The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-10-31

but there Is some palliation for those speeches
m the proyocaiions of certain radical leaders
! and stumpers leyeled at President johnson,
They rallied at HIM, and he paid them i'm their
owr con, only he forgot TO discriminate
between Conness and its railing radicals.
hpilors second charge of "wrongiully using
! The power OF appointments amounts 10 nothing
In this business Mr.. Johnson wisely or m
wisely, has only followed the EXAMPLES of ms
predecessors from the time OF General Jackson.
The third charge, that he was guilty OF a high
crime or misdemeanor in 'declarine neace In
the tnsureent States without the consent of
Congress Is simply absurd, as is the fourth, in
Tsgaf9 5g & 70 tae exercise Of the pardoning power.
Dlll remains to be proved, and the sixth, "iOr
| completely in the New Orleans riotpis not sus-
tanned by the facts. If as good It is no better
tnan Mr. Johnson's charge against the radicals
of Congress that they melted the New ORR cans
rot and this brings us to the end of the budget
OF Butler 7f 4a-I -.l1 .' - .
Upon these charges, or something like them,
we expect the attempt will be made TO impeach
the President at the coming session of Congress-
we undertake to say, however, that no bill of
impeachment will pass the House, and that If
put 10 the test y VIII hardly receive more than
iorty or hity votes, or the strength of the
extreme radical faction. On the other hand
we deem IT highly probable that the effect of
the Impending November elections will be to
bring the conservative Republicans of Congress
and the Executive into that happy accord
which will put an end 10 this Impeachment
scheme of the Jacobins and bring the outlying
SSouthern S1.ta, Sta'es TO wise acceptance OF the
Constitutional amendment. As the contro yersy
stands between the President and Congress it
affords no facts or overt acts for an impeach-
ment, and in what Mr.. Johnson may do lies the
alternative not only of two. thirds majority
against him IN each House TO the end of his
term of office, but that other and saving alter
native OF balance of power in bis favor with
the restoration OF the South on the basis of the
Constitutional amendment.
The Disturbed Relations of Russia and
Austrta-AnOther Sick Man.
From the Herald. ,I ..a
II is announced from Europe that there is
dangerous complication in the relations between
Russia and Austria, and it is intimated by the
London Times that the immediate cause of this
new European trouble is to be found in Russian
intrigues for the further disintegration of the
Austrian empire. 1t was hardly to be expected
that Russia, whose frontier has been carried SO
far westward solely by the dismemberment of
other Municipalities, should preserve her eouili-
brium in view of the spectacle that Austria has
presented in the past summer; and it seemed
not at all natural that she should remain quiet
while Europe was radically reconstructed and
settled into new balance In the position of
Austria, ass allied on the north and the south
there was an opportunity for Russia to settle
the score OF revenge that she had against her
neigh Dor ior the failure to come forward when
England, France, and Italy joined hands with
Turkey against tie giant of the north More
over, this troubled position of Austria afforded
most tempting occasion to Russia in another
respect.
Austria, 1t must be remembered, is a com
posite empire, and was even mo1e eminentIy
such last summer than now Her great eIe.
ments Of population, divided by races, were
Slavic, Germap, aud Italian. The success of
the war against her deprived her at blow of
nearly her whole Italian element and SO Grip
pied her in the German element that she is no
longer regarded as German power. Seeing
these porlions of the Austrian empire thus re,
vertlng to their original nationalities; seeing
the Italians of Austria absorbed in one direc.
ton and the Germans in another, it is only
natural that Russia, the great Slavic power
should conceive the possibility of finishing the
matter by an absorption of the Savs. We
cannot argue that she did not conceive that
posslollity by her having apparently kept quiet;
ior the war was very short, and the concep.
uons OF Russian politics are sometimes very
SLOW SLOW; Russia, moreover, may have more
ShectNe way OF operating in this matter than
by open war. Indeed, open war for the pur.
pose of the obliteration of Austria would involve
the interference of the Western powers. In
the midst OF the recent war the Emperor of
France intimated TO Prussia that Austria must
not be debased from her position as a great
power.
Such power in her place is a necessary part
OF the balance, and the Emperor allots to her
thirty millions of people. Another war, there
fore, to strip the new sick man of additional
mlllions Of her population, could not be per-
mltted; aud Russia works by surer means, in
the intrigues, doubtless, with the people, limited
at in the telegram. Whatever circumstances
may give rise to it, or whatever form it may
take, it seems certain that the next collision
in Europe must be on the border line between
these two powers. Austria shut out ofGermany,
definitely limited in every other direction can
only grow towards the east, and can only do
that at the expense, directly or indirectly, of
Russia. Russia, while resisting, will also always
be aggressive. Such is the character of the
two powers-the rersstency of the one and the
stohdity OF the other-that diplomacy can only
avert the collision for time It must come,
but We do not believe it will come last yet.
The Mexican Empire on the Point of Dis
sOlutiOn-What Is to Follow:
From the World.
The Emperor Napoleon is sufficiently punished