New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-03-05
rMpEAcH1Na THE PRESIDENT.


IMpEAcHING THE PRESIDENT.
Two DAYS after the Presidents celebrated I'D OF
February speech the following special dispatch
was sent from Washington to the Nashville Ban
ner:
The excitement in political circles over the Presl-
dents coup d'etdt of the I'D isintense.
Il is freely asserted by the radicals that he was
under the influence of liquor and articles of i'm
peachruent predicated on this assertion, are said
to be in course of preparation.
state upon positive knowledge OF my own,
that the President was never in better health OF
more at himself; that his speech the result OF
deliberation; and that he feels confidently defiant
of results.
The editor of the Louisville Journal states that
he knows the author of the above dispatch and thai
it may be relied on.
Since then nothing further has occurred, O
which the public have any knowledge, concerning
the proposed impeachment of the President; bu
the scheme is evidently held only in allegiance
The proposition to assassinate him, limited at BY
Wendell Phillips, is too bold game to play, and
the more respectable mode of getting rid of him
by impeachment and removal is now the game Of
the radical leaders.
1t may be deferred for a while, bnt so surely as
schemes of the radicals for breaking up the Union
and for destroying the Southern States politically
and materially, surely will the idea be cherlshed
and nursed until the opportune moment for putting
it into execution arrives. If at the next elecnons
in the Northern States the radical ideas ana doc
trines receive popular approval the impeachment
of the President at the meeting Of Congress there
after will be undoubtedly attempted, and through
the force of party drill, may be successful.
The veto of the freedmen's bureau bill is only
one case of provocation, but there are several
others that are likely to follow. Ii he. veto the
bill conferring suffrage upon the negroes in the
District of Columbia and the whole batch of bills
which Sumner and Wilson have introduced, for
the purpose not merely of producing social and
political equality between the two races, but of
eleyating the negro race over the white, and if,
besides. heSthrow the whole influence of his office
in favor of the admission of the Southern repre-
sentatiyes, we may expect the war to culminate,
and nothing short of impeachment will satisfy
radical hatred. To prevent this the people of the
North-for the South is powerless-must rise in
heir might and overthrow the radical party at the
ballot box. Nothing short of this will meet the
,xigencies of the occasion.
That the radicals have been distrustful of An
lrew johnson since the day of his Inauguration, is
,lear enough. They have never forgiven him
or voting for that series of resolutions
which were introduced into the Senate after the
accession movement had begun, declaratory of the
rue principles upon which the Union was origin
lily established. They have not forgotten that he
ZONES from State which they do not consider in
he Union. They recollect, with only too much
listnctness, that while he denounced secessionists
IN the one hand, he was even morej emphatic and
in his philippics upon the extremists
# the abolition party upon the other Even after
le became President, writer in one of their
papers descended to the small business of dsput-
ng his title, and entered into an elaborate argu-
nent to prove that he was not the President, but
,ny theVice President acting as President. If DR..
Johnson loved good haters, as he declared, he
would certainly, if living, regard the radicals with
IN intense affection. Their hatred of Andrew
Johnson has depth and malignity to which words
IAN give only feeble expression.
No attempt has ever been made to impeach
President of the United States, except lame and
mpotent movement once made by John Miner
only derision. An impeachment has never been
OEucT6u put Luuo GIGuLuSlduCc counts
for nothing. The radicals are not discounted by
he fact that there is no precedent for them to go
~, any more than they regard precedents when
uch actually exist. They seem, indeed, to be
wholly free from trammels of whatever sort and
IS the presiding officer in case of the impeachment
# President Johnson, would be the virtuous and
Chase, and the Senate, which would
ave to try him. is largely radical in its politics,
is chance, perhaps, would be scarcely better than
lat of any unfortunate who may be consigned to
lie tender mercies of military commission.
Considering, then, that the breach between the
resident and the radicals-wide enough already
ust necessarily grow wider every day, it is by no
cans improbable that by the next session of
ongress, if not indeed at this one, articles of
lpeachment may be preferred, and determined
tempt made to eject him from his office. He is |
lie lion in their path, which must be removed. He
the grand obstacle in the way, which thwarts |
leir plans of breaking up the Union, governing |
lie Southern States as conquered provinces, and |
establishing social organization based upon the
nperiority of the African race We repeat, then,
hat to defeat this revolutionary, Jacobinical and
isunion programme, the people Of the North |
lust take the matter in their own hands. With
hem alone rests the remedy. With them alone ii
emains to be decided whether Andrew johnson |
hall continue to be the constitutional President,
r whether the Union shall be dissolved and the
orms Of the government utterly subverted. The
outhern States are powerless in Congress, and
ewerless except in the moral aid which they can
i've, and the mute protest which their helplessness
nrnishes. Elections occur in many Of the North
m States during the year-and then will be the
me for the constitutional men to rally in their
hight, and save the Executive of the country from
eposition, and the government from overthrow.
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RECORDER OF THE FOURTH DIsTRIoT.-By a no.
Ice in another column it will be seen that his
riends have put Mr.. D. E. Tesser in nomination
or the Recordership of the Fourth District, sub.
ect to the action of the National Democratic City
Convention.
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