The national Republican., 1866-11-26
lMPEACHMENr.

II the space devoted 10 the subject by the
Washington RErusLIcAN Is any criterion to
judge from, President johnson expects that
an attempt will be made TO impeach him, and
thinks that the Buffers Boutwells, and Bing-
hams are indulging in no idle talk. 1t may
be that these gentlemen are lying awake o
nights, developing plan for deposing the
Executive, but the great mass Of Republican
Congressman have no such purpose in view,
and will give no serious consideration to q
motion for impeachment.-N.Y Y. Commercial
Advertiser.
Will the Advertiser answer us q fair ques-
tionf Is the space" that an article occupies
any honest criterion to Judge from" in tell.
ing what man expects" who never saw or
heard Of the article in question until he READ
it in printf Another question: Suppose The
President authorized the article we pub
lished on the goth instant, to which the Ad-
vertiser refers above, would it not have been
more honest to have quoted the exact lam
guage Of the article than to talk about space,
If the editor desired to know what The PRES
IDKsr "expectsf"
The article which appeared in the REruB-
L1cAS was intended to show the absurdity Of
any attempt at impeachment. We employed
the following language:
"Impeach the President of the United
States for honest and earnest efforts to save
the country? The idea is not, for one mo-
ment, to be thought Of or tolerated. IfCon-
gress were weak orwicked enough to do such
q thing, the people would be wise to bid
farewell, finally and forever, to anything in
the shape Of liberty"
Again we said:
at has been and yet is our opinion that
when the time comes, If 1t does come at all,
that Thaddeus Stevens shall try to get the
House Of Representatives to prefer articles
Of impeachment against the President for
anything he has done since he came to the
Executive Office, he will find no majority in
that body who will dare to take that respon.
sibility. We have more reasons for that
opinion than we have space for in this arti.
cie."
We gave six sound, legal and political
reasons why Congress would not impeach
The PRESIDENT, and concluded as follows:
"Netv questions ,oiu arise at the nert ses-
sson of such importance as to overshddotD
and ouercloud all the differences UIich have
otocH oct"ctN COO uftu Gc 4 FcStucUN
British America, with our right to the mouth
of the st. Lawrence and the fisheries, on the
one side, and Mexico with what is to be
done with it) on the other, will come to the
Congressional snrface as the prominent mat
ters Of the session. Exaspersted Congress
men will have, like the prodigal son, come
to their senses, and concluded that their
threats to impeach the President for disrel-
ished ideas is all nonsense This, very briefly,
is our idea respecting the impeachment ques-
ton"
If the Advertiser had shown that common
fairness which ought always to characterize
respectable journalism it would have stated
what the REPUBLICAN did say, and not init
mate the very reverse.
We regret to be obliged to say that the
Advertiser is not courteous in its dealings
with contemporaries. On the 10th inst. 1t
charged us with having endeavored to "shift
the responsibility of the New Orleans riot
from The President to Secretary STANTON"
because we insisted upon an explanation
from Mr.. STANTON why he neither answered
Gen. BAIRD's dispatch, dated New Orleans,
July %, asking for immediate instructions,
nor allowed The PRESIDENT to see it, that
he might answer it. The Advertiser init.
mates that, the elections being over, we were
attempting to screen The PRESIDENT" We
showed the dishonesty Of this charge by re-
publishing an article from the REPUBLICAN, Of
August last, entitled Where the responsi-
bility Of the New Orleans riot rests" In
that article we first published BAIRD's dis
patch, but the Advertiser did not deem it
good policy to mention the subject then, be,
cause it was before election, and the editor
wanted to screen the Secretary Of War. And
we repeat now what we said in concluding
our article of August 25th last, that "the as.
sertion Of the New York Commercial Ad-
vertiser, that ANDREW JOHNSON knew in ad.
vance all about the impending troubles in
New Orleans, and could have prevented
them, il so disposed,' is q barefaced false.
hood unwarranted by any evidence what.
ever