Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1867-10-12

lpOnderates the whites will not vote.
AsPIRANTs TO THE PRESIDENCY.
When Congress meets in November you may
expect another furious blast against the Presi-
dent. He may be impeached. One of the
causes which have prevented this consumma-
ton heretofore has been the rivalry among sew
eral aspirants to the Presidential succession.
IF johnson had been superseded, Wade, the
acting President of the Senate, would have
taken his place As President, Wade would
have the patronage of the Government in his
hands to influence the Republican Convention
| IN his own favor. 70 prevent this, the friends
of all other aspirants in the Republican ranks.
were united. Their individual interests proved
/ too strong for their pretended patriotism. It
has saved Andrew johnson thus far, and may
continue to do so. The extreme Radicals pre-
fer one of their own sort, and if the elections
to come off soon show that the Republican
party can sustain itself, one of that kind will
receive the nomination. If there is a serious
falling off a more moderate man is likely to
succeed As things now stand, Chase appears
to stand better show than any other man.
That very fact, however, may ruin his hopes,
by uniting the weaker candidates against him.
Since the late elections, Understand that some
| of the Radical managers who have heretofore
been opposed to the nomination of Gen. Grant,
have swung around the circle. and are en-
deavOring to obtain Radical pledges from him
to satisfy the Phillips Greeley wing, which has
bitterly abused him during the Summer. For
ney of the Washington Chronicle, is among
these managers. Gen. Grant has injured his
prospects for the Presidency with all parties
| by taking the position Of Secretary of War.
At one time some of the Democratic papers
| favored taking him up on Democratic nomi-
nation, but little is heard of it now. For
time Sheridans name was freely canvassed,
but ne, too seems to have sunk into obscurity
with his removal Stanton is in the same boat.
PERSONALLY he is unpopular, and the. army par
ticuiarly rejOices to see. him treated as he has
treated many Of them in the days of his reign
in the War Office. Gen. Sickles ought to be
martyr, but he does not seem to be regarded
as one. It was unfortunate for him that he
bucked against a Republican Chief Justice.
Had it been Judge fancy, it might have made
him President. There is no indication OF I'M
portance yet pointing to the Democratic nonl-
nee for the Presidency. Some of the pOllti-
clans in New York have figured for the nomi-
nation of Gen. Mcclellan, but he does not seem
to stake" very effectively. 1t is too early IN
the day to figure up that point. The coming
elections will settle it better than any clique of
politicians can do. Whoever gets the nominal
ton will take it from the Democratic party on
Democratic platform. The fight will be
square one, unincumbered by any middle or
side parties.
IMPEACHMENT OF THE PRESIDENT.
The expose made by Assistant Attorney Gen.
Brinckley of the shameless attempt of Butler
and Ashley to subOrn testimony against the
President duplicating him with the assassina-
| ton of Lincoln has thrown discredit on the
impeachment movement. Neither of the par
ties has ever made any attempt to explain bis
completely in this infamous plot. This, in con
nection with the wranglings of the numerous
aspirants to the Presidential nomination, prob
ably would have squelched the impeachment
move had not the feeling been aroused again by
the ousting of Stanton, Sheridan and Siekles
The impeachment will likely be sprung again
among the earliest measures of the approach.
ing Congress, with better probabilities of sue
cess than at any previous time. OF course,
there is no ground whatever for an impeach-
ment The Committee to whom the matter
was referred last Spring, ransacked Heaven
and Earth for pretext and found none, and
if it is accomplished next Winter zone of the
reasons heretofore assigned will be produced,
but the impeachment will be attempted solely
on the ground that the President is an simped-
iment to reconstruction" As such. elmpeach-
ment would be an act Of reUolutiOn on the part
of Congress. Much has been said and written
as to the course the President would then pur-
sue The past course of johnson has been so
varying and uncertain that it affords no indica-
! ton of his course in the future. There is a
shade of truth in the recent remark Of Senator
Wilson, who said that the = President reminded
him of a man on a spree, who occasionally
wakes up and smashes things, and then goes to
sleep again. The President has given to the
country many finely acritten arguments, but he
fails in action He waits until his acts can ac-
complish no good to his friends, and effect evil
/ to no one but himself This seeming hesitation
is undoubtedlyin great measure owing to the
composition of the Cabinet which surrounds
him. He persists in retaining a Republican
Il Cabinet, who at heart have no sympathy with
I his measures Stanton's friends now openly
claim that while in the War Office he was the
first to give Congress the clue to the Presi-
dents designs and was the man who originated
many Of its hostile movements against the EX-
ecutive He was the spy of the Cabinet, and
secretly intrigued against the hand that gave
him bread. Seward was once power III the
land, but he has grown old and vacillating, and
scarcely knows his own mind twenty-four hours
4 at time. The failure of his Presidential ann
biti0n has soured him against his own party,
4 and his movements seem to be dictated rather
i by malice against rivals in the Republican
PARTY, than by any very sincere appreciation
4 of the policy Of the President. No other mem
4 Der of the Cabinet has, or ever had, any pO-
h litical strength. They are Republicans, but
! they have no influence, personal or otherwise,
with Congress- The Attorney General is an
q able LAWYER, and an honest pure man, but no