The Arms Ready for Another Rebellion.
According to Rev. Dr. J. P. Newman, President Johnson, either purposely or carelessly, has been making the same preparations, or suffering them to be made, for another rebellion in the South that were made in 1860, by the infamous Floyd. The forts of the United States in the South have been filled full of ordnance, ammunition and warlike stores of all kinds, sufficient for immense armies, and the President has removed the garrisons from the forts, or so weakened them that they can again be seized by traitors as they were at the beginning of the rebellion under Buchanan. Mr. Newman, in a letter published in the New York Methodist, says: “Nor is it the least objectionable feature of Mr. Johnson’s administration that, having withdrawn the greater portion of the troops from the several garrisons, he has collected in these self-same garrisons, immense quantities of military stores and ordnance sufficient to equip a large force. There is to-day at Baton Rouge, La., ordnance of all kinds to equip an army of 200,000 men, with but a single regiment to protect them. Although officially notified of the fact, he has paid no attention to the notifications of the dangers involved. The South was never better armed than now.” Now suppose that “my policy,” is defeated at the coming elections, and the Johnson party, mainly located in the South, shall choose to rebel again; or suppose that there are enough Northern sympathizers with the South elected so as to make practicable the revolutionary scheme of dispersing the legal Congress at the point of the bayonet, and declaring the Southern Congressmen and Johnson men the true Congress—the weapons are prepared ready to the hands of the supporters of the President’s contemplated usurpation. Did Johnson think of these arms thus carelessly exposed, when he proclaimed that he might make himself Dictator? Whether he did or not, the facts remain the same, and there is danger in them; the more especially as Mr. Newman asserts unqualifiedly that the President has been “officially notified of the fact,” but “he has paid no attention to the notification of the danger involved.”—Detroit Post.