The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-11-01
THE PROPOSED 1MpEACHMENT.

The Newburyport Herald thus comments upon
the proposed impeachment of President Johnson:
ssNow to our minds the proposition Of impeach-
ment is one so.fu Of danger that he who fathers
it must be shortsighted or terribly 1depraved.
There is not o rational man in the country that
does not see that it carries upon its very face the
commencement of civil war, by the side OF which
the late rebellion would appear as chlld's play.
Before any one accustoms his mind to wander too
far in that direction; let him inquire if he is pre-
pared for q state of anarchy that would destroy
the value of property that would repudiate nation
al and private debts together, that would darken
the sun of Republican liberty, that this century
would notsee its face again, and would make hu-
man blood run in the streets till the very dogs
would lap it up like water. If any nun of fight
ing age favors the deposing Of the President IN
the present state of the country, let him join q
military company at once, and drill as often as he
eats; and if he is not of that age, but has boys
that are let him coll them to him on the first op-
portunity, and looking them fairly in the face de-
eide which of them, or how many, he is ready to
see die rather than have Andrew Johnson Presi-
QeQt OF Inc DLtlcS I'LL Luc 4Lu VI l1di SA3
1859?
It is time this insanity ceased. If We are not
all crazy, or drunk or mad, we shall tell oil men
of all parties, who propose such schemes, away
devils, we'll none of you We want no more war,
no more slaying of the first born, no more maim-
ed mon, OF disconsolate widows or orphan chill
dren upon our pension list. We want no more
public debt, and nohigher taxes than we now have.
We want no President who would put State against
State and man against man in deadly array, by
ignoring the representatives of the peoples and
we want no representatives so lost to reason right
and public duty, as to propose the deposition of
the President. The times are full enough of dan
ger without any such madness. Every good and
true man-every man who loves his race or his
God, will seek peace, not war; restoration not de-
struction; prosperity, not anarchy; and love to
all men everywhere, and hate to none, and malice
to none.
The Times, printed OF Bangor, Maine, puts this
question: sIf the President in common with ju-
rists, like Judge Curtis believes the action of Con-
gress on the question of reconstruction unconsti-
tuional, is he bound by the results of the recent
elections to forego these views, acquiesce in tho
Congressional plan, or suffer the consequences of
an attempt at impeachment In other words, is
the President required to stiAe his own honest
convictions respecting what is and what is not
constitutional in the action of Congress to save
himself from trial for impeachment All this
talk about impeachment We believe, is absurd.
1t is not seriously entertained in any respectable
quarter His enemies very well know that the
President is a strict constructionist that he re-
veres the Constitution and makes it his guide;
that there is not the remotest possibility of his
usurping any authority not properly belonging to
his Office So believing, we should not alude to
the subject at all, were it not that able journals
are seriously discussing it,"