Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-02-01
The Situation,
From the New York Tribun

From the New York Tribune
Because General Grant declines to do
Mr.. Johnson's dirty work; to be his crea-
ture and catspaw, and cover the infamies
of the administration with the luster of
of his great name, the President howls
with disappointed rage, and his followers
foam with Indignation. We honor Gen.
Grant for what he has done We regard
those attacks upon his truthfulness as the
baying OF SO many hounds In ques-
tion, ,ofveraclty between Ulysses S. Grant
and ANDREW johnson, between soldier
whose honor Is untarnished as the sun,
and President who has betrayed every
friend, and broken every promise, the
country will not hesitate Let this fight
be open and manly. # -And5e,c JOHNSON
means to defy this Tenure Of Office lac,
and make q aoar 'lpo1 Tie country, let him
do 1t If lie dare, did take tie consequent
ces! Edwin N. Stanton is Secretary of
War, and he can only be removed by the
operation Of law. Of course the Presi
dent does not desire HIM in the War OF
hce; bat neither docs Lc want Mr.. Ste
Tcns In the uouse, nor Mr.. Sumner in
the Senate. He wishes their absence so
badly that he has publicly expressed his
opinion they should be hung. Still, they
are IN Congress, just as Stanton is in the
Cabinet; They are officers of the Gov
ernment, and must be respected.
LET Stanton resign" say some, Sand
thus tide over his trouble" We beg Mr..
Stanton not to resign. If we are to have
4 contest with President Johnson of de-
clslve character, the sooner it comes the
better. We have had enough of patience,
compromise, fJrGeLra c.. Oar cause is
that of fjustice, and we owe the millions
OF helpless loyalists in the South too
much 10 see Them sacrificed TO the spirit
Of slavery and treason which now rules
incarnate in the person Of Andrew John
son. Therefore, we say, let the President,
If he dare, put finger upon Mr.: Stanton
or General Grant. We have sacrificed
tCo much for freedom to see it stified in
a night by these conspirators against the
public good. These men are enemies to
the Republic. Under the pretense Of sa-
wing the country and executing the laws,
they are laboring to bring anarchy upon
US. They seek tc make the South hell,
to have race to be aIrayed against race,
and vengeance to take place of Justice.
Every step that the loyal men have taken
toward reconstruction is opposed, and
the President of the United States, the
sworn executor of the law, stands to day
in the position OF its most persistent and
powerful foe. Bu for him every South
ern State would be in Congress, and the
country would be satisfied
Yes, but we will lose the elections"
say some, ''and the Coppcrheads will tri-
unph." Well, we have heard that be-
fore, and we find no terror in it. If the
slave interest is to triumph, and the 10y
al men OF the South are to be remanded
to the mercy of the men who tried to en-
slave and murder them for five years, let
it be done by the COppeiheals W hen they
come into power, and not by our mega
tive consent. Defeat may come with
honor, but let it find us standing steady
by the right, yielding no principle, ma
king no concession. We are beaten to
day, if defeat is our destiny. Rather tl.an
see the Congress of America tamely con-
cele one element of justice, or surrender
one man to the tyranny of the rebel pow
err, Or permit the President to put finger
upon Mr.. Stanton or General Grant, we
would accept any political fate. The
Congress cannot recede. 1t cannot shirk
its responsibility, and it must not be para
lyzcd by concessions to a President who,
finding he cannot rule the count 'ry, seems
bent upon running it.
Therefore we admonish the President
and his midnight, back-stairs counselors.
The next card that Congress may play is
impeachment. 1t is for Mr.. johnson to
say whether it shall be played or not.