The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1876-12-21
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER =, 1870.


Grin-yisaged Nah nov haunts the wah-
ing dreams OF S.oTcy, and his chicago
Tines daily reeI.s with gore. His Wash
ington correspondent is painfully aihict-
cd in this way, and sees innumerabie hosts
OF blood-thirsty Republicans marching IN
every direction. Hear him:
There is the very best evidence coming TO
hand here that a Presidential plan Is now
zinc into actual operation for secretly arm |
III Inc partisars OF the Grant adminlstra-
lion in every Republican Congressional dis
,r;ct in the United States. The work is
done secretly, silently and swiftly.
That shows that everybody il arming,
and is going to rush out ct given signal
and slay everybody else--no doubt about 1t
whatever. for it comes from the Washing
ton correspondent, who is fright there" and
he knows whereof he speaks. Then he tells
Ne next. who ia 10 manage the slaughter
ing:
The plar is to make custom houses or gov
eminent Offices the rendezvous for the lead
eTs in the movement, and the outward show,
50 far as the citizens can detect, is TO be
that only of continuation OF the political
organizations which originated during the
election contest. The settled nucleus OF
this formidable body is the Grand Army OF
the Republic, led by such warriors as John
A. Logan, o. o. Howard, Gen. Butler, Gen-
Banks, and the political school OF generals
who made more of craftsmanship than OF
vslor during the last war.
That nobody may have any reason TO
doub. the awful facts revealed by this san
culinary correspondent, he tells not only
who is to do this bloody work, but also Ie-
laies how it is to be done:
The measures for the mobilization OF
these scattered forces have been taken with
c5nsummate secrecy, and skilled agents Of
the leading cOnspirators have been at work
since the assembiage OF the returning
boards in the southern states, noiselesslY
inspiring and directing trusted officials in
every community. Those districts repre-
scented by Democratic ongressnen are TO
send their quota iuto districts represented
by Republican CJngressmen, where arms
OF the E1ost improved pattern and stores oil
ammunition are to be accumulated. Mean
while the party press, beginning even as
early a. to-day, are inspired TO lay all these
preiminaries Of warlike preparations at
the door of the Democrats and charges
them with preparing the frebrand oil war.
Thus he shows conclusively that every
body is, Of a very truth, going to fight
everybody, right away; he shows, further,
who are 10 be the commanders OF these
furious hasts, and becoming more confiden.
tial still be let. US into the secret OF how il
is to be done-exposing all the plans o.
battle, and giving all of us good chance
to pick out safe places from which to wit
ness the conflict.
To show THAI the correspondent is moi
only bloody man, but a prudent man, as
well, We append one more paragraph
Having given us the foregoing detailed
statement, with military precision of all
this bloody work, he bethought him thai
some terrified reader might be ipdiscreet
enough TO ask him how he came to know
all these bloody secrets, and to guard
against the possibility Of being cornered by
any such conundrum as that, he forthwith
sent supplement to his dispatch, as fol
lows:
The accuracy OF these outlines may he
judged from the fact that several communi
cations upon the subject intended only fol-
friends OF the conspIrators IN Congress have
fallen in the way OF members who were op
pos.d 10 extreme measures and were greatly
shocked by this evidence Of sinister pre-.
meditation On the part of men who are
crying fraud against the Tilden partlsans
That makes il all plain, and shows that
tife-yarrior of the Times knows what he j;
talking about. The war is already upoI
us. There is blood in the air. There L.
blood in everything. Men are buying can
mons and mortars and things, and carrying
them around wherever they go. Every
doctor will not visit patient, without tax
ing his side-arms along, for fear the sick
nan may get up and bounce him, and
the preacher cannot be induced TO &c
into the pulpit without a double,
barreled shotgun beside him, and
an armed deacon at either horn of the al.
tar, for even under the most sedative
preaching the people feel impelled to rise
up and Stay somebody. There is wah ev.
everywhere all the men have it, all the
women are trying to get it, and the chill,
dren are crying for it. That terrible mill,
tary organization, the 'Grand Army of the
Republic" is already an a war-footing; il
has thirteen members in this county, anC
nearly every man of them can be relied Hp
on TO turn out for dress parade, in good
weather, how terrible then will be The
tramping OF this mighty host when war;
alarums shall be sounded through the land
And what makes the situation NOR,
threatning is the certainty that tn,
first assault is to be made upon tn,
Times office, in Chicago. There is no mis-
take about this. 1t has been learned
through 1.-The fact that several communica
tons upon the subject intended only fol
friends of the conspirstors have fallen" in
10 the hanis OF our reporters, and we make
haste to sound the note OF warning for the
benefit Of our Chicago namesake. Let him
beware-they intend to suppress him again
The whole grand army of this country ars
ready TO march-all thirteen Of them-anC
when they reach Lake Michigan let tn,
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