Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-11-27

Not q Candidate for President.
Gov. HoRATIo SEYMOUR has written let
ter declaring that he will not be candidate
for the Presidential nomination before the
next National Democratic Convention.
"Whom the Gods Wish TO Destroy,
They First Make Mad.'
Mr.. KELSEY, New York Radical, who
seems to be admirably fitted by nature and
education to do the bidding of the leaders
in Congress, has, in view of the impeach-
ment against President JoHNsoN, intro
duced a bill to deprive him of the Office to
which he was elected, pending his trial by
the Senate. This is done to make Senator
WADE President while the trial progresses,
in order that he may carry out the Radical
programme.
That such a bill will pass Congress we do
not doubt, for the Radical caucus will SO
decree, and experience has shown that their
edicts rise above and beyond the Constitu-
tion.. If impeached by the House and the
Senate finds the President guilty of crime,
the only punishment is to depose him OF
office The bill of Mr.. KELSEY does this,
before single witness is examined, or
even the Senators, sitting as jurors to try
the case, are sworn. 1t will accomplish all
that conviction can accomplishing re-
moval OF the President from office. leaving
Radicalism its full swing in the Govern
ment. No greater mockery of justice
could be hatched up by designing knaves
invested with temporary power--none more
calculated to lead to acts of violenc in
which, in the very nature of things, the
conspirators must be the sufferers.
The State OF New York, in which this
Mr.. KELSEY resides and part of which he
in Congress, during the present
month, has repudiated Radicalism by Civ
ing Democratic majority of some fifty
Thousand votes. Yet the man, whose State
thus repudiates him, is the chosen instru-
ment to Introduce this latest outrage into
the House of Representatives, in order to
make BENJAMIN F. WADE, repudiated by
the people of his own State, as United
States Senator, President of the United
States.
The people of the United States have SUI
fered more outrages to be committed within
the last seven years, than they feel disposed
to tolerate in the future. And we warn the
Radical conspirators in Congress of that
which they seem to have forgotten, that
the recent election decided that these out
RACES must cease. The Democratic and
Conservative element of the country form
a large majority of the people. They have
h.
minority, who. by disfranchising a large
class of white voters and making voters of
the negro, seek to retain their ,ill-gotten
power, which has already cost the nation
so largely in blood and treasure. Now, the
same men who, thus prostituted the Gov .
ernment to their own selfish and ambitious
ends, seek to grasp the executive power of
the Republic by q coup d 'etat, and thus to &,
perpetuate their power through all time. .
Do they, in their folly, suppose they can do
this with impunity? The precedent which
this project of Mr.. KELSEY, if suffered to
20 into operation, will establish, is one
that, in the future. as IN the present, will
enable the majority in Congress to suspend
from Office any President that may be
elected. There is not single charge made
against President JOHNSON by the Radical
press or by Radical Congressman, sus-
tained by single fact sufficient to convict
him OF crime, and notsone which, even If Z
true, would amount to sufficient to form
he groundwork of impeachment. The
charges are all political, and are the off
spring Of malice, and made with an eye sim
gle to force the President into their meas
ures, and falling of which, to oust him from
office.
In his late examination before the COM
mittee of the House, Gen. GRANT gave
evidence that President JOHNSON, in his
theory, was but following in
The footsteps of Mr.. LINCOLN, and in his
Efforts to punish the leaders Of the rebellion,
he met with GRANTS decided opposition.
As If to show how utterly reckless the
leaders were of public opinion, scarce was
Gen. GRANTS evidence made public, before
the men who proposed to make him their
for President propose to impeach
The President for holding opinions which
their proposed candidate, and their late
President entertained, and portion of
which, charged as a crime, President JOHN
SON utterly repudiates.
To reason with madmen, intent on mis-
,hief, isidle. To quote the Constitution to
men who have made up their minds to
7iolate it, even if in so doing they subvert
the Government, is like casting pearl be-
lore swine. In our opinion, they have
made mp their minds to seize the Govern
nent, and II not frightened from their pur-
pose, they will make the attempt. They
will SOW the wind, and in so doing, will
'eap the whirlwind for their pains.
CHARLES w. RUSSELL, at the breaking
,ut- Of the war acknowledged to be the
lblest lawyer and finest orator in Western
died recently in Baltimore. Dur
ng the war he acted with the South, which
ack nade him an allan from h;o old bor,.