Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-03-07
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From Tho st. Loui. Republican,
SpiriI of the German Press.

| The patriots of the WeStliChe Post are In
boiling state of revolution. They hav
shown it, too, as clear as daylight, that thi
country is lost beyond redemption. unles
| the President is removed from office, ant
Congress changes its character of consti
tutiOnal body into permanent revolution
| airy mob. ............-
Some few benighted fellows, holding it t.
be treason to plunge democratic republic
which, by its Constitution, provides the lega
| remedies for every wrong, into revolution
have objected to this. They have though
| that after protracted war we needed peace
and that the people were, in fact, already
| living in peace. They have held that thu
| President, by vetoihg a bill, was acting il
conformity with the prerogatiye granted Il
him by the Constitution, and that Congress
might hold on during the whole term fol
which he is elected, without necessarily be-
coming a revolutionarymob f-7'-ses-is F
But such considerations do not trouble
the sages of the Post. 1he American peO-
pie have chosen one way to happiness, the
Post dictates another. Who doubts the
Post will succeed? The Post says we are
already knee-deep in the revolution, and il
proves it thus:
AS long as part of the slave States in
tended to secede by force of arms from the
Federal Government in order to build up a
new empire, we had no revolution, but
only a rebellion. But now the movement
is of different character. The question Is
no more to secure our national territory and
to execute the laws, but an attempt is made
to change the essence OF our Republic-tO
break down the Constitution and to make
the President the effectual ruler and mas
ter of the country. We have en-
fnro1 ~, Of raNrplnfino md ha
ures against it, therefore, must be revOlu-
tionary, whenever our national compact is
insufficient. The threatened liberty can
not be saved with rosewater and ginger
bread.
This revolution has been commenced by
Andrew johnson, of Tennessee. He threat
ems to change the character of this Repub-
lie, to destroy the Constitution, and to make
himself our master.
We said yesterday: Congress should de-
clare itself zen permanence," unless it in
diets the President. We repeat it to-day,
and explain how this should be executed,
in our opinion. The misdeeds of the Presi-
dent will have to be exposed by Congress
in similar way to the Declaration ofInde-
pendence, setting forth our grievances
against England. Then Congress, as soon
as possible, will have to enact the necessary
measures for establishing a just and firm
policy in regard to the admission of the Sc
ceded States, that will secure the future of
this nation.
These measures are to be esteemed as the
political programme of the people, and
Congress should sOlemnly declare that it
will not adjourn before the result of this
programme is secured. Should it be neces-
sary, Congress wi have to execute the
laws made by it without the President, and
call at the same time on the people of the
loyal States for an Endorsement Of this rev.
olutionary measure.
The people will not now fail to approve
it, No people, and especially not the Amer
ican, are sunk so low as to tolerate being
again governed by traitors, slave barons,
&c. The American people, unac-
quainted as they are with universal history,
may very likely prefer another road to the
direct and revolutionary one. By doing
this they may create new sacrifices for
themselves and new horrors for the coun-
try; but never will they tolerate the out
rage, that traitors shall brandish their
lashes over their backs; and never, never,
will they admit the ruin of this Republic,
because an outcast President had forsakcn
his oath and put himself along with the
country's enemies.
The Anzeiger, after having beaten to froth
this ridiculous prattle, eXclaims: Are these
fellows not ripe for an insane "asylum?"
They are more than ripe-so perfectly over
ripened in insanity that they never can be
cured!