THE GREAT CONSPIRACY, Part 6








                         THE GREAT CONSPIRACY


                        Its Origin and History



                               Part 6.


 By John Logan

 
 




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CONTENTS




                            
 CHAPTER XXII.
                      FREEDOM'S SUN STILL RISING.

DEFINITE CONGRESSIONAL ACTION, ON EMANCIPATION, GERMINATING—GLORIOUSNEWS FROM THE WEST AND EAST—FALL OF VICKSBURG—GETTYSBURG—LINCOLN'SGETTYSBURG ORATION—THE DRAFT—THE REBEL "FIRE IN THE REAR"—DRAFT RIOTSIN NEW YORK—LINCOLN'S LETTER, AUGUST, 1863, ON THESITUATION—CHATTANOOGA—THE CHEERING FALL-ELECTIONS—VALLANDIGHAM'SDEFEAT—EMANCIPATION AS A "POLITICAL" MEASURE—"THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT" REPORTEDIN THE SENATE—THADDEUS STEVENS'S RESOLUTIONS, AND TEST VOTE IN THEHOUSE—LOVEJOY'S DEATH—ELOQUENT TRIBUTES OF ARNOLD, WASHBURNE,GRINNELL, THADDEUS STEVENS, AND SUMNER


                             
CHAPTER XXIII.
                 "THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT" IN THE SENATE.

GREAT DEBATE IN THE U. S. SENATE, ON EMANCIPATION—THE WHOLE VILLANOUSHISTORY OF SLAVERY, LAID BARE—SPEECHES OF TRUMBULL, HENRY WILSON,HARLAN, SHERMAN, CLARK, HALL, HENDERSON, SUMNER, REVERDY JOHNSON,MCDOUGALL, SAULSBURY, GARRETT DAVIS, POWELL, AND HENDRICKS—BRILLIANTARRAIGNMENT AND DEFENSE OF "THE INSTITUTION"—U. S. GRANT, NOW "GENERALIN CHIEF"—HIS PLANS PERFECTED, HE GOES TO THE VIRGINIA FRONT—MR.LINCOLN'S SOLICITUDE FOR THE THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT—BORDER—STATEOBSTRUCTIVE MOTIONS, AMENDMENTS, AND SUBSTITUTES, ALL VOTED DOWN—MR.LINCOLN'S LETTER TO HODGES, OF KENTUCKY, REVIEWING EMANCIPATION AS AWAR MEASURE—THE DECISIVE FIELD-DAY (APRIL 8, 1864)—THE DEBATE ABLYCLOSED—THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT PASSED BY THE SENATE


                             
CHAPTER XXIV.
                     TREASON IN THE NORTHERN CAMPS.

EMANCIPATION TEST—VOTES IN THE HOUSE—ARNOLD'S RESOLUTION—BLUEPROSPECTS FOR THE THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT—LINCOLN'S ANXIETY—CONGRESSIONALCOPPERHEADS—THINLY-DISGUISED TREASON—SPEECHES OF VOORHEES, WASHBURNE,AND KELLEY—SPRINGFIELD COPPERHEAD PEACE-CONVENTION—"THE UNION AS ITWAS"—PEACE ON ANY TERMS—VALLANDIGHAM'S LIEUTENANTS—ATTITUDE OF COX,DAVIS, SAULSBURY, WOOD, LONG, ALLEN, HOLMAN, AND OTHERS—NORTHERNENCOURAGEMENT TO REBELS—CONSEQUENT SECOND INVASION, OF THE NORTH, BYLEE—500,000 TREASONABLE NORTHERN "SONS OF LIBERTY"—RITUAL AND OATHS OFTHE "K. G. C."  AND "O. A. K."—COPPERHEAD EFFORTS TO SPLIT THE NORTHAND WEST, ON TARIFF-ISSUES—SPALDING AND THAD.  STEVENS DENOUNCETREASON-BREEDING COPPERHEADS


                              
CHAPTER XXV.
                        THE "FIRE IN THE REAR."

THE REBEL MANDATE—"AGITATE THE NORTH!"—OBEDIENT COPPERHEADS—THEIRDENUNCIATIONS OF THE GOVERNMENT—BROOKS, FERNANDO WOOD, AND WHITE, ONTHE "FOLLY" OF THE WAR FOR THE UNION—EDGERTON'S PEACERESOLUTIONS—ECKLEY, ON COPPERHEAD MALIGNITY—ALEXANDER LONG GOES "A BOW-SHOT BEYONDTHEM A                        
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