The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1868-04-02
Impeachment--W Will be
Done About 1T?

Done ADOuC III!
The Random (Miss) Republican
draws frightful picture of what
will happen in case. of successful
impeachment Of the President. 1t
says:
The effect Of impeachment would
be an instantaneous uprising of the
people, and the bloodiest war ever
recorded in history. Five hundred
thousand Democrats would surround
the Capitol within forty eight hours,
and the Radical members of Con-
gress, together with Stanton, Grant
and Chase, would be swung up to
the shade trees, and the whole gov
ernment in tne hands of the con-
stitutional authorities in less than q
week. ~ -, ,t-,f4 r,,, 1.ge,5. f.'s,,s
To which the New York Times,
thus replies: 20 ai'e'le ! ,sieo7'
| These terrible predictions were
made some weeks since The wri-
ter of them has probably, seen rea-'
son before this time to change the
opinions which he then expressed.
Nothing has happened, certainly,
which looks like the fulfillment Of
any Of his prophecies. There has
been not such uprising of the peo-
ple' as he predicts-no bugle- blast,
or even piping whistle, to summon
the people to open the "bleodiest
war ever recorded in history" The
five hundred thousand Democrats
who were supposed to be mastering
to surround the Capitol within
forty eight hours still content
themselves with sitting at home and
quietly swearing at the Radicals,
and even their profanity grows
more polished and subdued every
day. Instead Of fpreparing to chang"
Chase, they are debating the pro
priety of making him their candi-
date for the Presidency; and in
stead of changing" Grant they are
coolly awaiting his nomination by
the Republicans to get chance to
vote for him. The Democracy Of
the North is not s'tcrribly aroused"
by the prospect of Mr.. Johnson's
deposition-nor is there the slight
est reason to believe thrt they will
any of them anywhere lift a finger
in his defence or care snap for,
his fate.
We beg the Brandon Republican
to, look calmly at these unquestion-
able facts, for it may thus save the
Southern people from delusive ex-
pectatiens which Will only increase
their sufferings, and deepen the
ruin into which they have once been
thus betrayed They believed in
1860 that the Democrats Of the
North were terribly aroused at
be ff9gppfEe ff9g aadEfRt OF and r thhin hinaGn aGnaR
would join the South in an armed
attempt to keep him out. The
South acted on this belief: one
would suppose that the result would
scarcely encourage renewal of a
faith at once SO blind and so disas
trous.
Yet evidences are abundant that
the Southern people-the late reb-
els as body,-really expect Ian
outbreak of revolutionary violence
at the North if the President is con-
victed and deposed. And even the
more sensible and observant among
them feel confident that, even
if there be no violence, the politi-
cal effect will be so sweeping and
powerful as to bring the Democrat
ic party at once into power. And
this conviction has more to do with
the bitter and increasing hostility of
the Southern States to the Govern
ment plan of reconstruction than
any other cause whatever srarr
T. The Southern people think, in the
first place, that there. is a good
chance of civil war at: the North =
and more than a good chance, in
the next place, that the Democratic
party will drive the Republicans
from power and either of these
chances promises them so much of
relief, that it is well worth waiting
for.
Both these hopes are utterly fall
lacieus and delusive. Both will fail
them in their utmost need. Both
will prove to be just as false and
hollow as the many hopes they have
SO disastrously indulged for the
last seven years. Hope Of North
ern Democratic health plunged them
into war. Hope Of foreign recogni-
ton and of foreign aid hope that
sKing Cotton" would come to their
relief; hope that Northern patience
would not hold out; hope that the
draft would excite revoit-that the
taxes would not be paid-that the
Democrats would carry the North
ern States that President Lincoln's
policy of imagnanimous statesman
ship would be carried out, under
him or under Johnsonz-these and
other expectations of the same sort,
have placed and kept them in the
attitude of defiant hostility which
they have maintained SO long; and
each of them. when the hour of
disappointment came, has only made
their condition worse than it was
before. M.l - ..- e.zs 7.r-f g..
The South ought to have learned
more from experience than they
seem to have done. Nobody ever
profits by the experience Of any
body else-neither nations or indi-
yiduals. But the South ought to
have profited by its own. 1t GER
tainly has been long enough and
bitter enough. But the Southern pol
iticians are deluded just as easily as
they were five or ten years ago
and just as much to their own hurt. |
Democratic Opinion of Gen.