Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-11-30
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Impeachment mos Popular With
she Republican MASSES.
In the late campaign, when CoLFAx, Lo-
GAN, and such as they, villified the Presi-
dent and ydsnounoed him yasE an rapostate
fSa sAdsrsitor to- the Republican party,
SnSath5t shs very ksrstthin8 that should
AsSYh{ed b ppA AeE recovering Of
Y Congress would be the Impeachment OF
the President their audiences applauded
vociferously. A locker on would have
thought that nothing more acceptable to
the Republican party could be done than
tho impeachment of the President. The
bona efIths Repghiieanprsss, since the Inn
e IPeachment report Of TIE majority Of the
Judiciary Committee has been given to the
public, is deprecatory almost to the ut
most. 0tsqpjty,, SIb0fNslHe eecdmpeach-
ment; the evidence against him is not of
character to satisfy the public that the
President has been guilty of Impeachable
offenses. and because of its insufficiency it
will cause the suicide of II the hsssi Republican
party, 1t It shall BE- persistad in,gns eas
This Ia the eexpresscdsopini6n of the most
of the Republican press. Here and there,
however, there is an exception. and among
Sggs 9cfass Is the NCineihsat5 CGasetse. 9It is
mnst venOmous in its demands for Inn
peachment. Theaet of-crowning guilt In
the President is thus set forth by the Ga
,ScaAsse ahIe2aSSdIsSSe ahIe2aSSdIsSSelan ssrihy wbo:do Z aos
have to admit that Johnson's acts in set
ting up State GoyernmenFs in the rebel
sohos6 makes out, when he deilfes this
power tbs Congress foro II It Exists any,
where it Is in Congress. The Dr,mncraticl
partysb0 mikelis zDutt f1rsbliey y ct.i,n that
the cessation of hostilities restored the rrb-
el people to their former political status.
XehayayaeYer yet seen.a pYinteFatie Jour
qhlSrMatpr .sdnlfttlint ,h,ilpson. had dcoIisti-
tntiona p'wer C., set aside the rebel State
Governments and set up new. although we
sbaveh Fapea Ted ly challenged them onb this
pApe-sEas eqEi 10 sssoi s=zsl no .iiEs
1t is true tiasesthsaD mocratic party con-
tended, that upon the cessation OF hostili-
ties the State Gpyernments OF the South re-
Aajded Ailfali fetee aud effzct; that they
needed no reorganization. They believed
citizens and heysbeiiever now, that had tiiis
position Of tile Democratic party been rec
ognized as coffect, aann1tf that had neither the
President nor Congress undertaken to re-
Organize them, It would to-day be a thou
sanI fold better for the country. The Gov
ernInent would not have been Under the
necessity of keeping up large standing
army in the South, thereby adding largely
TO the already nphesrablY large expendi-
lures 81 she Govsrpperf, ana Sthrouah
them to the crushing taxation that through
out the, entire North, paralyzes nearly all
business and industrial pursuits. Had this
recognition been made. there would now
be healthy prosperity pervading the en-
tire South. That the Democracy were not
nisaler; treidsat from Gen: GR3ar's
testimony before the Judiciary committee.
lie testified :asI knosO thai ipwettiately after
the close of the Rebellion there ,oas uery fine
letsQsabdeaAkflSt tkssSeutk aud ufhsGgK
zoe ought to take Advantage Of it as soon as pos
esRhat has been the result Of the failure to
take advantage OF that Zine feeling,?"
Ge6efaf GkIfNiff answers tfisqtiestio,i hhis
declaration that, "bas-since that there has
been an evident change there" That ''evi-
dent change" has been caused BIZ Congress
,,surping not only the power iof ttie Exec
utive, but in acting in pkpahle violation of
the Constitution vin forcing Negro Suffrage
upon the Southern people.
Theirs eiSrtdse1eeosiating plea for Presi- ,
deptsloHNsoN. Assassination put him into
the Presidential Chair, and he sought to
take up and carry through the work of
pacifcation and restoration justaas PrsE
dent LINCOLN designed to. He, therefore,
a a'npsesiswbat b. sknoxn as the North Caro-
lima proclamation. as prepared by Presidept
LINCOLN, providing for the reorganization
of Civil Government in that State. Right,
or wrong, that policy thus inauenrated,s
the Republican State, Convention of Ohio,
when it assembled in June. 1863, indorsed,
ial thS followiag explicit and iiemnhaticl
resolution:
ssThat President Andrew johnson. by
his unwavering devotion to the Union
through years of severest trial, has won
indorse the policy of his Administration. look
10 a 1e reeoraqot q peace and e,ua ordertas
~ N Sqlfd secdReF States. and h1 as Oflion
nD4Af Dh1 soes.siA gioe him our hearty and
wndiUided support"
Then, according to the leaders Of the Re-
publican party !, in Ohio. Presidenta
JOHNSON was most devoted Union.
ist; then 5hB policy was so fmef--
/ torious that. they took to themsely,s1
great satisfaction in giving it cheerful in
dorSespept. Not satisfied with -this7they;
pledged him a-ehearty and undivided sup
portrin Now, however, in the estima- D
tion of the Gazette, President Johnson, in
stead of being entitled to receive the shear
ty and undivided support" of the Repub-
lican party of Ohio in that 'policy," should
be swiftly, with the least possible ceremony,
driven, dishonored and disgraced, from the
Presidential efice- When the mass of the Z
Republicans shall come to consider these
facts, and when they shall come to comrre-
hend0 that the reason why the Radicals T
want tot fmpsseb the President, isibeea6se
he would not use his power, or give his
sanction. to- the Republicans i'm, Congress 2
to hand the Soptherpi States over to the DO
liticaf domination of fhalf-ciyilized Negroes,
to the sole end that the Republican party
may be kept in power, they will be very
likely to visit their cOndem,ratiof effectu--s
ally upon all who shall take a hand iu this
nefarious business.
N@tioraly yBanks IN Danger.
Advfces from Washington are to the ef-
feet, that the National Banks areiin dauger;7
that there Is in the House a majority in fa-ot
vor Of issuing one hundred and fifty mil
ILL.,, oDl <,f ,,,;th