Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1867-09-12
The Duty OF the co-ntry--The Prssi-
dents Power N uss be Broken.

oenps rover must be broken.
The N. Y. Tribune, Of the 4th inst,
has On able aud stirring article on the
duty Of the county, in view Of the Presi-
dents determination to obstruct the exc
cution Of the laws and degrade the coun-
try to his own level. We quote the clos
ing paragraphs: ..-..f. ..t. ......
The stream cannot rise higher than its
fountain. Sweet waters never come from
bitter spring, If the woof Is straw, we
cannot weave the web into silk. We
may SOW the field with tares, and culti-
vate them according to the most consti-
tutional methods, but they will never
grow into wheat Thcplain fact, known
TO all men, sorrowfully feltand mourned
over even to tears, is this, that a most
unworthy citizen sits in the chair of
! Washington-that the best interests Of
! the country have no more malignant
enemy than the PFesident-and that
unless the people save the country in
spite of their rulers, then indeed there is
no salvation. Pitiful-pitiful, and yet
! sadly true. We are to-day surrendered
over to an Administration which began
with bar-roOm capering, and which seeks
/ TO rule the country very much as the
! Pewter Mug politicians of Tammany
! Hall rule New York. Congress believed
| that yea meant yea, and adjourned un-
! der the influence of pledges which always
I govern the conduct OF ofgentlemen. Scarce
! ly sixty days have passed, and every
I pledge has been broken. We leaned on
! Grant, and Grant is neutralized, over
! ruled, eliminated--reduced 10 a cypher.
/ He can protest and plead, but his pro-
tests are scorned. and his entreaties sigh
around the Presidents ears like the
winds that come up from the Potomac.
! Grant is too ingenious, too frank, too
/ honest, too sincere and simpleminded to
deal with the Gigantic Demagogue that
rules him. He pleads for Stanton
/ Stanton is driven from the Cabinet. He
begs for his trusted Sheridan--the finest
soldier of his time is sent out to haggle
with Indian chiefs and thieves ofthe In
dian Bureau. He demands the right to
execute the law Congress specially con-
! fided to him. He is practically told that
! the President will execute the law him
self, that he had better write no political
4 essays, and that he may devote his great
genius to Quartermasters and Commits
I saries, and mastering idle Brieadiers out
of the service. Congress is away, Grant
! is powerless, Tammany brother reigns
in New Orleans, and the President mere
! ly pauses to. feel his ground before he
takes another step, and, still overriding
the expressed law of Congress, call iato
power the elements of the Southern Con-
! federacy. Where will he stop? He pro-
claims himself on the war-path. He tells
his followers that he has put his foot
, down. He means to overthrow militia
ry despotism. and re-establish the Con-
stitution." We do not mistake these
menaces, for this man is capable of any
thing to hold power. His fate is fixed.
His political fall is as certain as any
event governed by the laws of national
policy. He has betrayed his party, bro
ken his pledges, dishonored himself, dis
graced the country. Feeling this, hi;
| policy is desperation, and there is moth
ing he may not dare. 30 --....
Let us show him that he dare not; tina
while he has neither the respect of tn,
people nor the confidence of any party
there is power above him, heretofore
patient and magnanimous, but which
will not allow patience and magnan.
unity to become cowardice. This houl
requires plain speaking, and We have
sought to speak plainly of Andrew John.
son. In the like spirit we fmplore oul
friends to organize, to enter into this
new political campaign with the spiri,
that moved our fathers when they drew
sword against England, and which sent
q million of our brothers into the heart
of the proud and naughty Rebellion
Let the Republican party organize in
every County North and South. Sink
all minor issues in the one great duty OF
driving from power this dishonored Ad.
ministration. That is the duty of every
partiot.I We haye spent too much mon.
! ey, we have shed too much blood in the
cause of freedom, to suffer it to be oetray,
! ed through supineness and timidity. We
| have many things to Observation-Disclosures
ing-finances es-reconstruction : tariffs
foreign relations. First we must destroy
the power of this Administration, and
thus ssave the country; Afterthat, Peace