The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-01-18

served creditably under him. II is a double
| misfortune when the arraignment comes from
| so high an official and so worthy man as the
! Governor of the great Commonwealth of Penn
| sylvania.
"RevOIutiOns Never Go Backvards''-
President JOhnsOn's Impeachment
Inevitable-The Plan.
From the Herald
The revolution which was precipitated upon
the country by the Southern Rebellion of 1861
is not yet ended. The struggle is still going on
with the old Southern oligarchy and their
Northern Democratic sympathizers, defeated in
the war, and it will be carried through. The
great Union movement of the war will run its
course. The great issues settled by the war will
be established in the Government. They are
under momentum which cannot be resisted.
All impediments which block the way Will be
removed. 1t is the law OF all revolutions. This
is only history repeating itself. So 1t is that no
preordained event IN human affairs is more
certain to come to pass than the impeachment
and removal OF President Johnson from Office.
This thing will be done because it has become
necessity to the Consummation of this revou-
ton. Congress has no alternative when the
suspension of its authority over the Rebel States
for two years yet TO come is morally certain
| under President Johnson.
We are lust now in the position of England
after the war between the Parliament and King
| Charles the First when, from his refuge among
| the Scots, he was delivered up to the Parliament
Tor lrla. IlerG were dJ IndC JllIle III ILe fdrlld-
mentary cause the Independents and the Pres
! byterians, corresponding with our radicals and
conservatives Of the present day. We know,
| however, that Cromwell and his radicals
! achieved their grand design in the condenna-
| ton and beheading of the King, and that the
! Commonwealth was next established. This is
| one parallel to our present situation; and there
is another equally striking in the history of the
! great French Revolution. So far as his conti
! nuance in office isEcOucerned, the present posi-
ton of Mr.. johnson is hardly better than was
that of Louis XVI, when in his attempted
escape from the republican authorities he was
captured at Varennes, one hundred and itty
! miles from Paris, and brought back to trial, to
condemnation, and at last to the guillotne, after
| some stormy debates between the Jacoblns and
| Girondsts the radicals and conservatives OF the
| Convention. As ii was with that Convention,
so it is now with Coneress-the radicals hold 1t,
and the conservatives to save themselves, VIII
be compelled to go with the current or pOlit-
cally they will tall like the Girondsts. And
why' Because such is the drift OF this re7olu-
tion, and it will run its course.
The House, as a grand jury, will impeach
Andrew Johnson of certain 'high crimes and
misdemeanors' and the Senate, upon this in
dictment, as high court, Chief Justice Chase
presiding will try him, condemn him, and re-
move him. Before the close of the present
Congress the impeachment will be made before
the Senate, and with the new Republican acces-
siOns TO the body which will come in with the
new Congress in March, the Senate will proceed
to business. The first step Will be the election
of a President of the body, who, under an eX-
listing law will become President OF the United
States IN the event of "the death, resignation,
removal, or disability" of Andrew Johnson.
Senators Wade, Trumbull, and Fessenden are
each named as likely to secure this position;
' but, as Mr.. Fessenden Is intellectually and as a
practical statesman the first man in the Senate,
: he will probably be chosen. Next, with the
opening of his trial, President Johnson will be
suspended as disabled, and the President of the
Senate will be assigned pro tenn. to his place.
After Mr.. Johnson's con victlon this new EXecu.
tive VIII hold his position until President shall
have been regularly elected by and returned
II is probable that with the removal of the
present incumbent call for special election
will be issued-say before the end of May
and that General Grant and Admiral FaTra gut
will be the Republican ticket. They will, if so
placed before the people, oe elected by accla-
nation and in the meantime three-!ourths ol
the loyal States now constituting the Govern
ment of the United States having ratified the
pending Constitutional amendment, 1T Will
before September next, be proclaimed as par
and parcel OF the Federal Constitution to al
intents and purposes. Then, having an EXecu
tive chosen upon this platform, he viii apply L
TO the outside States as the supreme law
adopted without reducing them to the test o
dishOnor. as they call 1t, OF condemnng them
selves, their associates and their leaders IN th
7 Rebellion, and leaving them free to choose
| whether they Will give the suffrage to thei
? negroes, and count them in counting thei
people Tor Congress, or lose some twenty odt
Representatives by limiting the baliot-boX Il
4 the whites. Then the Supreme Court Will b
e reconstructed from fresh materials, so that W
1 shall have no more eXpositions of the laN
q according TO the Consultation as it was befor
S the deluge.
e Thus the essential demands of this grea
y revolution will be met, the Government in al
its parts will respond to the voice of the peopl
as repre- sented in Congress, and the State
IS Wrested from the late Rebellion will be recon
u structed and relnstated upon the pending Con