New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1867-07-02
IMPBAoH The PRESIDENT,

There such divinity doth hedge president,
That treason can but peep to what it would
The nation has been trifled with long
enough. The time has arrived to suspend
and impeach the president. 1t is well
known that the judiciary committee of the
house Of representatives have in their pos
session all the facts they can possibly need
10 base an indictment upon. The qCes-
ton with them has been one Of policy, and
not of facts, An overwhelming mass Of
testimony to sustain both criminal and
reasonable charges is, and for months has
been, in their possession. But few timid
Conservatives have insisted that this
vast mass of testimony should weigh
nothing against the cry of a few
money changers on Wall street and a
few bankrupt Republicans who attended
the Johnson-Randal-D ooiittle convention
in Philadelphia. Republicans who have
no standing in the party, and without whom
the party would be stronger to-day, are
allowed to foist question OF policy above
one of religious duty. Nine-tenths of the
Republican party, and that embraces at
least eight-tenths of the loyal and law
abiding men of the land, believe Mr.. John
son to be hypocrite, a scoundrel, and a
knave, and an infinitely meaner traitor than
Jefferson Davis himself This belief is
deeply seated in the hearts of all good men
Why, then, hesitate.to impeach. suspend
and by the judgment of the senate remove
him from office. The business of the coun.
try, especially that. of the south, cannot
possibly, by any act of congress, be more
completely embarrassed and depressed than
it is at present. The best men in the south
to-day desire the reconstruction Of the
southern states upon the congressional
basis-some of them, and they are ex-con-
federate officers, even regret that the Elliot
Shellabarger bill which passed the house by
so large a majority did not pass the senate
and become a law. If that bill had
passed the southern states could have been
in the Union to-day. But from the adjourn
ment of congress the malign Influence OF
the president has been vigorously at work,
and more than any other cause has kept
back the reconstruction of the south. He
stayed the upliited sword Of impeachment
through promises to faithfully execute the
law. The nation trembled as it once again
took him at his word. 1t knew that the
military government bill, in many particu.
lars, was weak and insufficient, but trusted
in the tried loyalty and good judgment Of
| the generals who were to execute it in its
details. To General Grant, and to General
| Grant alone, we are indebted for having
| generals in command of the military dis
tricts who were, and still are, acceptable
| to the loyal masses of the country But TO
the president, Andrew johnson, we are In
debted for the anarchy which now prevails
in large portions of the south. The MUIR
derers and assassins all through Texas and
northern Louisiana, and Georgia, and
Mississippi, shout his name as they
plunge the dagger to the hill
| in the heart of defenseless Iowa
men and negroes or crash huge clubs
down upon the "brains of ministers Of thu
gospel of Christ kneeling in prayer" Of
"shoot from behind trees the loyal men re
turning from the registration of their names
as voters" All the miscreants who mas.
sacred at Fort Pillow; all the editors who
skulked from the battle-field all the cot
ton thieves who through him have been
kept from the penitentiary for life; all the
pardon brokers whose money ne has
lined his pocket with; all the scum
of the earth, who steal and poison
and murder and hatch conspiracies fol
daily livelihood, exalt and rank hin
as the deity who has saved their necks
from the halter, and, as they in their fan
cied security think their names from eter
nal infamy. In less than sixty days aftel
the impeachment and removal of Andrew
johnson, ten thousand murderers will have
fled from this country to Mexico, South
America, or hell. But if he is permitted
to remain in office, with all his crimes
thick upon him, the loyal instead of the
disloyal and reebellous portion of our
population will have to leave. In behalf
therefore, of the loyal people Of the south
we call upon congress to impeach and re.
move the president without delay, and by
SO doing do more to reconstruct the south
than by the passage of thousand military