Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1865-03-15
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peached for his conduct at II.
tiOn, aud Thad Stevens decl,,..
the House were in session be sb,,l
a motion to that effect. Sevs,J
can newspapers call earnest, !
Jobnson's impeachment. lth,.
that so severe dicipline will h.
ed. The vice president will b.
before Congress meets again, up.,
peats the offence, and ia the v,r
ishment the exposure and depuns.
the newspapers will be hard On.
bear, if be has any moral seDsN
left. Doubt has been expressed
drunkenness is a Sufficient crime
fly impeachment. Treason, briL,
other high crimes and misdemesns "a
matters for impeachment, accordiD,
constitution, and that intempersn,
under the latter phrase is evde
! the fact that the only case ever tn,
before the Senate was for that yev
In 1904 Judge Pickering Of New III
shire was charged by the House u
pearing on the bench in an iDt,,
condition, and was found guilty i
Senate and deposed from office. n,
be no doubt, therefore, that Mr. j
is liable to impeachment, and the&,
that he brought on the govemue
the country by the shameful publ
bition of his weakness on Saturds
really much greater than in the cas
mere circuit judge like Pickering
After proper rebuke of the OHeDs
the next use to be made of the hun
ing event is as corrective of publR
ais, The increase of intempranN
last four years has been most rah "
alarming. We are fast becominga
of drunkards. The fact that thbu
the kindred social vices inevitsM d
state of war should not make us I'M
ferent to the evil or hopeless to ih
al. The public disgrace of inauga
day ought to arouse the people b 4
true state of affairs and the peribt
wolves. Drunkenness prevails to al.
extent in the army, among the a
much more than among the rank and @
and if the disasters and losses ocas
by this one thing during the war
be picked out and set by Themselves,
array would be most startling. The
crease Of drunkenness in Congress b.
late been very painfully evident.
the license of the camp and the q
have come up like a wave of des
sweeping over the whole land, The
Grafton just coming to the age of mal
are exposed to fearful temptations one
side, and the current sets 50 stI
downward that all efforts to arS
seem nearly hopeless.
1t is time to make stand againa
evils that threaten our destruction
} us throw up iutrenchments and hold
ground is still left to us, or We shall
be hopelessly in "the last ditch. 81
corruption will do MS more injury &A
war. If there is any vital force ID
morality, any saving power in ourrls
any real efficiency in our Christian
} reformatory institutions, now is the
) to make it manifest. Unless we can
the progress of drunkenness, licent
: ness, gambling, and general sOci
bauchery that is setting in upon Us
war will give us Union saved by b'l
/ struction of its people. 1t will best1
, sand times more costly in loss of an
! than Of men and money,
There can DO reform. Let th'
J grace of the 4th of March be thu,
: and the provocation to effort. ThSS
! has done we'll to expel liquors fror
t wing Of the capitol. Let the peoples
9 such demand for public deceuclI
+, morality at Washington that the u
shall be compelled to follow the ezif
of the Senate. Let the vice presij@I
, given to understand that he can SaNil
o self from deserved impeachment oaIl
8 leading sober life for SO long tH
s he shall represent the nation befOr
world. And let the people make q
G dcrstood that hereafter, whoever maj
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