Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1866-11-03
Sioux City 9egister
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1866.
IMPEACHMENT OF TIE PREsI-
DENT.

What was barely limited at few months
ago by the most blatant of The radical
disunio nis,s-the impeachment Of the
Presidents now boldly pro- laimed as
the settled determination of the JAG obns
at the approach ng session Of the rump
congr-ss. They have apparently come
to the conclusion that the impeachment
and deposits Il The President is indis-
pensibly cassary to the success Of their
purpose 10 revolutionize the government
and permanently establish the control of
their party. Hence they will not scrup'e
in an attempt to set at naught every
principle and obligation Of equity, justice
and consti, utional law, and remove from
authority and power the greatest and
most poten. enemy Of their destructive
policy.
The plan Of the Jacobins, as developed
By good authority, is for the House Of
Representatives, Immediately upon its
converting, to find a bill Of impeachmen
Upon the presentment of this bill to The
Senate, that body will forthwith depose
the President and place him upon trial.
His deposition would legally confer the
duties Of the Executive upon Senator
Foster the president pro tenn Of the Sen
ate but the radical plan is that the con-
sti:ational provision in this respect shall
be disregarded. They claim that Foster
is too conservative that it is unsafe to
trust him, and that while they are at it
they may as well Place at the head cf the
government q man in whose trca son and
disregard Of the obligations Of the cors,i.
tuition they have full conf ienca, and
whose general political and moral debase-
mcnt is thoroughly established. There
fore they propose to throw President
johnson into prison, and plac, the reins
Of the government in the hands Of Dick
Yates Of Illinois, who they think will
send the " Union as it was and tbs Con-
stitu,ion as i, is " to perdi'ion across lots
quicker than any other nan in the coun.
try, except Beast Butler. But they are
averse to taking Butler, FIR fear that
while they are engaged in tonvic;ing
Johnson, the Beast would steal all the
silver plate in the White House, make a
Fort Fisher moveman, on Fred Douglass,
elope with Annie Dickinson, and leave
them no spoils to contend for.
This seems to be the settled policy Of
the leaders Of the disuuion party. Even
the cowsrdiy Greeley WAS endeav-
crins to negotiate peace with ropreser-
tatives of the Confederate government at
Niagara, while Andrew johnson was fight.
ing rebels in Tennessee-ind orses the
proposed impeachment. He, however.
has just appreciation Of the consequent
ces of such movement, and ;remb'ingly
predicts that the impeachment Of the
President. no matter how jus. the charges,
will surely resul. in fierce and bloody
civil war"
The radicals are drunk with power,
ard in their madness thay will not halt
a. the commission Of grossly illegal acts
and arbitrary exercise Of their numerical
strength IN congress. until it becomes
the duty Of the custodian Of the honor of
the government and the constitutional
rights OF the people to interpose such
measures as will etfectualIy check them
in their reckless career.
We have no doubt that Preside ut John
son is fully prepared to meet the lawless
onset Of these destructive fanatics.