The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1868-05-01

by sthat2. The question offered by Mr..
Henderson, of Missouri, was directly 10 the
puint, aud one of the most sensible things
done on the trial The question was in
suhstance-"if the President be convicted
may not this evidence he offered in exteuua
,tion of punishmeut -. Undoubtedly; but
the time has not arrived for it. II is q
common practice Of courts 10 hear evidence
after conviction, to show there wero ox
teuuating circums tances. Il is difficult TO
see how any one eau avoid acknowledging
the fact, that the President did violate the
law. He is sworn to observe not oniy the
Constitutions but the laws, too II we do
not make an example Of such conduct,
where is IL to end Mr.. Randall, the Post.
master General, testi6es that ho removed n
postmaster, removable only by the Senate,
without any law whatever, but against IL.
President, Secretaries aud unders trappers,
all seem affected with the contagton of
disobedieucc and contempt to the laws of
the country. II is tinc TO make an eN.
ample, which Will be striking and memor-
able. .. .
| 3 He is charged with an attemptt to bring
the Congress OftRe United States into dis.
repute and contempt, ii this were mani.
tested only in difference OF opiuon aud
crime aud no wrong. The President has q
right to oppose Congress legitimttely aud
| honorahly in any way he pleases. But,
1 what did he? The career of the President
from his speech on the pod of February
| 1866, till he had completed his Western
ptogress, ia known TO all. AZ Cleveland
/ st. Louis and various places, ho charged
! Congress with being o hagmehtary body
as hanging on the verge of the Government
as in fact, usurping body, since ten States
were not represented. The language OF
| these speeches was coarse in the extreme
1 the manner OF them that of II mere dema.
! gegue, and the purpose To restore TO the
! possession OF power in the Government a
! body of rebels. who. although compelled
to lay down their arms, were yet, in heart
miud aud purpose. hostile 10 tho Govern
meut, His object aud his determination
was TO do that, which, If doue, wouli be
hostile to the feelings principles snd inter
OTIS of tue great mass Of loyal people, and
| to DO it in Opposition to the declared will
Of Congress the representatives of the peo
pie! Hr
These are f;,cls. They are not matters
of opinion. No man eau do more than the
! President has done to condemn Congress
aud weaken its popular support. Appar
emily, his feeling was as malicious as course
lie seemed TO think himself performing a
part in a Spanish bull batting, where Con
gress was the bull aud he tho matadore
lie shrank lrom.n part OF tho miserable
play in which he was engaged.
Here we might stop, for the facts u
these charges are plain, palpable and un-
deniable and it is these facts only tho
Senate has anything to do with. All tht
defense made or offered siEply goes {,
show e,rtenudti0n, and not ono to show tina
he did not commit the offenses. On wha
possible ground can the Senate fail to cOn
Wet bin? Ii be shonll not be, one of til {
most curious arguments in the world vii
be that which attempts to show he is no
guilty. @
But may we not ask moral an1 Chris
tian people it such man oUght, in gooC
conscience. to be left one day at the hea,
of this Government Ought a great m
ton to be obstructed by moral madman
Can not this nation abate public nuisauc
like that? Is this country SO bound NJ
that it can not right its own wrongs w
shall Sc; aud, in any event, this peopl
have made up their minds that the loya
will of this nation shall be carried to it
consummation, over all obstacles, calml.
but certainly. E. ID. NJ.