Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-11-07
1mpEAoH1Na THE PRESIDENT.

The public press have come to agitate as
one Of the common topics Of the hour the
impeachment of President johnson. There
are very few who regard his impeachment
as probable, and a good many would
doubt whether it is even politically prac-
ticable, /. q. whether two-thirds of both
Houses Of Congress, under any conceiva.
BILE contingency, would resor. to so grave
a remedy. The agitation about impeach-
ment principally emanases from two class
es Of journals: those Radical journals
which hurl the threat at the President a.
a mere means Of making their editorials
sensational, and sustaining their claims to
the most advanced Radical position ; and
those Administration, Democratic, Cop
psrhead. or rebel journal, who likewise
spice their editorials by charging the Re-
publican party at large with a design to
impeach and remove the President for
party purposes.
1t may be safely assumed that no polit-
ical party will seek to impeach any Presi.
dent Of the United States for party ends,
simply because such an end would break
down any political party that had not the
graves. and most patriotic ends in view.
So far from an impeachment Of q Presi-
dent being a step which could aid any
political party, it would require to DO
based on the strongest and most patriotic
grounds Of justice and public welfare to
enable a political party to bear up under
the necessary odium Of such an act. 1t
may safely be assumed, therefore, that a
Republican Congress, if it had nothing
but party ends in view, instead OF seeking
an excuse for impeaching President john
son, would dread nothing so much as a
state of facts which would render his i'm
parchment necessary. We are sure that
such a prospect would fill every Republi-
can in and out Of Congress with a far
deeper grief than any rebel or Copperhead
could have reason to feel. These might
possibly rejoice at it as a means Of weak
sning the Republican party, while no man
who voted for Andrew Johnson for Vice
President could fail to bow his head in
shame and sorrow over the Presidents
disgrace and the Nations humiliation.
The checks which the Constitution
throws around the subject Of impeach-
ment are far less effective than those with
which it 10 invested by the honor and self
respect Of the Republican majority in
Congress. Long after a voting majority
of two.thirds, or Of four-ffths, might be
obtained by the Republican party in
either House, and long after the President
might have committed secondary misde-
meanors or violations Of law, as he did in
appointing rebels to Federal Office in con-
temp. Of plain acts Of Congress forbidding
it, which, within the strict letter Of the
Constitution, would render his impeach-
ment legal, long after any all abuses
which did not actually r%evoiusionize the
Government and ovsrturn the Constitu-
ton had been committed. Congress would
bear and forbear, withou. proceeding to
the dread remedy with which the Consti-
tuition itself invests them.
But we are safe in saying that any at
tempt BY the President to deny the au-
shorisy Of the present Congress, and to
recognize instead thereof q Congress Of
rsbsl. and Copperheads. would be follow
ed by his prompt impeachment, if on no
other ground, on that Of his manifest in
sanity. We have no fears that the Presi-
dent will make the attempt. He has al
ready, by every act he has signed or We
toed, and by every message he has sent
in, recognized the validity Of Congress as
at present constituted. He cannot have
ths stupidity to suppose that he can now
deny wha. can no more be denied than
the Constitution itself. Besides We al
ready know that tho rebel and Copper
head members elect in the next Consasss
could not constitute a majority Of either
House, and it is only or the supposition
that they would form q minority that it is
pretended the President could recognize
them as Congress. The October and No.
vember elections will not encourage the
President to continue his war on Con-
gress, and we indulge a very clear hope
that nothing revolutionary will be at.
tempted by him, and hence that nothing
will be done looking toward HI, impeach-
ment. Should President johnson, how
ever, attempt to revolutionize the Gov
eminent in the manner indicated, we have
the subtraction Of knowing that no Presi-
dent was ever politically weaker, or could
bs more promptly and safely removed
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