The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1868-05-21

with Andrew J J0hnson or any lung
else. accuses us OF a want OF spinal
stiffness in the present emergency.
Our columns bear witness that we
labored ior the conviction of An
drew Johnson to the last day and
hour that We could hope to exer,
else any influence upon the result.
When it became apparent to us
that be co1ld not be convicted,
we addressed ourselves 10 the
duty of Saving the pieces, "
We do not propose to put
the Republican party in liquid
alton because the Senate votes
to leave Andrew Johnson in the
White House ten months longer
We have too vivid recollection OF
Bull Run to JOIN in a stampede OF
| panic stricken journalsiand pollti'
ciaps ,mtrely because we lost ahavo
battle. Nor shall we join in cru
cifying any Republican Senator Of
| previous good rcpute who takes
upon himself the penalties of
msrtyrdom rather than do violence
TO his own conscience.
The Cincinnati Commercial (In-
dependenD says; @
The extreme Radicals, who claim
to be the most advanced and en-
lightcned Of the supporters of pop
ular freedom, arc precisely the per.
sons who are using the most des-
| perate endeavors to take from us
tall our just claim TO prc.emineuce,
and to reduce US to the same con-
dition which has preceded the
downfall of other free governments.
During the whole progress OF the
impeachment trial, they have
publicly and noisly prejidgcd the
case. They have practically in
sisted that the Senate was sitting
only TO enregister formally the de-
cree Ola party caucus. They have
tried, by turns, cajolery and intim-
Idati6n upon every Senator who
might appear to hesitate in saying,
upon his oath, that he believed the
defendant in the great trial guilty
Of yillfuIly cOmmiLtinghigh crimes
and misdemeunors. They have
snecred at conscience when it came
between them and the execution
of their projects, and have encour-
aged The most contemplate and
worthless party hacks to flourish
tho party lash over the lreads OF
the first men of the Senate.
IL is more than time this thing
were ended, and it needs no pro.
phet TO tell that it must be, or the
rule of tho Republican party is
ended. When papers protesting
to bo leaders Of tho party call
Grimes, of Iowa, a traitor, they
! deal q moro dangerous blow to the
party than they do to Senator
Grimes When thoy say the Re
lpublcans OF Illinois have "a high
er opinion OF Dick Yates drum
than they have ofJudge Trumbull
sober thoy do moro to defeat
Repubhcanism than all the Dem
ocrats of Illinois, combined, could
do. When they talk Of n corrup.
ton fund being used to determine
the vote ofsuch o man as Senator
Fessendcn, they insult the intelli-
lgeneo OF the whole nation.
1t is in the name aud for the
sake Of whatever is truly valuable
and patriotic in the Republican
organization, that we protest
against these cxtravagances ofword
and act, which are us cruelty un
just toward tho distins sulshed Re
publican leaders who ara attacked
as they are destructive OF the
prestige and unity of the party in
whose behalf they are protessedly
done and uttered. '. Il
Tho New York Times strongly
sustains, the position of ,Fessondon,
Trumbull, Grimes, Henderson and
othor Senators. saying that the Re
publican party will have cause tC
thank them for saving it from sol
destruction before the contest il
over. ,ra 3l3 n
The Post speaks in sharp term
against tho threats mado to coercC
Trumbull TO resign, and concern
ing tho address of the Missour
Republican members. asking Hen
derson to withhold his voto. |
believes in acquittal, but with {
sharp censure on the President fol
misconduct, and urges tho members
OF the Court, who are so grossly
attacked, to stand firm, for in any
other direction stands disgrace.
Tho Washington Chronicl,
(Forney) says;
What is it to us that Senate
Trumbull, in an upanswerable ar
gumont, sustained tue Civil Right
Bill over the veto Of the President
If the President may now, by Sen
ator Trumbull's aid and act, exc
cute his own veto instead of th,
law? Did he no! go all over tn,
North and West making seditiou
speeches against this very law aite
Its constitutional enactment by 4,
two. thirds vote, an act which alon,
was sufficient to have justified hi
removaR How is he Civil Right
Law entorcedin Delaware, Mary
land and Kontucky2 In the Stat
courts it is utterly ignored, or only
noticed to bejudicially condemned
1t will bo the samo all over tn,
South, tho only section Of the coun
try whore it is needed, unless th
n ltonprnasinnaI nlan of ireconstrnc n