Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-12-09
IMPEACHMENT.
The Radical NOnn tain In Va bor-
The Mouse ID brought Forth,


matter on the table.
MIR. LOGAN. of Illinois, stated that If Mr..
WILSON would withdraw the motion, and
allow the vote 20 be taken squarely on inn
peachment, H., Mr.. LOGAN, and the other
impeachers, would offer no opposition to
final action being taken at that time. This
was assented to. The question being on
the passage of the Resolution that "AN-
DREW JOHNSON, President of the United
States, be impeached for high crimes and
misdemeanors," the previous question was
demanded, so as to cut off debate, and Ii
was sustained. The question then being
on the passage of the Impeachment Reso-
luton it was lost. Yeas 81, NAYS los.
Thus ends the most disgraceful farce ev-
er attempted to be played before the Amer
lean people.
For two years past the country has been
couvulsed by the threats of Radical Leg
i-lators, their pimps and parasites.
to impeach the President of tine United
States of high crimes and misdemeanors
and to hurl him from office, that his place
might be filled by the acting President OF
the Senate, B. F. WADE, of Ohio. L.. 6.
To give color to the proceeding, char
| gcs of the gravest Kind were made against
Mr.. JOHNSON, of melting the murder of Mr..
LINCOLN, through the direct instrumen-
tality of j. WILKES BOOTH, and of urging
| the assassination to other partles-oi
| writing letters to JEFFERSON DAVIS of a
reasonable character-of opposing laws
Constitutionally passed, and which were
entirely with the provision of Congress
of giving aid and comfort to the late re-
bellion-of habitual drunkardness-of sell
| ling offices, using lewd women as his
partners in the crime, and of other acts
and charges equally wrong. To sustain
these charges the country was ransacked
forproof, and more of rank perjury was
committed than ever before was exhibited.
The givings out of the revelations against
President JOHNSON were terrible. StDa-
tors, who in case of impeachment, were
| to be the jurors. and to compose with the
Chief Justice of the United States, tie
court that was to try and pass sentence
in case of conviction, traversed the coun-
try proclaiming his guilt, and were cheered
to the very echo by their adherents,
in advance of the hearing of the tes-
timony, and of the framing of the in
dictment. proclaimed him guilty in man.
ner and in form as charged, and the
guilt or innocence of the Chief Magistrate
of the United States-the man that the
dominant party had. less than three years
since, elected to the second office in the
/ lnstf nT hn do Ia
own party leaders prejudging his case and
demanding his conviction, while the De-
mocracy opposed it until it should be shown
| that he had committed wrong.
The charging of crimes OF such terrible
enormity, against the chosen chief of the
Republic had a tendency to bring the ma
tion into disrepute. Throughout the world,
they were proclaimed, and the peoples OF
other nations. knowing nothing of the
| reckless and debased character of the Rad
ical chiefs who proclaimed them, believed
| them true. and the respect they once held
for the Great Republic of the new world,
was sunk as they saw at its head Presi-
dent, made SO by the votes of the people,
guilty of crimes ranging from an accessory
to murder down to the lowest petit larceny,
and yet, not one of these charges were true,
not one of them satisfactorily prov
en- by the perjured scOuudrels who
gave evidence before the Investigating
committee. And the man who was
chief among those that charged President
} JOHNSON with being the instigator of the
murder of Mr.. LINCOLN, when put upon
the stand as a witness, with the result OF
the late elections before him. fairly quailed
before the overwhelming sentiment against
his party and himself, and said that he had
no evidence to s1stain his charge, but that
it was merely a theory upon which he
based his miserable SANDER, and that theo-
ry was, that Presidents HARRISON and
TYLER had died and been succeeded by
Vice Presidents, and that President BU-
CHANAN had been taken sick and was sup
po :ed to have been poisoned, it was fair to
presume the intention was to kill him, and
that hence President JOHNSON was guilty
of the murder of LINCOLN. A most lame
| and impotent conclusions. s-s --+-
Tie late election put a quietus to this
plan of Radicalism to overthrow the Con-
stitution and to seize the Executive Depart
ment by the Radical Congress. The late
demonstrations of public opinion saved the
nation from anarchy and civil war. The
Radical leaders in Congress, and their fol-
lowers throughout the land-men who
obey the behests of SUMNER, WADE and
ASHLEY as the spaniel obeys his master
| for the morsel he throws him, were all
frightened out of their wits, and the wit
nesses brought to sustain the Impeach-
ment. fearful of the wrath to come, forso OF
their cunning and gave such evidence as
even the most abandoned of their party
| failed to credit. In a Radical House OF
| Representatives,, out of one hundred and
| siXty-five votes, near three-fourths of il
Republican, but fifty-seven votes were
found, on Saturday last, to sustain the
charge that ANDREW JOHNSON had beer
guilty of crime. f
| Thus at cost Of thousands upon thou.
sands of ,dollars-at the still greater sac.
rifice of truth and decency-at the fearful
| cost of the degradation of the Government,
in the eyes OF tie people of other parts o.
i Gilc WOTlus IuC CoHSpiidIoiS HdNO iducu IL
the House of their friends, and the i'm.
peachment OF President JOHNSON at once
and forever settled. But not so the con
spiraters. Judgment has now to be passed
upon them. What that judgment is, his
tory must alone pronounce. In it they
like the wretch who burned the dome o
Ephesus, that he might live in history
will occupy their appropriate pages, bu
THAR fame will he one that honesr mar