The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1867-02-13
Geh'I Grant 10 Go Out OF Oilct
with johnson. IL Impench-
Iient is Successful. y

ment ~ SUCCESSFUL
= The following extract from a letter Of
tho Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial, a Radical news
paper, shows the madness that seems to
possess the Radical leaders in Congress.
This correspondent fears that the revo.
lutionary schemes Of the Radical dema.
gogues are bringing the country to, the
very verge Of another revolution, Read
the extract:
Washington Correspondence Gin. Commercial,
THE IMPEACHMENT.
People who imagine that the impeach
ment agitation has entirely died out
and / notice by the papers that a great
many think so--are greatly mistaken
II was never intended to do more at this
session than start the subject for the puI
pose of educating the public mind up to
tho required point between December
and March. Ashley was selected as the
most senseless and fit person to herald
this thing = i = The determination
never was greater than it is to-day to
f force the President out Of Office and
General Grant wih him. You may
| laugh if you please at that last clause,
y but time will vindicato its truth. 1t is a
y necessary part Of the programme, and
there is no disguise about it among the
loyal few who have undertaken to en-
a gineer the business. Butler has recent.
ly proclaimed in a speech, in Boston,
that Grant was worse than johnson, and
occupied the most humiliating position
of any man on the American continent
!, And it will be remembered that in his
Mozart Hall speech in Cincinnati, hc
limited at the very same thing when hi
. spoke of sweeping the regular army Gu
is of existence if it attempted to interior,
to prevent the removal of the Presiden
rs before his conviction. That's just exact
ly where the row cones in. The frs
step in the Butlerian plan is to pas al
r, act in Congress declaring the Presiden
is incapable Of holding his office, pending
"a his trial before the Senate. The consti
tuition declares that the President, Vic
u President and all civil officers may b
y removed by impeachment upon trial an,
lie conviction &c. Butler proposes to 6
e. behind the constitution, remove tn
= President first and convict him aftcI
: ward.
8, Does any sane man think this will b
I'd quietly submitted to? as thy servant
IL dog, that he should do this thing 7"
n johnson a fool and an imbecile, that h
" should be forced from office in plain vic
v lation of the constitution, as well as th
law that protects the meanest criminal o
i. earth from punishment until after cor
>. %viction.
" One plan for the removal Of Grant
understand to be this First TO declar
re the President incapable of holding ofiC
ps during his trial; then the President p,
:, tenn, Of the Senate becomes President {
the United States, and er cticio Con
G. mander-i Chief of tho Army and Navy
ed and as such he will exercise his right I
es appoint, remove or suspend his "subort
u mates" lie may not have tho right
deprive Grant Of his commission, c
oil rather, he may not care to exercise it, 70
the question of right will not enter largt
ly into the consideration when thing
a. come to such a pass, but he can ordt
y him out to the plains 10 fight the Indian
NJ or anywhere else he pleases, and in hi
u. absence appoint some man after his ow
II heart TO command the ARMY. AnOthe
!. pan is to displace the General By almo'
r. abolishing the regular army by an act {
he Congress.
ut Now, all these revolutionary scheme
e, can be stopped only by the voice of tn
people. If the people choose to lot theI
s. come by supincly folding their arms an
es shopping they will blow over" well an
s, good. l am convinced they will nj
in blow overland am equally convince
/, that three months hence it will be Il
late to avert them. No such revolutiO
ID as this country is mop threatened wil
n ,Oas crer stopped after Il had been pc
mited % begin, until IL had spent 1
10. desOlating fury, and sacrificed the ~c
1. fare Of a nation, and The lives of thou
70 andS of innocent people. 1t should n,
IT. be forgotten that revolutionists, in a
al times and in all countries, have relic
it's upon the very cnormity of their scheme
to turn suspicion into derision, and
eS furnish in their inception a theme fl
ridicule rather than for fear. 1t was
an in France in the time of Louis XVI;
Mt was so in England with the party und,
: Cromwell and it was so in America
III 1860, with the secession of the Sout
nd The smile of derisiOn at the idea Of civ
of war had scarcely died away when the fir
re. gun opened on Fort Supter. A milliC
~ of lives, North and South, and a hundr'
r thousand million of dollars have sim
been the cost of a struggle which W
ne not averted only because the people
q fused 10 believe it was ceming until
was too late to do aught but choose sid
in a bloody and relentless war.-MAcK
RS,