The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1868-03-26

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will Of the loyal people and accomplish.
| Ing his purposes. Sometimes by threats
he awed into silence those who refused
obedience to his mandates. Sometimes
he punished the refractory by removing
their friends from Office, if he could not
remove the persons themselves. Some
times, when he thought he could accom-
plsh his purposes better, he has ''stoop-
cd to conquer." He has tried sdining
and wining" those whom no supposed
could be influenced in that way, and by
all these various means he had succeed
ed up to this hour, Notwithstanding his
gross violations of the sacred trusts con-
iided to him, of keeping his neck out of
the halter. BY this operation the rebels
were fast regaining the ground from
which they had been driven by the no.
bic and brave men who periiied life and
| fortune in behalf of their country on the
bloody battlefields of the rebellion. BY
his influence MANNED and SCARED heroes
were being removed from post offices
and other offices and clerkships, where
they were trying by faithful discharge
Of duty to earn enough to support n
widowed mother or a helpless family,
and their places given to men who de-
nounced the war, prevented enlistments,
or fought in the rebel ranks, All these
things has Andrew johnson been doing
for the last two years and yet during ali
that time he has been countcnanced,
visited, and shaken 10y the hand by
good and true men. If he could do all
these things and yet not be treated with
scorn and contempt why could he not
go one step further and defy the law,
and sweep from his pathway man
who loved his country too we'll, and
who had too much Roman tirmness, to
bow his neck to the usurrcr.
Nor was this all that Andrew John
son had to encourage him. He had the
support of all in the North who declared
the war to be unjust, unnecessary,
and unconstitutional" of all who OPP
posed coercion, all who opposed the
draft, all who discouraged enlistments,
all who cried down the currency, and
added to ali these, every vile traitor and
bloody handed rebel of the South. To
complete this list we may add all those
who during the years of the war had
been hidden away in dens and caves
aud other secret places, but who in the
last two years have crawIed into day
light, and uncoiling themselves as they
have been warmed into life by the
smiles Of Andrew Johnson, might have
been heard exclaiming as they eonsre-
gated III the liquor shops and other dis
reputable localities, "Now is the winter
of our discomfort tfadc glorious sum
mer by this modern Moscs.'
Mr.. Chairmant the country looks for
the success of this impeachment, ex-
poets it, demands it. 1t is a legal, fl
nancial, a political nesessity. Sir, the
voice ofthe people is in this case the
voice Of God, and that speaks to us to-
day in the same words used to the chill
dren of Israel when they stood on the
margin Of the Red Sea threatened with
destruction, and says to us, "Go for
ward" They could not retreat nor can
we. The path Of duty is plain before
us, and five are worthy of the places we
occtiry, VIC will not shrink from the re-
sponsibility which is ours. We war
with principalities and Powers and po-
litical wickcdness in high places, but if
we grid on the whole armor of truth
justice, and patriotism we shall be more
than equal to the emergency. If we
hold the ship of State steadily in her
course all will be well. If there he any
fearful, any timid, to such we would
say:
Fear not each sudden jar and shock,
'Tis Of the wave and not the rock
'Tis but the tapping of the sail,
And not rent made by the sale.''
| Yes, sir
! "Ir spite Of shoct and tempest's roar,
| In spite Of false lights on the Shore"
we shall sail on and breast the sea.
| WOman's Grave.
Mortimer gives utterance to these
theugots