Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-03-27
From Union County.
BEEcHrowN, UNION Co., o.
March ord 1897 G

| lEE2 ,BEECHTOwN, UNION Co., o.
March 23d, 1867.
EDITOR OHIO. .STATEsMAN-Dear Sir: In
view of the revolutionary legislation of the
39th Congress (so-called) and the action OF
the junto calling itself the 10th Congress,
it may not be improper to inquire of His
Excellency, Andrew johnson, President of
the United States, Commander-in-C Chief OF
the army, &C., &C.:
| First-If he, as Chief Magistrate of the
Union, conceives himself bound to exc
cute and enforce upon an unwilling people
the behests of those mad, malignant revo-
| lutionists who assume that the great
Jehovah has created, for the especial bene-
| fit of monopolists, New England manufac-
turers and emancipaGed slaves all the broad
acres of the fairest and finest portion of our
beautiful country?
| Secondly-If, having sworn to support
and uphold the Constitution, he does not
feel equal to the emergency of the times,
the requirements of justice, and is not de-
termined (God and the people assisting) to
preserve the constitutional rights of ALL
the States, and hand over to his successor a
|
successor having been elected by majori-
ty of the people of the WHOLE UNION?
| Before, however, would expect an an
sWer to these einterrogatOries, hold it to be
the duty of the true constitutional Union
| men of the North to convene meetings in
every State, county and city, pledge them
selves, with their very lives if necessary,
| to support the President in preserving our
| frOn rIlin and nur 1ihortinS from
destruction; having so pledged, to organize
| in every township, ward and precinct
throughout the length ard breadth of the
land. and hold themselves in prepared read
| mess to redeem their VOW whenever the
| revolutionists in the height of their frenzy,
greed and malignity, make it necessary tor
the Chief Magistrate to call on the army
and the people to save our Republic from
the blood-tbirsty disunion fanatics who seek
to destroy it. Simply holding meetings
making windy speeches and passing reso-
lutions with the view of carrying elections
are not the weapons by which the Consti-
tuition and the Union are to be preserved
No, no! The party that can sit, prate and
! Wrangle for so many months, as to the eX-
pediency of removing the President from
office because he has some respect for the
Constitution; the party that is trying Sc
successfully fast to divide the people into
two distinct classes-the one a moneyed
bond-holding aristocracy and oligarchy
the other a needy, hard working, tax-pay-
ing rabble, unworthy the passing notice o
the wealthy and self-sufficient nabobs! The
party that can boast such unblushing im-
pudence as to think they can lord it over a
free people and hold thirty millions OF
American white men as willing, satisfied
and thankful slaves, must be taught, before
it is too late, that they cannot depose the
President merely because he is obnoxious
to them. They must be made to under
stand that the Fathers and Founders of oul
Republic provided an Executive. Judicial
ry, and a Congress, composed of Senators
and Representatives from all the States oi
the Union (not rump). for the perfection
of the Government. They must be told ir
plain language that the Union of these
States shall not again be imperiled to graf
ify the malice of any set of bad and bloody
minded men. The President must be asked
to do his duty. He must be told not to bend
under the storm of threats and intimida-
tions. He,must be assured that, when any
lovert act of treason or revolution is at
tempted, he will be supported and justified
in arresting and bringing to punishment
the leaders in the unholy plot. And they
too, had better be admonished. in time, that
the laws passed by themselves for the pun
ishment of disloyalty to the Federal Gov
ernment, are just as applicable to Northern
disunion revolutionists and usurpers as
they are to Southern secesslonists and reb-
els. Let them not cease to remember thai
there is an iron clad" oath of their own
forging, obnoxious alike to the rebel and
revOlutionist, that both may be compelled tC