The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1866-10-12
The Impeachment projees---I.. dangers.

The Impeachment roject--aIts Dangers
Now that the restoration policy of
the President has been defeated in
Pennsylvania, Indiana and Ohio, and
the exclusion scheme of Congress and
the Radicals endorsed, we may with
certainty, look for the impeachment of
President Johnson by the Radical
Congress in December. Radical jour
mails and orators are continually keep
ing this idea before the people, so that
they NAV not be surprised when the
articles of impeachment are read
Recently John A. Bingham, Of Ohio,
and who, by the way, was reelected to
Congress on Tuesday, called Heaven
to witness that he would neither give
sleep to his eyes nor slumber to 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
it lays its articles Of impeachment
before the Senate, demands that Mr..
Johnson be suspended from the eXer-
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
notice on the President, that if he re-
sists the action of Congress, the Sen
ate viii call for aid to displace him,
and the "boys in blue will
answer The New York indie
pendent discloses the programme
and assures as that when the Rad
ical work is completed, it will be abso-
! lutely final and irreversible, so that
there viii no longer be any human au-
thOrity which can revise the judgment
or set aside the decree. Thus it viii
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
parchment, and find the President can
only be removed from office on i'm
1 parchment for treason, bribery, and
other high crimes and misdemeanors,
we may reasonably anticipate the at
tempted removal of the Chief Magis-
trate of the nation will be a rather Sc
rious undertaking. Congress can bring
no clear case of high crime and misde-
meanor as contemplated by the Con
stitution against him; the partisan in
indictment Of Butler and Bingham
and Tilton and Phillips, will not meet
the approval of the people, and when
ever the Jacobins undertake the lcen
tious and revolutionary scheme, tht
country will be thrown into civil
conflict, the magnitude of which it is
fearful to contemplate. Let us en-
deavor to produce some kind of a re
action that will relieve the country O.
the war into which the Radical agita
/ TORS seems to be dragging it, and give
to all sections union, peace, prosperity
and harmony. Unless it is done We
tremble for the future.
I Unrepresented as we of the South
are, it is useless for us to say much
If war is to blight the land let us have
no hand in it. We should stand by
the Constitution, and simply ask ouI
rights-those rights to which we are
justly entitled, and of which we are al
! present deprived. Whatever fate is in
store for us, let it be met with dignity
and honor "Woe to the conquered
when the yietors disagree.