Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-12-14
A Radical Editor ON .he n amp ,se

"A Radical Editor on the * amp skeI
The Toledo Blade, in its rage against
President JoHNsoN, forgets Itself. Itsays
"Never was a Congress so sh hsmefully in
suited and abused by President as THIS
one has been by Andrew johnson. The
Constitution gives the President power to
recommend such measures as he may think |
needfnl for Congress to consider. 1t gives
him a power to veto measures approved by |
Congress, and throw them back upon 1t |
tor reconsideration until adopted by two
thirds vote of each House. 1t gives him
40 right to censure their course of action.
or to repeat aDinadversions upon that ac-
tion, alter it has been finally decided
upon." lA8fGtk
Fully one-half of the time of the pres
ent, so-ealled, Congress has been consumed
in speeches, vulgarly abusive of President
JOHNSON, and in the making of laws TO
strip him OF the power given the Chief
Magistrate by the Constitution. That in
strument makes it bis duty, "from time to
time, to give to Congress Information Of
the State of the Union, and recommend 10
their consideration such measures as he
(not Congress) shall judge necessary"-
This duty heihas performed, and therein
| lies the 'insult" and the "abuse" of which
the Blade complains. s'-' '''T :
In bringing to the attention of Congress
and to the country, the fact that the SUI
preme law of the land provides that each
State shall have representation in Con-
gress, which right is now denied portion
of the States, President JOHNSON did but
his duty, Inarraigning and showing the
unconstitutional tendency of the miscalled
Reconstruction acts-the mischief they had
done and were likely to do, and in asking
that they be blotted from the statute book.
President JoHNsoN did just what the Con-
stitution required him to do-no more, no
less. Yet the. Blade calls this shameful
''insult," and says it ..abuses" the members
Although the adage says that the truth is
not to be told at all times, yel the pres mt
lis the time of all times when it should be
/ proclaimed, and had President JOHNSON
fused even stronger language, in drnounc-
ing the mad and patricidal acts that have
dissolved and still keeps asunder the States
of the Union, he would have been justified
in so doing. r,;5t .,-e.,,f, t..d il.
|. Not a single Radical member OF the
present Congress but has made abuse of
President JOHNSON the great staple in the
manufacture; of the speeches spoken by
him. Yet, when he but performs con
stitutional act, and reminds, these same sam
members of the fact. clear as the poonday
sun, that they have violated the Constitu-
tion-disseyered the Union, and to keep
their ill-gotten power that they may. like
the famed lorg Parliament of :PRAIsE: Be
To-GoD, BAREBoNEs," "retain party power.
to the injury of the people, the men most
violent in their abuse OF the President
and most guilty in the unconstitutional
acts he charges, try to prevent the message
of the President from being read,Ii and
editors who applaud all the ioutrages, that
Congress inhicts, whine like whipped ptp-
pies, and call the sworn duty, Of the Presi-
dent |shamelessins and abuse In their
winnings these r ideals have the, eopsola-
ton left that they made the President that
thus exposes and rdenounces them.a He is
the man, of their choice, and fresh from
their ranks he is well qualified to judge of
their rascally doings.SNrq 6 ssw tI''