest pre-
text, these men are prepared to take the
field, and again defy the armies of the Re-
public. For over q year such papers as
the Mobile (Ala.) Register, Augusta (Ga.)
Chronicle, Charleston Neps and Courier
have been quietly educating the masses of
the South up to the point of resisting the
mandates of the Government, while news
papers of lesser light like the Columbia Is.
c. Register and Edgefeld Is. c. Adoer-
tiser, have openly advised their readers to
be prepared to sacrifice their lives, if neces-
sary, to carry out the Southern idea, which
is nothing less than the remanding of the
negro race to a condition of peonage. As
they misled the people of the South prior
to the war, and succeeded In making them
rebel against the Government, so now do
they cater to their worst prejudices, SEEM
iDgly determined to again foment strife. 1t
is folly to deny that these organs are but
ObeyiDg the behests of Davis and his
friends, who indulge the hope that Demo-
cratic success will enable them to resurrect
the buried fortunes of the Confederacy.
The poor, unhappy negro is made the bone
of contention, and by means of the cry
of Social equality" and other "hun,
bugs" the masses have been aroused
and are ready to strike the blow which
they imagine will consummate their plans
If Indiana and Ohio should by any mishsp
go Democratic 1t will not be two weeks
before the telegraph will bring US tidings
of rebel enormities upon Southern Repub-
licans. Thousands of innocent men will
be shot down in cold blood merely as
menace TO the Government. They are pre-
pared to resist the Government, and their
organization is more perfect than in 1861.
We see the magnitude of the dissafection
in South Carolina, where rebel organiza
tions have placed the Executive Of the
State at defiance, and are painting for an
excuse to arise in their strength and resist
the Federal authority. A notorious indi-
yidual of the name of Rion. of Winnsboro',
S. C., addressed an open letter to gentle
man in Columbia last week, in which he
tells United States Marshal Wallace that
he will forfeit his life If he dsres to inter-