Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-01-26

blacks amounting to some four millions, and
they are, as parties now stand, a unit wiih
the party which fought out their emancipa.
ton. And yet again, the people OF the loyal
States, to the extent of three thousand NIL
lions of money, invested, in Government Sc
curities, ase interested in sustaining Congress
and In maintaining internal peace. Ihe
President then, even If otherwise inclined,
will have no alternative, when the time
comes, but submission to his Impeachment
and removal from Office. What has he 10
stake against tho three thousand miiiions oil
money, the million OF veteran Union soldiers,
and the States comprehending twenty mil.
lions of people represented IN and pledged
to Congress9 Nothing but his peculiar
notions of the Constitutions, which must
give way to the Constitution itself, and to
| the demands of the great revolution which
| is still in full blast and which must run its
course.
This Copperhead hue and cry Of another
civil war is, then, nothing but raw head
| bloody bones-a horrible Chinese dragon u
mere scarecrow, intended to srighten Con-
gress from this impeachment. The Copper
heads care nothing for Andrew johnson ex-
cept as an instrument to be used for their
purpOses-a cats paw to rake the cacstnuts
from the fire. They, with Mr.. Johnson's
continuance in Office to the end of his term,
think, like Micawber that something may
turn up," that the dead lock between Con-
gress and the Executive, on Southern recon-
struction, in the interval to March 4, 1869,
may, perhaps, be broken by the Supreme
Court in favor of the Administration and
the rebel States just rs they stand, and the
Northern Democracy of tie Chicago plat
form, thus compiling Congress to readmil
the excluded States on their own terms into
both Houses and into the Presidential elec
tion of 1868. Mr.. johnson is to provide
these roasted French chestnuts, and the
Northern peace Democracy in war aud wal
Democracy in peace are to eat them will
their old Southern masters. The Union !:
to be as it was under Buchanan; the doctrine
OF State rights is to be applied in repudia
ton of the war debt of the United States al
an equivalent for the reputation of thu
debt Of the late so called confederate States
, the war FOR the Uuion is 10 be considered .
, blunder, and things ale to be as they were
sla, cry and all, as each Of the States for 1t
, self may elect.
This, so far ms VIC can comprehend 1t, 1
, the programme which the Northern Copper
heads expect from Mr.. johnson, if permitted
\ to remain un1isturbed to the end of his reg
ular term. He will then be at liberty to re
tire and compare notes with Millard Fill
, more, poor Pierce and buchanan. The DC
D mocracy will have no further use for him
G lie may go. Meantime, as the conflict be
E. tween Congress and the Executive has pas:
!: ed beyond the last hope OF couprunis'
| the weaker bellgerent must go down. Th
, Constitution gives to one branch of Con6res
the power to impeach the President fc
! "bribery, corruption and other high crime
i and misdemeanors, and to the other hranc
y the power, as judge and jury, to try hin
b convict him and remove him. Mr.. JOIN
J. sons removal in this way, therefore, undo
n the express authority OF the Constitution
. will he the emf oi Ibis conflict. With ii
e verdict of the Senate against him, which
= such cases stands above the Supreme Cour
It he become ! p,.yate citizen again, and, s
l. far from there being any dsteru.nce on III
If subject, the victim will gracefully submi
It and as an orange that Las been sucked DIR.
l. his present Copperhead admirers will ca
e him aside. There is only one man
y all the prominent Union leaders against Il
late rebellion who, by mistaken polio
It lost an equal chance to that of Andre
e. johnson for the Presidency in his own rigl
IS and that man is General Mcclellan. III
,e soldier failed in attempting too little; Il
10 civilian has failed in attempting too mucl
% and so the great revolution which broug
r. him into power viii move hini out.