The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1867-11-22

lief, mark my word, there u DO the Breateet
craw6ehing you ever saw from this tmo'
forward. Well, let them go. We can win
without them, ana we will win, too, just as
sure as the Almighty Is just aud heaven
above us. II viii become harder every |
wear for the Cupperheats to beat US on |
that issue and they won't beat VS. very |
often either. if we only make bold trout |
aud 90 at 'em with fixed bayouets every |
time"
MR.. EwINo's LETTER.
asked Mr.. Wade il he hnd read Tom.
Ewing letter on the lesson OF the late cleo.
tons lie said he had read ouly short
extract from it, but could hardly make out
what the old fellow was driving at. Old
Tom isn't the best political guide in the
world of late years, and dont think what
he says will have much effect on the Ro'
publican party He went of with the
Johnson brethren, aud we havn't been TAX
ing advice from such sources lately"
well" said |, the sum and substance
Of the letter is, that the Radicals ought to
back down from their reconstruction policy,
and abandon negro suffrage in the South,
because it has been voted down in Ohio"
"Never in Gods world, said Mr.. Wade.
I" So far as nv vote goes, we will never
abandon any thing we've done there, but
we will 20 further and make it worse for
the rebels it they dout behave themselves
better. 1t is simply absurd to talk of una
king States without the negro vote in the
South. You can't do it. You might as well
let them sccede at once and set up for them.
selves, as to let tho white rebels get control
of everything down there, as they would
do under Johnsons policy, We couldn't
70 back on the negroes it we would, and |
wouldn't if | could They talk abouta war
of races 1t will never come unless the
rebels bring it about and it it does COME
let them fight it out between them, anu lot
Que drive the other out If they can, That's
none of my business. As u Senator, am
bound to bee that there is Republican gov
ernment in these States. That's all We got
to do with it. If they oaut agree among
themselves, SO much the worse tor the stle
that gets whipped-thats all, But we'u
give them Republican form of govern.
ment in spite OF the devil and all his angels
including Andy Johnson"
IMPEACHMENT.
On the subject of impeachment, Mr.. Wade
said he wished to be distinctly understood
as expressing no opinion so far as MT John
sons guilt or innocence was concerned
He would however, answer my question
as TO whether tue late elections would have
any effect upon that matter. He thought
they would. You see, said he "these weak
kneed brothers are taking the back track
already Well now, what the devil has an
election in Ohio got to do with the matter
II Andy Johnson is guilty, put him out
if not acquit him; that's the way to do it
They ought to have pressed the investiga'
ton right along after they started it. Aud
30 they would have done last winter, il
there hadn't been so many men in the Sen.
/ ate and House who wanted tokeep on good
terms with the White House. There were
too many men from Ohio aud other States
who wanted their brothers and friends ap
pointed to ollice, aud knew that Andy was
bidding high for votes. 1t was one OF tlit
most shameful spectacles in this or any
- other country, to see men selling themselvet
and their consttuents.fo for office last winter
You pitched iuto them, in the Commercial
but you only told hundredth part OF the
truth. | wish the papers would take NJ
!, every devil of 'em aud so after em. The
s thing will ruin the country yet if the peo
r pie amt careful. Some of them deniet
having made any effort to get those appoint
/, ments, but know how it was. | know
that Andy was mighty particular to make
!" his appointments TO the best Advantage, an!
i he didn't give an office where it wouldn'
u thing of Office getting, the Impeachment
9 would have been settled last wiuter, as
L ought to have been. dou't know whethe
81 Johnson would have been turned out o
g not, but the thing would have been de
l termined, one way or the other"
II asked him if he thought the Republi
j" can party would have Jared better in tn
Q late elections if Johnson had been i'm
y peached and turned out Of office. Ger
I, tainly it would" said he. IF we had mad
20 out case against him and turned him ou
u (and we shouldn't have turned him out III
D. less wo had made good oase), we'd hav
U been much stroger. There nothing tn
VI people like in party so well as bOldness
~ and nothing hurts party so mnch as tin
70 idity. If the people think you are afrai
to do thing that you ought to do, they
n beat You certain. They like pluck
~ white-livered party will soon go to pieces
y 1t was because we took hold OF the SLAYER
"a question in good earnest that we won on |
u and we never did win until We did tax
~ hold of it in that way sa1 1s. "A
no SUMMERS SUFFRAGE BILL. y a
!. Referring to this measure, Mr.. Wad
a said he had not made up his mind exactl
~ ~ whether he ought to vote for il or not II
:, ~ believed that under the last clause. of tn
80 80 thirteenth amendment, giving Congress
~ power to enforce the abolition OF SLAYER
- by appropriate legislation, there was an
~ ~ pie authority for the passage Of the bill
~ for no man was really free in this 'countr
~ unless he had the right to vote. But h
!; was a believer in State rights in propt
,S ,S and legitimate way, and did not know bl
~ this bill was in violation o. the right (
a each State to regulate suffrage. Some {
"a his party, he said were in favor of whS
- they called consolidation, but he never wa
~ He believed il was necessary to the propS
:" administration of the affairs of the Govern
- meni, that the States should have certai
!, rights, and he did not believe that Sta
"a rights should exist only for the purpose {
NJ representation in the Senate, and be a nu
ot lity for all other purposes.
,u GENERAL GRANT. $3.50
ic Referring to Presidential mattersi NJ
be Wade said il had looked to him for yes
ly past as il the Republican party would tai
,n Grant up for President, and run him in vii
to a hurrah He was sotry to see that di
no position, and believed no good would cog
m oft. ''The trouble with Grant is" sa
he, you don't know where he stands.
We seems very singular that man could lsal
Sc lived through this terrible war wiiho
be Identifying himself with any party, aud th
/ / men pretending to be Republicans shou
W try to rush him into the White House wit
nd o1t asking him single question as 10 whe
Of he stands on the great issues now befo
re. ! the country Still have felt in my bon,
an that fhey would do that very thing"