The national Republican., 1866-11-20

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IMPEACHMENT OF THE PREsI.
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at is generally expected that Congress,
Immediately upon reassembling, will impeach
and depose the President, when the Presi-
dent Of the Senate will become the legal sue.
cessor Of Mr.. Lincoln as head Of the Republic.
For we cannot forget that this is still the
presidency Of that illustrious sleeper, and the
removal Of Mr.. johnson from Office would
only give the murdered President, for the
time which yet remains, o more worthy sue
cessor There is but another question, and
that is, will the second successor Of Mr.. Lin
coin be compelled to employ force to execute
the DEGREES Of Congress and to sustain his
own power? Let US hope that 1t will not be
necessary to proceed to such an extremity,
although the American people have been
much excited by recent strange events
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Although we are aware that several hot
headed members of the present Congress,
like boutwell,. of Massachusetts,, and BING-
HAM, of Ohio, have talked about having Pres
dent JOHNSON impeached for usurpation Of
authority in ppointingprovisional governors
of States lately in rebellion and in removing
unfaithful men from Office, their conduct in
this respect has been so miserable that we
have not been inclined hitherto to say much
about it. To talk Of impeaching TBE PREsI.
DENT Of the United States and removing him
from Office as aippantly and carelessly as
they do, is to impress our mind too painfully
for any sort ofcomfort with fact otherwise
sufficiently apparent Of the sad demoraliza-
ton Of the country in these overburdened
times. Impeach the President Of the United
States for honest and earnest efforts to saue
the countryP The idea is not, for one mo-
ment, to be thought Of or tolerated. If Con.
gress were weak or wicked enough to do
such thing, the people would be wise to bid
farewell finally and forever to anything in
the shape Of liberty. And it seems like triiing
with solemn matters to review such notices as
that poor, miserable creature, FoRSEY, gets
up; but perhaps we must.
This threat has been in keeping with all
the miserable crusade which such as him
have prosecuted against The PRESIDENT ever
since they found out that he could not be
used for their venal purposes. 1t was con.
ceived in the same groveling brain, and has
been Illuminated in the same vindictive spirit.
We cut the above from the Sunday
Chronicle, credited to French paper
Whether FoRSEY wrote it himself or not, we
do not know, yet it sounds very much like
him. We think he did orite ii. 1t seems
to be another outgiving that an impeach-
ment of Tue PRESIDENT is contemplated at
the next session Of Congress. .as
A friend of ours in New England, 1a0 has
perfect contempt for horse-racing, used to
be Greatly annoyed by the almost daily chal-
lenges Of neighbor Of his to run horses. AT
length our friend, to rid himself Of the an
noyance, after rejecting the hundredth chal-
lenge to run horses, said: "Neighbor, have
refused at least hundred times to run horses
with you; but to end the matter, I'll tell you
what will do. I'll run my line-back OK
against your best horse for an hundred dol
lars" The neighbor hesitated, and finally
backed down, saying: "Dr. Smith, tohen you
talk about horses, / kno,o their 'pints;' but
Icant tell What devilish line-baek or might
do, and think Itoont take The bet."
Just 80 with US in respect to Congress.
If il were any other Congress but this one
we should have no difficulty whatever in pre-.
dieting that 1t would never, as President
JACKSON once said of a Congress Of which
PoHDExrER was a member, "dare undertake
TO impeach his shadoto" But with CHARLES
SUMNER as leader in one House and THAD.
DErs STEVENS in the other, We donot venture
to guess what they might dos .1
Nevertheless, it has been and yet is our
opinion that when the time comes, il II does
come at all, that THADDEUs STEVENS shall try
to get the House Of Representatives to pre-
fer 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 responsibility. We have more reasons
for that opinion than we have space for in
this article. We will assign three or four Of
them: t.. ....
lst. Amy specifications which shall touch
the question of appointing provisional gov
ernors will be aimed as much against the
martyred Ex-President LINCOLN as against
President JOHNSON; and we do not believe
the present House OF Representatives will
dare to confront the shade Of President LIN
COLIN before the American people, even IL
they do question the authority Of the Execu-
tive to perform such acts. Every nation in
Christendom possesses, by the laws of ma
tions,. certain attributes Of sovereignty,
among which is the right to maintain its
own existence. And the executive head of
the nation, whether he be emperor, poten-
tate, sovereign, dictator or president, is in
vested with the obligation and authority to
use those attributes for the preservation Of
his country. The laws Of nations are not
only higher than the Constitution Of any
separate nation In Christendom, but they
supply any omissions which may exist in the
constitution Of any separate State, 1t was
by virtue Of this higher law that President
JEyyERsos purchased Louisianaof NAPOLEON
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