Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-09-14
A .Pharisee', or a Fiend.

There is paper called "The Church
Union," supported by members of the dit
ferent churches in New York and Brook
lyn, which, like other protesting religious
sheets, forgets its calling to dabble in poll
tics. In its issue of the 7th of September,
"The Church Union" has the following:
"CAN MR.. JOHNSON BE IMPEACHED
For removing Sheridan, Sickles and
Stanton? Evidently not. Both the Con-
stitHtiOn and the precedent of all the past
sustain him. 1t pl owes that human consti-
tutions are weak things. There is scarcely
a business man in this country that does
not see that the course of Mr.. johnson is
revolutionary nevertheless. The will of
the people is the law of the land. That
will is that Congress reconstruct the coun-
try. TIE President has power-and right
too, technically-to put whom he pleases
into the places Congress provides for to
move on the machinery of reconstruction.
II Sheridan grinds the mill forward and
Thomas grinds it backwards we can't
complain, SO long as we will be under
the dominion of mills. That mill is our
Constitution. Conscience irks lis weary oil
its control. Will we yield conscience
This is now the issue direct and simple
Shall right rule the land or Andrew john
son-or Andrew Jones, for that matter; it
is all the same? We doubt not that Con-
gress will impeach the President-just as
resolute man once impeached crazy en-
gineer who was driving train filled with
gay, thoughtless life on to mad destruction.
Not by statute, but by right. The simple
QueS ion whether one man can keep this
thirty millions of people in an uproar for
two years more by his insane course is the
question. But why grope about among
statutes or Constitutions for the right.
is N intarASr n
the Almighty. 1t is theocracy. Let
whatever is right be DONE" Eht
Starting off with the admission that
President JOHNSON is sustained in his acts
by the law and the Constitution-it then
attacks the Constitution and declares that
the consciences of the Radicals are weary of
its control-that this nation is governed in
the interest OF the Almighty-it is theoc-
racy (i.e. governed by Cody, and hence it ar
CUES that ANDREW JOHNSON, for defending
the Constitution-for merely doing that
which the Constitution allows him to do
should be impeached and removed from the
Office to which he was elected by the peo-
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C More of barefaced scoundrelism we have
never before read in any paper. 1t advises
revolution-it advises peIjury-it advises
bloodshed and death, for it may rest assur-
ed that there are enough of those who still
''cling to the Constitution, as the ship
wrecked mariner clings to the last plank,
when darkness and the tempest close
around him." to resist the mad acts of these
fanatics.
aa Like the shifting, hypocritical knaves
who, fled from religious persecution
abroad to the New England shores, that
they might have "ireedom to worship
God,' after their own forms and creed
then denied it to others, and prosecuted the
unoffending Quakers, ,and drove the Baptists
from their midst, because they would not
a6jure their religious faith-who hung old
women because they were ugly. and there
fore must be witches--who, reading that
the earth belonged to the Saints, resolved
that they themselves were the only Saints.
that they might take possession of other
mems property, this Church Union" " would
do evil that good to itself and party might
come out of it.
. In direct violation of the laws OF GoD and
of man-of the teachings of Him who
'spake as never man spoke'-impiously,
in the name of "GoD the Father" by deeds
of violence, by perjury, in violation of the
Constitution, which every member of Con-
gress has sworn to support, this professed-
ly religious sheet, recommends the i'm
parchment and removal of the President,
not for such crimes as the law says is
necessary, but because the waning fortunes
of the Radicals demand it.
ANDREW JOHNSON was not elected to-
office by the Democratic party, but against
their wishes. Against him the Democracy
nominated one of their ablest Statesmen
a man, who, in all the relations OF life, like
as was said of the Chevalier BAYARD is a
knight beyond reproach. In the madness
of party, that candidate was defeated and
ANDREW JOHNSON was elected, not by the
majority OF the people-but still according
to the forms of the Constitution, placed in
power. The clamorers for JoHNsoN's cleo
tion, now, because he will not
do their bidding in violating the
Constitution, the men who elected
him, growing tired of him, as this ''Chureh
linton" says it wearies of the Constitution,
intend to impeach and thus hurl him from
office, not because he has violated his oath
of office-not because he has done anything
that the Constitution prohibits-not but
that he has lived up to its provisions in
letter and in spirit, but because the "con-
science'' (GoD save the gutta percha thing
these hypocritical knaves call conscience,)
Of the leaders demand it. This makes 1t |
right, and right should be done."
IF this "Church Union'' editor who thus
issues the orders of WADE and SUMNER
md STEVENS, would but read his Bible,
le would know that the Bible, through |
,ne of the ablest Apostles, teaches that ''the |
powers that be are ordained of GoD." and
hat 'swhosoever resisteth the power re-
isteth the ordinance of COP, and they that
'esist shall receive 10 themselves damna-
ion." And through the whole of the New
Testament the same stern denunciation of
and of melting men to war
upon each other is condemned.
These words of the Prophet, the Aboli-
tion press, when Mr.. LINCOLN was Presi-
dent, used to quote, and with the declara-
tion that the President was the Govern
ment, and he who spoke against the PIesi-
dent was a traitor, and deserved hanging
Not because this .' Church Union" speaks i'll
If ANDREW JOHNSON, but because it runs
counter to the commands of the Bible,
whose declarations it pretends to inculcate,
~ endeayoring to stir up strife again in the
and, we denounce it and its doctrines as
dangerous in the highest degree, aud as
more worthy the dark spirit of the teach
ngs of the father OF lies and of mischief
han that of follower of the Prince OF
Peace.