Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-03-06
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WHAT DOES III MEAN9
CHREvER PRAYING THAT JOHNSON MAY B
TAKEN OrT OF THE WAY,


TAKEN OUT OF THE WAY.
from DR.. Cheevers Sermon inNew York on Sun
day last.l
Ifany of the rulers should persist IN their
present career of wIckedness, and to refuse
to do unto others as they would be done by,
that lie toouLd take them ont Of the 'ody.
FoREBoDINGs OF THE PRESIDENT.
Extract from Mr.. Johnson's recent Speech
have said that it has been declared else
where that was guilty of usUrpation which
would have cost him his head. Men may
talk about beheading and usurpation, but
when am beheaded l want the American
people to be the witnesses. do not want
it by inuendoes and indirect remarks in
high places to be suggested By men S0hO haze
assassination brOOding In their bOSOmS. Others
have exclaimed that the Presidential OBJ
stacle must be gotten out of the way. What
is that butt make use of a strong word
melting to assassination? No doubt, /
say, the intention was to incite to assassina-
tion, so that the obstacle which the people
had placed here could be got out of the
way. Are the opponents OF this Govern
ment not yet satisfied? Are those who
want to destroy our institutions, and to
change the character of the Government,
not satisfied with the quantity of blood that
has been shedp Are they not satisfied with
one martyr in this place? Does not the blood
ofLincoln appease their vengeance and their
wrath? Is their thirst still unslaked? Do
they still want more blood? Have they not
honor and courage enough to seek to Obtlin
the end otherwise than through and by the
hand Of an assassin? | am not afraid ofan
assassin attacking me where one brave and
courageous man will attack another. l only
dread him when in disguise and where his
footstep is noiseless. If they want blood,
let them have the courage to strike like
men. | know that they are willing to
wound, but afraid to strike. If my blood
is to be shed because vindicate the Union
and insist on the preservation of this Gov
ernment in its original purity, let it be shed,
but let an altar to the Union be first erect
ed, and then, if necessary, take me and lay
me upon it, and the blood that now warns
and animates my existence shall he poured
out as the last libation as a tribute to the
Union of these States. [Great applause.l
But let the opponents of this Government
remember that when it is poured out
that the blood of the martyrs is the seed of
the Church.
THADDEUs STEVENS IMPLIED THREAT
WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED TO Mr..
JOHNSON UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUM-
STANCES.
IFrom Mr.. Stevens Speech, Jan. 3. on the Appor-
tiOnment Amendment.l
Now, sir, since / have referred to that,
believe am right, for | have no doubt that
this is the proclamation, the command of
the President of the United States, made
and put forth by authority in advance, and
at the time when this Congress was legisla-
ting on this very question; made, in my
Judgment in violation of the privileges of
this House made in such way that CEN
turies ago, had it been made to Parliament
by British King, it would have cost him
his head. . ....
WHAT DID WENDELL PHILLIPS MEAN!
[FrOm the Albany Arsusl ...
At his recent lecture here, Wendell Phil.
lips declared that the President (if no OPP
ponent of the designs of the Radicals
in affairs of gOvernment) was an OBJ
stacle to be removedm This was strik-
ing a keynote higher than the more
prudent of his Jacobinical set have
ventured upon publicly, and yet cul-
pable as is the idea suggested in every sense,
and far beyond the sphere ofpolitical argu-
ment or denunuiatiOn, customary as is eX-
travagancei in that direction among us, there
were those in his audience who applauded
it. To say that they who applaudeda senti-
assassination were of the shallow minded
or unreflecting class-those who thought
lessly gave way to the peroration of the
orator, unmindful of the meaning of his
words, or those whose political animosities
assume the shape of recklessness to all else
but their gratification-is perhaps the most
charitable explanation of the applause
which followed the atrocity he uttered.
Thank God, there were those present, whose
perceptive faculties were not slumbering
and whose mental capacities were active
enough to take in the whole force and scope
Ofhis suggestions-and who shuddered at
the thought of the anarchy and confusion
which would follow in case some mono
maniac like old John Brown, with the idea
that the President "must be removed"
| planted in his mind-and fired by the stim-
ulus of the oratorical framework in which
it was held up to him, should act on it I!
These expressed their dissent, but it is said
that the tide of thoughtlessness ran too
high for them, and many Democrat and
conservative (attracted there by curiosity
of the hall, wondering at the political in
consistency which dungeons "copper"
heads and leaves to really dangerous men
like Phillips the largest liberty and "tree-
dom OF speech!"
''THE POINT OF DANGER PAssED"-sIGNIFI-
CANT ADMISSION BY A RADICAL.
[From the Chicago Republican, Feb. 23l
The President stands in mortal tear of his
life. In his harangue to the mob yesterday
he charges the men who have opposed his
policy with "having assassination brooding
in their bosoms," and asks if one martyr
will not suffice; if theblood of Lincoln was
not sufficient sacrifice; if another victim
must be striken down in his place. Mr..
johnson may dismiss his fears; he has pass
ed the point of danger. Ha.
THREATS OF VIM LLOYD GARRISON.
[From Garrison's Washington Speechl r.
For whatever of violence, or tumult, or
division, or disaster, may grow out of this
high-handed procedure, the dread respon-
sibility will rest exclusively on his own
head. a.r '.a
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