Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-04-14

The New York IEeraltl's View Of
What lhe President should do.
The Nao Yos& Herald protests alike
against the suggestions OF the Radical press
taat Presldent JOHNSON should be inn
peached, and the Suggestions otsome Demo-
cratic Journals that he should compel the
present Congress to admit the Southern
Senators and Representatives, even il force
had necessarily to be employed; but that
the President owes it to himself and to the
country to make his Cabinet harmonious,
and to allow no man to hold Office under
him who does not give his policy cordial
support, it is fully convinced of, and touch
ing that matter thus expresses itself: ~,
o.. "President johnson has wisely taken his
stand on the side of the people, and with
them Occupiesthe medium ground bet%een
the two factions who are now la6orlng To
bring on another revolution by the cry OF
| impeachment and the use of bayOnets. All
| that he has to do is to hold fast to the policy
which he has chosen and so ably defended.
Time will vindicate and the people sustain
| him. He may not be able to accomplish
much with this Congress; but if he adheres
firmly to his present policy, makes the Is
sue plain before the people, and uses the
means at his disposal to sustain himself, he
need have no fear in regard to the next
! Congress. f1 HnrIH.I .FGW dlir
"But in order that the issue may be made
plain and distinct, he must do something be-
| sides talk and write messages. 1t is true
that they are necessary, but will be of little
avail unless followed up with practical
deeds. He is surrounded with oflice-hold-
| ers, from members of his Cabinet down,
who are intriguing against him and con-
| spring together for the defeat of his policy,
| The country is swarmiDg with internal
revenue and other officers who are openly
| thwarting the measures of his Administra-
ton. If all this is allowed to 60 on, and
| the President takes no steps to arrest 1t, he
will find that they will befog the Issues at
| the fall elections the same as they did In
New Hampshire and Connecticut, and An
drew johnson will be swamped by neglect
| ing to use the means at his disposal, Notn-
| ing would better please the extreme mig
geThead faction on the one hand, and the
| copperhead on the other, than for him. to
retain his enemies in the Cabmetand Offices
throughout the country. We are aston
ished that Mr.. johnson, with his long pollt-
/ ical career, does not realize that the only
way w ildhC ftu dutnihioOi oeAOh pNNNSSS@1A
is to secure harmony in every department
and cordial cooperation of all its officials
throughout the country. 1t is his duty to
commence with his Cabinet at once, and
remove every member who is not in accord
with him, and extend this work to every
office in the length and breadth of the land
He cannot commence too soon for his own
good or for the success of his Administra-
ton. He must know that in these modern
times, with the vast increase of Federal OF
fice-holders since the war, he can make but
little .headway in shaping the policy OF the
party conventions with all these officials
conspiring with Congress against him.
Let him do his duty to himself, to the
country and to the people, who universally
approve his course, by as boldly sustaining
his policy in this manner as he has been in
defending it otherwise, and he will have
made the issue so plain that there can be nc
mistaking the result. But, in order to be
successful, he must not lose any more time
Delay is dangerous, and may prove disas'
| trOus" ul' d.