The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1868-03-05

tyranny. AS we Oeal with the 1rSG
great political malefactor, so will
be the results of our efforts to per-
petuate the happiness and good gov.
ernment of the human race The
God of our fathers WHO Inspired
them with the thought Of universal
| freedom will hold us responsible
for th3 noble institutions which
they projected, and expected us to
carry out. .'
Gen. Butler concludes his unan-
swersble speech in favor Of the i'm
parchment of Andrew Johnson thus ::
1--WE have thus far discussed the
quality of the acts complained of as
pure questions of law; bat we can
not shut our eyes to the precedent
and surrounding circumstances
which determine the purpose Of
these illegal doings Of the Executive.
If we were certain of purity ofinten-
ton and patriotism of motive we
might pass over, if we could not,for
give, these violations Of law. now
presented at our bar; but we mourn
fully remember the act by which the
President was inducted into his high
office; his change purpose which
became so painfully evident in the
summer of 1865 the men, fresh from
the halls Of treason, and the fields of
blood, whom he took for his friends
and counselors; his attempt to usurp
the powers of Congress in re-estab-
fishing the governments Of there
bcllious States his open defiance of
the laws in restoring the Southern
railroads, and other property to
their rebellious owners, although
justly forfeited by the outraged laws
of the country; his appointment to
Office of those who dared not add
| perjury to treason by taking the test
|. oath prescribed by law, while he
made public avowal (using his own
chaste language J that he would kick
out of office every true man who
should sustain the Congress Of the
United States; the shameless brok-
erage in pardons which went on
with his knoWled se, if not by his
! connivance, extending not only to
political otfenses but to felons and
murderers, and the coupterfeiters
and forgers Of the lawful money of
the nation, which other rulers hold
to be petty treason, and worse than
murder; his public attacks on Con-
gress, and threats to overthrow it !;
the indiscriminate use Of the veto
power, to q greater extent than that
of all other Presidents who have pre-
ceded him combined, to prevent the
passage Of wholesome laws his OBJ
stinate opposition, both open and
covert, to every law passed by Cons
gress over his vetoes to reconstruct
the Government and bring back the
country to its former condition Of
peace and prosperity-fer that pilns-
pose consorting and conspiring with
traitors, and inaugurating the massa
cres and assassinations OF Nashville
and New Orleans his refusal to al
low single murderer to be punished
ia the Southern States, where Union
men, under his rule and because Of
his non execution of justice, have
been slain by thousands; his attempt
by military orders, backed by the
opinion Of his legal adviser, to
thwart the execution Of the acts Of
Congress by the military comman-
ders who were charged Herewith
his taking advantage Of the provis-
ions Of the very civil-tenlre act
which he now declares unconstitu-
tional to suspend the efficient officer
whom he now seeks to remove for no
other reason than that he has op-
posed his nefarious designs his
composing therein oval Of the faith
ful servant Of the country, the gal
liant Sheridan, his attempt to draw
into a conspiracy with himself the
general officer Of the armies Of the
United States, so as to get possession
of the military force with which to
execute his purposes of subverting
the Government, a corrupt under
ldhldS9 LII WlItCu lO Heto ~ hIdily
successful that we have to disbelieve
his own private veracity and that of
a majority Of his Cabinet to doubt
whether he did not in fact succeed;
each and all point to the single con-
clusion that what we are now exam
ining is but one act in the drama
which, if performed to its purposed
close, would be the overthrow fthe
Congress of the United States, the
abrogation Of its laws, and the res.
toration to power Of that rebellion
which the valor of our army and
navy had subdued.
d, For 1.-THE Of these acts Of usur-
PATTON, lawlessness and tyranny our.
fathers dissolved their connexion
with the government of King George.
for less than this King James lost
his throne and King Charles lost his
head while we, the representatives
of the people, sdjudge only that
there is probable cause shown why
Andrew johnson should be deprived
of the office he has desecrated and
of the power he has abused, and if
convicted by the court to which we
shall send him, be forever incapable
of filling that Office, the ambition to
be again nominated to which has
been the moving spring of all these
crimes.