The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1866-10-18
The Impeaehmenl ProIoor---Il. Danrer.


Now that the restoration policy oi
the President has been defeated IN
Pennsylvania, Indiana aud Ohio, and
the exclusion scheme Of Congress aud
the Radicals endorsed. We may Will
certainty, look for the impeachment OF
President johnson by the Radical
Congress in December. Radical Jour.
nails and orators arc continually keep
ing this idea before the people 80 that
they may not be surprised when the
articles Of Impeachment arc read
Recently John A. Bingham, Of Ohio
and who. by the way. was reelected 10
Congress on Tuesday, called Heaven
10 witness that he would neither give
sleep 20 his eyes nor slumber 70 his
eye lids, until he drew up bills OF i'm.
parchment against Andrew Joenson.
Wendell Phillips declares the emer-
gency peculiarly demands this method
of Congressional assault, but deems
Impeachment of little or no value, IN
deed useless unless the House, when
Il lays It's articles Of impeachment
before the Senate demands that Mr.
johnson be suspended from the excr-
else of his functions, and that ------
act as President until Mr. johnson is
acquitted, or, In any other result OF
the trial until the Presidential term
commences. Ben Butler has preferred
the charges, and in his speeches served
a notice on the President, that If lac re'
sists the action Of Congress, the Sen
ate will call for aid TO displace him,
and the "boys in blue will
answer The New York indie.
pendent discloses the programme
and assures us that when the Rad
ical work is completed, IL will be ALSO
lutely final and irreversible, 80 that
there will no longer be any human au-
thority which can revise the Judgment
or set aside the decree. Thus II will
be seen that the hurting Of President
Johnson from authority is determined
upon in order that the party may be
powerful for aggressive measures
when the new Congress convenes.
But when we examine the provisions
Of the Constitution respecting i'm
and find the President can
only he removed from Office on inn
parchment for treason, bribery, and
other high crimes and misdemoanors,
we may reasonably anticipate the at.
removal Of the Chief Magis.
trate Of the nation viii be u rather Sc
rious undertaking Congress can bring
no clear case of high crime and INSIDE
ms contemplated by the Con
5titution against him; the partisan in
indictment Of Butler and Bingham,
md Tilton and Phillips, will not meet
he approval Of the people, and when
ever the Jacobins undertake the licen-
tious and revolutionary scheme, the
country viii be thrown into civil
conflict, the magnitude of which it is
fearful 10 contemplate. Let us en-
deavor TO produce some kind of u re-
action that will relieve the country of
the war into which the Radical agita-
TORS seems to be dragging It, and give
to all sections union, peace, prosperity
and harmony Unless II is done we
tremble for the future.
Urrepresented as we of the South
are, il is useless for us to say much. -
IL war is to blight the land, let us have
no hand in it. We should stand by
the Constitution, aud simply ask our
rights to which we are
Justly entitled, and of which we are at |
present deprived Whatever fate is in
store for us, let II be met with dignity
and honor "Woo to the conquered
when the victors disagree