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


WASHINGTON, April 3, Io66-The impeach-
meut of the President, long whispered at is
now openly advocated, and the echo is caught
up by such newspapers as the Chicago TTi-
bune IN demands for the immediate arraign-
ment of Andrew Johnson for a series of
crimes and misdemeanOrs. which they find
very easy to enumeTate In former letter
] stated that the President had been inform
ed. on authority that he could not question,
that it 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 admS-
sion of Colorado, and the succession of Mr.
stockton, and there will be Grimes" enourh
found against him in a very short time The
men who seek his conviction are the men
who VIII sit in Judgment upon him. and as
1t viii be for them to Judge as we'll what
constitutes high crime or misdemeanor as
whether such high crime or mISdemcauOr has
been committed, their power TO convict viii
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 a short time
since lest be play the role of Cromwell or
Napoleon, and astOnish orr pure and simple
democracy some fine day with comp deiat
Finding that the President viii not take
the initiative in the revolution they are SO
anxious to bring about, they now urge their
own political friends 70 do so. They must
not, however, be led into the delusion that
because Mr.. johnson viii 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 IL 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 viii generally be found among that
large class who kept steadily ont of the late
conflict, to count the cost before they 90
any further, and to give some more reason
able assurances than their own promises
that they viii be in position to say come
on when the crisis arrives instead of "go
on" as they conteuted they-seIves with
saying during the late war.
The country may as well understand uoT7
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 ofthe North COM |
mencing in the city of Washington.