Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-10-19
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what "a Radical majority in Ihe
Next Congress RIcnns.
IA Radical majority In the next Congress
Signifies a great deal Of mischief, confu-
sion and rasoHlity, but above all, 1t means
premeditAted outrage upon the majesty
pf our people, such as history has seldom
recorded means the fDipedchNent Of me
President. The Radical leaders have not
plainly made it an issue In the approaching
elections, but General Butler and Senator
Trumbull in their late speeches, have just
hid the medltated atrocity enough to make
it sufficiently understood byvall coHvefs-
ant with nicely put destinations. The i'm
peachment, of tue President Is to be the
bouquet of the Radical fireworks. The
power they have already arrogated Is not
sufficient for them. They feel embarrass-
ed as long as there Is a single independent
position I'm the Government. They ars
afraid Of the least outcry of the laeerated
conscience Of this nation, and to have an
unb biased mind at the head of it. Is con-
slant source Of terror to them. None must
be spared who might check their usurpa-
,tions, or expose their schemes, or.
appeal from their despotism to
the laws of the country, and to the Demo-
cratic sense 0f'the nation. They need the
combined powers of all the three Depart
ments of the Government before they can
effectuallyOverthrow e,Constitution. The
Judiciary is to be a plable instrument In
their hands, and the President the blind ex-
ecutioner OF their acts, Then only they
win be satisfied. They need partisan tri-
bunals, and partisan executive, and they
are unwilling TO wait tor the chances OF the
next election, which might perhaps give
them Radical man of straw for Presi-
dent, To this Radical despotism, II seems
an eternity to wait two years longer aud
they hope by fraud and force and iniquity
to shorten the lawful term of the President.
To them the power to commit such an out
rage Is more than ample reason for doing
it. If they feel strong enough, they will
not care for the want of even a shadow OF
reason, They know OF no limit for their
usurpations either in law or In policy, eth
er in Republicanism orin Democracy, eth
er in their own or the nations conscience.
They will 60 absolutely as far as they
can with impunity; The PRESIDENT Is
in their, way; they VIII 1Iyy, KY - 70
prove nothing against him, but they rely
ON their majority. If they can only vote
him down they will be satisfied. With
them, to have the majority, is the same as
being omnipotent; to be omnipotent, equal
to crush the minorities, to usurp all the
Constitutional powers and to WELD them
| for self-preservation. No doubt they will
| discover some pretext for their iniqhity.
| They simply substitute the interests of their
party for the interests of the nation, and
\ then they will make crime Of any barrier
erected BY the President against their par
! tisau schemes. Any points Of disagree
ment between the President and their par
tisan Legislation will. then be charged
/ against him as dlsobedience to the Constitu-
I ton. Their platforms and their schemes
once substituted for the Constitution, 1t Is
4 the easiest thing In the world to prove the
/ President traitor. .it
| THE Radicals make the President odious
4 In the eyes OF the people. They stir up
| vile and violent passions against the man,
| In order to prepare the minds of their par
tisans for their frivolous attacks against
the official. They so persistently defame
| the character of the individual they intend
| TO ruin, that when the time arrives for ac-
tion, everybody they hope will see him only
| through the dark veil which they have
spread before the eyes of the people.
They make the people believe there are
| no other Union men but Radicals, and that
the President by attacking the Radicals has
purposely attacked the Union. They cal
| culate on the excitable spirit Of the people,
| and they think that nothing can raise the
excitement to a higher pitch than the nov
city of impeaching d President. Quiet
reasoning Of the people would be their
death; excitement Is the only atmosphere
in which they can live. They have ex-
hausted all other stimuiants; one Is left (;
they will administer 1t to the people: 1t is
the Impeachment of the President.
| These plotters talk of alleged revolution
ary schemes on the part of the President.
They cover their own nefarious schemes by
trying to make the people believe the Pres
ident has revolutionary plans: BY spread
ing suspicion among the people against the
Executive, they hope to be trusted as the
nations saviors. They first create an i'm,
aginary danger, and then declare to the
people that they alone can preserve them
from it. The people have nothing to do
but to elect a majority OF Radicals to the
House of Representatives, SO the Radical
syrens sing, aud the Republic will be safe.
And If the people do, then from an imagi-
nary Charybidls, they will fall in such q
real Scylla, that they may perhaps never
emerge from it.. They VIII see all their
ideas of a Democratic Government declar-
ed obsolete, and many hundred headed
despot will first insult them by impeaching
the President aud then tread them down
themselves, by forcing negro suffrage upon
them, and By legislating for the exclusive
benefit of those classes who are already now
predominant at the East and North, and
who look at the West and the South only
as a mine of riches for themselves. Give
them enough power and the fate Of the Re
public will be sealed, 50. Louis Republican.