Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-04-13

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jury-were law, evidence, right and Justice
to decide it-nothing would be more easy
than the formation of a correct opinion as
to Its result. By evidence and argument
of his counsel, President JOHNSON to-day
stands before the country wrongfully and
maiiciousiy arraigned person; and every
day the trial is prolonged, the more clear
Is 1t made that he has done no wrong, and
contemplated no wrong. If tried before
any impartial jury, he would be set free
without argument between the iurymen.
So stands the question ON its merits. He
may be acquitted; but we will not be sur
prised If he shall be convicted. The results
of the recent elections clearly show that the
sense of majority of the people is against
Impeachment and the radicalism in Con-
gress and the stupendous corruption of the
officials of the Republican party. This
manifestation of the temper of the people
should arrest the Radicals who are driving
forward this Impeachment; and to the
casual observer it would appear that it
would do so. The history of the Republi-
can party, however, teaches that it is not
ment of the people through the ballot-box
against their policy and measures will
restrain them. In the spring of 1861, the
verdict pronounced by the people through
the ballot-box was unmistakably in favor
of conciliation and against War, and the
Republican party needed not the verdict.
Last year the adverse result of the cleo
tions to the Republicans in Connecticut,
California, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New
York, and their reduced majorities every
where else, were designed by the people as
a lesson they should study to their profit.
1t was designed to teach that the people
were dissatisfied with the doings of the
Radicals in Congress-with their Negroism
with Reconstruction, bottomed upon
barbaric Negro rule-with the as
founding frauds and corrnptions that
appear to pervade almost every de-
| partment of Government-with the
excessive and crushing taxation, grow
ing out of these frauds and corruption, and
out of unjust inequality of taxation, and
of paying gold to the bond-bolder and pa
per to all other classes of people. 1t was
designed to teach the party in power that
in all these particulars, there must be i'm
mediate and thorough reform. Herein the
wishes of the people have not received
even respet t 'ul consideration. In meas
ure, they have defied the people: instead of
conducting themselves as their representa-
tives, whose just and paramount duty it is
to look after and care for their interests
with that earnest solicitude that the princi-
pals would look after them were it ex-
pedianJ for them to attend to them,
they act the part of arrogant and
domineering masters, whose will and
action the constituents must applaud, al
though detrimental in the extreme to their
interests. In the elections already held
this year, there is more volume and en-
phasis in the protest of the people to the
action of the Radicals than there was to
their protest thus rendered by them one
year ago.. And were the Radical press sa-
gacious, they would put upon this protest
Senate of the United States, acting, as it is
now acting, in the capacity of "High
Court" to rise abovea all partisan consider
ations into that pure atmosphere of justice
and impartiality, and deal with President
JOHNSON alone upon the merits of the
charges preferred against him in the articles
of Impeachment. This they are not doing,
unfortunately. Had the result of the re-
cent elections been the reverse of what
they were, they would be quoted as
an Endorsement of Impeachment, and
being an Endorsement of it, the Senate
of the United States would there
in find its justification to find
the President guilty, and order his
removal from the Presidential Of
flee. The sense of the people was
taken on this question. They carefully
watched the proceedings OF Impeachm ent;
have read and sifted the charges, speeches
and testimony as given, and their uerdict is
that Andreoo johnson is not guilty. But the
Radical politicians look beyond this verdict
and profess to discern disaster to their
party, if the verdict of the people shall
be needed. Col. FoRNEY, who is in the
habit of boldly and recklessly giving
to type the views and the opinions of the
Radical leaders at Washington, with whom
he is in constant association, says that
" should the Senate of the United States
fail to convict ANDREW JOHNSON on the ac-
cusations of the House, not an elector-
al vote, with the exception of the vote
of West Virginia, Missouri and Tennes-
see, will be given to General Grant in
the Southern States next November" be-
cause Ibis first step will be to call upon the
rebel States to choose Presidential electors;
and, as these will all vote for the Demo-
cratic candidate, he will insist upon their
being counted by the House of Representa-
tives in February of 1859; and especially if,
By adding them to the votes secured for the
Democratic candidate in the adherino States,
they make a majority of the achole Electoral
College,"
How far views, such as these, will control
the members of the Senate in their action
on Impeachment, remains to be seen. Ifl
they shall exercise upon them that infiu-
ence such men as Col. FoRNEY desire, then
will President JOHNSON be declared guilty.
II, on the other hand, no such unworthy
consideration shall influence them, then he
will be acquitted.
The Cost of the Thing.
1t is stated that the Tickets admitting
persons to witness the Impeachment trial
cost six thousand dollars, and that the trial
will cost about half million dollars.
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