Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-01-01

and see if any one is investing south of
Mason and Dixon's line. The south
Is the most attractive field of specula-
ton in the world. The owners of cap
ital in New York and London are
most anxious to go down there
They stand on tip-toe, watching, and
try to obtain, ninety days ahead, the
possibility of making ten per cent.
No matter what they may think of
him, President johnson leads the
Irumbulls and the Shermans, the Fes-
sendens and the Conklings, the Ed
mundses and the other conservative
Republicans of to-day. There are but
two camps; one acknowledges that
there is nothing exit from the present
difficulty but by upholding the negro,
and the other stil repeats the cuckoo
cry of white mans government. After
i've years Of battling, which, if it means
anything, means that it is the effort of
a nation, under the providence of God.
to drag out the idea of race from their
civil mschinery-the President, of the
United States sends us a paper dated
December, 1867, which apparently he
must have picked up from some draw
er which Mr.. Buchsnsn or franklin
Pierce left filed. He laughs at what
the nation calls the craftsmanship of
the country, and tells US that this is a
white mans government, and that the
negro is 10 be protected, and treated
very generously, everything is 10 be
kindly arranged for him; and then
with emphatic propriety, with wonder
full consistency, it is Andrew johnson,
il Is the Andrew of the 4th of March. II
is the Andrew that swung around the
that adds so appropriately to
this advice, that we are bound to be
very careful Of his morals. And that is
the flag under which sails every man
who undertakes to postpone by any
measures of Cancellation, by any policy
of timidity, the graphing with the
of this question to-day. He
leads Congress. Congress hiss a sham
1t has an apparent adhesion
to negro suffrage, but the caucus which
undertook to settle the question wheth-
negro suffrage, should enter into
their plan was equally diYided-4 to
IA.
Congress has spent two long years in
the ayowed object of checkmsting the
President, on the ground that he could
not be trusted with the power Of a
President. But the moment the Presi-
lent, looking at those statutes passed
his head by a two-thirds vote,
undertakes in the full blaze of the ma
ion to trample them under his feet to
lefy Congress, and fling its laws in its
ace, to take the very man in whose be-
lalf and for whose protection this
Evil Office Tenure bill was passed.
Edwin n. Stanton, and put him out of
Congress leaves him put of
'fice, 1 would not bet 8 sixpence that
lie will v e go back to Office. There is
10 sign at Washington that there is any
oursge in either House to Yindicate :
his Civil Office bill.
1t is the Wilson's and the Fessendens,
/ is the Grants and the STATIONS who, j
n the hour when the people in their
were trying to peer into the s,
Ieart of Andrew Johnson, and find out 1
he was a rebel or a mistaken :
riend, covered with the skirts of their a
popularity, and said, Wait" That 3
Tas the laudsnum that made US dead =
nd put US to sleep. 1t is Ulysses S
that makes Andrew johnson y
resident to-day. And the hardest o.
-ght to a man whose heart is in this =
roblem, is the attitude of the nation y
efore that successful soldier. l would a
OF take a leaf from his laurels. You o
lay put him higher than Washington, a
nd on one scale superior to either the n
esars or the Bonspartes, but l will n,
OF complain. 1t is not a general, nor IF
captain, nor a corporal that we want y
)-day, but a man who knows this 5,
roblem, and sees il rightly. When l v
as in the West last spring, and was
this question of the propriety :,
{ trusting a soldier with the determi- !
alton of this great question, when you q
not know which way he would lead IS
5, the reply of my audiences was, !,
There's no use talking; if we don't :
Ike Grant, the Democrats will" In 4
lis moment when the differences are n
-esven-wide, when 100000 graves g
wide US, we must nail that man to our +
de or he slips oyer TO the other. Why. c
say that if there Is a ghost of a flavor :
{ a homeopathic chance that Grant "
ould not throw a democratic nomina- u
on out of the window, he is not fit for p
Republican President. / dwell upon =
lis to-day because he is in great dan D
sr. The greatest and most moment S
rs step that this. generation will make
i'll De the choice of the next Presi-
emit. 4