Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-04-22

Asn't the Figure Rather High
There was debate In the Federal House
of Representatives on Monday on the bill
to provide for the payment of the expenses
of Impeachment. This debate, which is an
unusual thing in debates in Congress now
3; lays. was spicy. In this debate, Mr. WASH
BURNE, Republican who reflects STEVENS
Infamous political views, striking tragi-
cal attitude, declared that he was not only
willing to vote TOR the money called for in
the bill, but for ten times more, if need be,
and that ait would be worth one hundred
millions of dollars to the country" if I'm
parchment should be successful. The peo-
pie have not moved in this Impeachment
business; they have not called for the I'm {.
peachment of the President. Last TALL, the
Speaker of the House of Representatives,
Mr.. CoLFAx, made it speciality in his
speeches in Ohio and in New York, to de-
clare that Congress would not be in session
more than month before President JOHN
SON would be driven from office by I'm
peachment. Although these declar-
ations were rapturously applaud
ed by the audiences to which
they were made, yet when the votes
were counted out it was ascertained that
the declaration had cost the Republican
party largely. 1t was insisted that the
crime of President JOHNSON was clear, un-
mistakable and of the blackest kind. When
Congress met, the Radicals did 60 to work
to get up articles of Impeachment; but
moi In NJ oil tho owl
dence they had been able to rake together,
they were reduced to the humiliation OF
confessing that there was nothing in the
evidence, and that in consequence they
stood before the country base falsifiers OF
truth. The charges that he had impeded
Reconstruction; the charges that, indi-
rectly, he was responsible for the murders
committed in the South; the charges that
he had worked against the peace and pros
perity of the country, fell to the ground
as devoid of substance and truth. While
the examination was going on, the people
were cool and collected. They were well
satisfied that there was no case against the
President, and when the announcement
was made that the Impeachers had aban-
doned their absurd folly, they drew a
breath of relief.
Over the present trial the people have
not been excited. They have not been un-
mindful, however, of what has been going
on in the High Court of Impeachment
They have watched every movement. They
have noticed the effort that was made to
make out of the Chief Justice passive in
strument in the hands of the Impeachers,
They have not for moment lost sight OF
the fact that the President is being tri' d
for an alleged violation of law that they
assed for the purpose of depriving him Of
power, that the Constitution expressly pro-
vides he shall exercise, and that they ha, G
a pride of maintaining that law. They
have watched the ruling of the Chief JUS
uice, and they have noticed how this ruling
was overruled at the instance of BUTLER
They have seen that the trial was conduct
ed with great unfairness to the Presi-
dent; but yet they do not feel that the
Senate of the United States will undertake
to remove him for having committed nc
greater wrong than seeking to harmonize
his Cabinet by removing therefrom Secre.
tary STANTON. 1t is untrue that the re.
moval of the President for his attempt to
do this "would be worth hundred millions
of dollars to the country" The truth is
that the removal of STANTON would be
worth immensely to the country. On the
occasion of his suspension from Office, the
expenses of the War Department were
greatly reduced, and since his reinstate-
ment BY the Senate they have again been
largely Increased. And should the Presi-
dent be removed millions will inevitably be
added to the now heavy tax-burthens OF
the people.