The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1867-01-23
NO Occasion for Excitement.

w O~SoSAou AOT EGCltcment..
There are men who pick up the proceed
ings OF Congress, ma,k the revolutionary
inten: OF the RadieAls-ihe threatened i'm.
peachment Of the President, the Territorial.
iIaticn Of the South, aud the setting aside
Of tie Supreme Court os the United States;
and indignation causes the blood to course
through their hearts more rapidly than is
its won't These alen, unter such state
feeling, wonder why the people donot work
themselves into sn active excitement over
the matter. Certainly, It is a matter pro.
vocaiive of inteusa excitement, butthrough.
out the TsSt five years our people witnessed
40 much that was revo!utiOnay-so much
that waf Aagrantly in violation Of the Con-
stitutisn that they have become sehooled
to DO neither surprised nor excited over
anything that may occur. Thcremay. how
ever, be point TO which the Radicals can
carry matters that will call down upon. their
heads the swift and crushing vengeance OF
the people While the people are not ex-
cited, they are nevertheless waichful. They
DO not believe that Congress will proceed
to the extremity Of depos;ns the President.
They turu to the newspaper, and they iind
that the Democratic press is unit in its
protest against such proceedings, while
majority of the influential Republican press
is bold and decided in its opposition there
to, They gather from this opposition.
most formidable in its proportions, and
which is daily growing 10 volume, the solid
belief that there is no ground whatever on
which pretense can be set up for the Im
peachment Of the President. They know
well enough that no portion of the Repub.
lican press bear the President good will
More than that, they know that the whole
Republican press entertain for the Presi.
dent feelings Of inveterate hatred. From
this circumstance they will very naturally
argue, that if the President had been guilty
of anything that even sanctioned it; thev
would appropriate his Impeachment They
know, further more, says the Statesman
that everything In the President has not on.
ly been exposed to the public gaze through
the newspapers; but that his enemies and
ma igners have tortured his every act as
much as possible to his disadvantage.
Nothing was kept back from the public,
and the Intelligent know, to logical Ger.
tainty. that nothing thus exposed and tor
tured, can produce impeachment under the
law and under the Constitution. Cherish
ing this so well grounded belief, and be-
lleving also, that 50 long as President
johnson occupies the Presidential chair
and exercises the functions of the Presiden.
tial Office, the schemes to Territorialzc the
South and to set the Supreme Court of the
United States to oas sile, 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 Pres
ident from his office without even plausi.
bic causc-there aoiN be an aeakenino
among the people, Remember April, 1861.
Up to that month there was no excitement
among the people. 1t was thonght they
could not be worked up to the fighting point.
The call for 5000 volunteers was an expe-
riment. Before it was made many there
were who thought it would not be rcspon-
ded to-; and bad it not been responded to
the South would have been permitted to
withdraw from the Union and sot up an in
dependent government. This may be re
garded m absolute certainty Now, let
Congress under AXE to set up another Exc
cutive to usurp the authority of President
johnson, legally AMI constitutionally
conferred uron him, and let Presi-
dent Johnson call upon the military
and for volunteers. if need be, to enforce
his authority, AMI the response will be
abuudantly satisfactory to him and to those
who would maintain the Constitution and
republican form of government in this
country. Until such time, it i. bcftting
that the people should follow their wontcd
pursuits with assduity and as though set
of bedlaniite politicians in Congress were
not making ang Is weep with their fantas.