Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-10-28

What Does 1t Mean?
Yesterdays mail brought us a COPY of
newspaper published every morning (Sun
days included) in the city of Philadelphia
Its editor and publisher shall be nameles
here. since it is enough for the purpose il
hand to say that whatever one may thinl
of his character as man, a politician. or
Journalist-whether to esteem or despise
none will deny that he has been for years
and now is, one OF the prime leaders in tn,
Republican party; and his newspaper, bt
1t worthy or worthless as tested by tn,
true standard of honorable Journalism, il
one of the leading organs of the same par
ty. Some men may, as many men do, claim
that this editor and publisher is corrup
beyond all redemption. and this paper
tissue of falsehoods; yet all mnst admit
that both the man and the paper have
potent voice in the party to whose welfar,
they profess to be devoted. Recogniz
ing this, the contents of the issue
of this journal for October 2l arc
alarmingly significant. Nearly half o
its first page is filled by an article
from the November number of New Eng.
land monthly magazine, which is nothing
but studied effort TO intlame the lowest
passions of its readers against the Presi-
dent of the United States. 1t is said in this
that he is a ''trickster and apostate - that
"he is cursed with that form of moral dis
ease which sometimes renders man ridic-
ulous, sometimes Infamous, but never rem
ders him respectable;" that ''his mere pres
ence in the Executive chair of constitu-
tional country is OF itself "a high crime
and misdemeanor.'" Then follows a series
of implied charges against Mr.. johnson and
adroit insinuatiOns of what he may do and
covert hints that if the people do not op-
pose his policy by ballots they NAV have
hnu NIfifh fl,a fAl10
graph at the close:
The House of Repre-: entatives, which has
the sole power of impeachment will i'm all
probability impeach the President. The
Senate, which has the sole power to try i'm
Deachments, will in all probability find
him guilty, by the requisite two thirds of
its members, of the charges preferred by
the House. And he himself, cowed by the
popular verdict against his contemplated
crime, and hopeless of escaping from the
punishment OF past delinquencies by a new
act of treason, will submit to be removed
from the office he has too long been allow
ed to dishOnor.
This article is warmly indorsed by the
newspaper in question, its author being
pronounced tone who knows whereof he
speaks" and his production as '.sketched
by the hand OF MASTER
But this is not all. In the same issue of
this newspaper is printed long letter from
the edi, or and publisher. dated Washing
ton, ID. c., Oct. 10, 1867, and given greater
typographical prominence than aught else
in the paper. The letter contains what
was omitted in the magaZne-in fact, they
are compliments of each other. The form
er declares that 'Andrew johnson pro-
claimed from the steps of the White House,
on the 22d of February, 1866, that he in
tended to complete this conspiracy;" and
"this conspiracy" is that Northern De-
mOcracy wants the Southern States in the
Union to aid their supremacy and rule the
country" Further on we read the follow
ing inf1ammatory paragraphs!
The removal of Stanton was the first
step, and the appointment of a copperhead
successor to General Grant, in defiance of
the civil tenure law, will undoubtedly be
the next, if Mr.. Stewards prophecy of a
Democratic victory in New York is real
ized. With Secretary pledged to embar-
rass General Howard, at the head of the
Freedmen's Bureau, and to neutralize the
wholesome influence of the chiefs of the
five Southern military districts, Congress
will meet under very peculiar circum-
stances. The military organization in
Maryland belongs to the programme, and
although it is asserted that Swami will be
disappointed if he attempts to array his
forces against Congress, yet, with such a
man as Frank P. Blair in the War Depart
ment, encouraging the Shareholders in
their new prescriptions of the freedmen
and white UniOnists of the South, it is not
difficult to anticipate such congregation
in the City of Washington on the 21st of
November as would eagerly respond to
any order that might be given by the ty-
rant in the Presidential chair.
am confident that when the Presiden-
tial apOstate undertakes to back his usurpa-
tions by violence-when he undertakes, for
instance, acting upon the invitations of the
traitors, to arrest the two houses OF Con-
gress for whatever act they may determine
to be necessary to the protection of the
Republic-if the whole rebel army lay be-
tween the North and the West and the
capital, our loyal Governors. leading the
loyal people, who would come to the res
cue.
1t may be that some of our readers may
think that too much space has been occu-
pied with these citations. If there be any
such, let them remember that they are not
the words of an excited orator on the
stump, but words coolly committed to pa
per, coolly printed i'll apublic journal and
designed to inf1ame the popular passions.
Not every paper speaks out so boldly,
yet words of similar import, though
less pronounced, meet our eyes every
day in the Republican press of the coun-
try.
ana now what does all this mean? This
is Il question not for partisans, but tor pat
riots. Democrats and Republicans alike
are interested in obtaining a correct answer
to it. Unless words are but wind, and the
character of the persons who gave them to
the public have changed within the last
twenty-four hours, these utterances mean
mischief, serious mischief, and only mis-
chief. They mean that there ara men who
are ready. nay anxious, to excite revolu-
tion in this country. and who have few
doubts as to the certainty of obtaining fol-
lowers. 1t is not Andrew Johnson, nor the
Democratic party that they dread. but the
loss of the political power which Tor so
many years they have welded, and which
they now see slipping from their grasp.
These men, however, misread the nation
al heart if they fancy that their appeals
are seconded by it. The nation is in
no mood for revolution. 1t wants peace
1t wants rest from the strain to which it
was put to maintain its integrity when
eleven States rose against it. Andrew
johnson is nothing to either political par
ty. But quiet and harmony are every
thing, and these the country demands, that
it will have at any cost; and those agita-
tors who stand in the way of attaining this
most desirable result may find that the fire
which they seek to kindle for others will
consume only themSelves.-World.
The Iowa Election.