Year: 1866

The New Orleans Star says truly that
there are innumerable evidences that the
amputation of the South has not stopped the
revolutionary gangrene which pervades the
social system of the North.


The destructives are determined to have
the Government at any price. They are
therefore endeavoring to excite the people
by such ISLANDERS as these: l. The President
will employ the regular army to expel the
Radical members of Congress. q The reg
ular army is prepared to sustain the Pres
ident 3. The Fenian organization is in
tended to establish the papal throne in the
United States.


A labored editorial in the Anti-Slduery
Standdrd-the mission of which paper we
should suppose had been fulflled-under-
takes to prove the President an usurper who
intends to employ military force to effect his
objects.


A Washington correspondent ofthat paper
writes as follows:


"The assemblage of four additional regi-
ments of ''the regulars just at this time in
Washington, is another significant fact. And
Just here it may be well to determine where
"the army" stand in this issue. Illustrative
of this was a conversation related to me a
few days since by Colbert Purvis, Esq. which
occurred between himself and soldier in
the Senate gallery during the eloquent and
able speech of Senator Nye upon the con-
current resolutions"


The soldier said "He (meaning Nye) had
better stick to his party, or else, by God, his
head'll come off"


Purvis says-"You talk loud-what do
you mean p


Soldier-"The bayonets are with the Pres
ident"


Purvis-"The people are with Congrese."
Soldier-"But the President and the bay
onets can overpower the people"


Purvis-"The people will raise and take
your bayonets from you"


Soldier-"That will bring on war, then"
Purvis-"Then let it come"
This comedies with the generally express
ed sentiment of the army, and shows, as is
understood here, that the regular army will
sustain the President.


In connection herewith, it may be well to
state that organized bands of Confederate
| soldiers and secession sympathizers prowl
around the streets at nights, dogging Radi
cal members of Congress, and threatening
openly, that in thirty days every id Abo-
litionist and traitor las they are now called)
will be cleaned out of Washington"


To write and publish such articles, shows
predetermination to involve the country
again in civil war. 1t is startling TO hear
Of the regular army on one side and the
people ON the other. 1t is absurd to inti-
mate that the President intends TO employ
the army to execute his will The object of
such a slander must be to excite the people
against the Executive. If there were any
doubt on the subject it would be dispellod
by the last slanderous paragraph in the ex-
tract. Organized bands of Confederate SOL
diers p Secession sympathizersp p dodging
Radical members and announcing that they
are to be cleaned out of Washington! Was
such preposterous folly ever known as the
expectation that sensible people could be-
lieve such absurdities?


The correspondent considers it significant
that this movement should occur "when our
own country is most in danger, and when
the Executive branch of the Government of
which this brotherhood is an avowed ally
is threatening by military force the loyal
portion Of our Congress" 1t is also, in the
opinion of the correspondent, significant
that Archbishop Hughes went to Rome in
the beginning of the war, as the "professed
friend of the Union and Free Government
and returned a neutral" 1t is intimated
that the "unappointed ambassadors" of the
State Department ut Rome and in France
were sent on the same mission; the ''rltscS
of a war with France was invented by the
''Prime Ministec of the Executive;" and
now the Fenians are allowed to arm. Then
follow these accumulated evidences of the
charge-all, it will be observed, equally
significant with those already cited.


"The frequent conferences that the eX-
General Mcclellan is at this time, and has
been during the last year, holding person.
ally and by dispatches with the Pope of
Rome and the Emperor Napoleon-the
mission of Thurlow Weed ostensibly to
England-the reinstatement Of Gen. Swee-
ney who was dismissed the United States
service by Secretary Stanton, and has lately
been reinstated by the President through the
influence Of the Prime Minister-the re-
peated suppression by the Government Of
all sympathy manifested by our troops on
the Rio G-ande, for the Liberal cause.-The
late visit Of Mr.. Seward TO Southern Catho-
lie powers-the present bitter opposition of
the Executive and his adherents TO the new
Mexican loan--the utter and complete
silence manifested by the Government in re-
lation to the late pretended demonstration
of the Fenians upon Canada, and the speech
made in this city but a few days since by
the head centre OF the order, in which he
stated, as reported in the Washington Star,
that the first blow was to be struck in Wash
ington."


This category of proofs, with other evi-
denoes which viii shortly appear" it is
claimed


"Wiil establish the truth Of what We
claim Cf indeed the action Of President
johnson himself in calling them TO his aid,
in his contic; with Congress, does not SOON
er burst the bubble), that this organization
has not at any time been intended to operate
against England, either by way of Canada or
Ireland but on the contrary, that through
the manipulation Of the Mephistophiles of
the Administration, il is the armed hand Of
Papal power, thrust into the affairs of this
Government with the aim Of the ultimate
establishment Of papal dynasty upon the
ruins Of Americas republic"


The object Of these ISLANDERS is too obvious
TO require comment We trust the good
sense ofthe American people will rebuke
conspiracy against the policy Of the Presi-
dent so loyal to order and the Constitution.