The daily Mississippi clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1866, 1866-04-12
The President TO be Impeachcd.

IES President TO be nDeaChcd.
WASHINGTON, April 3, 1S66.-The impeach-
ment of the President, long whispered at, is
now openly advocated, and the echo is caught
up by such newspapers as the Chicago Tri-
bune III demands for the immediate arraign-
ment of Andrew johnson for a series of
crimes and mlSdemeanOrs, which they find
very easy to enumerate In former letter
| stated that the President had been inform
ed, on authority that he could not question
that 1t vas the intention of the majority in
Congress to attempt his Impeachment as
soon as they should have secured the neces-
Sary vote in the Senate to carry out this
scheme. The President listened to what was
said on the subject, and replied that he had
every reason to believe it was true.
1t may be said that all speculations on
this head are grOundleSS, because the Presi-
dent has committed no crime for which he
could be impeached. But give the extre-
mists the numerical strength in the Senate,
which they hope yet to have by the admis-
sion of Colorado, and the succession of Mr.
Stockton, and there will be Grimes enough
found against him in a very short time The
men who seek his conviction are the men
who will sit in Judgment upon him, and as
1t will be for them to Judge as well what
constitutes a high crime or msdemeanor as
whether such high crime or misdemeanOr has
been committed, their power to convict will
soon resolve itself into an act of conviction
The same journals that now advocate the
impeachment of Mr. johnson, pretended to
be in terrible CONSERVATION short time
since lest he play the role of Cromwell or
Napoleon, and astonish our pure and simple
democracy some fine day with a coup d'etat
Finding that the President will not take
the initiative in the revolution they are so
anxious to bring about, they now urge their
own political friends to do so. They must
not, however, be led into the delusiOn that
because Mr.. johnson will not play the role
of Cromwell, he will therefore sit quietly
by and permit Congress to make him share
the melancholy fate of Charles. He will do
no such thing, unless he disregards the adj
vice of his best friends. And men who think
nothing more is necessary in order to secure
the vacancy of the Presidential chair for
political purposes than for the House of
Representatives to order the arrest of An
drew Johnson in such articles of impeach-
ment as it chooses to draw up, and find
when the matter comes to be tested that
they have reckOned without their host. 1t
would be well for those who now demand
the Inauguration of another civil war and
who will generally be found among that
large class who kept steadily out of the late
conflict, to count the cost before they go
any further, and to give some more reason
able assurances than their own promises
that they will be in position to say come
on" when the crisis arrives, instead of Ego
on" as they contented themselves with
saying during the late war.
The country may as well understand now
as be compelled to learn it when too late,
that the impeachment of the President
means the inauguration of a civil war,
which must be fought ont, not in the distant
South. and along the Mississippi river, but
in every city and village of the North, COM
mencing in the city of Washington.