Year: 1878

wool Ol circumstance ana narrative upon
which to base q case.


If this should not appearpracticable then
the President was to be presented for inn
peachmcnt, based upon allegations to be
furnished by ingenious inventors, and which
were TO he sustained by the testimony of
ANDERSON and others, that he or they
might enlist, in the course of their incipient
preparations FOR such an issue. Secretary
SHERMAN and Senator MATTHEWS were TO
he complicated in some way through the ma
nipuations of ANDERSON and such other
agencies as they might enlist, so that the
President could be held responsible for their
acts, and become pdyticeps criminis in line
of conduct that would be made to appear as
worthy Of impeachment.


Then, failing to disturb the validity of
the Presidential title, or to find cause for
impeachment, they have considered the
question of inaugurating a coup detdt by
the passage of law based upon the prin-
cipes which had displaced CHAMBERLAIN
and PACKARD, and which would declare
that Mr.. HAYES is not the legal Prt sdent
of the United States, having intermedately
placed Mr.. THURMAN or some other Bour-
bon in the Presidential chair of the Senate
recognize the President of the Senate as
President of the United States dd interim,
and in this way seize the reins of power
and assume control of the Government in
its executive and legislative branches
That this is the outline of programme to
rvolutionize the Government and subvert
the will Of the people there is no reasonable
doubt.


This scheme has been greatly weakened,
and its chances of success have been dimin-
ished by the fact that the Democratic
party have lost confidence In the nerve and
sagacity Of Mr.. TILDES rs q leader, and
their respect for him as man of high-toned
integrity. His want Of nerve, sagacity, and
high sense of honor have alienated a large
percentage of the more honorable portion
Of his party, and greatly impaired their
hopes Of success with him as the special OBJ
ject of effort


But the conspiracy had so far advanced
with its machinery and appointments, and its
dramdtis persona had been so long under re-
hearsal, that its leading spirits determined to
take the venture with POTTER as arch conspir-
ator. He presented his resolution, which was
to serve as the revolutionary fulcrum, and it
was adopted under the severest application
Of gag law, without debate or modifica-
tion, and the Revolution was launched and
set sail on its cruise of mischief The more
discreet and conservative of the Democrats
in the House protested against this meas
ure but they had neither the numerical nor
the moral strength that would stay its pro-
gress. The committee of investigation was
organized and set to work. and the country
knows the rest. The main spoke in the
revolutionary wheel was ANDERSON, and its
first turn broke him up and exposed his rot
tenness to the country. Even the architects
and engineers of the affair have taken alarm
at this early misfortune, and now they are
engaged in proclaiming that they
never have had any serious purpose
of invalidating the title of the President or
of displacing him from the Presidential
chair Now they declare that they only
seek to unearth frauds and expose to the
world the rottcnness of the system by
which government of the people, for the
people, and by the people" is conducted in
this Republic. This then is merely n great
moral movement on the part of the Demo-
Gratis in atonement, no doubt, for half
century's devotion to the worst system Of
political fraud, corruption, ana wrong, ever
known to the history of civilization.