Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-03-14
"Impeachmentis is Peace"

The New York Tribune of w edncsdav
last, has a leader of great power and
truthfulness, on this subject. 1t discuss
es the matter under four heads, viz: /,
Impeachment is peace. 2, impeachment
is reconstruction. 3, impeachment is the
supremacy of the law. a, impeachment
means triumph of Republican instith-
tions. Its discussion of this last point
is so full of truth, and measures so ex-
actly the feeling Of every loyal and law
abiding citizen of the country, that we
give it entire: ed. ..5 ...a..a. .7I5
Impeachment means tile trittDaph of
Republicmt 6ostit,tionS Republican gov
ernment has stood many cruel tests. 1t
has sustained Slavery and destroyed Sla-
very; it has warred upon foreign GOV
ernments, and suppressed domestic insur-
reclions it has passed through the
mightiest war of modern times. and sur
vived a social revolution; it has ans wered
every form of government, and now it
proposes to depose Il treacherous Chief
Magistrate. ........ .I.....
France removed her tyrants by a
bloody and maddening revolution only
to see newborn liberty torn from her
embrace, and stified by the gaudy and
dazzling despotism of an eInprie. Eng
lang only succeeded in destroying the
tyranny of the Stuarts by. revolutions
which brought with them wars, and So
cial turmoils, rebellions repeated by three
generations. .. ......-- 80. -. f........I ....
Mexico has seen twenty revolutions
and enervating wars, commerce destroy
ed, industry. paralyzed, traitors in coun-
ell, thieves in Office, banditti on the high
way, and finally foreign army on her
shores, a foreign prince in her palace, her
noblest sons niassacred and in exile Free
dom still remains an experiment with
her. '.,' -..-
Free American will show the world
that by the gentle operation of law, her
chosen Chief Magistrate, and the Com
mander-in-C Chief of her armies and nayies,
can be speedily punished for his crimes,
and reduced to obscurity, and NO, appre
cable effect on society but q few tavern
loungers' gasconade, and an adyance Of
three per cent, in gold America was
noble i'll her management of the war, and
the nations stood III wonder. But there
is something sublime in her acceptance
of Impeachment. Men will say no moro
that republican institutions are failure,
for republican America, answering every
condition, and accepting every response
bility of government, stands to-day proud
secure, peaceful, the law supreme, and
the public virtue uniinpaired. ,. '...
Therefore, it is wise to say that i'm
peae hmeut is peace. Some of our peo-
pie may rave and swear, and gnash their
teeth but we shall have no war-no dis
turbance, no arresting the wheels of gov
ernment, not the simmer of bayonet,
nor the click of the trigger, nothing but
the ordinary town constable with his
clumsy baton. There is something grand
to us in this spectacle. Of a great nation
changing an incompetent ruler by the
gentle and easy process of law. The
poor little three per cent. that the gold
gamblers have made will melt like the
falling snow. Impeachment is peace, be-
cause the common sense and the loyalty
of the nation demand it. @'l .''.