The Combination against Lincoln — a account Hartford Convention.
The New York
Herald, commenting upon a recent article from
Wendell Phillips, in
Beecher's
Independent, he having joined the league against
President Lincoln, of which that paper is organ, says:
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The gentlemen of the radical party, says
Wendell Phillips, want to be leaders as well as to dictate a policy.
They want emancipation declared; but they also want the Cabins changed and the
Generals transposed.
They want the war to be conducted upon abolition principles; but they also want it to be conducted by such men as
Sumner, of
Massachusetts;
Stevens, of
Pennsylvania, and
Wade, of
Ohio, and their friends in the
Cabinet, and by
Hunter,
Phelps, and
Fremont in the field.--The language of the radicals to the persons now in power is, according to
Phillips, "Gentlemen, your game is played out. Give us place." There we have the whole radical conspiracy against the
Government in a nut-shell.
It is simply "give us place." Does
Greeley attack the
President?
It is "give us place," Does
Sumner oppose the Administration?
It is "give us place.
Does the cabal of abolition
Generals urge on the attacks upon
McClellan which he has just confuted so gloriously in
Maryland ! It is "give us place" Do the
Governors of several of the
New England States conspire with our defunct Jacobin War Committee in secret conclave ? It is for the purpose of breaking up the
Cabinet — It is "give us place" for ourselves and our friends.
All this agitation means simply, get out of the
Cabinet; give us office; make our leaders the leading
Generals in the army.
That is what these radicals desire.
They not only wish their disunion policy adopted, but they wish to carry it into effect with their own hands.
Stevens wants to be in the
Cabinet to put into practice his idea of killing all the
Southern white men and giving their lands and property to the slaves, so that we may have a piebald republic, with negro members of Congress, and, by and by, a negro
President.
Wade and
Sumner want to be in the
Cabinet to annihilate the slaveholders.
Fremont wants to lead our armies — to annihilate the nation.
But how do these ambitious fanatics propose to accomplish their desires?
They have tried to manipulate
President Lincoln; but
Pope spoiled that game by putting the capital in such danger that the
President was forced to kick the radicals aside and rush to the conservative
McClellan for safety.
Now they try secret conspiracies and open threats.
They boldly denounce the
President as an imbecile, and call upon him to resign or change his Cabinet, under penalty of a revolution.
They designed to prepare for this revolution, through our Jacobin War Committee, behaving
Fremont authorized to raise a corps of fifty thousand men; but
Secretary Stanton saw through this device, and refused to arm men against himself and the government.
Foiled in this shrewd trick, they have consulted with the
New England Governors and planned out a second edition of the Hartford Convention.--Since
Governor Morgan will not join in their plot, they design to supersede him by making
Fremont the next Republican nominee for
Governor of this State.
This will secure to them as they imagine, the whole military power of the great
State of New York, and then they can proceed to action.
Governor Fremont and the
Governors of the
New England States, led by the Valliant
Governor Andrew, of
Massachusetts, will refuse any further aid to the
General Government unless the radical policy is adopted and the radical leaders appointed in Cabinet offices and chief commands in the army, just as the Hartford Convention refused all aid to
Madison's Administration unless it changed its policy and its members.
This
New England devil lacks invention, and repeats himself.
Fine plans and fine plotters.
These revolutionary dreamers forget that the bayonets of
McClellan's army can defend the
President from Southern as well as Southern traitors.
They forget that
Fremont will have to be elected Governor by the votes of the people, and that the people of New York would heartily defeat the hero of fat contracts in
Missouri, the pathfinder who lost his way in the
Western Virginia mountains, the soldier who resigned his command, in the face of the enemy, because he could not be chief.
Their plots lack men to execute them, and secrecy to make them dangerous.
The first edition of the Hartford Convention was a sad failure.
This second edition will result as disgracefully to all concerned.
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