Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-11-27
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ONE wore aulaEp Ills CAREER.
4 Man Who Saved Andrew Johnson from
Be!nu Driven from The Presidency.

"a Man Who saved Apdrsw Johnson Iron
Bslna Driven from The Presidency. Is
albuquerque, u. Nj Noyembe,
"a. former Governor working d,
the case ,as a job printer Il former
United States Senator, whose. name
withinsthe generation has been upon
every lip, whose vote saved Andrew
Johnson from being driven In igno-
,miny from the Presid denoy, bending
in his old age over a wood saw The
man who prevented the now all but
forgotten name Of Benjamin II. Wade
from going into history as the
eighteenth President Of the United
States, ending his daysi in poverty
and obscurity I Such are the OK.
tremes Of fortune which have fallen
to the lot Of former Governor and
former Senator Edmund g. Ross, Of
albuquerque. sala
.ss
Governor Ross, as he is known to
his neighbors, lis one,of the ubiqui.
tous Ohio nen. He was born rs
years ago at Ashland, Ohio, near,
both in place and time, to the birth
of Senator William b. Allison, Of
Iowa. He is one of the Oldest
printers living. He began learning
his trade at 8 years of age. Thence
forth the printing office was his only
school, his journeyman's certificate
his only diploma. He is a storehouse
of interesting reminiscence Of the
primitive odeyil's tail" press and
other early phases Of the aart pre-
servative."
The slavery excitement Of the
early sos found the young printer
foreman Of q job office in Milwau.
kee. OF New England Puritan an
cestry and Northern Ohio birth, he
was naturally a strong Abolitionist.
The formation Of the young Repnb-
lican party at Tipon, Wisconsin,
therefore appealed to him with rare
force. He soon after took an active
part'i bringing about meeting at
Milwaukee for the organization Of
the new party at that place. "a .
He shortly removed to Kansas
and, with the vigor Of youth and
ardor Of intense conviction, entered
the fight against the introduction of
slavery in the new Territory. In
1868 he founded the Topeka Tribune,
one Of the first newspapers west Of
the Missouri river, and made of in
ftuenoe for the cause he supported.
When the OWL war began the young
editor enlisted as private in the / 1th
Kansas cavalry. He saw active SER
vice throughout the war and at it's
end was mustered ont as lieutenant
colonel. When Col. Ross returned
home the Legislature was in a dead
look over the election of a Senator.
His services to his party before and
during the war here stood him In
stead and the dead look was finally
broken by the election of the young
printer colonel.
SENATOR FROM KANSAS. IN
In Congress Senator Ross was q
strong party man. Throughout the
long fight over the reconstruction
measures he was a radical of the
strictest scot. In this he we'll rep
resented the intense spirit then
dominant in Kansas and was thor.
oughly popular with the people and
his party associates in the Senate.
He WAS obedient to caucus mandates.
He had shown no indication Of as
piring to leadership. His future was
full of promise. When the Congress
sional leadersIat length determined
to remove the President through the
forms of an impeachment trial, they
never doubted that they could rely
upon the Kansas Senator to the ut
most. It was well known that seye.
raj Republican Senators were not
kindly disposed toward suoh dras-
tic measure as impeachment, and
the end of the trial Senators
Fessenden, Fowler, Grimes, Hender.
son, Trumbull and Van Winkle an
nounced their opposition to convio-
tion upon any of tbs charges, and
several others did not believe there
was evidence to sustain several of
them. To remove the President,
thia this rendered i necessary that every
other Republican should vote for
impeachment and the attitude of
Senator Ross now became a source
OF much uneasiness to the impeach-
ment managers.
WOULD NOT SHOW HIS HAND.
After the Senate had been organ.
iaed aB a Court to try the charges he
had ateadfastly refused to discuss thu
merits OF the case or to indicate how