Year: 1866

The revolutionary Secret Directory
! offifteen. at Washington, have been, II
would seem from the statement OF
/ friend, maturing a plan to head OIL the
President, and carry out the radical
idea of governing the Southern States
1t is a desperate resort, and could only
have been adopted in despair of sue
cess in any other way tbs thus given
in detail by the Washington CORES.
pondent of the New York Tribune:


"The question Of the recognition ol
the State governments in the lately
rebellious States will shortly be brought
to practical test. Measures have been
taken by prominent loyalists in the
s3uth, and are now being perfected
Under the advice Of lesding men in
Congress, to bring this question 10 an
early decision. The plan Is as follows ;
Loyal men, and they only, both black
and white, in the States of Arkansas,
North Carolina, Louisiana, and else
whera, have taken steps toward the
/ formation of new State governments.
These loyal men, without respect to
color, will shortly issue calls IN their
respective States for State conventions,
sad elect delegates thereto; the con-
venlions so formed will frame State
cos.stitutions embodying the principles
81 - .liy. seedom, and equal
rights viii pledge themselves 10
the payment of the National debt
the reputation of the rebel
debt, and the Acknowledgement
of the rebels. This being done,
they will then proceed to elect Gov
ernors, State officers, Representatives
and Senators; the latter Of whom will
at once demand admission to Congress.
The question thus being thrust upon
that body, there is no doubt of the re-
cognition of the governments so formed.
A number Of true and loyal men of the
South have been here for some days,
consulting and deciding upon the best
method TO be adopted, and having de-
termined upon the plan presented
above, have left for their homes 10
carry the same into execution. The
matter has been kept very quiet up to
this time, but as the movement in most
of the States is now well under way, no
harm can, and perhaps much good may
be done the Union cause by giving the
facts to the public at this time"


1.-THE President is an obstacle to be
removed" said one of the radical
leaders, and the plan above, desperate
as it is, presents the only way left TO
remove the President without resorting
directly 10 assassination. If this mode
fail, the last resort is left TO the des-
perate characters who are determined
TO rule or ruin the country.


1t will be seen that if they can carry
out, successfully, the programme de
tailed by the Washington correspon-
dent Of the Tribune, they will have a
reliable two-thirds vote of both
branches of Congress. They can then
enact what laws they please to govern
the Southern States, and, if the Presi-
dent vetoes them, can pass them over
the veto Next, if the President should
refuse to execute such laws, then i'm
peach and depose him. Such is the
idea.


But all that is much easier resolved
on than it is to do it. There is more
than one lion IN the path leading to
that coveted goal. We hardly suppose
the President would be sn Indifferent
spectator of such a performance, nor
the States themselves passive witnesses
of the attempt to set aside their au-
thority And we rather think that,
between the two, the radical plan would
be ground to powder. As we, as peo-
pie, are, doubtless, from present indica-
tions. destined to be put through some
violent revolutionary proceedings be
fore we can be considered in settled
condition, we suppose the above radi-
cal programme might - well be tried
and the sooner the better, though
doubtless, the curtain will not rise IN
Ill after the Connecticut election of the
first Monday Of April proximo.