Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-05-28
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1t seems to be agreed that the most fit
ting rebuke to the Senators who voted for
acquittal, more direct and lasting than a
formal reading-out of the party, would be
the nomination as the Union candidate for
the Vice Presidency OF Benjamin F. Wade
of Ohio.-W Gshington Cor. Cincinnati Ohron-
icle.
The New York Sun says: "One result
of the Impeachment trial will be to secure
the nomination of Ben Wade for the Vice
Presidency on the ticket with Gen. Grant.
The Republicans are hot with anger at
their failure to convict Andy Johnson
They attribute it to the jealousy of Wade.
They will accordingly go in to make it all
right for him at Chicago. His chances are
great deal better than If he were to-day
sitting in power at the White House,
Such paragraphs as the foregoing were
the columns of the Jacobin papers before
the meeting of the Chicago Convention.
Their meaning, read now in the light of
what did happen at that Convention, is
very plain. There is no doubt that Wade
and impeachment have been struck stag
gering blow in the nomination of Colfax.
True, the resolutions endorse impeach-
ment, but then Wade was beaten dis
gracefully for Vice President, and that
"most fitting rebuke" has not been ad
ministered. If Wade had been nominated,
impeachment would have been resurrected,
and with the aid of lot of carpet-sack
Senators lugged in for the purpose, been
pushed to successful issue. The mills of
the gods have ground both impeachment
and the Ohio ruffian to exceedingly fine
powder, and Mr.. johnson may sleep in
peace. We feel peculiar qualification at
the defeat of the old pirate. 1t is one of
those 'crushers" that satisfy even the most
eXacting and avaricious hunger for ven-
geance. We contemplate, now, with Sc
rene satisfaction that has no word in our
vocabulary fifty to describe it, the specta-
Gle of the thorough defeat and prostration
of this enemy of our country and her peo-
pie. Driven from the Senate by the verdict
of the very people who had honOred him
in the past, he goes, after the 4th of March
next, to an obscurity unrelieved and made
endurable even by the reflection that his
plots and assaults against his country and
its Constitution have even half blossomed
towards their evil fruition. In the name of
the people of the South. we thank Heaven
for its timely justice and retribution!
The above is from the Macon (Ga.) Jour
the average sentiment of the White people
of the South. The defeat of WADE for re-
election to the United States Senate; the
defeat of the project, through impeachment,
of making an ad interim President out of
WADE the defeat of WADE for nomination
to the Vice Presidency in the Chicago Con-
vention are results great and glorious.
Let patriots everywhere rejoice.
And for these results, the Democracy of
Ohio are entitled to thanks. 1t was they
who struck the first blow that has cut short
the career of this political monster.
Now, let the Democracy of the Union
give to Hon. GEORGE 81. PENDLEToN the
for President, and there will be
struck such blow through the ballot box
in November as will forever after render
powerless in this country the whole band
of pirates, who during the last seven
years have preyed upon and plundered
with impunity our people.
If the people will only now prove true to
the hour of their political re-
remption draweth nigh.