The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-04-18

out of the way; but whether by impeachment or
by political manGuvIe, will not be fully deci-
ded till after next falls elections.
IL the Republicans hold their own In the cleo
tons, and make sure of twothirds majority
IN the next Congress, they will feel strong
enough to impeach and depose the President,
and will do it without further delay. In that
case, they will take Chief Justice Chase as
their candidate and, by excluding the
Southern electoral votes, they will stand fair
chance of inauguratlng him. According to the
Constitution, the Chief Justice must preside
in the Senate. when sitting as court for the
trial OF lmpeachments. II will be scanda-
lous spectacle to see Mr.. Chase sitting IN
mock trial for deposing an officer whose re-
moval is necessary to his own success. A
Judge should have no interest as party;
but Chief Justice Chase would be enlisted
for the condemnation of the President by the
strongest motives which can appeal to the
ambition of a demagogue recent Washing
ton letter to o Western paper, the writer of
which seems to have been fresh from an inter-
view with MIR. Chase, closes long recital with
this remark:-
',Mr Chase does NOT think that Congress and the
President will ever harmonic. He thinks that the
Presdent has not tho power to destroy the Union
party; that one man, as he expressed IL, however
elevated his position, fills tut a small space in q
nation in great party and that the Union party
at this time embodies the intelligence and consc enee
of the country; and, turning to the person with
whom he was in conversation, he inquired, Do you
any of the intelligent, honest young men OF our
country attaching themselves to this old, corrupt,
and dislOyal Democratic partyp"
Nothing is probably further from Mr.. Chase's
wishes than that the President ard Congress
should lever harmonize,n as his own Presiden-
tial hopes rest upon the continuance OF the
difference and the exclusion of the Southern
States.
If the Republicans shall lose considerably in
the Congressional elections, their tactics are not
quite so clear. The adherents OF Mr.. Chase will
still be for impeachment, since it is only by
ousting President johnson that Mr.. Chase could
hope to be inaugurated, If he should receive
merely majority of the Northern votes. But
since reaction once set in is not likely to stop,
less radical set of politicians will be for drop
ping both Mr. Chase and the project of impeach-
ment, and running General Grant as the Repub-
lican candidate for the Presidency, trusting that
the army would worship rather the rising than
the setting sun. and that it would obey the
Lieutenant.General instead of the constitutional
Commander-in-Chie The Republican party is
a unit in their determination 10 exclude the
South from the next Presidential election; they
differ only as to the relative eXpediency of inn
peaching President johnson, or running General
Grant. If the outandout Radicals shall infer,
from the result of the fall elections, that they
are strong enough to elect Mr.. Chase, we shall
be treated TO the scandalous spectacle of an inn
peachmeut, the trial of which will be presided
over by the party having the chiefinterest in the
result,