The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1866-11-17
Tie Cecil Wing.
NOVEMBER II, 1865.
Inlpea ChHaent.

The subject Of impeaching the President
papers Of the loyal States, and notwithstand
ing the mawkish sympathy of a certain class
-untau9ht by the lessons of the war and
the course pursued by the leading Rebels,
under the inspiriting aid of the Accidency-
the great and controlling mind of the Amer
lean people seems to be drawing to the con-
clusion that the most direct, common sense
way to settle the unhappy state of affairs
continuing at present-and altogether need
lessly--to distract the nation, is to eradicate
at once and forever, the cause of at present
all our woes. The first act Congress should
set itself about is the impeachment and dis.
missal from the Presidential chair, the man
who has brought the greatest disgrace upon
the United States of any other in their his.
tory. The next session would be well spent
if it did nothing else than hurl from the seat,
where he has the power to infct such deadly
injury upon the nation, an ignorant, unscru-
pulons demagogue, who stubbornly persists
in his attempts to thwart the will of the
people. He has perpetrated crimes and
misdcmeanors, numberess, any of which
are sufficient ground for impeachment To
him are directly chargeable the thousands Of
murders of freedmen and loyal whites that
cry for vengeance from every quarter of the
Southern States; to this one fountain Of
Presidential corruption is attributable all the
bitterness that spreads over the country, and
is becoming more and more Intensified in
the South. The murders committed in the
Memphis and New Orleans riots are clearly
the fruits OF Presidential culture. He has
violated the Constitution in letter and spirit
in some Of the most aggravating forms in
delegating the command of the army to
an inferior officer of the State Of Louisiana,
and virtually deprivins the lawful governor
OF the State of all power, in order that Reb.
els might butcher loyal men in placing the
command of the army in the power of Gov.
Swami, Of Maryland, in order that he might
put down, by Federal Bayonets, the Union
men Of Maryland; in his total disregard OF
the rights Of the Senate of the United States
in his arbitrary use of the appointing power,
which he has prostituted to the basest parti-
Fan purposes, and solely with the object to
crush and defeat the free will Of the people ;
in his ignoring the civil rights law, and there.
in dcfying and disregardng the power of
Congress and his duties as n Magistrate in
his drunken and Vulgar abuse Of the repro.
scntativcs of tho American people; and in
word his efforts, in placing himself at the
head of the defeated Rebels, to encourage
and revive again the rebellion These are
crimes which cry aloud for righteous judg-
ment 10 be executed upon their perpetrator.
The impeachment and hurting from the
nigh position he so abuses and disgraccs is
the only speedy, safe and direct road to a
remedy for all the political evils tho nation
now trcts and labors under. In thus taking
the bull ny the horns. Congress could do
more to 1rtle on a firm foundation the future
government of the nation, than all that has
been done since the Rebel armies were CAP
t'red. II Congress, at its next session. will
go vigorously to work by impeaching Andy
'hn-on, and, following up the work of Re-
construction, by tumbling. down the Rebel
tyranies he has set up for State governments
all over the South which serve no other
purpose than to grind to the dust the Union
men of that region, and establish govern
ments controlled solely by the loyal people,
driving, if necessary, the leading traitors,
who created, and are now producing all the
woe and rebellion, which are still going on in
the South, out Of the country, the work of
reconstruction will be completed before the
next planting season has rolled round, and
the country will settle rapidly into repose,
and enter on course Of peaceful prosperity
before unknown. But, if dcmagogue, who
mistakes obstinacy for craftsmanship, is al
lowed to chang on the verge Of the govern
ment' and thwart the efforts of it's rightful
rulers, for two years longer, the same unset.
tied state of affairs, with constant tendency
to worse, will continue to effect the nation.
That the direct course to pursue is the i'm
parchment Of the President, is so obvious,
and that this is the only course left for Con-
gress, if speedy settlement of the vexed
question of reconstruction is desired, that it
is a marvel that any plain mind should for q
moment not perceive it. The great popular
voice all over the country has demanded it
in the hundreds of thousands of loyal ma.
iorities that have been piled up at the late
elections. The masses, without a dissenting
voice, demand this bold common sense duty
at the hands Of Congress. Let them act,
and the people will sustain them.