The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-09-06

and the country in peril-Mr
WashburneF General Grants friend,
favors impea ehment Senator Gam
eron, Senator Cameron friend,
favors impeachment. The New
York Times, friend of both
sides SO long as there are two sides,
! fayors impeachment. The Herald,
doomed to defeat whatever il advo-
Gates, helps Impeachment by opposing
it. The Copperhead papers, hopeless
of better fortunes in the present stage
of existence, pray for change,
whether by Impeachment or revolu-
tiOnary resistance to it they care little.
Any change gives them hope, as
bapkrupts in the days of Noah may
have looked upon the coming deluge
With a sense of relief. liz. tact, there
seems. to be but, one man who does not
favor impeachment. and he beganlife
as alderman of a village The Chi
cago Tribune, so recently scouting inn
parchment as the hight of folly, speaks
with, vigor and truth when it says:
:; As, loud and unanimous a popular
demand upon Congress to impeach
aud remove the pro slavery, treacher-
Gus wretch, is now being made as was
the call In July for the passage of the
Supplemental bill. The people have
put off the dernier resort to the last
degree of endurance but they have
now crossed the rubicon, and out the
villain must go.
We shall not stop to show that it
was rot the people who have put en-
this just and constitutional remedy so
long. Enough, that the entire Re-
publican party seems to stand now as
unit in demanding that the blunder
shall not be repeated. Meanwhile,
neither the Copperheads nor the reb-
els care very much what becomes of
johnson, If he has helped, he has
also beat them-his stupidity has cost
them more than one defeat. If he
has pleased, he has also disguised
them, and when Northern Copper
heads are disgusted, what more can
be said? Excepting the birds of
prey who gather at the White House
to feast on his remains, A. johnson
has not friend in all the world.
One little objection, indeed, is rails
protest. family heard through the
rolling thunder of the popular de-
mand. The Cincinnati Commercial,
an Ohio paper objects, because i'm
parchment would give us temporarily
an Ohio President. We are forced to
believe that hostility to Mr. Wade
has more to do with the protest than
regard for the welfare of the country
Mr.. Wade was, chosen Acting Vice
President by, a large majority of
his !, colleagues In ., the -. Senate,
with the a,, anticipation / that
events might place him in, the
Presidential chair. He bad been
long in public life, and was well known
then, as he is now, as one of the
ablest and truest champions of the
Repn blican cause. The country very
generally applauded the choice when
it was made, and, though the Com
merciol may dislike the Senator, we
are sure that with a great majority of
Re publicans it is an additional rea-
son, for Fastening F. the perform
ance' of a duty too long delayed,
that it will give the responsible
tiles and powers of the Presidency
to man who enjoys in so high de-
gree the public confidence He is not
a trickster, but man of thorough
and tried integrity. He is no shifty
and uncertain politician, but a states
man who had the courage to fight for
Republicanism when its advocates
were few, and who has never yet
finched in any trial. He is no cor
ruptionist; say what men may of
other Senators, no one has ever yet
uttered word against the fidelity
and honesty of Ben. Wade. The
country might do great deal worse
than have such a man for President,to
close up the work of Reconstruction,
to carry out the laws and save us
from further shame and peril, until
President, elected by the people, can /
be inaugurated. Instead of an OBJ
lection, the fact that Senator Wade
will take the place of j ohnson, if i'm
peached, is strong point in favor Of
measure otherwise just and neces-
saryL--.C Tgdm9lqa> 81 .fAe5dE e
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The NEGRO AS A ,CITIzRNs-Mr
Swinten,5 of the New York Times,
who has recently travelled over great
part of the South, makes the followsi
ing interesting statements after hap-7i
ing spoken of the negroes as success
full free llaborers:i 8 t'21 -.
81 Then there came that seyerer test
to the negro-he was made a citizen
This was a measure the wisdom of
which, was gravely doubted by the
majority, even of those who really
wished we'll to the colored man. L
confess that when [ went South | be-
lieved the acknowledgements of the
blacks would prove a mistake; but |
r-o,rrr soon rnnrao.rod +hnt Il runr a.