The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-08-17
Impeachment of the President and
Another Civil War.

From the World.
That the hot-headed radicals are looking to
another civil war, and deliberately plotting
measures to bring it on, is fact which is daily
leaking out through the mouths of their unwary
coadiutors. 1t is leading part of their plan TO
impeach the President, at the next session of
Congress, in the expectation that he will resist
being put out of Office by such rump, and that,
in this manner, the conflict will be precipiated.
Senator Wilson has declared as his opinion ''that
the President should be impeached next winter,
unless change, took place this fall" Gerritt
Smith has recently published letter, in which,
with characteristic irankness and candor, he
expresses his opinion that another civil war is
necessary, and is close upon us. We make the
following eXtraCt:-
The war will break out again if suffrage is with
held IRON the black man. 1t will, in that case,
break out in revenge upon the loyal whites OF the
South, IN persecution OF the blacks of the South,
and, but too probably, on a much broader, if not
indeed on n. tlOnal scale.
In all probability our nation will learn no more
OF righe eousness until she shall have drlted on to
another breaklng-up In all probability she must
reach another bloody catastrophe before her sunken
soul shall feel another upward impulse.
In closing tnis letter let me say that would not
underae the present Congress. In the main it is
composed OF men who are neither Ignorant OF the
night nor indifferent to it. Unhappily they were
lot sufficiently resolute to follow up their convic
tons and INSIST on harvesting the fruits of our
dearly bought victory. Alas! that Congress has
but too probably, left 1T impossible for these fruits
ever TO be harvested Alas that its mistakes have
but too prot ably, rendered vain all this expenditure
OF blood and treasure. The nation must pass
through another season of sorrow it shall reach
its season OF joy seed must again be sOwn in tears
and blood ere this nation shall reach its harvest of
salvation.
'Negro suffrage at whatever costn is the
I legend which the radicals are everywhere in
scribing upon their party banners Speaker
ColtaX, in his late speech in Chicagch, stated it
to be the determination of the Republican party
that the South shall be kept out until they
adopt the pending Constitutional amendment;
and Senator Trumbull, in his speech at the
same meeting said, without attempting to mince
the matter, that negro suffrage is the aim and
su distance OF the amendment. The chief OBJ
stacle in their way Is not the Constituton-for
which they care nothing-but President John
son, whom they mean to impeach, and get out
of the way; by peaceable means if they can, but
by force If they find 1t necessary. That reverend
old bruiser and blackguard, PaIson Brownlow,
has lately sounded the tocsin of new civil
war in a speech at Knoxville. The following is
from Knoxville telegram to the radical Chicago
ITibune:-
Governor Brownow spoke here to-day he said
the Rebellion headed by Andrew Johnson would
share the same fate that headed by JEFF Davis
II attempted, million OF loyal swords would leap
from their scaboaIds, and millions OF bayonets sur
round the Capito and sweep the usurper and traitor
from the Executive mansion"
The Rochester Democrat also grows blood
thirsty, and in a recent issue cries havoc as
tolloWs:-
slOn insists in holding out then II must be reduced
to a trial of main strength, and the weaker power
must go to the wall at last. We have no tears of
the result but regret the waste of lite and treasure,
| the humiliation in the eyes of foreign nations and
the impedlments to the country progress power
and prosperity when the exercise ol little common
sense on the part of the minority might prevent"
Thus, while patriotic citizens of the North
| and the South assembled at Philadelphia
| for the re.establishment of peace, prosperity,
and good WILL these furious and malignant
radicals-these bloodhounds OF civil WARFARE
| slipping from the collar put upon them by the
| Constitution, and opening in full cry upon the
| President and the Union.