Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-01-17
No Occn.loA irOr excitement.

alization Of the South, and the setting aside
of the Supreme Court of the United States
and indignation causes the blood to course
through their hearts more rapidly than Is
its wont. These men, under such state OF
feeling, wonder why the people do not
work themselves into an active excitement
over the matter. Certainly, it Is matter
provocative Of intense excitement but
throughout the past five years our people
witnessed SO much that was revolutionary
$50 much that was flagrantly in violation
of the Constitution-that they have become
schooled to be neither surprised nor ex-
cited over anything that may occur. There
may, however, be a point to which the
Radicals can carry matters that will call
down upon their heads the swift and crush
: Ing vengeance of tlie people. While the
{ people are not excited, they are neverthe-
less watchfltl. They do not believe that
( Congress will proceed to the extremity oi
deposing the President. They turn to the
newspapers, and they find that the Demo-
J cratic press is a unit in Its protest against
, such proceedings. while majority OF the
I influential Republican press is bold and de-
cided in its opposition thereto. They
gather from this opposition, most formida-
bic In its proportions, and which is daily
growing In volume, the solid belief that
there Is no ground whatever on which a
pretense can be set up for the Impeach-
o ment OF the President. They know well
enough that no portion of the Republican
press bear the President good will. More
than that, they know that the whole Re-
publican press entertain for the President
feelings OF invetefate hatred. From this
circumstance they will very naturally
argue, that if the President had been guilty
of anything that even sanctioned it, they
would appreciate his Impeachment. They
know, furthermore, that everything the
President has done since his incum-
bency has not only been exposed to
the public gaze through the news
, papers; but that his enemies and maligners
have tortured his every act as much as pos
sible to his disadvantage. Nothing was
kept back from the public, and the intelli-
, gent know, to logical certainty, that
nothing thus exposed and tortured, can
produce impeachment under the law and
under the Constitution. Cherishing this
, so well grounded belief, and believing,
also, that so long as President JOHNSON oc-
cupies the Presidential chair and exercises
the functions Of the Presidential office, the
schemes to Territorialize the South and to
set the Supreme Court of the United States
to one side, will practically amount to
nothing, they do not feel called upon to
become excited.
Should the people, however, be disap-
pointed in their expectations touching
these things-should Congress disregard
law and the Constitution, and seek to drag
the President from his Office without even
a plausible cause-there toiH be an d,odeentng
dnong the people. Remember April, 1861.
Up to that month there was no excitement
among the people. 1t was thought they
could not be worked up to the fighting
point. The call for $4,000 volunteers was
an experiment. Before it was made many
there were who thought 1t would not
be responded to; and had it not been
responded to the South would have
been permitted to withdraw from the
Union and set up an independent
government. This may be regarded an
absolute certainty. Now, let Congress un-
dertake to set up another Executive to
usurp the authority of President JOHNSON,
legally and constitutionally conferred upon
him, and let President JOHNSON call upon
the military and for volunteers, If need be,
to enforce his authority, and the response
will be abundantly satisfactory to himand
to those who would maintain the Constitu-
tion and a republican form of government
in this country. Until such time, 1t is be-
fitting that the people should follow their
wonted pursuits with assiduity and as
though a set of bedlemite politicians in
Congress were not making ''angels weep
with their fantastic tricks"