Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-03-19
Impeachment NOT, Ah,,doued.

. We did hope that when Congress sue
ceeded In passing is Reconstruction bill,
and saw in President JOHNSON satisfactory
evidence that he would endeavor to exc
cute che law with. fdelity, that the Radicals
would abandon the idea of Impeaching the
President. They do not, however, seem
willing to do so. They are proceeding with
heir investigations mockeI y, : as though
there was really ground on which to plant
impeachment. The opinion prevails at
Washington that. if the spring seiections-
resulted last fall, President .JoHNsoN will
be deposed uhceremo1iouly. On Monday
the sCiRcinRdts Gazette tleveted.air editorial
to the subject of impeachment, in which it
characterized as "officious" the Z" "declara-
tions that there is no cause for Impeaching
the Acting President" 1t fears that this
idea will be fastened-upen the public mind
indelibly, if something is not done to
eounteract it, and it labors to satisfy
it's readers that impeachment should
ensue. The public are familiar with Pres
ident JoHNsoN's official conduct. They
know that, while he may have done things
not in accordance with good taste, he has
not been guilty of an impeachable offense.
That he has lately done something towards
lifting the Constitution into supremacy is
true, and the more he has labored to this
end the more has he brought down upon
him the maledictions of the party that
elected him to the Vice Presidency. While
the Republicans in Congress have disre-
garded the Constitution utterly, and in so
doing have perpetrated legislation the most
abhorrent and revolutionary, the Radicals
are not yet through with their usurpation.
Shall this usurpation stop? Shall rev.
erence for the Constitution be once more
inculcated Shall the Government again
be administered in compliance with the in
tent and meaning of that instrument? The
history of the past shows that when the
Government was administered by the Dem
ocratie and Whig parties, it was. admirably
adapted to the wants and interests of our
people; there was peace throughout the
country; there was prosperity, and conse-
quently happiness. 1t is proper enough to
experiment in Government, as well as in
every C1Sc-IO uOp6S
of thereby benefitting the mass of the peo-
pie; but when those experiments, and this
change of parties, show with unquestion-
able certainty that nothing but evil results
therefrom, the people would be unfaithful
to their own interests did they not quickly
pronounce through the ballot-box that the
vicious experimenting with the Govern
ment, through which the country is suffer-
ing SO ineonceivably, mustsstop; that usurS
patton, no matter in what department of
Government, must cease; that the country
must not be subjected to the strain that the
deposition of the President will subject it
to. A corrective can not be brought about
in these particulars unless the voters shall
vote out of power the now ascendant party.
To produce good results the Republican
party must be voted out of power, from
the lowest to the highest office; and until
this shall be done, there will be no satisfac-
tory Improvement in the general affairs of
the country.