The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1867-06-12
Committee.

dately afterward, one of the Republicans who
voted against the impeachment offered resolution
to the effect that President Johnson was worthy
the censure of the House of Representatives, and
unworthy the confidence of the people of the coun-
try At first the gentlemen who voted in favor of
impeaching were opposed to this resolution, be-
cause they thought they would be stutifying them
selves in view of the previous resolve of the Com
mittee, but after little conversation they with
drew their objections and the resolution was
adopted-yeas I, nays ., strict party vote.
1t is singular fact that the new Republican
member of the committee Churchill, voted against
the impeachment. He was put on the committee
by Mr. Colfax in place of Cook Republican, who
was on the committee in the last Congress, and
who is said to favor impeachment Cook was put
on the Committee on Elections, so that Marshall,
from the same State, one of the ablest Democrats
in the House, could be put on the Judiciary Com
mittee. The committee it is reported did not
take oil the evidence that offered by those who
were under the impression they could prove the
completely of lN. Johnson with the assnssins of
Mr. Lincoln, the committee taking the ground that
horized to investigate fully that charge. Most of
the members of the committee have gone home.
Messrs-Butler and Ashley, the two leaders for i'm
ment, feel badly over the result of the delibera-
tions of the committee, but they assert they will
bring the question up in Congress and haye a
will be presented together with the testimony, and
after the members have had time to examine both,
these gentlemen will endeayor to have every man
in the House recorded on the question ms to which
is right, the majority or minority report of the Ju-
dietary Committee
This action of the Judiciary Committee shows
conclusively that we will not have July session of
Congress unless some extraordinary event trans
pires between now and the fourth of next month
Those members of Congress who were most zealous
in their cndcavors to have Summer Session have
become disheartened and do not think there is the
slightest chance for it. The Judiciary Committee
will merely meet formally, and adjourn until the
the latter part of November, when they will make
up their report.
There has been no authentic publication of the
Committee They are in effect that the President
has not been guilty of high crimes and misdcmcan-
ors, subjccting him to impeachment, but that be
has committed acts mcriting censure. The first
clause failing by four to five, and the last prevail
ing by vote of seven to two.
Tho Object of tho Exercise of Military Authority.
1t occurs 10 US that the marks below are admira-
bly, adapted to the time and the occasion. We find
them in the New York Ecening Post, Republican
paper that has been somewhat noted for its viru-
lc1cc towards the South:
The object of the exercise of military authority
in the Southern States is not to supercede civil
thority, or take its place, but to supplement its
ton, or remedy its inaction. Congress meant to
say to the people of Mobile, for instance, by the
Reconstruction act: We wish you to maintain and
vindicate the laws by your own officers. The mill
tary force shall help you if you desire and need its
help; but you shall have the option to do it your
selves or have it done by the United States Con-
gress, did not mean to overturn and put an end to
local government in the Southern States the first
symptom of inwlcssness; for such policy would
not offer cure for the evils from which that region
suffers. The army, briefly, is only IN additional
police force; it is not the government and ought
not to be.
So General Sckles orders that all distillation of
liquors be stopped in his military district. Itis
question of illicit distlation, for that does not
need military order to stop it; the internal reve-
nue. officers do that under the Law, and may call
the general to help them any time. No doubt the
waste of corn in distllaion in famine-stricken
State, is great evil but so is idleness, so are lux
urics of all kinds. There are hundred evils
which the general commanding" cannot stop with
m order, which arc better stopped in another way.
The people suffer; by their suffering they learn
wisdom; and when they have learned it, they will
reform the abuses.
We are not, of course, pleading the cause of dis
tilleres, but the cause of liberty We should re-
joicc if there was not dstillery in the State of
South Carolina but all experience proves that n
military order, arbitrary decree cannot remove
such evils, but on the contrary only increases
them. 1t is of the highest importance that the
policy pursued in the Southern States shall be such
as to encourage sclf-government by the people; to
oblige the people to think and act for themselves;
to show them the absolute necessity of themselves
by their own efforts, maintaining peace, order and
security They must presently be left to them
selves our policy ought to be such as shall pre-.
pare the way for that event. Generals Swayne
and Sckles, with the best intentions no doubt,
have acted upon policy which is fatal to this end.
We cannot bring on the millennium by military
general order; there will be misery, disorder suf-
fering, in tho great frontier land known as the